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resulted in its up-gradation to an emergency service. It is responsible for handling all
types of emergencies, including fire emergencies 14.
h. Local Charity Organizations eg Edhi Foundation, Chippa Ambulance Services,
Alkhidmat Foundation etc. The local charity organizations provide relief services,
particularly ambulance services, evacuation, food and nonfood items for small to large-
scale disasters in the country.
j. Non-Governmental Organizations. NGOs both international and local play an
important role in disaster management. NGOs collaborate with national, provincial and
district level disaster management authorities for relief operation and provide relief
services to sustain life, reduce physical and emotional distress, and promote recovery
of disaster victims.
k. Community Based Organizations (CBOs). Community based organizations (CBO)
play a major role in the relief activities whenever, and wherever any disaster happens.
The CBOs mainly focus on the relief activities and their capacity is very limited or
nonexistent in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities. Therefore, it is important to
build the capacity of CBOs at village level along with government officials. CBOs can
be trained in the use of local early warning system, evacuation, first aid, search and
rescue, fire fighting etc. The provision of Citizen Community Boards (CCBs) in the
Local Government Ordinance (LGO 2001) provides good grounds to organize
communities and mobilize resources for issues like local level disaster risk
management.
l. United Nations (UN) Agencies. UN Agencies play a key role in disaster
management especially in assessment, planning, coordination, response, recovery and
longer term disaster risk reduction programme. UN takes a lead role in establishing the
Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC). The main purpose of the IASC is to organize
and coordination meetings of UN and INGOs on weekly basis to monitor response of
various agencies. In addition to that, the UN plays an important role in capacity building
of public sector in policy formulation in disaster management, providing technical
support to provinces and districts in disaster management planning, strengthening
public sector organizations in emergency response and disaster preparedness through
trainings.
m. Media. The media plays an important role in saving lives and property before,
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during and after the disaster through dissemination of information on preparedness
issues in disaster management, public information on early warnings, information on
response and rehabilitation. The media educates public on the disaster, particularly