- Increase awareness at all levels of society to reduce disaster risks and losses.

 - Strengthen national institutional capacity for disaster management up to district, upzila and union levels.

 - Establish disaster action plans in the most disaster prone districts and upazilas.

 - Enhance the knowledge and skills of key personnel having disaster management responsibilities

 - Promote proven local-level risk reduction (“proofing”) measures.

 - Improve the effectiveness of warnings and warning dissemination systems.