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Project in the Maldives Building Resilience to Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives (UNISDR/ADRRN Project "Selamat")
The Republic of Maldives is an archipelago of islands stretching over 820 km north-south and 128 km east-west. Maldives comprises 1,190 small islands which are clustered into 26 natural atolls, which for administrative purposes are grouped into 20. Of the more than 1000 islands, only 199 islands are inhabited, and another 80 islands have been developed into tourist resorts. Over 80% of the land area is less than 1 meter above sea level. All of the human settlement, industry and vital infrastructure of the Maldives lie very close to the shoreline, within 0.8 to 2 m of mean sea level.
The 7th National Plan of the Maldives identifies Environmental Management as one of the top priorities. The low lying islands of the Maldives are very sensitive to the impacts from predicted climate change and extremely vulnerable to natural disasters as demonstrated by the December 2004 tsunami.
Based on field visits conducted to collect primary and secondary data for vulnerability and risk assessments, areas for field interventions such as Coastal bioshiled, nutritional model home garden, the Community Resource Centre and Solid Waste Management to build resilient island communities were identified for the Island Milandhoo in Shaviyani Atoll as a model Island with other 4 Island in the Atoll (the project Selamat).
The project Selamat in Shaviyani has been designed and will be implemented at island/atoll level in the lines of 3rd and 4th priority identified in the Hyogo Frame of Action: Building a culture of safety and Resilience and Reducing the Risk in the key Sectors.
Sub-projects
There are 4 components for the Selamat project in the Maldives other than Disaster Risk Reduction planning and training
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