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The Barbados Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) Policy 2022 ensures that there is a strategic direction to keeping people safe and making communities more resilient to disaster and climate related risks and impacts.
The policy aims to:
- Provide the strategic direction and supportive governance and accountability arrangements for a safer, more resilient, and sustainable Barbados through comprehensive disaster management.
- Guide the development and mainstreaming of CDM policies and programs for a resilient Barbados society.
- Ensure Barbados meets its regional and international disaster management obligations.
- Articulate the vision and goals for comprehensive disaster management for the Government of Barbados in line with the objectives of the Emergency Management Act, Cap. 160A (2006)