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Doaba's Vision is "Disaster Prone communities becoming Self-reliant in pursuit of their common interests".
Doaba's mission is to improve the quality of life among rural and disaster prone communities. Its believes in achieving its goals through optimal utilisation of communities’ own available resources: physical-biological, moral and human. It seeks to build the capacity of such communities incorporating relief activities into development programmes.
The people of Indus river basin have self help capacity and are resilient to natural disasters in Pakistan.
Indus Consortium
Javed Iqbal
http://www.doaba.org.pk
Promoting institutional arrangements at local, district, provincial and national level.
HVCAs and Risk assement are the key to provide bases for DRR programs.
Community based early warning and computer models are developed and replicated in Punjab-Pakistan.
Public awareness for technical aspects of disasters, legal awareness and role of government departments etc through sessions, seminars, mock drillss and media work.
Climate change adaptation and food security are programs integrated with DRR. Gender mainstreaming is common to all sectors.
At community level and district level with the engagement of communities and government. Contingency planning and stock pilling at organisational level.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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