1. A Rising Tide Lifts
All Boats:
A Strategy for the
Redevelopment and
Recovery of Barguna
Committee Members:
Frank Burkybile Chinazor Iwuaba
Kathy Jo Carstarphen Leah Strickland
Nathan Hadley Allen Young
Barguna District Disaster
March 3, 2012 Management Committee

2. Lessons Learned from Sidr
Disaster
Increased flooding Poor rebuilding Lack of evacuation
resources
Water
supply Impaired
Destroyed roads communication
Poor embankments Poorly-built
houses
Infrastructure Lost jobs Land ownership
Deforestation
Environmental
factors Social factors
SIDR
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3. Paths to sustainable communities
Creating Empowerment Community Sustainable
Assets Centers education local industry
Connecting Networking
community & Strengthen Monitoring & Regional
Resources NGOs infrastructure evaluation
Stability
Resilience Community Environmental Renewable
action plan preservation energy
Building
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4. A harbor during and after the storm
Disaster
Preparedness
Resource
Project
Control &
Management
Coordination
Empowerment
Center
Community Education &
Investment Training
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5. Empowerment Center Headquarters in Barguna
Centrally-located headquarters
Surrounding geography maximized
Satellite centers in 13 high risk districts
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6. Empowerment Center Headquarters
• Cyclone shelters for 1600
• Space for animals Coordinating Disaster
center resource
• Supply storage
• Solar & wind-powered
Community
integration
• Registration of locals
• Identification of those in
highest need
• Project financing
• Employment opportunities
• Land ownership rights
• School – children/adults
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7. Disaster Preparedness
Short-term Mid-term Long-term
• Empowerment Centers • Drills • Disaster relief fund
• Disaster training • Open communication • Mitigate impact of future
channels with radio & disasters
• Coordination with CRA
cell phone • Continued monitoring &
Committee & LDRRF
evaluation
Disaster
Preparedness
Resource
Project
Control &
Management
Coordination
Empowerment
Center
Community Education
Investment & Training
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8. Resource Control & Coordination
Short-term Mid-term Long-term
• NGO coordination • Committee for • Continued monitoring
• Organize foreign experts evaluation of projects & evaluation
• Provide onsite translators • Accounting committee • Annual report
for NGOs
• Regularly scheduled
• Landscape analysis of meetings
NGO work
• Fill in gaps in housing
Disaster
Preparedness
Ongoing goals:
Resource
Project
Control &
Housing Management
Coordination
Empowerment
Latrines Center
Clean water
Goods distribution
Community Education
Investment & Training
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9. Education & Training
Short-term Mid-term Long-term
• Ensure community • Continue skills training & • Market skilled laborers
cooperation education • Future leaders
• Vocational training • Livelihood diversification • Community-directed
– Sustainable farming & aquaculture
improvements
– Construction & manufacturing
• Job placement • Continued monitoring &
evaluation
• Literacy of women & children
Disaster
Preparedness
Vocational training
Bamboo farming, hanging
gardens, floating gardens,
Resource
sustainable farming & fishing Project
Management
Control &
Coordination
Empowerment
Construction; windmill, Center
embankment & tidal plant repair
Community Education
Investment & Training
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10. Community Investment
Short-term Mid-term Long-term
• Health Days & first aid • Continue skills • Career development
– Health monitoring training & education • Community investment:
• Donate supplies & labor income from markets &
to mosque collectives
• Continued monitoring &
• Collectives & co-ops
evaluation
• Indoor market during
rainy season
• Distribution of family Disaster
Preparedness
arsenic filters yearly
Resource
Project
Health Days Management
Control &
Coordination
Immunizations Empowerment
Center
Nutritional status assessment
Deworming
Education
Community
Investment &
Training
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11. Project Management
Short-term Mid-term Long-term
• Technology & • Establish outside • Distribute renewable
investors energy nationally
Innovation – Windmills
– Community expos – Tidal power • Expansion of energy
– Build windmills – Roads resources
– Embankments • Growth in community
– Construct tidal power
plants • Utilize energy surplus for empowerment centers
farming & fish
• Build Infrastructure processing • Continued monitoring &
– Embankment • Continue construction evaluation
construction • Sell charged batteries to
– Road construction
Disaster
locals Preparedness
• Reforestation • Technology &
development expos Resource
•
Project
Monitor growth of Management
Control &
Coordination
mangroves Empowerment
Center
Community Education
Investment & Training
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12. Sustainable
fishing
Women’s Sustainable
Tidal center agriculture
power
demo
River
Man Construction
Main building
skills training
Water
Mangrove collection
Raw material storage
area &
Sanitation
training

13. Spending allotment - $17M ($3M saved)
Empowerment $2 M $500,000
$2 M $500,000
Centers
Training &
$250,000 $250,000 $500,000 $500,000
Education
Infrastructure $2 M $2 M $2 M $1 M
Sustainable
$500,000 $750,000 $1 M $1 M
Energy
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4-5
$5M $5 M $4 M $3 M
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14. Investment & Return: 5-Year Plan
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Community
wealth
Earned
Spent
DDMC budget
NGO Investment
Return
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15. A rising tide lifts all boats.

16. Appendix

17. Shoreline Restoration
• Strategy 1: Reforestation
• Planting seedlings along cleared shoreline
– Decrease storm surge
– Shoreline retention
• Naluvedapathy example
– Indian village affected by tsunami
– Planted 80,244 Casuarina saplings
– Completely protected from tsunami winds and
rain after 2 years
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18. Mangrove farms
• Prevents erosion, builds up ecosystem
• Hire farmers to plant, infuses money into
economy
• Subsidies for land owners that continue
upkeep of mangrove farms
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19. Need for Sustainable energy Resilience
Building
Renewable
energy
• National natural gas and electric power shortage
– Market for sustainable energy source
– Small reserves of oil and coal, but large natural gas
resources.
• Electricity can improve farming business and fishing
industry
– Shrimp unable to be exported because of unsafe
processing
• Tap into established power grid to export energy to
rest of the country
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20. Wind farms
• Cyclone proof
• $23,000
• Pilot project built with a few
• Outside investors
– Government
– Renewable Energy Policy of Bangladesh
– Kyoto Protocol
• Carbon Credits through Clean Development Mechanism
– Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
– Grameen Shakti
– Sustainable Energy Development Authority
• Paying landowners to use property
• Constructed and maintained by Vergnet (France)
– 275 kW / hr
• Average household uses 136 kW / hr per annum
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21. Tidal power
• Constructed on sluice gates on embankments
– $4,270 per power plant
– 2~5 meter tidal head/height rise and fall
• Create pond on land side for shrimp farming
• Rice paddies on banks
• Electricity used for fish processing, farming
• Seek supplemental funding
– Rural Electrification Board (REB)
– Centre for Mass Education in Science (CMES)
– Grameen Bank
– Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP)
– Tidal Energy Australia (TEA)
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22. Tidal power
Estuary
Tide coming in
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23. Sustainable Aquaculture
• Current practices degrade prevents mangrove
destruction
• Create fishing sanctuaries
• Electric power from alternative energy sources
• Ice produced with energy from wind and tide used
in packing of shrimp and fish
• Processing harvest with energy from wind and tide
increases distance of export
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24. Renewable Energy
• Create pilot windmill • Build more windmills • Connect to
• Seek outside • Build tube wells national power
Windmills
investors attached to the grid for energy
• Build embankments windmills distribution
• Seek outside
investors
• Create pilot tide • Utilize energy for
Tidal power
power plant farming, fish processing
• Build embankments • Seek outside investors
• Seek outside • Build more plants and
investors embankments
• Sell charged batteries to
locals
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
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25. Roads Connecting
Resources
Roads
• Needed because unable to get supplies for building
• Cyclone proof
• Provide skilled workers and distribution center
• Seeking outside investors, Partnerships with
– Rural Transport Improvement Project (World Bank) $180 M
budget
– National Land Transport Policy
– Road Maintenance and Improvement Project
• $117 M budget
• Focus on fixing secondary roads
– National, regional, zila roads
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26. Embankments
• On coastal fronts
• Outside investors
– Coastal Embankment
Rehabilitation & Reconstruction
Project (World Bank)
o an estimate cost of $
53.00 million budget
o Use recycled materials to create
embankments
o Cost is based on acres being
used and materials already
available
• Creation of sluice gates for
tidal power
– an estimate cost of $31,000 for
200 acres
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27. Clean water
• Community Involvement issue
• Places about 70 million people at risk
• NGOs distribute Family filters for arsenic
removal
• $35 per year per family
• Arsenic poisoning not a serious concern for
this area
• Tube wells raised by NGOs after cyclone
• Brake fern (Pteris vittata ) is effective in
extracting arsenic
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28. Financial Report: Year 1
Cost Breakdown of Year 1
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost
Empowerment Center Budget
Shelters (by size)
500 people 78,000 13 1,014,000
1,600 people 214,000 1 214,000
Facility vehicles
Land vehicles 10,000 4 40,000
Motor boats (cargo) 6,500 10 65,000
Non-motor boats 50 50 2,500
Speed boats 2,500 3 7,500
Associated costs -- -- 30,750
Communication Fees
Internet ($40 initial) 90 14 1,260
Satellite 137 1 137
Worker phones 30 62 1,860
Office supplies 500 14 7,000
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29. Financial Report: Year 1
Cost Breakdown of Year 1 (Continued)
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost
Empowerment Center Budget (Continued)
Center supplies (beds, etc.) -- -- 7,500
Personnel wages
Directors salary 2,300 6 13,800
Specialized workers 1,700 30 51,000
Skill laborers (9 mo) 200 62 12,400
Translators 1,500 6 9,000
Center program budget
Women’s shelter Bed, food, clothes, etc… 25,000
Public relations Health, mosque, etc.. 1,300
Skills training Supplies, tools, etc… 6,500
Mangrove plan $200/hectare, 50,000 sub. 125,000
Arsenic-filter plan $35/filter 5000 175,000
Flood-tolerant rice Seedlings, and etc… 20,000
plan
Mirco-grant program 50,000
Housing development 250,000
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30. Financial Report: Year 1
Cost Breakdown of Year 1 (Continued)
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost Estimated Cost Taka
Empowerment Center Budget (Continued)
Additional center costs
Storage buildings 500 25 12,500
Latrines 40 50 2,000
Solar panels 500 30 15,000
Rainwater storage 250 60 15,000
Funds for additional 500,000
centers
Unexpected cost budget 100,000
Funds for infrastructure 2,000,000
Sustainable energy fund 500,000
Year 1 Total Costs 5,025,007 taka
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31. Financial Report: Year 2
Cost Breakdown of Year 2
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost Estimated Cost Taka
Empowerment Center Budget
Shelters
500 people 78,000 10 780,000
300 people 9,300 15 139,500
Facility vehicles
Land vehicles 10,000 2 20,000
Motor boats (cargo) 6,500 5 32,500
Non-motor boats 50 60 3,000
Speed boats 2,500 2 5,000
Associated costs -- -- 50,750
Communication fees
Internet 90 28 2520
Worker phones 30 124 3,720
Office supplies 500 28 14,000
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32. Financial Report: Year 2
Cost Breakdown of Year 2
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost
Empowerment Center Budget
Center supplies (beds, etc.) -- -- 15,000
Personnel wages
Directors salary 2,300 6 13,800
Specialized workers 1,700 45 76,500
Skill laborers (9 mo) 200 114 22,800
Translators 1,500 8 12,000
Center program budget
Women’s shelter Bed, food, clothes, etc… 40,000
Public relations Health, mosque, etc.. 3,900
Skills training Supplies, tools, etc… 19,500
Mangrove plan $200/hectare, 50,000 sub. 250,000
Arsenic-filter plan $35/filter 7,500 262,500
Flood-tolerant rice Seedlings, and etc… 60,000
plan
Mirco-grant program – 32 – 75,000

33. Financial Report: Year 2
Cost Breakdown of Year 2
Cost per Quantit Estimated Total
Item y Cost
Empowerment Center Budget (Continued)
Additional center
costs
Storage buildings 500 25 12,500
Latrines 40 85 3,400
Solar panels 500 45 22,500
Rainwater storage 250 45 11,250
Unexpected cost 200,000
budget
Funds for infrastructure 2,000,000
Sustainable energy fund 750,000
Year 2 Total Costs 4,638,140 taka
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34. Financial Report: Year 3
Cost Breakdown of Year 3
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost
Empowerment Center Budget
Shelters (by size)
Maintenance -- -- 200,000
Wages -- --
Facility vehicles
Maintenance -- --
Associated costs -- -- 30,750
Center Program Budget
Women’s shelter Bed, food, clothes, etc… 50,000
Public relations Health, mosque, etc.. 2,600
Skills training Supplies, tools, etc… 13,000
Mangrove plan $200/hectare, 50,000 sub. 500,000
Arsenic-filter plan $35/filter 5000 350,000
Flood-tolerant rice Seedlings, and etc… 40,000
plan
Mirco-grant program 100,000
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35. Financial Report: Year 3
Cost Breakdown of Year 3 (Continued)
Cost per Quantity Estimated Total
Item Cost
Unexpected cost budget 200,000
Funds for infrastructure 2,000,000
Sustainable energy fund 1,000,000
Year 3 Total Costs 4,036,350
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36. Financial Report: Year 4
Cost Breakdown of Year 4
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost
Empowerment Center Budget
Shelters (by size)
Maintenance -- -- 200,000
Wages -- --
Facility vehicles
Maintenance -- --
Associated costs -- -- 30,750
Center Program Budget
Women’s shelter Bed, food, clothes, etc… 50,000
Public relations Health, mosque, etc.. 10,000
Skills training Supplies, tools, etc… 50,000
Mangrove plan $200/hectare, 50,000 sub. 1,000,000
Arsenic-filter plan $35/filter 5000 350,000
Flood-tolerant rice Seedlings, and etc… 100,000
plan
Mirco-grant program 200,000
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37. Financial Report: Year 4
Cost Breakdown of Year 4 (Continued)
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost
Unexpected cost budget 200,000
Year 3 Total Costs 2,017,707
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38. Financial Report: Year 5
Cost Breakdown of Year 5
Cost per Item Quantity Estimated Total Cost
Empowerment Center Budget
Shelters (by size)
Maintenance -- -- 200,000
Wages -- --
Facility vehicles
Maintenance -- --
Associated costs -- -- 30,750
Center Program Budget
Women’s shelter Bed, food, clothes, etc… 50,000
Public relations Health, mosque, etc.. 5,200
Skills training Supplies, tools, etc… 50,000
Mangrove plan $200/hectare, 50,000 sub. 1,000,000
Arsenic-filter plan $35/filter 5000 350,000
Flood-tolerant rice Seedlings, and etc… 50,000
plan
Mirco-grant program 200,000
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39. Financial Report: Year 5
Cost Breakdown of Year 5 (Continued)
Cost per Quantity Estimated Total
Item Cost
Unexpected cost budget 200,000
Funds for infrastructure 1,000,000
Sustainable energy fund 1,000,000
Year 5 Total Costs 4,017,707
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