What is Disaster Risk Management?

What is Disaster Risk Management?

Disaster Risk Management is a process of mobilizing a group of people in a systematic way towards achieving a common risk reduction objective which takes place in a geographically-defined living area (or) in sector groups.

The local people must know what disaster management and risk reduction stand for, what their own responsibilities are, how they can help prevent disasters, how they must react during a disaster and what they can do to support themselves when necessary.

Awareness and knowledge will built the risk perceiption of local people. The analysing and understanding the risk of particular hazard to their lives properties, local people can take steps to reduce those risks and minimize the damages caused by the hazard.

The involvement and awareness of local community are therefore a critical element of disaster risk management.