Solution Exchange India

 Solution Exchange connects the members of this Community and increases the effectiveness of their individual efforts by helping them share and apply each other’s knowledge and experience.  Through Solution Exchange, Disaster Management professionals can turn to their peers across India for solutions to the day-to-day challenges they face.

 What are some of the areas covered by the Community?

Key issues that the Community members would focus on are:

1. Hazards: Natural & Human
2. Post Disaster: Relief, Response, Reconstruction/recovery
3. Pre- Disaster- Preparedness, Prevention, Mitigation
4. Techniques and Tools: Assessment formats, disaster resistant construction techniques and designs, retrofitting techniques and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
5. Institutional and Policy Issues:  Governance in disaster management, Coordination and mainstreaming disaster management into development.
6. Concerns of Vulnerable Groups.

 Who should become a member of the Disaster Management Community?

You should join this Community if your work is linked to reducing vulnerability to disasters and in enhancing the capacity of communities to cope with disasters:

1. Officials from Government or semi-government organizations dealing with various aspects of disaster management (preparedness, mitigation, response, rehabilitation and long term sustainable recovery)
2. Field workers from Non-Governmental and Civil Society Organisations
3. Local administrators from district, local panchayats and urban local bodies
4. Representatives of multilateral and bilateral donor agencies supporting projects and programmes pertaining to disaster management
5. Academics, researchers and  other professionals involved in disaster management capacity building, training and research
6. Corporate and other private sector professionals in the disaster management-related fields, including risk management and the insurance sector

 Who are the leaders of this Community?

The Community is guided by a “Resource Group” of eminent persons from a wide range of organizations and agencies working in disaster management in India:

1. Government of India and State Governments
2. UN Agencies and other major donor agencies
3. The National Institute of Disaster Management
4. State Institutes of Public Administration
5. NGOs and CBOs
6. Engineering / Architect / Town Planning Institutes
7. DM Experts

This Community is facilitated by the UNDP.

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