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International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles programme (IDRL)
IDRL around the world: Africa

News
Setting strategies in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire (June 2008)
IPU encouraged to continue its promotion of legal preparedness for disasters (May 2008)
Fostering holistic disaster law in South Africa (May 2008)
ECOWAS seeks to improve disaster cooperation (April 2008)
   
Meetings
Pan-African Forum on International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (Kuala Lumpur, December 2006)
   
Reports
African Regional Study (April 2007)
IDRL in the southern African region (January 2003)
   

Selected regional instruments
Treaty establishing the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA Treaty)
Treaty of the Southern African Development Community (SADC Treaty)
Agreement establishing the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
Agreement between the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the World Meteorological Organization
   
National Law
Click here to find national laws on the IDRL database
   
Regional Red Cross Red Crescent policy documents
Algiers Plan of Action, 6th Pan African Conference (2004)
Ouagadougou Declaration, 5th Pan African Conference (2000)
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