Disaster Services - Sri Lanka

Updated regularly the Disaster Manegementt Centre in Sri Lanka offers data on the number of persons, disaster, regions, dates of natural disaster etc.. A sample of same can accessed below . https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Situation_Report___on_2018__1528982047.pdf

Features Ravi Ratnasabapathy Sri Lanka braces itself for yet another round of floods; the third in as many years. As floods and droughts become regular occurrences, how should the nation respond? The impact of this year’s floods is not yet known but likely to be heavy. In May 2017 floods and landslides affected 15 of the 25 districts of Sri Lanka. The drought in 2016 and 2017 affected 1,927,069 people across 17 districts, many of them poor. “Approximately 12 per cent of those affected were poor, nearly twice the national average of 6.7 per cent. In the case of the landslides, this is because the 11 affected Divisional Secretary (DS) Divisions tend to be poorer than the national average. Those affected by the floods overall were also disproportionately poor, with an estimated poverty rate of 8.7 per cent.” (World Bank) If the poor are disproportionately affected by natural disasters it has a negative impact on poverty and therefore has the highest level of

What is Disaster Information Management System Background Population growth and urbanization processes, trends in land use, increasing impoverishment of significant segments of the population, use of inappropriate technological systems in the construction of houses and basic infrastructure, and inappropriate organization systems, amongst others, are factors that have increased the vulnerability of the population vis-a-vis the wide diversity of physical and natural events. However, lack of systematic, homogeneous, and compatible records of disaster typologies, understood as the effect of the occurrence of threatening events on the vulnerability of country, on the one hand, and insistence on considering disasters only as effects of events of huge proportions and high impact, on the other, have hidden the thousands of small and medium scale disasters that occur every year in country. In this context, The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) of the Ministry of Disaster Management an

Hazard Profile of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka being a small island in the Indian Ocean in the path of two monsoons is mostly affected by weather related hazards. Floods mostly due to monsoonal rain or effects of low pressure systems and droughts due to failure of monsoonal rain are the most common hazards experienced in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is also prone to hazards such as landslides, lightning strikes, coastal erosion, epidemics and effects of environmental pollution. In 2004, almost two-thirds of the Sri Lankan coast was affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami highlighting the country’s vulnerability to low-frequency but high impact events. People affected by different disasters in Sri Lanka (1974-2004) Based on information available on the people affected by natural disasters during the period 1974-2004 is given in the figure above which clearly identifies floods, drought, tsunami, storm and landslides as the most common natural disasters in Sri Lanka.

Disasters are many and varied. However, there are principally two types that are prevalent nowadays. They are natural and man-made disasters. Hardly a day passes without disaster striking some part of the globe. Global warming had resulted in a series of natural disasters and destructive weather patterns, Sri Lanka was considered to be located in an exceptionally favourable location out of danger. As a popular song says there are no earthquakes and volcanic actions in Sri Lanka. However, things do not look too bright for our future as signs of danger are already apparent. Of late our country has also experienced a series of disasters. Beginning with the tsunami of December 2004 there has been a series of severe floods, landslides with much destruction of life and property etc. We could recall the Aranayake and Badulla landslides, the Salawa Army Camp explosion and now the exploitation at the Meetotamulla garbage heap. Were they natural disasters or man-made disasters? Tho

Overview: This document describes the charitable work done by FECT and its staff over the last twenty years in Sri Lanka. All of the work is done with financial donations or grants from individuals and organizations that fund scientific work and through dedicated efforts of volunteers, visitors, scientists and administrators. We have sponsored and conducted educational programs at school and University level and sponsored many internships, studentships and training programs as well. We have not charged for any services. Partnerships:  We have collaborated with many government organizations for the public welfare. These include Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka, Department of Agriculture, Anti-Malaria Campaign, National Dengue Control Unit, Tea Research Institute, Coconut Research Institute, Sugarcane Research Institute, Public Utility Commission of Sri Lanka, Local Government Authorities , Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nearly all national universities and over a dozen inter

Tropical Climate undertakes Social Service related to Disasters, Vulnerable, and for Environment and Climate. Below described our Social Service work starting with our relief for recent violence starting from 5th March of 2018 and for this we have established a recover support centre and network. We described the disaster recovery centre network below followed by the institutional information about social service work of tropicalclimate. Disaster Services Centre The Disaster Services Centre (DSC) provides services for risk management and recovery. Initially, we shall assist those affected by the mob violence that took place in Digana and the surrounding areas in March 2018 Our office is in an accessible location in Kengalla. A small staff at this office shall be supported by the larger staff of Federation for Environment Climate and Technology (FECT) and Tropical Climate (TC). The Centre has IT, administration, counselling and small meeting spaces. We are conducting some c