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Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI) DRM Portal

Sustainable development initiative (SDI) Disaster Risk Management Portal provides disaster risk related information like alerts, updates, Projects, interventions, etc that can be used by scientists, communities, practitioners and policy makers hence facilitating effective disaster risk management and response..

A crucial challenge in building resilience to disasters is the lack of access to useful, timely and credible data and information. SDI has addressed these challenges by establishing an online DRM Knowledge Portal. The knowledge portal is an online interactive DRM knowledge management hub that has been established by Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI) to meet the needs of three major categories of user groups: policy makers and implementers, practitioners and experts; and civil society and communities. The broader objectives of the online portal are;

  • • Facilitate DRM knowledge creation and dissemination in Malawi
  • • To act as an updated knowledge e-repository on DRM and host locally, nationally and globally relevant knowledge.
  • • To provide a platform for sharing experiences on community-based interventions on DRM
  • • To provide a platform for sharing scientific data and information on DRM
  • • Making available national and district-level DRM data and information in simple ways.
  • • To create awareness on state specific issues around DRM in Malawi
  • • To link DRM knowledge generators to knowledge users