NATURAL DISASTER

PREPAREDNESS

&

RESPONSE

(NDPR)

Community Awareness about Climate Change

Pakistan is exposed to different disasters including earthquakes, floods, droughts, cyclones, storms, and tsunami.  The 7.7 Richter scale Quetta earthquake in the year 1935 when some 60,000 people were killed; the 7.8 Richter scale Balochistan earthquake including the 40-foot tsunami that killed over 4,000 people; the drought in the year 2000 which affected at least 1.2 million people in Balochistan; the 7.6 Richter scale Kashmir earthquake which claimed lives of 73,000 people and made 3.3 million homeless; and flash flooding in the year 2010 when over six million including 50,000 people in 30 villages of Balochistan were affected.  These catastrophes are the grimed reminders that call for actions to build disaster-resilient communities.

FBRC is committed towards implementing the new UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction through building community resilience by adopting a Community-Based Disaster Risk Management approach and involving villages and communities in the development of hazard and resource maps and risk management plans.  For the sake of increasing community awareness about climate change and its impact, FBRC is also focusing on promoting research culture in the country with respect to regions that are prone to, and affected by, various types of disasters due to the climate change.