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Country PresentationPresentationMONGOLIA

SUMMER

AUTUMNSPRINGWINTER
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Ulaanbaatar
Formation of the Mongol
Empire: 1206
Capital city: Ulaanbaatar
Total territory:
1,564,115.75 km2
Population: 2,736,800
Highest point: 4,374 m
Administrative Divisions:
21 aimags
Mountainous area

Gobi desert

Mountainous and Gobi area
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Classification

Type

Disasters

NaturalDisasters

Climatic
hazardous
phenomena

Snow storm
Severe snowfall
Dzud
Dust storm
Flood
Steppe and forest fireDesertification
Thunderstorm

Geologicalthreats

Earthquake

Biological threats

Spread of detrimental rodents

Landslides

Human infectious diseases
Livestock or animal infectious diseases

ManmadeMdDisasters

Technologicalaccidents

Industrial accidents
Traffic accidents
Leakage of chemical and radiological substances
Explosion
Building fireSocial

Public disorder
Terrorist attack

Developed for ADRC VRPNational Emergency
Management Agency
 The Parliament of Mongoliagadoptedpthe Law

on Disaster Protection in 2004
 And following the Law there are establishedthe National Emergency Management Agencyof Mongolia, merged the State Board for Civil
Defence Fire Fighting Department and StateDefence,
Reserve Agency.

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Vision of NEMA
The vision of the NEMA is tosupport in providing national safety
through risk and vulnerability
reduction, strengthening disastermanagement and implementing
intensively disaster protection
measures based on community
involvement.

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PREVENTRECOVERYRESPONSE
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Main legal documents and acts
The role of the National Emergency
Emergenc
Management Agency of Mongolia is defined
primarily by four basic laws:
 The Law on Disaster Protection
 Law on Fire Safety Law on Forest and Steppe Fire Protection
 The Law on State Reserve
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NEMA--Organizational Chart
NEMAOffice for State Emergency Commission

CHIEF

Motor Depot

Procurement Division

State Reserve Divisio
onDepartment of Financialand Logistic Services

Financial and Econo
omic Policy
Planning Division

State Reserve andRecovery Department

Warehouse Service andTechnological Contrrol Division

Fire FightingDepartment

Fire Fighting Division

Training and Public Awareness
Division

Communication, Infformation andTechnology Divisionn

Disaster Management
Department

Emergency Management andCoordination of Poliicy
Implementation Divvision

Public Relation Divission

Foreign Relation Diviision

Human Resource Division

Policy, Planning, Mo
onitoring andAssessment DivisionnAdministrative
Department

Deputy Chief

Fire Fighting, Prevenntion andInspection Division

Deputy Chief

Developed for ADRC VRPNEMAEmergency resources Totally 3200 emergency personnel (rescuers andfirefighters)g) nationwide working
g in a local
emergency
management
divisionsordepartments.
 On duty Emergency Motor Depot where theemergency trucks are dispatched and repaired.
 Rescue Special Unit (SAR team’s and Firefighters)
 Firefighting
Fi fi hti stations
t ti
i eachinh area
 Additional resources possibly mobilized by theArmed force in accordance with the mutualagreements.
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Development of the emergency
personnel professional skill
20102009
2008
Competitions
Personnel training

2007
050100Year of 2007-142 personnel
Year of 2008-211 personnel

150

200

250

Year of 2009-174 personnel

Year of 2010-165 personnel
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NEMA

NEMA will be called on to provide oversight,
coordination and direct assistance in the event of amajor catastrophe.
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Disaster casualties in last decade According to the statistics oflast 10 years, about 2400 of
hazardous phenomena andaccidents occurred annuallycausing the death of morethan 160 people and the lossof 65 billion MNT or about 3
percent of Mongolian GDP.

Forest firefighting operation near UB

Severe winter disaster 2009-2010

In recent years-in M
Mongolia

Developed for ADRC VRPThere are occurred major and small disasters
regularly as a result of drought, dzud, severe
snow and dust storm, flood, forest and steppe
fires, earthquake, desertification, object fires,epidemic, epizootic, hazardous vegetative
disease or spreading of detrimental rodents, birdflu, traffic accidents as well as explosives, andincreased the number and frequency ofdisasters.
These disasters cause huge number of damages
to human life, their properties and environment
and influence to the state social and economic
sustainable development negatively.
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The number of the people lost their lives
in the disasters

There is the tendency of increasing the toll of death in a
result of disasters from year to year
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Potential Earthquake Hazard inMongolia Around Ulaanbaatar,
Ulaanbaatar in comparison to western Mongolia,Mongolia

the seismic activity is relatively low.
 But A high seismic activity occurs in Songino-Sonsgolon
area in western end of Ulaanbaatar basin of city since2005. This area, which could be one of most seismic
active zone around Ulaanbaatar, dramatically increases
the seismic hazard of the capital of Mongolia where isconcentrated about of 1/3 of the Mongolia population andthe majority of industries of the country.

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Bogd earthquake:Mw=8 in 04 December 1957
Mogod city: Mw=7 in 5 January 1967Tahin Shar earthquake: Mw=7 in 04 January 1974

DZUD (Severe winter disaster)

Mongolia has one of the coldest climates in the world,world with temperatures
dropping below -20ºC for several months each year. The 2009-10 winter, which
has been extremely harsh even by Mongolian standards, has resulted inincreased maternal and child mortality, and an unprecedented loss of
livestock and the collapse of thousands of people’s livelihoods and many
basic services.
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Developed for ADRC VRPDZUD (Severe winter disaster) By the end of April 2010, more than 9.1 million

head of livestock (some 17% of all Mongolia’slivestock)) had perished nation-wide which left
f97000 herder households completely loss oflivelihood.
 Even though the Dzud period ends, the humanand animal highly infectious diseases spread in
effected area due to the lack of disinfection to thelivestock carcasses.

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Implementation of Hyogo
Framework for Action
Mongolia recognizes and approves the Framework for Action 2005-2015:
Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disaster, adopted by
the World Conference on Disaster Reduction which was held from 18 to 22
January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan and focuses its activities to reduce
disaster risk at the national level.
1. NEMA of Mongolia developed National Platform for Strengthening
Disaster Protection Capacity of Mongolia 2006-2015 cohered with theHyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015.
2. NEMA of Mongolia pays attention to define and assess disaster risk,
monitor and improve early warning system. Besides, we developedpp
it byy the Government
Procedure on Disaster assessment and approvedof Mongolia.
3. Legislative environment of the coordination for capacity activity wascreated. According to the resolution of the Government of Mongolia,ministries and agencies, which have main roles using the professions
and support in the possible disaster period or disaster period, wereappointed.
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Implementation of Hyogo
Framework for Action
4. Some amendments were included in the Disaster Preparedness Plan inorder to make disaster response immediately. All levels of the local
preparedness plans were renovated and they have revision plans.
5. We take into account increasing community participation in thedisaster protection activity. The understanding of the word “Volunteer”
was defined in the Law on Disaster Protection. NEMA is implementing theUNDP Project “Strengthening the Disaster mitigation and management
system in Mongolia” and in the framework of the project, thecommencement of the developing disaster management on the base of
local communityy for supportingpp
g communityy initiative was made.
6. We carry the policy to be included risk into the insurance. We havebegun developing the draft of the Law on Disaster Insurance with theInsurance organization.

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Joint training and exercisesNEMA-Center of Excellence in DMHA, Hawaii:“Gobi Wolf” disaster preparedness exercise seriesplanning
g and disaster relief scenario“Gobi Wolf-2009” in p
“Gobi Wolf-2010” in mining rescue operation scenario“Gobi Wolf-2011” in major earthquake scenario
National Rescue Service-119, Republic of Korea“Urban Search and Rescue Training-2009”
engaged 20 participants“Urban Search and Rescue Training-2010”
engaged 20 participants
China Earthquake Administration, P.R. China.
“Earthquake Rescue Operation Workshop” series-2010

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Further international cooperation in the fieldof disaster management
 Sinceno disaster is confined to theterritory of one state,state it is important tocooperate regionally and shareexperiences and research materials.
 International disaster relief is essential
for disaster affected communities, butmore attention to be paid for disaster
preparedness and prevention.
prevention
 The high priority should be given to
promoting cooperation in the field ofdisaster prevention, preparedness andwarning
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Challenging issues
Responding to a complex disaster such as an 8+
earthquake will present challenging issues forNEMA and the Mongolian emergency response
system that in all probability have not been
experienced before. Communications, emergency
response and information assets will be required tofunction under the most demanding of situations.
Information will be very uncertain.
 Lack of coordination between NEMA and MEDIA’s.
 Language challenges (English, Russian) of thepersonnel.
personnel
 Retrofitting of the National level earthquake disaster
preparedness plan Strengthening of the capacity of public awarenessraising activities.
Developed for ADRC VRPMy expectation of learning from VRprogram Basing on the reference materials provided by ADRC, toupgraded my knowledge
kl don international
i tti l disasterdi t
mitigation activities.
 To further research in the field of “Strengthening of theSearch and Rescue standards and localizing of theinternational guidelines in Mongolia”
 To further investigate of the community based disastermanagement in Japan as well as the public awarenessraising activities.
 Developing and publishing of the “Mining RescueOperation” reference materials in Mongolian language.
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By D.Baasansuren
Lt, Officer
Foreign Relation Division, NEMA
Present Visitingg Researcher at ADRCNATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTAGENCY
Patrizani gudamj, Sukhbaatar duureg
Ulaanbaatar-210644, Mongolia
Tel: 976-11-262416 ; 976-11-263567
Fax: 976-11-262416
E-mail: for.rel@nema.mn
Web: www.nema.mn
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