The SAARC Disaster Management Centre would serve the Member Countries by providing policy advice and facilitating capacity building services including strategic learning, research, training, system development, expertise promotion and exchange of information for effective disaster risk reduction and for planning and coordinating a rapid regional response mechanism to disasters within the region. View full Profile in PreventionWeb
Activities in the Campaign
SAARC hosted a “Making Cities Resilient” campaign launch for South Asia in May 2010.
The SAARC centre published and launched a compilation of urban risk management practice and has followed up with a strategy to address urban risk.