Towards an integrated rural fire management framework in Portugal

Annex A. Stakeholder mapping

Table A A.1. Key roles and responsibilities in Portugal’s process chain of wildfire management from the planning stage to post-fire recovery

	Planning	Preparation	Prevention	Pre-suppression	Suppression and relief	Post-fire
Agency for the Integrated Management of Rural Fires (AGIF)	x	x	x			x
National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection (ANEPC)	x	x	x	x	x	x
Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF)	x	x	x	x	x	x
National Republican Guard (GNR)	x		x	x
Commissions for Regional Coordination and Development (CCDR)	x		x			x
Intermunicipal Communities (CIM)	x		x			x
Ministry of Finance (MF)	x					x
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	x	x	x			x

Note: The stakeholders in this table are those, whose role has changed since 2017. Mainland Portugal relies on three subnational levels of government: the regional level represented by five Regional Development and Coordination Committees (CCDRs), the sub-regional level represented by 23 Intermunicipal Communities (CIMs), and the municipal level represented by 278 municipalities.

Source: Author’s own, based on (AGIF, 2020[1]).