Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)

Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) is a method for reducing disaster risk by involving communities in the identification, analysis, and management of disaster risks. The goal of CBDRM is to make communities more resilient to disasters by empowering them to be proactive and develop their own strategies with a vision “To build Capacity of Communities to tackle disasters”, to find the measures in the grassroots level for creating Disaster Preparedness in A&N Islands and covered 70 Gram Panchayats (GPs) and 07 Tribal Councils (TCs) of these Islands under this programme.

Objectives of CBDRM

  • To enhance capacity of village community to tackle any crisis situation.
  • To prepare and develop village Disaster Management plan.
  • To strengthen the alert, warning and communication system in the communities at grassroots level.
  • To ease the escape routes in the communities.
  • To constitute and train village task forces for first response and use of local resources for Evacuation, Search & Rescue, First Aid and Relief Operations.
  • To sensitize village community on disaster preparedness and safety measures.
  • Identify hazard profile of the village community for its mitigation.
  • To carry out Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities in villages and associated environment.
  • To motivate direct participation of villagers in the disaster awareness activities that would help building towards a disaster resilient community.
  • CBDRM will be carryout in all Gram Panchayats& Tribal Councils in ANI.

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