National Disaster Risk Management Framework Pakistan March 2007.

The Objectives of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) planning are to minimize adverse effects of hazards through effective disaster risk reduction, preparedness and adequate, timely and coordinated response. The plans would include strategies for disaster risk reduction and measures for disaster preparedness. Disaster risk reduction actions may include; dykes, dams, safer construction, retrofitting, rainwater harvesting, relocation, community organizing, training, awareness raising, and provision of safer sources of livelihoods etc. In order to materialize goals and objectives of the National ordinance and the present Framework, community and local level risk reduction projects and programmes will be designed and implemented in selected areas. These may include local level programming on drought and flood mitigation or earthquake vulnerability reduction in priority regions. Considering the fact that historical focus of disaster mitigation in Pakistan has mainly remained on structural mitigation- e.g. embankments, dykes, dams etc- the current strategy would emphasize more upon non-structural aspects of mitigation along with structural mitigation.