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The revised National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) takes into account the current status of risks, in terms of hazards, vulnerability, infrastructure availability, institutional capacities and constitutional clarity in Afghanistan. In accordance, it provides procedures that may be implemented with immediate effect and subsequently upgraded as more resources become available and the capacities of stakeholders get built. Its immediate purpose is to bring about greater role-clarity and coordination amongst national level disaster response agencies. The Plan needs to be followed up with elaborate and long-term interventions as the country's capacity grows.

Detailed risk analysis needs to be carried out for this. It strives to be the starting point of a long-term exercise (in line with Hyogo Framework for Action 2005 -2015) that will ensure efficiency in disaster risk reduction in all sectors and at all levels in the country. Such an exercise will need to go down to the grassroots and work with communities. Long-term recovery and rehabilitation are not included in the scope of the document. Such situations may be dealt with the within existing mandates of line ministries or, in cases of catastrophic disasters, dealt with special institutions created to carry out recovery operations.