Guideline : development and structure of a disaster management plan

The Guideline : development and structure of a disaster management plan "developed in terms of Section 19(a) of the DMA and section 3.6 of the National Disaster Management Framework, 2005 (NDMF) provides a uniform structure5 and checklist to organs of state to prepare a DMP.

"this guideline provides concept guidance to organs of state to progressively develop a compliant DMP in line with the phased approach put forward by the NDMF. The guideline extracts those key aspects of the four Key Performance Indicators (KPA) and three Enablers specified by the NDMF related to DMP’s and arrange6 them into specific chapters, which in turn is linked to the ‘Critical Outcomes’ and ‘Action Steps’ put forward by the DMHS."