Hazards Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project will assist the Government of Romania in reducing the environmental, social, and economic vulnerability to natural disaster and catastrophic mining accidental spills of pollutants through: 

(i) streghening the institutional and tehnical capacity for disaster management and  emergency response through upgrading communication and information systems; 
(ii) implementing specific risk reduction investments for floods, landslides and earthquakes; 
(iii) improving the safety of selected water-retention dams; and 
(iv) improving on a pilot basis the management and safety of tailings dams and waste dump facilities.