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:
- Situation Mapping - Allows you to locate activities on a map providing current situation awareness.
- 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 donars 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 Module - Allows communication by email and SMS text messaging to groups.
- Volunteer Management - Allows managing volunteers by capturing their skills, availability and allocation.
- Aid Catalog - Captures information on different catalogues and measurement units. These information are being used in systems such as Inventory Management System and Request Management System.
- Reporting System - Allows system to generate reports based on sahana database. It aggregates all the module reports in one place for making easier the user to view, search reports and charts.
- Synchronization - Allows data exchange between instances of Sahana by synchronization.
- User Preferences - Allows you to set any preferred configuration. Which will help you to customize Sahana to your preference.
- Administration - Allows you to configure and customize Sahana based on your requirements.
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: Christopher Lawrence.
Email : cjelawrence@yahoo.com
Telephone : 592-627-8832
