Table 2.

Classification of stakeholders.

Type of hazard	Stakeholders
Epidemics	Disaster Management Centre (DMC), Ministry of Health (MOH), Hospitals (HP), Divisional/ District Secretary (DDS), District Disaster Management Coordination Unit (DDMCU), General Public (GP), Public Media Institutions (PMI), SL Airport, and Aviation Services Pvt. Ltd. (SLAAS), Public Health Inspector (PHI), Air Ports (AP), Ministry of Mass Media Information (MMMI), Ministry of Local Government and Provincial Councils (MLGPC), Local Authorities (LA), Grama Niladhari Divisions (GND), SL Army (SLA), SL Police(SLP)
Landslides	Disaster Management Centre (DMC), General public (GP), Hospitals (HP), SL Army (SLA), Public media institutions (PMI), Ministry of Mass Media & Information (MMMI), Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Education (MOE), Schools (SCH), Divisional Secretary/District secretary (DDS), Road Development Authority (RDA), District Disaster Management Coordination Unit (DDMCU), Sri Lanka Transportation Board (SLTB), National Building Research Organization (NBRO), Local authorities (LA), Department of Meteorology (DOM), Grama Niladari (GN), SL Police (SLP), Ministry of Provincial Council and Local Government (MPCLG), Provincial RDA (PRDA), SL Navy (SLN)
Floods	DMC, Mahaweli Authority Sri Lanka (MASL), Department of Irrigation (DOI), Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), GP, MMMI, DDS, SLA, SLP, DPL, GN, PMI, DDMCU, CEB, DOM, SLP
Droughts	SLP, DDMCU, SLA, GP, DMC, DOM, Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Mahaweli Authority SL (MASL), Department of Irrigation (DOI), Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), SLA, MMMI, PMI, District Police (DP), MPCLG, GN
Tsunami	DMC, DOM, DDMCU, GP, SLP, Geological Survey & Mines Bureau (GSMB), IOTWC (Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning Centre), NARA(National Aquatic Reservation Authority), SLA, SLN, MOE, SCH, RDA, HP, PMI, SL Airport and Aviation Services Ltd. (SLAAS), SL Ports Authority (SLPA), PRDA, JMA, PTWC (Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre), MOH, Coast Conservation Department(CCD), SLTB, Meteorology Climatology and Geophysical Agency (BMKJ), Indian National Centre for Information Services (INCOIS),Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre r, Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (RIMES), California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN), Coast Police Stations (CPS), LA, Minister, Deputy Minister(DM), Secretary(SEC), Non-Governmental Organization(NGO), International NGO (INGO), Fishing community(FC), Department of Fisheries (DOF), Office of the Chief Defence Staff(OCDS), National Disaster Relief Services Centre (NDRSC)