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We are a group of professionals from a wide range of organizations and perspectives who are concerned with issues pertaining to various phases of disaster management such as response, recovery, preparedness, prevention and mitigation. The Disaster Management Community is facilitated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and is moderated by a Resource Team comprised of Mr. G Padmanabhan, Resource Person, and Ms. Nupur Arora, Research Associate. Click here for the welcome message from the Facilitator, and click here for the message from the Resource Team.
Community Highlights
The year 2007 has been full of action. As you know, we launched in April 2007 with 550 members and now we have about 1,250 members. From April to December we posted 22 queries, and in response to these queries many of you have shared your insights, for which we are grateful. We have also brought out 10 updates, where in we collate material sent by you and share it with members. In addition we 11 sitreps during recent floods and cyclones. The community is growing in numbers and equally growing is the experience sharing through our discussions. With this happening, there is a need to grow the number of people who benefit from this sharing of knowledge. Let’s encourage our fellow practitioners to participate in the discussions on the forum so that more can be achieved through this unique and vibrant knowledge sharing platform. On 13-14 February, we will be having our Visioning Workshop in New Delhi, if you would like more information about workshop, please contact the Resource Team.
Queries, e-Consultations and e-Discussions Below are the current topics being addressed.To participate you must be a member. Go to the Mailgroup page to log in or sign up. Queries
[se-drm][se-ed] Query: Integrating disaster risk reduction in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). Advice; Experience. Reply by 24 October 2008
From Amit Tuteja, SEEDS, For National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction, New Delhi
Seeks suggestions on how best DRR components can be integrated into SSA and shares experiences of including DRR components into SSA activities for various stakeholders.
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"It is a very positive trend, and has formed the base for a closer interaction and, hopefully, some very productive action emerging from it during the next big disaster we face. The Disaster Management sector is always in the need for ICT inputs during emergencies, but almost always there is no time – or knowledge resource – easily available" 
