أحكام المشاركة الشعبية ودورها في درء مخاطر الكوارث

       This paper addresses the popular participation strategy and its role in the effectiveness of disasters risk management, with an emphasis towards strengthening the sustainable development opportunities, remedial measures of threads in least Developed Countries taking Sudan as a case study, which suffer from acute vulnerability despite its huge resources and comparative advantage.Thus the local community participation is important to achieve integration between formal and informal efforts. The study also sheds light on the tools of popular participation experienced in Sudan, characteristics, challenges, objectives, inputs, operations, outputs, and results, accompanied with methods of measuring and evaluation within the context of the state national strategic planning.      The study also reveals the expected merits from adopting the grass rooted development (Bottom Top Approach) in the different stages of disaster management.