Disaster Management
What’s New
Towards resilient and safe communities
As the disaster risk landscape is rapidly changing, it is imperative to invest in resilience for a safer future. Reliance Foundation aims to make communities and systems resilient by improving anticipatory, absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities to the effects of disasters and climate change. It is also committed to strengthening disaster response systems, ensuring that people affected by disasters receive timely and quality humanitarian assistance, and enabling communities to better manage and recover from disasters.
Reliance Foundation supports building safer, disaster-resilient communities in alignment with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Key objectives of our programme are:-
- Establishing collaborative action to address underlying risk factors to reduce exposure to hazards and
- Augmenting local capacities in emergency preparedness and response
- Enhancing sectoral capacities for effective and timely disaster response
Reliance Foundation uses a holistic, proactive, technology-driven, and sustainable strategy that involves all stakeholders and fosters a culture of prevention, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a seven-point strategy to accelerate disaster resilience.
- Risk Informed Development – Embedding Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in local planning; equipping cities and panchayats for hazard assessments, prevention and mitigation.
- Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) for DRR – Restoring mangroves, wetlands and other ecosystems alongside engineered defences to reduce exposure to hazards.
- Resilient Livelihoods – Promoting climate-smart agriculture and livestock resilience.
- Early Warning and Anticipatory Action – Multi-Hazard, inclusive systems with pre—agreed triggers for anticipatory response.
- Empowered community Networks – Professionalising local response cadres, improving disaster preparedness capacities.
- School Safety – Making schools safer and resilient to disaster impacts; making schools hubs for disaster education with trained staff and safety plans.
- Agile sectoral surge capacity – investing in capacities of trained professionals for timely and effective disaster response with focus on key sectors including Food Security, Public Health Risk Management, WASH and Livestock Protection.
Reliance Foundation leverages technology to make an impact at scale. Reliance Foundation Disaster Management Program is ISO certified for maintaining the highest standards of quality in its program designing and implementation.
