Disaster Management

Directorate of Disaster Management

Natural and man-made disasters disrupt people’s lives through displacements, destruction of livelihoods and property, deaths and injuries. Consequently, they take back years of development thus posing a major challenge to the achievement of the, Kenya’s Vision 2030 and the newly developed Busia County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP 2013-2017).

The cyclic nature of natural disasters in Busia and Kenya at large have constantly eroded the recovery capacity of communities especially in areas that experience extreme floods and ASAL regions of Samia and Bunyala Sub-Counties hence affecting their economic development year in year out.

This requires more vigorous attention and planning to mitigate the effects as they have impacted greatly on the county’s fight against poverty and efforts to reduce the number of people living below the poverty line. The economic cost of the impact of floods, droughts and fires in the past have been estimated in millions of shillings.

After inception in 2014 through the governor’s executive order, the Directorate embarked on building structures to enable it deliver on its mandate and managed to develop the following documents;