Community Disaster Management Teams to attend to specific tasks at the onset or after the disaster such as early warning, evacuation, search and rescue, shelter management, water and sanitation, medical and first aid, relief and coordination, carcasses disposal, trauma counseling and damage assessment etc.

These plans should be based on the seasonality calendar of disasters, inventory of local resources, lessons learnt from the past disasters, safe and alternate route of evacuation, community shelters, management of relief camps etc.