Humanitarian Action & Disaster Risk Management
Sector Overview
SONAFO supports communities affected by drought, floods, conflict, displacement,disease outbreaks, and other emergencies. This sector focuses on preparedness,emergency response, recovery, and long-term resilience with the aim of saving lives,reducing suffering, restoring livelihoods, and strengthening community systems.
Key Focus Areas
- Emergency Response and Relief Assistance — Providing urgent support toaffected communities, including essential supplies, food security assistance, WASHsupport, and livelihood protection.
- Disaster Risk Reduction — Identifying risks, strengthening communitypreparedness, and supporting prevention measures.Â
- Early Warning and Preparedness Systems — Promoting local early warningsystems that help communities prepare before droughts, floods, or otheremergencies escalate.
- Flood Risk Management and Flood Response — Supporting flood preparedness,awareness, evacuation support, emergency response, and post-flood rehabilitation.
- River Flood and Flash Flood Mitigation — Reducing flood damage in riverine andlow-lying areas through community planning and protection of vulnerable zones.
- Drought Preparedness and Response — Helping communities prepare fordrought through water support, livelihood assistance, animal health, and foodsecurity interventions.
- Climate-Induced Disaster Management — Supporting communities to rebuildlivelihoods, restore services, and rehabilitate infrastructure after emergencies.
- Livelihood Recovery and Restoration — Helping farmers, pastoralists, women,youth, and displaced households restart income-generating activities.
- Community Resilience Building — Strengthening local capacity to withstandshocks through training, planning, and community-based institutions.
- Protection and Social Inclusion — Ensuring vulnerable groups — women,children, youth, elderly people, displaced people, and persons with disabilities —are included and protected.
- Emergency WASH and Public Health Interventions — Supporting clean water,sanitation, hygiene promotion, and disease prevention during emergencies.
- Humanitarian Coordination and Capacity Building — Working with government,NGOs, UN agencies, and community structures to improve emergencycoordination and response capacity.
Why It Matters (Benefits)
- Saves lives and reduces suffering during emergencies
- Builds community-level preparedness ahead of future shocks
- Restores livelihoods and infrastructure after disasters
- Protects the most vulnerable through inclusive humanitarian response
