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Topic: Towards Excellence in Disaster Management: Governance and Sustainability of Post-Disaster Initiatives Pramod K. Mishra
INTRODUCTION
Excellence in public service is an important for disaster management, particularly post-disaster recovery and reconstruction programmes, as for development schemes and unitities. In recent times the frequency in developing countries. A developing country, with a similar hazard profile as that of a developed country is, in many cases, more prone to disasters, because of higher vulnerability and less mitigation efforts. Furthermore, there is linkage between poverty and vulnerability to disasters. Poor people are more vulnerable to disaster. On the other hand, disaster adversely affect development efforts and can increase of poverty.
The decade of 1990s was declared by the United Nations as the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). Since the 1990s there has been a realization that the focus of disaster management should shift from a relief-centric approach to that of prevention, mitigation and preparedness. Earlier, disaster management involved primarily rescue, relief and to some extent rehabilitation. There was not much emphasis on risk reduction activities such as prevention, mitigation and preparedness though there were some measures for prevention and mitigation in the context of flood and drought.
There have been major disaster, in India and in other countries, during recent years. In the Indian context, major disaster such as the Orissa super cyclone of 1999, the Kutch (Gujarat) earthquake of 2005 have caused enormous damage and destruction.