Southern Governorate begins to develop GIS for Disaster Management

The governorate of South Lebanon initiated the initiative of Governor Mansour Daou in collaboration with the Directorate of Geographical Affairs of the Lebanese Army to prepare the launch of the first geographic information system of the province Lebanese.

In this context, it was held in the hall of Prime Minister Martyr Rafic Hariri in Saray, Director of Southern Geographical Affairs, Brigadier General Mustapha Musallmani, Engineer Abdullah Al Rihani of the Director and Director of the Office of Prime Minister Zahi Shahin's Disaster Risk Reduction Unit attended the meeting. Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine, Karen Zoghbi, Haytham Khadri and Hani Hamam spoke about the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Kbadem Shaalan of the Lebanese Red Cross and the Secretariat of the Committee, made up of representatives from several administrative units in the province. . Meet everyone He stressed the importance of completing the information collection plan with the information needed to respond to disasters and crises and to reduce risks by involving different departments of the South, municipalities, society civil and civil organizations and relief with all their information, opportunities and plans. To be used in case of disaster. "

The meeting included interventions by a number of participants on practical steps to gather information and ways to ensure the ease, speed and effectiveness of the". disaster use.

Shaheen pointed out on the sidelines of the meeting on the importance of developing an information map for the South in order to be one of the basic tools For all the stages of the disaster, we appreciate this initiative of His Excellency the Governor of the South to gather these energies and to introduce an information base of all the ministries and stakeholders so that he can start as a first step of the governorate of South Lebanon.Move on the basis of the disaster or in case of disaster risk treatment and be an exploitation of the room based on this map.What is a very important step because a conservation and an initiative are supposed to follow the rest of the provinces. As the Disaster Risk Reduction Unit in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and with UNDP, we are telling all the ministries and governorates that we will be with you in these steps.