Developing global and national events mute testimony to the all-important need for disaster preparedness by way of an all-encompassing strategy which governments alone cannot do and calls for wider involvement. 

Contingency Intelligence & Response Agency (CIRA) is a think-tank and catalyst for an overarching disaster response mechanism in SAARC countries bringing scientific research, international cooperation and private sector resources together in support of the governments to be ‘crisis-ready’. 

Headquartered in Sri Lanka, CIRA will develop a base model in Sri Lanka while seeking to bring in regional partners to the task force.  University of Colombo, the oldest bastion of higher education in Sri Lanka and Federation of Chambers of Commerce & Industry are partnering CIRA in this exhaustive and challenging mission.

The organization’s two-fold mandate will focus on research, branching into a diverse spectrum of subjects in the broader protocol of disaster preparedness while also seeking to act as a protagonist of preparedness in terms of logistics and systems.  These include interventions in economic policy, food security and education, just to name a few.