Doaba (دوآبہ ) literary means “the land between two rivers “Water” and symbolizes the Doaba’s work with flood-prone communities and Doab (دوآب) areas. The Doaba Foundation, working since 1987, is a not-for-profit-organization, registered under the Trusts Act 1882, as a Public Welfare Trust at Islamabad. Most of the members of the Board of Trustee of Doaba Foundation, both women and men, belong to flood-prone districts, having had personal experience of flood ravages. Interest of some of them in flood disaster started in 1987 when they were approached by flood affectees of Tehsil Muzaffargarh to help them obtain humanitarian relief in face of flood from the local government and district administration. Over the period, more like-minded persons from riverine areas gathered together and decided to establish an organization (eventually registered as Doaba Foundation) to facilitate flood prone communities to cope with flood disasters in a collective and organized manner, with enhancement of livelihood options. In the beginning, Doaba established small pilot projects on self-help basis (contribution from trustees and local philanthropists). This experience contributed to building a model of flood preparedness and mitigation which was systematically applied in implementing a pilot demonstration project on livelihood options for disaster risk reduction in a flood prone community in District Jhang, Southern Punjab. Over the years the model has been considerably refined, particularly with reference to gender mainstreaming and issues of rescue during flood disaster. By the end of June 2019, Doaba Foundation has the experience of successful implementation of 145 numbers of projects small, medium and large in size in terms of duration and finances.