1. Romania Hazard Risk Mitigation & Emergency Preparedness Project Aurel Bilanici Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform

2. Overall objective of the Project to assist the Government in reducing the environmental, social, and economic vulnerability to natural disasters, and catastrophic mining accidental spills of pollutants, by:  strengthening the institutional and technical capacity for disaster management and emergency response, through upgrading communication and information systems  implementing specific risk reduction investments for floods, landslides and earthquakes  improving the safety of selected water-retention dams, and  improving, on a pilot basis, the management and safety of tailings dams, and waste dump facilities.

3. Romania’s vulnerabilities to natural and non-natural disasters Earthquakes – Bucharest European capital exposed to the highest seismic risk, among the first 10 in the world; Floods – annual events producing human lost and high damages; Landslides – approx. 20% of territory present favorable conditions; Ecological accidents at mining exploitations sites.

4. March, 4, 1977: Damages produced after 7.2 earthquake occurred. Buildings constructed before 1944, centre of Bucharest.

5. March, 4, 1977 Bucharest, Romania

6. Floods in Tecuci Galaţi county - 2007

10. The World Bank approach Re-construction projects for the after disaster moments The Complex National Strategy for Risks’ Management, Istanbul 2004 –Systemic Integration –Risks assessment Emergency Preparedness Disaster Prevention Catastrophic Risks Financing –Reduction of the Countries’ exposure to economic damages

11. The Romanian Approach Romania asked the World Bank for financial assistance for a seismic risk mitigation project The project’s field was extended in order to include also other types of calamities (flooding, dams safety, ecologic safety of mining exploitations) –Annual frequency of flooding after 1997 –International echoes about the ecological accident in 2000

12. Project development objectives To assist the Government of Romania in reducing the environmental, social, and economic vulnerability to natural disasters and catastrophic mining accidental spills of pollutants through: –Strengthening emergency management capacity –Specific measures to mitigate and reduce risks in case of earthquake, floods, landslides, and safety of tailing dams and waste dump facilities.

13. Project Characteristics: –First project in South East Europe in the field of prevention –Inter-governmental cooperation –4 institutions involved in implementation of the project – Different approaches concerning project management – PMU structures –Each component comprising 4-6 sub- components conversing to the general scope

14. Project Characteristics continue Romania understood the advantages of the prevent action towards the response reaction after producing of natural calamities Strong and constant support from institutions/ governmental agencies in the preparedness period, by elaborating the procedures of invest priority, the intervention order and technical documents elaboration on specific costs Good Inter-ministerial collaboration for the preparedness and implementation of the project

15. COMPONENT A Ministry of Interior and Administration Reform Strengthening of Emergency Management and Risk Financing Capacity COMPONENT B Ministry of Development, Public Works and Housing Earthquake Risk Reduction COMPONENT C Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Flood and Landslide Risk Reduction COMPONENT D COMPONENT D National Agency for Mineral Resources Risk Reduction of Mining Accidents in Tisza Basin

16. Estimated results Strengthened institutional and technical capacity for emergency management and emergency response having a solid and coherent communication and information system at national and local levels. Reduced losses within public and private sector in case of strong earthquake and floods. Increased safety of tailing dams and waste dump facilities, and reduced risks for negative impacts of mining accidental spills of pollutants into river basins.

17. Project Benefits a) strengthened government capacity to respond rapidly in the face of disaster; b) increased earthquake preparedness with critical public facilities retrofitted; c) reduction o frisk for water pollution from mining operations; d) improved dam safety of the selected priority structures; e) developed policy and technical foundations for creation of the national insurance plan which would shirr the financial burden of reconstruction from individual families and the government to international re-insurers, capital markets, and the future insurance pool. f) once effective risk management measures are in place, economic and human losses will be reduced.

18. Benefit for the following groups of Romanian population Project benefit for the following groups of Romanian population through reducing the chances of significant loss of life and property through natural disasters: a) those living along the seismic Vrancea subduction zone, notably Bucharest's 2 million inhabitants, through increased earthquake preparedness; b) people living in communities vulnerable to the risk of floods and landslides through upgraded flood protection infrastructure and better mapping of the landslide risk areas; c) people living in the areas adjacent to unsafe large and small dams; d) people living in proximity to operating and closed mines, particularly in Tisza basin, through reduced risk of mining accidental spills.