To ensure the sustainability of these policies and
actions, the policy emphasizes the importance
of building the capacities of disaster managers at
national, district and community levels through
awareness raising and training. The policy also calls
for the creation of national, district and local entities
for disaster risk management institutions with “the
skills and mandate to provide technical and political
assistance to disaster managers” which, in turn, can
be “supported by community members and nongovernmental
and international institutions” (RDTLMSS
2008: xi).