Southasiadisasters.net, Issue No. 229 | February 2026

Co-editors: Dr. Johnny Ruangmei and Mihir R. Bhatt

Nagaland is emerging as an important example of how disaster resilience can be strengthened through leadership, institutional innovation, science-based decision-making, and local partnerships. This issue of Southasiadisasters.net brings together reflections on what Nagaland is doing, why these efforts matter, and how wider learning can be drawn from them. The issue foregrounds a clear message: resilience is not built through isolated projects, but through connected systems that link policy, preparedness, knowledge, finance, and community action.

Drawing on contributions from the Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), AIDMI, UNDRR, NagaEd, and international partners, the issue examines how Nagaland is addressing multiple and evolving risks, including landslides, floods, forest fires, extreme rainfall variability, and wider climate stresses. It highlights practical innovations such as disaster risk transfer, decentralised relief payout systems, urban resilience training, school safety partnerships, precision weather prediction, and risk-informed governance. These efforts are rooted in Nagaland’s broader vision of becoming disaster-ready, climate-resilient, and future-ready.

In This Issue

1. Towards Safer and Resilient Nagaland: What do we do? why we do? And how we learn?
   Dr. Johnny Ruangmei, Joint Chief Executive Officer, Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), Nagaland, India; and Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI), India
2. Joint Training on Urban and Local Resilience in Kohima
   Mihir R. Bhatt, AIDMI, India
3. Building Community Awareness and Resilience Through Education and Training
   Sanjaya Bhatia, Head of Office Incheon, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Republic of Korea
4. A Public–Private Partnership That Made School Safety Everyone’s Business
   Kevisato Sanyu, Founder, NagaEd, Nagaland, India
5. NDMA and Nagaland Government Projects on Disaster Resilience
   Manish Patel, AIDMI, India
6. Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Nagaland: Global Perspectives and Local Partnerships
   Andreas Bollmann, Partner, Faber Consulting AG, Switzerland
7. नागालैंड में आपदा प्रबंधन में नेतृत्व: सुरक्षित और सिम भक्षवष्य की ओर
   Rohan Trivedi, AIDMI, India
8. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in State Policy and Governance Frameworks: Making Disaster Risk Reduction Everyone’s Business in Nagaland
   Anoop Khinchi, Nagaland Civil Secretariat, NSDMA, Nagaland, India
9. Application of Data Computation with Special Focus on Precision Weather Prediction
   Dr. Johnny Ruangmei, NSDMA, Home Department, Govt. of Nagaland, Nagaland, India
10. From Systems to Societal Resilience
    Dr. Johnny Ruangmei, NSDMA, Nagaland, India; and Mihir R. Bhatt, AIDMI, India

This issue shows that Nagaland’s experience is relevant far beyond the state. It demonstrates how data systems, institutional coordination, early warning, insurance, and community-centred planning can work together to reduce risk and protect development gains. It also shows that resilience is strongest when governance, science, finance, and trust are treated as part of one coherent system.