Establishment of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
Community and Hazard mapping for flood and drought prone areas
Construction of dykes in flood prone areas
Installation of River gauge monitoring systems
Drilling of boreholes in drought prone areas
Construction of dams
Development of resistant crop varieties and livestock breeds
Implementation of irrigation projects
Construction of evacuation centres in flood prone areas
Construction of emergency operation centres
Contingency measures, e.g. through risk financing with regional risk pooling, insurance facilities and bonds, and through social protection measures, etc.:
Implementation of safety net programmes
Pilot weather-based crop insurance scheme
Malawi a member of the African Risk Capacity (ARC)
Addressing losses through disaster relief funds, credit facilities etc.:
The country plans to establish a DRM fund as part of the implementation of the DRM Bill
Village savings and loan groups have been established in different prone and vulnerable areas as part of insurance mechanisms
Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:
Reviewed the Disaster Risk Management Bill, awaiting approval by Parliament
Developed National Resilience Strategy
Reviewed National Disaster Risk Management Communication Strategy
Developed National and District Multi-Hazard Contingency Plans
In progress of developing the National Adaptation Plan (NAP)
Developed Disaster Risk Financing Strategy and Implementation Plan
Transformative actions (which could include any such actions already mentioned above):
Implementation of an early warning system
Implemented National Disaster Risk Management Communication Strategy through dissemination of EWS messages
Collection and management of data and information (including databases, spatial data, systematic observations, establishing baselines, etc):
Use of space technologies in systematic observations and geospatial analyses.
Development of databases and information services to support risk profiling and risk assessment of a variety of timeframes by different actors and stakeholders in their decision-processes.
Analyses of data and information (including climate change projections, impact analyses, hazard mapping, etc):
Development of local to national climate change scenarios and production of projections of climate risk
Conduct of pilot loss and damage assessments for certain key agricultural commodities which are vulnerable to climate change, such as rice, aquaculture, and fruits.
Construction of multivariate impacts and loss databases to support assessments and reporting including through the use of bigdata methods.
Design of shared database systems to support different ministries and other stakeholders in the country including data collection, storage and sharing protocols and policies.
Costing of impacts in the present as well as for projected impacts for use in costs-benefit analyses to appraise options.
National-scale site characterization to support hazard mapping, zoning and other land use planning.
Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:
Setting up cross-ministerial/sectoral coordination mechanism for the dissemination and linking warnings with early action, and the deployment of emergency assistance for communities.
Linking national systematic observations and monitoring to regional and global efforts (for relevant variables, hazards and systems).
Development of infrastructure and plans for relocation/resettlement of households and communities from frequently affected areas.
Design of proposals and access to financing for climate information services and early warning systems under the GCF and other funding channels.
Sustainable landscape management including nature-based solutions.
Financial instruments (such as insurance, risk pooling, contingency funds, etc):
Design of combinations of appropriate risk finance tools and instruments applicable to a specific country context and vulnerable groups.
Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.
Design and financing of social protection measures.
Development of different insurance mechanisms.
Design of national trust/contingency/recovery funds.
Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.