Welcome to the Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System
Sahana is a collection of web based disaster management applications that provides solutions to large-scale humanitarian coordination and collaboration in disaster situation and its aftermath. Sahana consists of several modules for following functionalities:
- Missing Person Registry - Helps to report and search missing person.
- Disaster Victim Registry - Traces internally displaced people (IDPs) and their needs.
- Organization Registry - Lists 'who is doing what & where'. Allows relief agencies to self organize the activities rendering fine coordination among them.
- Request/Aid Management - Tracks requests for aid and matches them against donors who have pledged aid.
- Shelter Registry - Tracks the location, distibution, capacity and breakdown of victims in shelter.
- Inventory Management - Effectively and efficiently manage relief aid, enables transfer of inventory items to different inventories and notify when items are required to refill.
- Messaging/Alerting Module - Allows communication by email and SMS text messaging to groups.
- Volunteer Coordination - Allows managing volunteers by capturing their skills, availability and allocation.
- Aid Catalog - Captures information on different catalogues and measurement units. This information is being used in systems such as Inventory Management System and Request Management System.
- Synchronization - Allows data exchange between instances of Sahana by synchronization.
For more detail on Sahana system, see Sahana Website
For live help from the Sahana community on using this application, go to Sahana Community Chat
To access Sahana documentation, go to Sahana Wiki
Administrator: chamindra de silva.
Email : chamindra@sahanafoundation.com
