Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

Sahana aspirations are as follows :

1. Primary: Help alleviate human suffering and help save lives through the efficient use of IT during a disaster


2. Bring together a diverse set of actors from Government, Emergency Management, NGOs, INGOs, spontaneous volunteers and victims themselves in responding effectively to a disaster


3. Empower the victims, responders, volunteer to better enable them to help themselves and others


4. Protect victim data and reduce the opportunity for data abuse


5. Provide a Free and Open Source solution end-to-end available to everyone