Decree No. 66/020 Approving the National Policy for Comprehensive Emergency and Disaster Risk Management in Uruguay 2019-2030

• The document comprises five parts:Introduction and context;
• Outlook to 2030, the meaning of the Policy;
• Strategic aces and policy measures;

1. Production and management of knowledge and information on emergency and disaster risk;
2. Risk management culture and communication;
3. Systemic articulation with development plans and national, departmental and international development policies;
4. Prospective emergency and disaster risk management;
5. Corrective emergency and disaster risk management;
6. Compensatory emergency and disaster risk management: response capacity and resilience; and
7. Recovery and reconstruction.

• Policy implementation instruments; and
• Policy management.

In articulating its lines of action and evaluation mechanisms, the Policy considers climate change adaptation and variability.