Project Description: Malta National Risk Assessment provides a National Risk Assessment in line with Risk Assessment and Mapping Guidelines for Disaster Management. The development of  National risk assessments is mandated by Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013, and is also an ex ante conditionality (Risk Prevention and Risk Management) of the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 funding. In addition, it is also a prerequisite for funding under the Partnership Agreement of Malta 2014-2020.The purpose of the project is to evaluate the risk from known threats and hazards that have the potential to significantly impact Malta?s security. It provides a comprehensive National Risk Assessment (NRA) as a strategic management instrument the Maltese islands. The NRA is multi-hazard and includes the full range of known hazards and threats that are likely to affect Malta.

Title: "MaltaRisks" - Malta National Risk Assessment
Contracting Authority: Ministry for Home Affairs and National Security 
Start Date: 06/2015
End Date: 11/2015
EPSILON Role: MaltaRisks delivers an effort of 50+ person months with seven major activities in addition to project management:

• Hazard and threat identification
• Risk analysis
• Risk evaluation
• Critical infrastructure assessment and mapping
• Risk mapping
• Risk reduction and management strategies
• Training course for GIS platform users
• Table Top exercise.

Total Budget:230.000 ?

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