Mongolia’s National Council on Disaster Risk Reduction convened
The National Council on Disaster Risk Reduction convened at the State Palace in Ulaanbaatar to discuss key priority consultations.
The National Council on Disaster Risk Reduction convened at the State Palace in Ulaanbaatar to discuss key priority consultations. Activities implemented by the National Council following the adoption of Recommendation of the National Council as of the first half of 2021. The UN Resident Coordinator, Tapan Mishra emphasized the importance of the prevention of any disasters, if and when possible, which would be the most important and useful step in disaster risk reduction. He highlighted, if not possible to prevent, we need to be well planned and enhance preparedness for all forms of possible disasters to mitigate further risks and ensure early recovery to reduce the impacts of disasters to a minimum. The National Council on Disaster Risk Reduction has reviewed the activities related to disaster risk reduction, prevention and mitigation in the first half of 2021, and discussed further steps and actions to reduce the risks of weather-driven hazards such as flooding risk in the infrastructure sector. The council members discussed an opportunity to establish a Risk/Contingency Fund for disaster risk reduction in order to deal with the sudden onset disasters and also approved recommendations in the five areas discussed. Mongolia is prone to many types of disasters, including droughts, dzuds, floods, snow and sand blizzards, infectious diseases among humans and animals, earthquakes and soil erosions, etc. According to the Deputy Prime Minister, Mongolia has experienced a 67.9 per cent increase in weather and climate-related disasters and hazards in the last 15 years, and the death toll has increased by 37.5 per cent, reaching 248 in 2020 from 180 in 2005. In 2020 alone, fires accounted for 79.3 per cent of all disasters while 13.6 per cent were human-induced disasters.
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