From our point of view, the ideological power play and the role of natural disaster management need further discussion.
First, disaster risk management needs to be based on an understanding of disaster risk in all its dimensions of vulnerability, capacity, exposure of persons and assets, hazard characteristics, and the environment.
In the long term, development agencies say higher education bodies in the region must also focus on turning out more local graduates with skills and knowledge targeted to Pacific-based climate change and disaster risk management needs.
Three weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck killing an estimated 134,000 people, the reclusive regime's leader, General Than Shwe, gave the go-ahead for the influx of disaster management specialists needed to boost relief efforts.
Data for disaster management often need to be presented differently from mainstream RHIS outputs (Endsley 2010).
Therefore, orientations on disaster management are needed for CHOs in urban areas.
The country's key policy roadmaps including the National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS) (Royal Government of Cambodia 2002) and the Strategic National Development Plan 2009 2013 (Royal Government of Cambodia 2009) both recognize the need for disaster management.
This is increasingly the future of disaster management: prepositioning to get what's needed to where it's needed earlier.
With no additional resources for monitoring and coordinating humanitarian organizations involved in relief and recovery, it became a very difficult challenge for the UNO office to ensure alignment of humanitarian support to local needs and national disaster management plans.
There is a need to institutionalize disaster management, experts say, so that proper infrastructure is put in place and periodic checks are carried out to see if it is operable.
