All India Disaster Mitigation Institute

What All India Disaster Mitigation Institute does

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) is a non-profit Public Trust registered under The Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Founded in 1995 and operating with a 22-person staff, AIDMI focuses on disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and humanitarian action across 18 Indian states and 9 Asian countries. Its beneficiary base comprises vulnerable populations (low-income, women, workers, migrants, minorities, Dalits), small and informal enterprises, government and disaster-management authorities, and civil society researchers and practitioners. Revenue is generated entirely through donations and grants from institutional funders including UNDP, UNICEF, the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, Start Network, and others.

AIDMI delivers its mission through three differentiated platforms. Southasiadisasters.net is a bimonthly knowledge publication that has produced 225+ issues and over 2,500 articles from 1,900+ contributors across 70+ countries, functioning as a community-rooted humanitarian knowledge archive. Afat Vimo is a disaster micro-insurance program originating from the Regional Risk Transfer Initiative with ProVention and IIASA, providing coverage for life, property, and livelihood losses to poor households in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. ACaSA (Ahmedabad Case Station for Avoidable Deaths) is a community-based learning laboratory launched in March 2025 under the Avoidable Deaths Network to reduce avoidable disaster deaths among vulnerable populations.

Commercially, AIDMI operates as a grant- and donation-funded non-profit, accepting online donations and operating programmatic grants from international funders and UN agencies. Its go-to-market is community-led: direct field engagement with vulnerable populations, partnerships with government disaster-management authorities and UN agencies for policy implementation, and knowledge dissemination through digital publications, webinars, and convenings at forums such as RHPW Asia Pacific, COP29, HNPW, and the IUCN World Conservation Congress. Pricing is non-commercial, with refund and cancellation policies on donations rather than fee-for-service pricing.

Name

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute

Legal name

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute

Website

https://aidmi.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AIDMI is an Ahmedabad-based non-profit founded in 1995 that delivers disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and humanitarian action across 18 Indian states and 9 Asian countries, serving vulnerable populations, informal enterprises, governments, and civil society through its Southasiadisasters.net knowledge platform, Afat Vimo micro-insurance, and ACaSA learning laboratory.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian and Disaster Risk Reduction Services

NAICS

Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230), Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Disaster Recovery, Reconstruction & Resilience Programs (BPAGAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Refugee, IDP & Migration Humanitarian Assistance (BPAGAAAH), Climate, Environment & Natural Resource Management Aid Programs (BPADABAI), Refugee, Crisis & Humanitarian Education Partnerships (EiE) (EDADALAG)

Keywords

• Disaster risk reduction
• Climate change adaptation
• Humanitarian action services
• Disaster microinsurance
• Community resilience building

Headquarters

HQ city

Ahmedabad

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: As a non-profit organization registered as a Public Trust under The Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, AIDMI operates primarily through donations and grants from various donors, partners, and supporters. The organization accepts online donations through payment gateways.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

AIDMI is a non-profit organization that delivers disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and humanitarian action programs across South Asia. Its core offerings include community-based resilience building, disaster microinsurance (Afat Vimo) for vulnerable households and informal businesses, and knowledge dissemination through the Southasiadisasters.net publication platform and ACaSA learning laboratory.

Product overview

AIDMI operates as a non-profit knowledge organization focused on disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in South Asia. Its core offerings include Southasiadisasters.net (a knowledge publication platform with over 225 issues documenting field learning and policy insights), Afat Vimo (a disaster micro-insurance program for poor and vulnerable households), ACaSA (a community-based learning laboratory for reducing avoidable disaster deaths), and Small Heat Resilience Measures Programs (field initiatives for heat adaptation in small towns and businesses).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Afat Vimo: A pioneering disaster microinsurance initiative developed and implemented by AIDMI, providing coverage for life, property, and livelihood losses from disasters to poor and vulnerable households.
• Southasiadisasters.net
• ACaSA (Ahmedabad Case Station for Avoidable Deaths)

Products and services

• Southasiadisasters.net A bimonthly knowledge publication platform covering disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, and humanitarian action across South Asia. It serves as a community-rooted humanitarian knowledge archive with over 225 issues and 2,400+ articles contributed by practitioners from 67 countries. It is targeted at researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and civil society organizations working on humanitarian issues.
• Afat Vimo Disaster Microinsurance A pioneering disaster micro-insurance initiative that provides coverage for life, property, and livelihood losses from disasters to poor and vulnerable households. Emerging from the Regional Risk Transfer Initiative (RRTI) in partnership with ProVention and IIASA, it is targeted at low-income households and small/informal enterprises in disaster-prone regions.
• ACaSA (Ahmedabad Case Station for Avoidable Deaths) A community-based learning laboratory developed under the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) with the primary goal of reducing avoidable disaster deaths by empowering vulnerable populations and responders with knowledge and capacity to prevent unnecessary fatalities caused by disasters, particularly from extreme heat events. It is targeted at vulnerable communities, first responders, and disaster management practitioners.
• Small Heat Resilience Measures Program A field-based program that implements simple, low-cost heat resilience measures such as shade, ventilation, drinking water access, and flexible work timings to help street vendors, artisans, women workers, and informal businesses reduce heat stress and income loss across 11 Indian towns. It is targeted at street vendors, artisans, women workers, and informal businesses facing extreme heat risks.

Quantifiable outcome

• Southasiadisasters.net: 225 issues, 2,500+ articles, 1,900+ contributors, 70+ countries over 20 years
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 December 2025Partnership for the 20-year retrospective edition of Southasiadisasters.net at RHPW Asia Pacific 2025, celebrating the platform's milestone and strengthening the humanitarian knowledge archive through joint sessions and knowledge co-creation.
• ALNAPcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 December 2025Partnership for the 20-year retrospective edition of Southasiadisasters.net, contributing to shared learning on humanitarian action and disaster risk reduction across Asia.
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 September 2025IUCN and AIDMI jointly organized a virtual Roundtable on Nature-Based Cooling Solutions for Cities as part of broader initiative to advance climate resilience, nature-positive investments, and inclusive adaptation strategies in cities, aligned with UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, Paris Agreement, and India's Cooling Action Plan.
• Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 March 2025AIDMI collaborates with ADN on the Ahmedabad Case Station for Avoidable Deaths (ACaSA), a community-based learning laboratory to empower vulnerable populations with knowledge and capacity to prevent disaster fatalities. AIDMI collaborates with ADN on a case-to-case basis, focusing on reducing the impact of extreme heat on vulnerable communities.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing collaboration with UNDP on implementing India's National Disaster Management Plan at local levels, disaster governance, and climate adaptation programs.
• UNICEFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with UNICEF on school safety programs, COVID-19 risk reduction in schools, WASH-CCES programs, and disaster risk reduction initiatives across Indian states.
• Stanford UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for the Small Business Disaster Micro-Insurance Programme, bringing research expertise to the Afat Vimo initiative protecting small and informal enterprises.
• United India Insurance CompanycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInsurance sector partnership for the Small Business Disaster Micro-Insurance Programme, providing coverage for small businesses in Puri, Cuddalore, and Guwahati.
• ProVention ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLeading partner in the Regional Risk Transfer Initiative (RRTI) along with IIASA, developing the Afat Vimo disaster microinsurance initiative for disaster-prone, low-income populations.
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership through RRTI for impact assessment of disaster microinsurance, providing extensive field data analysis from India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
• Change AlliancemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-led session at RHPW 2025 on Harmonizing Social Protection and Locally Led Humanitarian Cash Transfer Programs, exploring alignment between humanitarian cash transfers and shock-responsive social protection systems.
• Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian OrganizationsmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerConvened session on Sustaining Progress: Mainstreaming Climate and Environmental Action in Humanitarian Contexts, building on regional training on Charter commitments.
• National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on webinar for Crowd Management and Stampede Avoidance, hosted to discuss strategies for managing large gatherings and preventing stampedes during mass events.
• Centre of Excellence on Climate Change and Disaster Resilience (CECCDR), Berhampur UniversitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organized International Conference on Climate Change, Disaster Resilience and Human Wellbeing in collaboration with UNDP Odisha, TATA Steel CSR Odisha, and UNICEF Odisha.
• Start NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-edited special issue of Southasiadisasters.net on 'Heat as Humanitarian Crisis' highlighting local leadership in Kenya, South Sudan, and India, with contributions from Start Network's regional hubs.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Mercy Corps: Large global humanitarian organization running climate adaptation, disaster response, and resilience programming across South Asia and beyond. Competes with AIDMI for institutional donor funding and operates against similar vulnerable populations.
• Oxfam India: Large Indian arm of a global humanitarian confederation working on disaster resilience, gender, and inequality. Operates with much greater resources across many of the same Indian states as AIDMI and competes for the same donor pools (disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation).
• Indian Red Cross Society: National humanitarian organization delivering disaster preparedness, response, and community resilience programs across India. Directly comparable in mission and Indian geography but with a much larger institutional scale and global Movement backing.
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC): Global humanitarian network operating extensive disaster risk reduction, heat-action, and community resilience programs in South Asia. Operates in the same thematic space as AIDMI but at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.

Direct peers

• Sphere India: National humanitarian coalition of Indian NGOs coordinating disaster preparedness and response. Directly comparable as a domestic DRR/Humanitarian coordination body active in the same Indian states and beneficiary communities as AIDMI.
• Caritas India: Indian humanitarian and development organization running community-based disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and resilience programs. Closely comparable to AIDMI in operating model, target populations, and Indian geographic coverage.
• Practical Action: International NGO focused on disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and resilience for poor communities, with strong South Asia operations. Comparable on technology-and-community approach to climate adaptation and disaster resilience.
• Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS): India-based disaster response and resilience NGO working on community-level disaster preparedness, school safety, and climate adaptation. Directly comparable to AIDMI in mission, geography, target beneficiaries (vulnerable populations), and program models such as school safety and urban resilience.

Others

• ProVention Consortium / GFDRR: Multi-stakeholder partnership on disaster risk reduction under the World Bank. Listed as an AIDMI partner through the Regional Risk Transfer Initiative, making it an ecosystem/funder peer rather than a direct competitor.
• TATA Trusts (Climate and Disaster programs): Large Indian philanthropic foundation supporting disaster resilience and climate adaptation in India (e.g., TATA Steel CSR Odisha collaborates with AIDMI). Comparable as a funder and field partner in the same Indian DRR space rather than as a direct program peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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