Peer review

Why is this important?

The Civil Protection Mechanism stresses the need for an integrated approach to disaster management including a strong role for disaster prevention and preparedness. EU Member States and neighbourhood countries need a tool to facilitate the exchange of good practice, improve disaster risk management policy and planning, and enable mutual learning. The peer review process can help foster policy dialogue, improve consistency and steer progress in key areas of EU civil protection and disaster risk management cooperation.

What are we doing?

Under the EU disaster risk management peer review programme, experts from other countries examine the set-up and operation of the reviewed country in an area related to risk management. The focus of the reviews can vary from the general – disaster risk management – to the specific – e.g. risk assessments, risk management capability or early warning.

The reviews are based on guidelines and frameworks agreed at EU-level and prepared by the European Commission. Participation in the peer reviews is on a voluntary basis for both the reviewed and the reviewing countries. The overall result is peer-to-peer learning rather than a top-down review. The resulting reports include recommendations for improvements and highlight areas of good practice.

Peer-reviewed countries