National Disaster Management Authority

Organise regular meetings with community and community leaders

Disseminating relevant information on relief work to the community through distribution of pamphlets and leaflets as well as use of community radio

Impressing upon the community to keep their temporary shelters as clean as possible and take recourse to immunisation programmes

Generating awareness on traditional wisdom to cope with  crises

Prepare vulnerability indices for relief distribution keeping in view the needs of the children and aged women

Make a plan for distributing relief material

Accessibility, availability, safety and law and order situation around warehouse, transport requirements, population to be covered , all needs to be assessed

The affected families need to be informed well in advance so that they can collect relief materials from the distribution point

Opportunities for affected household or communities to maintain or establish livelihood-support activities should be maximised

Any material existence should be complemented by the promotion of improved design, settlement planning and building techniques drawing upon local knowledge