Local associations or farmers groups, if appropriately trained and empowered, can play a key role in disaster risk management. This practice helps in including the concept of Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) in the overall context of Farmer’s Cooperatives (FC) development. This has resulted in establishing local capacities for DRM on a basis of self-managed, broad-based and legally recognized institutions interacting as partners with county-level actors in the fight against increasing drought and flood risks in the region.