January-March 2011
The Government of Pakistan is striving to promote DRM as one ofthe priority development concerns. There is a growing realizationthat it would be difficult to achieve the objectives of DRM in theabsence of a full-fledged academic institute dedicated forproviding research and training services.
Category: NDMA Resilience
February-April 2010
The Government of Pakistan is striving to promote DRM as one ofthe priority development concerns. There is a growing realizationthat it would be difficult to achieve the objectives of DRM in theabsence of a full-fledged academic institute dedicated forproviding research and training services. In this background,NDMA was given the responsibility of establishing the NationalInstitute of Disaster Management (NIDM), which was a statutoryrequirement under the National Disaster ManagementOrdinance, 2009.
Category: NDMA Resilience
May-December 2010
The monsoon season, 2010, brought along with it the destruction and devastation ofunprecedented scale hitherto unknown in the recorded history of Pakistan. Thenightmare started when the easterly monsoon system collided with the developingwestern system over North-Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on July 2010.
Category: NDMA Resilience