Just a few months to the rainy season, the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) says it has only managed to get US$80 million out of US$495 million needed for recovery process for the 15 flood affected districts.<\/p>\n
According to Dodma, the US$80 million is meant for a four year recovery plan that will be carried out in phases.<\/p>\n
As a result of this deficit, Dodma Principal Secretary Bernard Sande has called upon all donor partners to continue assisting government as the country prepares for the response to the food insecurity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are indicators that about 2.8 million people will need food assistance up to March 2016,\u201d said Sande during the 2014\/2015 Malawi Vulnerability Assessment (MVA) and 2015 Flood Emergency Response Review workshop in Blantyre.<\/p>\n
He said the purpose of the workshop was to assess the level of effectiveness, efficiency and relevance of the 2015 flood emergency response and the 2014\/2015 MVA response operation from which best practices and lessons can be drawn to inform programming and management of subsequent emergency responses.<\/p>\n
Sande appealed to the humanitarian partners and all stakeholders to go beyond operations in the emergency response.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s go further to building resilience of the affected communities by integrating the humanitarian response to long-term disaster risk reduction programming,\u201d said the PS.<\/p>\n
Dodma Principal Mitigation Officer, Stern Kita said during the flood emergency, different stakeholders brought in new skills and expertise that can inform future emergency responses.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo do this there is need to document the successes, best practices experiences and lessons learnt hence this meeting,\u201d Kita said.<\/p>\n
The country experienced the floods in January this year. The disaster affected 1.1 million people, displaced 230,000 and killed 106 while 172 were reported missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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