explain village disaster management committee (vdmc) in more than 300 words
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The Village Disaster Management Committee (VDMC) have been formed in conjunction with ActionAid, an Anti-Poverty NGO which has been working with in 40 years. The aim of setting up these VDMCs is to better utilize local skills, resources, manpower and leadership in order to equip them with tools and strategies to managed disasters until better government disaster relief efforts can be set in.
E.g. in times of an earthquake, local people trained in basic relief efforts such as clearing rubble, early medical help, helping people remove possessions or trapped people, can start before professional help arrives.
Same is the case in times of a flood. When a community has been mobilized and prepared for such events, they can take care of one another and use basic survival methods to improve chances of getting through the next few hours.
This helps because, firstly India is a big country with many remote and small pockets of populations which cannot be reached easily or quickly. Also, due to limited budgets it has not been economically feasible for government to set up disaster relief teams in each and every town. Instead, making closest towns and cities as centres.
A VDMC can help to save property and even lives and can provide first hand accounts of problems and solutions before professionals arrive. E.g. villagers can guide professional rescue workers to trapped people, or victims who need urgent medical health.
VDMCs can even dedicate a certain area as a 'relief camp' or a 'medical camp' in order to make it easy for professional rescue workers to do their work once they arrive.
Top leaders in VDMCs can be influential people, who not only financial support preparedness and relief efforts but also use contacts to get things done quicker and better.
VDMC project will start from a small number of villages and their effectiveness and efficiency will be tested for a few months or years. Until then, they will be monitored, improved with proper guidelines prepared for scaling the project for further expansion.
E.g. in times of an earthquake, local people trained in basic relief efforts such as clearing rubble, early medical help, helping people remove possessions or trapped people, can start before professional help arrives.
Same is the case in times of a flood. When a community has been mobilized and prepared for such events, they can take care of one another and use basic survival methods to improve chances of getting through the next few hours.
This helps because, firstly India is a big country with many remote and small pockets of populations which cannot be reached easily or quickly. Also, due to limited budgets it has not been economically feasible for government to set up disaster relief teams in each and every town. Instead, making closest towns and cities as centres.
A VDMC can help to save property and even lives and can provide first hand accounts of problems and solutions before professionals arrive. E.g. villagers can guide professional rescue workers to trapped people, or victims who need urgent medical health.
VDMCs can even dedicate a certain area as a 'relief camp' or a 'medical camp' in order to make it easy for professional rescue workers to do their work once they arrive.
Top leaders in VDMCs can be influential people, who not only financial support preparedness and relief efforts but also use contacts to get things done quicker and better.
VDMC project will start from a small number of villages and their effectiveness and efficiency will be tested for a few months or years. Until then, they will be monitored, improved with proper guidelines prepared for scaling the project for further expansion.
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