Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) is a collaborative network of organizations, agencies, individuals, businesses, and others based within a community or geographic area representing public, private, and non-profit agencies. These organizations work to minimize the effects of a disaster.
COAD enhances the community’s ability to mitigate, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, thus ensuring that human needs are met to provide a safe, sanitary, and secure community.
Because COADs are locally driven, the local stakeholders are crucial. The better understanding everyone has of one another prior to a disaster, the more effective a local response and recovery will be after a disaster.
