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CONTENTS
How to read the White Paper
Foreword by the Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development
Section 1: Introduction
- Purpose of the White Paper
- Scope and purpose of government policy
- Key policy proposals
- Policy process
Section 2: Setting the context
- The international context
- Introduction
- International trends
- Regional cooperation
- International agencies
- The current situation in South Africa
- Developing a new approach
- Risk reduction in development planning
Section 3: The National Disaster Management Centre
- Rationale for the establishment of the National Disaster Management Centre
- Guiding principles
- Structure and location of the centre
- Key functions of the centre
- Information management
- Preparation of strategies and plans
- Assessing vulnerability
- Coordination and support during disaster and emergency situations
- Non-emergency situations
- Conducting audits
- Training and community awareness
Section 4: Funding disaster management
- Current financial mechanisms
- Overview of current funding arrangements
- Prevention
- Capacity to respond
- Immediate relief
- Local government
- Provincial government
- National government
- Recovery in the post-disaster phase
- Funds administered by the Department of Welfare
- Contingency reserve
- The Exchequer Act
- Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act
- Expediting tender procedures
- Problems with current mechanisms
- General
- Prevention
- Capacity to respond
- Immediate relief
- Recovery in the post-disaster phase
- Proposals for future funding arrangements
- General
- Guiding principles
- National arrangements
- Release of funds in an emergency
- Immediate relief to individuals
- Funding repairs to damaged infrastructure
- Expediting tender procedures
- Provincial and local government arrangements
- Budgeting
- Financing shortfalls
- Capacity building options
- Incentives
- Punitive measures
- Insurance
- Funding of training and community awareness programmes
- Funding the National Disaster Management Centre
Section 5: A national Disaster Management Act
- Rationale for a national Disaster Management Act
- Process
- Linkages with other legislation
- Limitations
- Constitutional context
- Scope
- Disaster declarations
- Rationale for disaster declarations
- Determining the magnitude of the disaster
- The establishment of the Disaster Management Centre
- Establishment of provincial and local disaster management structures
- Disaster management plans
- Rationale
- Incentives and punitive measures
- Other relevant provisions
- Immunity from liability
- Minister responsible
- Definitions
Section 6: Training and community awareness
- The current situation
- A framework for disaster management training and community awareness programmes
- Objectives
- Needs analyses
- Target groups
- Training for key target groups
- Training of government officials and policy makers
- Professional training
- Training of trainers
- Community-based training
- Development of curricula for schools
- Formal training
- Training of volunteers
- Standards setting
- Training material
- Accreditation and registration
- Resource base
- Research
- International cooperation
Section 7: Conclusion
- Summary of significant features of the policy
- Implementation tools
Appendices
- Appendix 1: Table of current funding mechanisms for disaster management
- Appendix 2: Glossary of terms
Acknowledgements
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