Challenges and Solutions for Afghanistan's National Response Plan

This report focuses on the National Response Plan in Afghanistan, highlighting the critical role it plays in homeland security by mitigating the impact of natural and man-made disasters. The report identifies a key challenge: limited access to services, particularly in socially disadvantaged areas, often exacerbated by a lack of awareness. The assignment provides solutions to address this challenge, emphasizing the need for health promotion to increase awareness and the importance of strengthening data management related to natural hazards and climate risks. Additionally, the report advocates for policy design that encourages community involvement to ensure that the concerns of the population are addressed effectively. The report highlights the importance of the government's initiatives to improve disaster risk management in Afghanistan.

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Role of national response plan:
The national response plan enable the population significant homeland security mission of
preventing terrorist attacks within Afghanistan and it is effective in reducing the vulnerability to
all-natural as well as man-made hazards (Naseh et al., 2018). It is effective in minimizing the
damage as well as assisting in the recovery from any type of incident that occurs.
Identify a challenge it faces:
Afghanistan is considered as a republic subjected to a range of natural disasters such as
earthquakes, flooding, landslides, and avalanches and man-made disasters. One of the most
common challenges experienced by Afghanistan is the lack of access to the services to the
individuals living in the socially disadvantageous area (Naseh et al., 2018). The prime reason
behind lack of access includes lack of awareness regarding the need for seeking the services for
coping with a natural disaster or manmade disaster (Hamidazada, Cruz & Yokomatsu, 2019).
Consequently, the population in Afghanistan experience frequent disasters. One of the common
instances is frequent Terrorists attack experienced by Afghanistan where the majority of the
services unable to do damage control. In this case, the Government of Afghanistan has taken
steps to advance disaster risk management (DRM) in the country for effectively planning a range
of services for the population (Naseh et al., 2018).
Solution:
In order to provide access to the services for the national response plan, the awareness is
required to create amongst the population regarding the services. The awareness can be created
through health promotion where education regarding the disaster can be given (Hamidazada,
Cruz & Yokomatsu, 2019). Moreover, for providing access to the services of the natural

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response plan. The professionals are required to strengthen natural hazard as well as climate risk
data management and share it with the population. The policy regarding access is required to
design where the population can be encouraged to involve in the policy designing so that the
population can convey their concern.

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Reference:
Hamidazada, M., Cruz, A. M., & Yokomatsu, M. (2019). Vulnerability Factors of Afghan Rural
Women to Disasters. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 10(4), 573-590.
Naseh, M., Potocky, M., Stuart, P. H., & Pezeshk, S. (2018). Repatriation of Afghan refugees
from Iran: a shelter profile study. Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 3(1), 13.