Disaster Management and Recovery

Disaster management is the discipline dealing of with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing, supporting, and rebuilding society when natural or human-made disasters occur. In general, any Disaster management is the continuous process by which all individuals, groups, and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards. Actions taken depend in part on perceptions of risk of those exposed

Disaster Management cycle

The traditional approach to disaster management has been to regard it as a number of phased sequences of action or a continuum. These can be represented as a cycle..

Less water: more illnesses and child mortality.

Across the globe, over 900 million people do not have access to enough water and 2.5 billion - the majority of which live in rural zones - live without adequate sanitation services.  It is estimated that 10% of the world's illnesses are spread by inadequate availability of clean water, hygiene and sanitation facilities.  3.5 million people die each year from inadequate access to drinking water, from poor hygiene, and from the lack or inadequacy of toilets and sewer systems. 

Children are particularly vulnerable: 1.5 million every year - approximately 4,000 children every day - die from illnesses caused by poor quality drinking water or inadequate hygiene practices.  One of the most frequent causes of death in children under the age of 5 is diarrhea: 1.4 million children under 5 fall victim to it and die each year. 88% of these deaths can be directly attributed to problems with water.  Insufficient clean water, even for washing hands, can be linked to the spread of other illnesses such as intestinal worms that infect many children and increase their vulnerability to malnutrition,  and anemia.   

Road to New Life

Ninthavur is a beautiful village in the costal area in Ampara District. In the eastern side is surrounded the sea and western side has many cultivation lands.

So far the eastern cost has experiences in many natural disasters reason being way of Bengal is close to Sri Lanka. Moreover Disaster in Sumatra Island is also effected Sri Lanka. In 1978 the eastern Sri Lanka faced the huge cyclone, in 1956 flood and in 2004 tsunami caused many difficulties and took away thousands of lives and destroyed life style of many many families. Dissemination of community based disaster management map by DMC-UNDP  into identified 30 most vulnerable local residents is usually adequate as a means of raising awareness of actual disaster reduction activities at the community level in Ampara.

Streets theater to prevent natural disaster

Campaign Against Dengue

I wrote this case study which is published in the ministerial leave letter