ABOUT NCPDP – India

National Centre for People’s Action In Disaster Preparedness (NCPDP) platform was created within CEDAP with a focus on disaster preparedness in October, 2000 at the time of Bhavnagar Earthquake in Gujarat state. This was an outcome of seven years of intervention by its two honorary directors in earthquake-ravaged regions of Latur, Jabalpur and Chomoli in India.

Year after year such disasters bring death, destruction and hardship. Often people demolish their partly damaged houses out of fear. All this results in huge monetary losses adversely affecting the development pace. This happens because people are ill prepared and ignorant to face disasters. Intervention by external agencies is needed to build people’s capacity in ensuring their safety against disasters.

The Peoples’ own involvement, however, is equally essential. NCPDP strives to bring viable, eco-friendly and sustainable technologies to help people reduce their vulnerability against future disasters. It is backed by many years of experience in transfer of disaster resistant building technologies including retrofitting of over 700 public and private buildings, construction of over 1500 disaster resistant structures, and training of approximately 1900 engineers and 12,000 masons in relevant technologies in various disaster prone areas of India.

NCPDP is one of a few technology-based organizations in the country with first-hand experience of working at the grass-roots with a firm belief that building capacity of people from within is the only way to mitigate disasters for a safer world.

NCPDP-India works under the umbrella of CEDAP which is registered as Charity Trust at Ahmedabad.