Charitable society for Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Response Training
Mission
CHAERT (Charitable society for Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Response Training) is a venture of Masters Degree holders in Disaster Management, from the School of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, as a result of the augmented need of an institutional support to strengthen the disaster management and humanitarian assistance activities of the state.
The vision is to build a safer and disaster resilient community by developing a holistic, proactive, multi-disaster and technology driven strategy for DM. This will be achieved through a systematic approach to disaster management by building a culture of prevention, mitigation and preparedness to reduce the impact of disasters on people and thus enhancing community self-help mechanisms.
CHAERT accentuates developing and maintaining a structured platform to facilitate collaborative education, training and research in the current and emerging fields of Disaster Management by extending a helping hand towards the vulnerable community with other humanitarian agencies and administration to ensure minimum standards of living in normal as well as emergency situations and thus reduce the human sufferings arising from both natural and anthropogenic disasters.
Voluntary Commitments
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.