Together we march: leveraging local funds through strategic alliances for disaster risk reduction

Rahman Mizanur; Islamic Relief Worldwide ; National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiatives (NARRI) - NARRI, 2012

This document reports on a project titled 'A Disaster Resilient Future: Mobilising Communities and Institutions for Effective Risk Reduction', which aims to support and complement strategies that enable local communities to better prepare for, mitigate and respond adequately to natural hazards by enhancing their capacities to cope and respond, thereby increasing their resilience and reducing vulnerability. It describes the processes and learning in mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction and adaptation adopted by the three Union Disaster Management Committees supported under the project. It a ...

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 Together we march: leveraging local funds through strategic alliances for disaster risk reduction

  Available online: http://narri-bd.org/documents/success-story/Together%20We%20March.pdf

Mizanur Rahman ; Islamic Relief Worldwide ; National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiatives

Published by: NARRI ; 2012

This document reports on a project titled 'A Disaster Resilient Future: Mobilising Communities and Institutions for Effective Risk Reduction', which aims to support and complement strategies that enable local communities to better prepare for, mitigate and respond adequately to natural hazards by enhancing their capacities to cope and respond, thereby increasing their resilience and reducing vulnerability. It describes the processes and learning in mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction and adaptation adopted by the three Union Disaster Management Committees supported under the project. It also provides information on the amount of financial resources being leveraged to implement the risk reduction action plans developed under the project.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)

Tags: Capacity development ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Economics ; Bangladesh Add tag

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Bangladesh: a sustainable and disaster resilient future

Shahnawaz Ali Syed; Rahman Mizanur; Rahman Chowdhury Nushrat; et al. - NARRI, 2012

This document addresses how people in disaster prone areas of Bangladesh are at risk to lose their lives, land, and livelihoods due to floods, cyclones, earthquakes and drought, and how sustainable development and effective risk reduction can help prevent these risks. It also discusses how disasters in Bangladesh hamper the country's long-term ability to effectively tackle poverty. The document acknowledges the growing awareness among citizens that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is necessary to assist vulnerable communities; and that there needs to be a coordinated effort to undertake intensive ...

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 Bangladesh: a sustainable and disaster resilient future

  Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/27650_bookletstoryteller.pdf

Syed Shahnawaz Ali ; Mizanur Rahman ; Nushrat Rahman Chowdhury ; Islamic Relief Worldwide ; European Commission ; National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiatives

Published by: NARRI ; 2012

This document addresses how people in disaster prone areas of Bangladesh are at risk to lose their lives, land, and livelihoods due to floods, cyclones, earthquakes and drought, and how sustainable development and effective risk reduction can help prevent these risks. It also discusses how disasters in Bangladesh hamper the country's long-term ability to effectively tackle poverty. The document acknowledges the growing awareness among citizens that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is necessary to assist vulnerable communities; and that there needs to be a coordinated effort to undertake intensive DRR work alongside relief efforts.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)

Tags: Capacity development ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Sustainable development ; Food Safety ; Poverty and Poverty reduction ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Tropical cyclone ; Drought ; Earthquake ; Flood ; Bangladesh Add tag

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A disaster resilient future: mobilising communities and institutions for effective disaster risk reduction - Baseline study for the sixth DIPECHO action plan

NARRI, 2011

This study intends to identify the baseline reference points to depict the existing scenario of the community people in light of all the indicators set forth in the sixth DIPECHO Action Plan for South Asia in Bangladesh undertaken by NARRI Consortium. It clusters three zones based on prominent hazards and highlights significant differences in the knowledge and practice of preparedness and mitigation measures, awareness and responses to warning signals in cyclone, flood-prone and earthquake prone areas. The study presents a set of recommendations in order to strengthen the programme and project ...

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 A disaster resilient future: mobilising communities and institutions for effective disaster risk reduction - Baseline study for the sixth DIPECHO action plan

  Available online: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/submissions/25870_finalreportofdipechovi.pdf

National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiatives

Published by: NARRI ; 2011

This study intends to identify the baseline reference points to depict the existing scenario of the community people in light of all the indicators set forth in the sixth DIPECHO Action Plan for South Asia in Bangladesh undertaken by NARRI Consortium. It clusters three zones based on prominent hazards and highlights significant differences in the knowledge and practice of preparedness and mitigation measures, awareness and responses to warning signals in cyclone, flood-prone and earthquake prone areas. The study presents a set of recommendations in order to strengthen the programme and project activities, reach the project goals and above all fully accomplish the overall programme goal of enhancing the resilience of communities vulnerable to natural hazards in Bangladesh.

National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiatives (NARRI) is a consortium of six INGOs working on Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)

Tags: Natural hazards ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Tropical cyclone ; Flood ; Earthquake ; Region II - Asia ; Bangladesh Add tag

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