National Disaster Response Plan (NDRP) March 2010 - NDMA

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organizations in Northern Areas, AJ&K and FATA) and DDMAs, concerned ministries, departments,
INGOs, UN, media, charities/foundations, and CBOs at all levels of governance. It focuses on the
existing relief system in Pakistan, the procedure of declaring calamity-hit areas, early warning
systems and the information flow from national to provincial, provincial to district, and district to
community level in the case of different hazards. It also identifies different relief management
functions, lead agencies, relief functions, and SOPs. The NDRP also focuses on the concept of EOCs
at national, provincial/regional/state, and district level. It delineates SOPs for concerned ministries,
departments, authorities, NGOs, UN agencies, charities/foundations, and other stakeholders for
emergency preparedness and response.
Scope
7. Scope of the Plan is as under:-
a. The NDRP classifies small, medium, and large-scale natural and manmade disasters
in the country and corresponding response mechanisms and procedures.
b. Illustrates structures and mechanisms for providing operational direction to disaster
management authorities at federal, provincial/regional/state, and district levels.
c. Defines emergencies at local, provincial and national levels and clearly defines the
process of declaring each level of emergency and response mechanisms and
procedures accordingly.
d. Explain roles/responsibilities and coordination amongst federal ministries, provincial
support of UN, INGOs, civil society, the news media.
e. Describes SOPs for each relief function in case of a disaster and further defines the
role of concerned government departments as lead and support agencies.
f. Expresses a consistent approach for reporting disasters, providing assessments, and
making recommendations to the Prime Minister and the Chief Ministers for relief
operations.
Planning Assumptions
8. Following assumptions have been made:-
a. Incidents are managed at district, provincial, and national level according to the
intensity and magnitude of the disaster.
b. A national catastrophe results in a large number of casualties and damage to
infrastructure, severely affects population and livelihoods; gives rise to the potential
threat of disease outbreak; and displaces large numbers of people, triggering the
declaration of a national disaster in the country.
c. The nature and scope of catastrophes can include natural and manmade hazards;
industrial, chemical, biological, and nuclear hazards, epidemics, locust hazards, and
terrorist attacks.