This kit aims to equip parliamentarians with baseline critical priorities and practical steps to make disaster risk reduction an instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), goal by goal. It shows how disasters can derail progress made towards the MDGs and development, and why disaster risk reduction is so important to maintaining development gains. It also points out a few key interventions that should be undertaken in reducing disaster risks to accelerate the process of achieving the MDGs,and how parliamentarians can achieve policy and practical changes, at both national and local levels.