1. Scope of Prevention and Mitigation (DRR)
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2. Human Development Improved access to education;
Improved access to health care and nutrition;
Safe housing and settlement structures;
Reduced gender inequality;
Institutional support structures for the weaker segments, like, differently abled persons, old people and orphans.
Income, asset and livelihood diversification;
Access to social safety nets.
Sharing local and traditional knowledge, participatory action research and social learning;
Building knowledge-sharing and learning platforms.

3. Poverty Alleviation Improved access to and control of local resources;
Access to skill-generation facilities and services;
Greater involvement in decision-making;
Access to banking and insurance cover;
Protection of land rights and share in use of common lands;
Recognition of traditional rights and coping practices in regard to natural resources;
Appropriate changes in cropping, livestock and aquaculture practices.

4. Ecosystem Management Maintaining wetlands and urban green spaces;
Watershed and reservoir management;
Identification of other stressors on ecosystems and of habitat fragmentation;
Maintenance of bio-diversity;
Protection of Village common lands;
Community-based rural resource management.
Protection of wildlife habitats and corridors;
Effective disease surveillance and treatment facilities for the wildlife.

5. Ecosystem management
Use of new varieties of crops and changes in cropping pattern;
Knowledge-sharing on use of chemicals in fields and monitoring of their impact on ecology;
Effective irrigation and water saving practices;
Soil health surveillance and management;
Assisted species migration and dispersal;
Creation of Seed Bank, Gene bank and other ex situ conservation.

6. Spatial or Land Use Planning
Managing development in flood prone and other high risk areas;
Express Zoning regulations for the ecologically sensitive areas;
Master Plans based on Intelligent Urban Planning principles and enforcement of zoning laws.
Building an informed community to check the misuse/manipulation of environment protection laws and rules;
Social audit of industrial and commercial establishments prone to cause air, water or land pollution.
Identification/construction/upgradation of Evacuation/Relief Centres for both human and cattle.

7. Structural safety
Upgrading building codes and practices to ensure safety of built environment;
Exploring new technological options;
Availability of open spaces;
Effective storm and wastewater management;
Effective solid waste management;
Moving to Integrated Transport Management practices;
Strict enforcement of fire and power safety norms.
Promotion of Green Infrastructure;
Evolving cost-effective retrofitting solutions and time-bound programme for retrofitting.

8. Institutional factors
Disaster Management Plans at all levels and their mainstreaming ;
Revisiting the existing laws and rules to align them to the needs of DRR and adaptation;
Simplification and standardisastion of processes and procedures for timely and effective response;
Creation/upgradation of institutional support mechanism within every agency of the government to take care of Prevention and Mitigation policies and programmes;
Special focus on local self-government institutions;
Strengthening of community level participatory planning mechanism.

9. Institutional factors
Building robust and credible Early warning Systems;
Comprehensive hazard and vulnerability mapping and monitoring;
Inventory of search and rescue equipments;
Creation of food and fodder banks and standardised process for their distribution to the needy;
Mapping of health care facilities and ensuring easy access to the information on available services;
Contingency plan for stockpiling essential medicines and medical equipments;
Contingency plan for setting up field hospitals and movement of specialists to the needy areas.
Improving damage assessment systems in post-disaster scenario.
Putting in place DRR-oriented financial services comprising Insurance, Catastrophe Bonds, Payment for ecosystem services, Disaster Contingency Fund etc.

10. Household level Action
Education on safe building norms and practices;
Awareness generation about green technological option:
Familiarising with electricity and fire safety norms;
Education on water and power conservation practices and scientific disposal of solid waste;
Familiarisation with safe evacuation plans and emergency services;
Awareness generation of appropriate crops and cropping pattern, organic farming, eco-friendly agronomic practices, and diversified livelihood options.
Education on importance of preservation of natural resources;
Advocacy about the role of every member of community in keeping vigil and raising voice against factors that aggravate the risk of disasters.