NGOs and Disaster Risk Reduction in Pakistan

Abstract

In Pakistan, the "non-government organizations" (NGOs) play a vital role in disaster risk reduction. The donor's agencies and International NGOs not only support the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMAs) and Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA) Disaster Management Authority (FDMA) to perform their functions effectively but also provides guidelines on policy matter. The local NGOs, community based organizations (CBOs) and volunteers closely work with community and thus enhance their risk reduction and emergency response capacities. The present study analyzed the role and responsibilities of NGOs in advocacy, policy, management and disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures in Pakistan. The study explore that almost whole scenario of DRR is controlled by NGOs. They device the national policy, conduct different level trainings, prepared plans and support DRR measures. The unipolar approached achieve some milestone of legislation, national DRR policy, district plans preparation. However, lack of ownership, ignoring physical and economic aspects of development and contradictory approaches in implementations are some major concerns of their contribution.