Vulnerability being a reality of peoples’ lives influenced Sungi’s rights based development approach to include disaster management as one of the main elements and cross cutting theme. Sungi responded to a number of disasters including “South Asian Earthquake 2005” & “IDPs Crisis 2008-09”, contributed significantly and added the learning in its institutional capacity of humanitarian response through its organized and trained community organizations.

In view of the disaster prone nature of Sungi’s working areas and experience gained in this regard. Sungi is committed to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable sections of society and develop capacities of the marginalized women, men and children to mitigate and respond to disasters. Developing resilient communities is the main objective of Sungi’s disaster management programme. Cascading effects of the natural and man-made disasters would be minimized by preparing communities to respond to emergencies as first responders and provide timely relief as disasters strike.

Disaster Management Programme has three thematic areas: Preparedness & Mitigation; Emergency Response; and Advocacy.

Sungi developed disaster management committees and emergency response teams in the most vulnerable areas, based on the vulnerability mapping. This is one of the tested sustainable models of community based disaster management.

Sungi is a member of HAP (Humanitarian Accountability Partnership) International. Sungi follows humanitarian standards in emergency response in addition to this Sungi is stepping forward for HAP certification by ensuring accountability principles in its work.