Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief is allocated the largest portion of the social security budget (26%) of the government. The Ministry is mainly responsible for disaster risk management and response. It is also involved in managing workfare programmes for the poor to ensure social security including food security. The Ministry is closely related with the Ministry of Food, which supplies required food to many programmes of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief. The Ministry also works in close collaboration with the Local Government Division. The Ministry has been assigned by the NSSS the responsibility of leading the labour/livelihood intervention cluster. The vision of is “to reduce the risk of people, especially the poor and the disadvantaged, from the effects of natural, environment and human induced hazards” with a mission “to achieve a paradigm shift in disaster management from conventional response and relief to a more comprehensive risk reduction culture, and to promote food security as an important factor in ensuring the resilience of communities to hazards”.