By Shanewas Hossain | Project Contributor
Bangladeshhas a long history of natural disasters. The geographical location, landcharacteristics, multiplicity of rivers and the monsoon climate renderBangladesh highly vulnerable to natural hazards. Bangladesh suffers fromfloods, cyclones, storm surge, river bank erosion, earthquake, drought,salinity intrusion, fire and tsunami. Cyclones and floods particularly causedmassive damages. A large number ofpeople living in the southern Sundarbans coastal part of Bangladesh have beensuffering from the impacts of natural disasters.
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) is a nonprofit,non-political community-based development organization which has been working on Community Managed Disaster RiskReduction (CMDRR) activities in the Sundarbans regionsince 2016. BEDS has established a “Cyclone Shelter and Training Center” adjacent tothe Sundarbans mangrove forest. BEDS has formed a Village Disaster ManagementCommittee (VDMC) and provided CMDRR training to the committeemembers as well as established emergency fund for the villagers.
In recent days BEDS has been conducting a research on the capacity of theUnion Disaster Management Committee (UDMC) as it is the lowest tire of the governmentto work on disaster management. We have done SWOT analysis to assess the knowledge ofdisaster preparedness of the UDMC members of Shyamnagar, Satkhira. Shyamnagarsub district has 12 union parishads. We randomly visited 4 Union Parishardsthose are close to Sundarbans mangrove forest. We have done the SWOT analysis takingproper health and safety measures. We will conduct KII among the UDMC membersand then will collect opinion from the local villagers about the activities ofUDMC.
BEDS regularly conducts meeting with the local villagers andprovides suggestions tothe local climatic vulnerable people on disaster preparedness. BEDS tryingheart and soul to mitigate the disaster risks of coastalvulnerable people. Recently BEDS is trying to raise funds through the GlobalGiving platformfor the project entitled “Reducing Disaster Risks of the Sundarbans Coastal People”. Wewant to help the flood affected people under this project. We are extremely grateful to our donors for their continuous support. Wewould like to request to all our donors to start monthly recurring donation forour project.
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