As Afghanistan is currently going through a large scale exercise of nation rebuilding, it needs to address its management capacities and gear up as a disaster resilient society for a safer future. Community based disaster management is the most viable means for this. One major problem faced at present by community level stakeholders is that they do not know whom to contact for assistance or guidance when they need to respond to a disaster or to prepare for one. In order to be truly effective, the NDMP must provide for such venues of communication and information flow from grassroot level stakeholders to the highest of authorities and vice verse.

Though province, district and local level plans may take time to come about alongwith capacities of these levels to implement the plans, channels of information flow should be made clear now, so that this basic function of community participation may be addressed by the NDMP. A structure rising from individuals and families, and getting consolidated at Village Shuras or Village is shown below.