Context:
Disasters can pose threat to human lives and affect Serbia’s economic and environmental standing, diminish the country’s development potential and constitute a risk to economic and social stability. INFORM Global Crisis Severity Index with an average score of 3.5 places Serbia in the group of medium-risk and rather stable countries. Although the applied INFORM methodology assesses Serbian vulnerability as moderately low, it still recognizes institutional and governance shortcomings (scored with 5.2) and DRR (5.7) as having undermining impact on the overall coping capacity. The critical problem of the Serbian Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Management System is the fragmentation of the institutional framework, procedures, and insufficient capacities at the central and local level for adequate prevention, preparedness and response to emergency needs of the communities and population.
Expected results:
Procurement of the equipment
Policy development and human capacity building
- 1,100 representatives of Local Self Governments (LSG), civil protection units, Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and members of the local communities from 91 LSGs across Serbia trained on civil protection, disaster risk reduction, post-disaster recovery and climate change adaptation;
- Mountain Rescue Service of Serbia (MRSS) staff trained and accredited for high-risk rescue operations in accordance with the EU standards;
- Strengthened volunteering network and functioning of 900 civil protection members in 18 municipalities and cities of the West Morava River Basin Cooperation;
- Improved consultative process at a local level through engagement of CSOs in prevention and risk management decision-making processes.
- Developed new Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy, PDNA Methodology, improved learning curricula of the Faculty of Security Studies, and developed of the Post-Disaster Reconstruction Impact Assessment of effects of DRR measures 10 years after the catastrophic 2014 floods.