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WELCOME TO DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION UNIT

Welcome to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) website. DMMU is the Government of the Republic of Zambia’s lead agency for disaster risk management, operating under the Office of the Vice-President. As the national emergency coordinating institution, the Unit is mandated to safeguard lives, livelihoods, property, and the environment from the impacts of disasters.

Guided by its vision to provide a national “safety net,” DMMU employs a proactive, community-based, developmental, and multi-sectoral approach to disaster management. This approach emphasizes disaster preparedness, prevention, and mitigation, while ensuring that disaster risk reduction is fully integrated into national development processes.

DMMU’s mandate is underpinned by the principle of shared responsibility, reflected in its guiding mantra: “Disaster Management is the Responsibility of Everyone.”

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VISION

The vision of the disaster management system in the country is to promote a ‘safety net’ for protection of the citizenry, their assets and the environment against disaster through a proactive, community-based, developmental and multi-sectoral approach that combines disaster preparedness, prevention and mitigation, and integrates disaster management into national development.

MISSION STATEMENT

To develop, coordinate and monitor disaster Management programmes in order to minimize loss of lives, damage to property and the environment.

GOAL

To strengthen national capacities for effective disaster preparedness, prevention, response, mitigation and restoration in order to protect lives and livelihoods, property, environment and the economy at large.