Community Based Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

Abstract

Bangladesh is disaster prone country and community participation is most effective way to cope up disaster risk. As a disaster prone country every year thousands of live and resources has been destroying at the time of tornados, river bank erosions, cyclones, tidal bores, landslides and earthquakes etc. Every year those kind of natural hazard are affecting in our country. Basically, Bangladesh is surrounded by thousands of river, Himalayan range andBay of Bengal are creates punitive situation for thelarge number of people in theapart of Southern. For the sustainable development, we need to minimize impact of natural disaster. On the others hand prevention of rate of natural disasters prejudiced by natural causes may be impossible but we can reduced it by proper planning, management, human cooperative participation and through awareness. For the realization of this situation, the government of Bangladeshlooks disaster management plan and program for the mitigation of disaster and foreign agency like EU, UN, JICA etc. doing work with government and also with national NGO to minimize the disaster risk for sustainable development. This study analyzes the approaches to disaster management bymasscommunity participation andalso has some recommendation after disaster based on literature review.

Keywords

• Risk Reduction
• Community Participation
• Disaster management
• Sustainable development

How to cite

Md.Salamun Rashidin, Abul Hasnat, Sara Javed, Tahmid Mustafa, Wang Jian (2017). Community Based Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh. Sonargaon University Journal, 2(2), 32–47.

@article{rashidin20173,
  title   = {Community Based Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh},
  author  = {Md.Salamun Rashidin and Abul Hasnat and Sara Javed and Tahmid Mustafa and Wang Jian},
  journal = {Sonargaon University Journal},
  volume  = {2},
  number  = {2},
  pages   = {32--47},
  year    = {2017},
  issn    = {2518-3125},
  url     = {https://su.edu.bd/journal/volume-2-number-2/community-based-approaches-to-disaster-risk-reduction-in-bangladesh}
}