The development planning process helps implement the proposals by preparing the institutional, financial, and technical mechanisms necessary for successful execution and operation. Efforts made to consider hazards in previous stages will be lost unless mitigation measures are closely adhered to during the projects' execution. Either the planning agency or the implementing agency should:

- Ensure that suitable hazard management mechanisms have been included in all investment projects; provide for monitoring of construction to insure compliance with regulations, and for ongoing monitoring to ensure long-term compliance with project design.

- Ensure that national disaster management organizations have access to the information generated by the study. Point out hazardous situations for which the study did not propose vulnerability reduction measures.

- Arrange for the continuing collection of hazard data and the updating of information of planning and emergency preparedness agencies.

- Prepare legislation mandating zoning codes and restrictions, building and grading regulations, and any other legal mechanisms required.

- Include adequate financing for hazard mitigation measures.

- Involve the private sector in the vulnerability reduction program.

- For community-based vulnerability reduction programs, establish national training and hazard awareness programs for town and village residents, a feature of OAS technical assistance programs for Saint Lucia and Grenada.

- Generate broad-based political support through the media, training programs, and contacts with community organizations. Use products of the studies (photos, maps, charts, etc.) for mass communication. Use personnel who participated in the studies in public meetings to promote the concept of vulnerability