Disaster-prone areas: NDMA works on providing insurance

ISLAMABAD: After three years of consecutive flooding, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) is working on developing a mechanism to provide insurance to disaster-prone areas in the country. Mandated by the National Disaster Risk Management Framework (NDMRF), a concept note on Disaster Risk Insurance for Low income communities was already approved.  According to the Ministry of Climate Change, the concept note outlines the general features of a programme that NDMA proposed.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11^th, 2013.