DISASTER MANAGEMENT RESOURCE CENTRE
A Unit of
Sahbhagi Shikshan Kendra







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Introduction Current Updates
Disasters have devastating effects on the human life, they cause huge human and economic losses, and can significantly set back development efforts of a region or a State. With the kind of economic losses and developmental setbacks that the country has been suffering year after year, the development process needs to be sensitive towards disaster prevention and mitigation aspects. There is thus a need to look at disasters from a development perspective as well. Further, although disaster management is not generally associated with plan financing, there are in fact a number of plan schemes in operation, such as for drought proofing, forestation, and making drinking water more available, that deal with hazard prevention and mitigation.
ECHO monitoring Mission from 23rd to 26th August, 2010

6th Mechanized Boat Handed over to one of the Panchayat named AHATA of Jarwal Block

Identity Cards distributed to 320 trained task force members.
External assistance for post - disaster reconstruction / preparedness and the streamlining of disaster management structures also is a part of the Plan.
Uttar Pradesh has an estimated 190 million inhabitants and a size of 243.286 km2. Huge parts of Uttar Pradesh are located in the “flood plains”. 27.000 km2 of area is annually affected by floods.As a result more than 21.1 million people are annually affected by flooding leaving back the vulnerable families in the jeopardy of survival due to this high frequency disaster.
Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management into Local Development Processes
"Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management into Local Development Processes in Uttar Pradesh" is our current project for next 15 months has been launched in the month of June 2009 with technical support from UNNATI with the funding support of DIPECHO through Malteser International, Germany.

The project aims at achieving the following results:

Under the project one important aspect is to establish a Disaster Management Resource Centre at Lucknow level. The center will provide timely open source information to center staff, its collaborating partners, including the Web based Information browsers. It shall also provide customized information on research and current awareness services such as daily reports and situational reports, to support the information needs at the intervening area.
For effective execution of its role as a Disaster Management Resource Center, SSK shall maintain an information resource center that is comprised of a core collection of materials on disasters, complex emergencies, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and relief operations. It will also rely heavily upon electronic means of information retrieval and dissemination for the timely delivery of its services.
One of the goals is to provide open source information exchange and sharing between public, government and non-governmental agencies. To accomplish this, efforts are directed toward creating and promoting an environment that is conducive for open exchange of information in complex emergency and disaster situations. The main objective is to fill information gaps between various organizations and agencies involved in humanitarian and relief operations for better coordination and execution of aid operations.