The National Disaster Management Agency

The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) is established by the Public Enterprise (Monitoring and Control) Act of 1989 through legal notice No. 8 of 2014. The NDMA was gazetted as Category A Parastatal. The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) as defined by the Disaster Management Act, 2006 is to coordinate a consistent system for disaster risk management in the country. This means the NDMA is responsible for coordinating the development of a system that defines how to prevent, respond to and mitigate the impact of disasters in collaboration with stakeholders.