Alerts, Access and Awareness: What Disaster Preparedness Needs to Look Like

Photo courtesy of VCG Sri Lanka has always lived with the rhythm of the monsoon but the floods that followed Cyclone Ditwah were a brutal reminder that the climate crisis is changing the scale of what normal looks like. More than 600 lives were lost, over two million affected and 1.1 million hectares of land inundated. The tragedy was not just in the storm itself but was a clear representation in how unprepared many communities were to face it. If we want to break this cycle, the government must take a stronger role in building resilience not only through infrastructure but…

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