Disaster Management

The Disaster Management Operations (DM-Op) department provides immediate relief to affected populations to save lives, protect livelihoods, and strengthen recovery from disasters and crises. The department’s key activities are in Emergency operations, Tracing and Restoration of Family links, Refugee Operations in Dadaab and Kalobeyei, protected relief and Recovery Operations, as well as Disaster Management strengthening.

The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) department is the organization’s flagship for resilience building. It implements programmes that aim to lessen or transfer the adverse effects of hazards through preparedness, mitigation and response. The focus is on three thematic areas; Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Food Security and Livelihood (FS&L) and environmental management and climate change adaptation (E/CCA).