Role of NGOs in Disaster Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Role of NGOs in earthquake disaster management. 3. Legal system and structure of disaster management and NOGs. 4. UNs disaster management team and its role and responsibilities. 5. Role of community sector in waste and environmental management. 6. Creation of a special legal framework for NGOs. 7. The nature and role of international NGOs. 8. Disaster management: the development perspective. 9. Role of NGOs in chemical disarmament process. 10. The role of transnational NGOs in global affairs. Bibliography. Index.

NGOs include several groups institutions that are entirely or largely independent of government and that have primarily humanitarian or cooperative rather commercial objectives. It is an organisation of private individuals who believe in certain basic social principles and who structure their activities to bring about development to communities that they are servicing.

Today NGOs are of varied nature in the existence and are active in various fields such as education elimination of child labour social welfare women welfare disaster management flood earthquake war casualty. Many international and national organizations specifically forms on providing humanitarian aid to disaster victims.

The book is meant for discussing the role of NGOs in disaster management in a very lucid and comprehensive way. " (jacket)