Multi-Dimensional Approaches of National Policy on Disaster Management in Action in Sri Lanka
On account of climate change, global warming, and rapid and growing urbanization, human civilizations are mostly experiencing disasters. Of late, one of the critical South Asian countries- Sri Lanka has achieved almost all aspects development, but unfortunately, the achievements of the country are fading due to the disasters. The catastrophic Tsunami of 2004 obligates the concerning authorities of Sri Lanka to rethink about the disaster management and disaster resilience. As an effective measure and operational instrument soon after Tsunami, in 2005 Sri Lankan government has adopted Disaster Management Act and, later on in 2010 formulated the National Policy of Disaster Management to integrate all Government, non-government, private, civil society and international communities. This present has focused on the congeniality of multi-dimensional national disaster management policy is implementing disaster risk reduction operations in Sri Lanka by multiple cases of actual disasters have stroked earlier.
