A presentation on promising practices emerging in Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

1. DIPECHO BANGLADESH
… Making a Difference

3. Source: CRED

4. Source: UNDP

5. Source: CRED

6. Disaster Category People Killed
SIDR - Bangladesh 4 3,500
NARGIS - Myanmar 3 142,000 +
Disaster Category Wind Speed People Killed
1991 Cyclone- Bangladesh 4 220 km/hr 139, 000
Cyclone Andred, 1992, USA 18
What Made the Difference ???
DRR Initiatives !!!

7.  Bangladesh – 12 June 2007, landslide in Chittagong, over 100 dead.
 Volunteers trained under DIPECHO in 2006-2007 were the first on site to
provide assistance in Search and Rescue and First Aid to victims of disaster.

8.  Title of the Project: A Disaster Resilient Future – Mobilizing
Communities and Institutions for Effective Risk Reduction
 Multi Hazard Project
 Working with Communities and Institutions
 Total Budget: Around 3.2 Million Euros
 Duration: 18 months starting the 15th of March 2011
 Working in 10 districts at the grass roots level
 Most of the areas with local implementing partners

9.  Enhance the capacities of disaster vulnerable communities to
respond to and cope with disasters
 Improve grassroots, community based institutions, who are the first
respondents to any disasters
 Develop replicable models of preparedness
 Support national government in development of appropriate policy
models in DRR and Response

11. Enhance the credibility of the project and the
organizations
Sharing of the information about the project
including the budget with key stakeholders
Taking the feedback on various initiatives:
workshops, researches, studies
Promote collaboration with key institutions and
community

12. Identification of key government institutions through a
process
Dialoguing with the institutions & bringing them on board for
strengthening their function & DRR mainstreaming (e.g.
DPHE, Flood Forecasting Centre, WDMC )
Exploring the gap in DRR with the particular institutions
Identifying the area of interface
Signing a formal Memorandum of Understanding and work
plan

13. • Complement and supplement government initiatives
• Objective to ensure various CRA as a common methodology
and tools for DRR interventions in the village
• Review the government recognized tools and processes
• Train a cadre of community based volunteers, government
officials, local leaders to facilitate the process
• To create ownership the project team consciously acts as an
outsider giving inputs when required

14. • Based on the CRA, RRAP is done marking various initiatives to be
carried out along with the resources required and responsibility
• The RRAP is validated at various levels by the Union, UpZilla,
District Authorities and submitted to the Government through
CDMP
• The RRAP used as an advocacy tool by the community to
mobilize resources
• The RRAP used as a planning tool (DRR and Response) by other
agencies

15. • Mass Media Campaign on Disaster Risk Reduction
• Harmonization of the training curriculum and modules
• HFA reporting
• Study on WASH with recommendations to DPHE
• Impact and CBA of various DIPECHO programs in Bangladesh: Tools for
advocacy
• Study on comprehensive earthquake preparedness
• Strengthening EWS by supporting in gap analysis, e.g. GoB led workshop
• Orientation of key Government Stakeholders on earthquake preparedness
through exposure visit

16. Established coordination with DIPECHO
partners in South Asia and S E Asia
Efforts are on to establish an interface
with SDMC
Exploring the possibilities with DSA and
DSEA on joint advocacy plan for AMCDRR

17. • Greater negotiating power
• Larger visibility
• Cost Reduction
• Better coordination within the partners
• Joint advocacy planning and implementation
• Ability to take up larger roles and responsibilities (joint effort in various national level
programs, policy issues)
• Standardized approach (various guidelines, training modules, reference materials)
• Replication of learning and good practices
• Improved communication with donor and other key stakeholders
• Better outcome and impact: six organizations giving the inputs on different issues

18. • Large consortium: not many examples to learn from
• Process oriented and sometimes time consuming
• Working with the government: some of the activities might be
altered
• Civil and political unrest is forecasted to increase
• Partners have different procurement and financial policies and
procedures
• Sometimes difficult to adopt standardize procedures and tools as
some partner’s have different organizational focus (Children, Women
etc.).

38. Many Thanks
DIPECHO Coordination
Group
Please visit us at:
www.narri-bd.org