Community Resilience Key to Minimizing Disaster Losses
CHITRAL: Speakers at a function held in connection with 'Disaster Risk Reduction Week' here on Thursday emphasised the need to build a resilient community to mitigate suffering and losses in the aftermath of natural calamities.
Organised by the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat Pakistan (AKAHP) in a local hotel with the theme of 'The Role of Education in Protecting and Empowering Youth for a Disaster-free Future', the event was attended by civil society representatives and academia who gave their output on the subject.
The chief guest of the event, Deputy Commissioner Lower Chitral Mohsin Iqbal said that in the context of the emerging scenario, we had to change our outlook and vision about natural disasters which played havoc with lives, properties and infrastructure.
He said that efforts of both private and public sectors needed to be coordinated and coherent so that they could support each other for constructive result while the degree of preparedness was to be enhanced because the quantum of disasters cannot be determined before time.
Earlier, the regional programme manager of AKAHP Chitral region Wali Mohammad said that the aim of celebrating the week was to remember those who had perished in the devastating earthquake of October 2005, and making the vulnerable communities to feel the need of preparedness before disasters.
He said that disaster management was not the responsibility of an individual but it was the collective responsibility of the society while his organisation was striving to inculcate in the society the need of resilience building for a safe future.
He said that AKAHP had developed a working relationship with the line departments of the government as well the University of Chitral so that research-based work on natural disasters would help to cope with the situation.
Dawn, October 11th, 2024
Organised by the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat Pakistan (AKAHP) in a local hotel with the theme of 'The Role of Education in Protecting and Empowering Youth for a Disaster-free Future', the event was attended by civil society representatives and academia who gave their output on the subject.
The chief guest of the event, Deputy Commissioner Lower Chitral Mohsin Iqbal said that in the context of the emerging scenario, we had to change our outlook and vision about natural disasters which played havoc with lives, properties and infrastructure.
He said that efforts of both private and public sectors needed to be coordinated and coherent so that they could support each other for constructive result while the degree of preparedness was to be enhanced because the quantum of disasters cannot be determined before time.
Earlier, the regional programme manager of AKAHP Chitral region Wali Mohammad said that the aim of celebrating the week was to remember those who had perished in the devastating earthquake of October 2005, and making the vulnerable communities to feel the need of preparedness before disasters.
He said that disaster management was not the responsibility of an individual but it was the collective responsibility of the society while his organisation was striving to inculcate in the society the need of resilience building for a safe future.
He said that AKAHP had developed a working relationship with the line departments of the government as well the University of Chitral so that research-based work on natural disasters would help to cope with the situation.
Dawn, October 11th, 2024
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