National Network of Community Disaster Management Committees (NCDMC)

Mission

Background:

National Network of Community Disaster Management Committee (N-CDMC) is a community led loose network organized to establish the right of disaster affected people and to build the risk resilient community through awareness, capacity building and policy advocacy ensuring participation in both government and private agency's planning and implementation. People from highly vulnerable and/or affected communities to different natural hazards are organizing themselves in Committees that work together to reduce the risk in their communities.

To increase the impact of their life saving activities and advocacy, these committees started to organize themselves at district and national level and formed the National Network of Disaster Affected Community (NNDAC) network in 2008 and with broadening its objective now it is named as National Network of Community Disaster Management Committee (N-CDMC). Currently the network has been extended to 22 districts in Nepal and is expanding to other districts every year. Both at National and District level, its representatives are elected from the grass root level, the Community Disaster Management Committees (CDMC).

As a young organization, NCDMC is now convening its members from the districts and communities to discuss the appropriate structure, division of roles, rules, and regulations, which will allow NCDMC to effectively represent Nepal’s people in their endeavor to create a Risk Free Nepal.

Objectives:

The general Objective of this Network is to unite all the dispersed CDMC throughout the nation to establish the disaster affected community’s right and make sustainable to the CDMC’s effort on DRM ensuring the participation in government and private agency’s planning and implementation.

The specific objectives:

• To enhance the coping capacity of community to disaster challenges by establishing and expanding the CDMC
• To raise the awareness and advocate to address the community voice by applying the right based and participatory approach.
• Perform the study, research and survey of the community, VDC and District level for the hazard mapping, hazard identification and analysis
• Promote the good practice on DRR to replicate in every nook and corner of the society by coordination, collaboration and advocacy to establish the right to a life of dignity full.
• To involve and implement the disaster preparedness, rescue, response and relief activities