Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF) pilot report

The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate community-led initiatives in disaster risk reduction designed by communities and which enable them to increase their awareness of their vulnerabilities and address these vulnerabilities through collective risk mapping, identification of priorities, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also describes the initiatives progresses and impacts on earthquake, floods, cyclone, tsunami, and landslides in India.

The initiative was formally announced by the National Disaster Management Authority of India with ProVention at the Plenary Session at the Second Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held on November 7-8, 2007 in Delhi.