National Disaster Management Office

International DRR Day is held across the globe every year on the 13th October, to ensure we celebrate how people and communities are reducing their exposure to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of reducing in the risks that they face.

The NDMO says as Vanuatu is ranked the most vulnerable country in the world to natural hazards there is a responsibility to ensure that as a community and as a nation people understand the dangers and how they can prepare for them to reduce the negative impacts caused by disasters.

Acting Director of the National Disaster Management Office Akapusi Tuifagalele says following the 1997 drought, the country had experienced a series of natural disasters.

“That is one of the issues that we are actually looking into knowing that for what happened in 1997 & 1998 it was broken by a tropical cyclones, followed by flooding. We are hoping that is not going to happen for us during this season but it may,” said Akapusi Tuifagalele, acting Director NDMO.