Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Department of Planning and Development organized a consultation session with development partners with the support of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Merged Areas Governance. The Flood Response Plan 2022 developed in collaboration with the Project (MAGP) was presented.
This plan, prepared for the first time in the history of Pakistan, has been prepared in the context of the disasters of floods in recent years, in these floods, the houses of more than ninety-one thousand families were flooded, while six hundred and seventy-four thousand people were displaced. Had to relocate. Through this plan, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government wants to provide better planning and early awareness of the risks faced by natural disasters in order to rehabilitate the flood-affected people and save them from being at the mercy of climate change.
On this occasion, Provincial Health and Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra said that due to climate change, the world is facing new and unknown dangers, it is very unfortunate that although we have no role in the creation of this situation, but its consequences We are on the front line in confronting To protect against these threats, we will use available data and evidence and better relationships with our resources and development partners, and build our strategy on resilience to climate change and economic challenges.
On this occasion, UNDP Resident Representative Qunot Osbi called the flood response plan of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government an important milestone and said that this plan covers three aspects to increase resilience against climate change. It includes building better infrastructure, better capacity of government institutions and better preparedness at the district level, he urged the development partners to fully support the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in this process.