About - The All India Disaster Mitigation Institute

Who We Are

The All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) is a registered non-governmental organisation based in Gujarat, India. It is a community-based action planning, research and policy support local organisation, working towards bridging the gap between policy, practice and research related to humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation as laid out in the National Disaster Management Plan of Government of India of 2019.

Established after the 1987-89 Gujarat droughts, AIDMI has worked over the years to cover a total of nine types of disasters in eighteen areas of India and beyond to nine countries in Asia. AIDMI links local communities to national and international levels of risk reduction, relief and long-term recovery programmes and policies to build resilience as envisioned in Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR). As an action-oriented and learning organization, AIDMI promotes disaster risk mitigation and adaptation to climate change by supporting, capturing, processing and disseminating disaster related information, lessons and innovative ideas. In this endeavor, AIDMI routinely carries out stakeholder round tables, trainings of trainers, reviews, evaluations, research studies, and pilot projects with the citizens are in the centre.

Vision

A resilient society that empowers it’s poor and excluded citizens with the right to access public resources to manage their own disaster recovery through their own coping mechanisms.

Mission

To mainstream disaster risk reduction by turning disaster relief and rehabilitation into an opportunity for sustainable human security and poverty alleviation by supporting poor and excluded citizens.

How we do it

Strategy

AIDMI aims to achieve this mission through the following strategy:

Linking the voices of at risk communities to those of the decision makers of humanitarian initiatives for effective long recovery.
Making the concerns of women and the poor central to the humanitarian priorities in India.
Linking action and research to improve the quality of response and mitigation over recovery.

Focus

AIDMI’s focus is on promoting and strengthening a practice of community based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) through:

Building capacities of multiple humanitarian stakeholders in all stage of disaster recovery;
Facilitating exchange and synergy of diverse risk reduction strategies, mechanisms and knowledge to concerned stakeholders with networking among them;
Providing timely and targeted relief to disaster-affected communities in a gender-sensitive way, thus supporting human security through shelter, livelihood, water and food projects;
Promoting rights of disaster affected victims with special focus on women, children, dalits and minorities;
Devising climate change adaptation and mitigation approaches in the community context and supporting the same in regional networks.

AIDMI’s Partners

AIDMI has partnerships with local, national and regional level governmental and non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, universities and research centres as well as with private companies.

AIDMI Team

AIDMI is young and its members have experience across a wide range of disciplines. The 24 individuals are from disaster management, social sciences, liberal arts, commerce, urban planning, rural development, business, and engineering, architecture, accounting, and finance disciplines.

Our Policies

Annual Reports

Emerging Areas for Action: AIDMI Internal Review

Urban Policy and Planning: Protests and Protection in Cities
Urban Forests as Regional Mitigation
Urban Governance of Self Governed
Towards Economics of Urban Transformation
Poverty as Crime by Urban Society
Green and Blue Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning across Cities of the South
Land Acquisitions and Rights for Migrants and Displaced in Cities
Energy Inequality and Extreme Event Disparity for Urban Poor
Changing Role of Law and Justice: Climate, Crisis, and Conflict in Cities
Gender, Intersectionality, and DRR in Small Towns
Peri-Urban Drylands and Pastoralism in Extreme Heat

Where We Work

Locations AIDMI covers the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Union Territories Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, and Puducherry of India as well as neighbouring countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Solomon Island, and Sri Lanka.

What We Do

Since its establishment, AIDMI has worked in different areas of disaster management including risk reduction, knowledge management, innovations in disaster response and recovery, and policy support covering 65 cities and 86 districts.

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