Project Description
The overall program emphasizes strengthening of community level preparedness with the advancement of relevant national level systems that will contribute to more effective and sustainable local level preparedness and response actions by the National Society through informed Forecast-Based Actions.
Specifically, the project aims to ensure:
• Individuals and communities build their knowledge of disasters and vulnerabilities; self-organize and take individual and collective actions to establish a culture of preparedness and reinforce their networks and connectedness.
• BDRCS has mechanism (local and national) in place to provide accountable, efficient, effective and timely assistance to affected and at-risk populations.
Work in the eight existing community’s focuses on sustainability of the initiatives imple-mented during Phase I. Activities implemented in the 12 new communities (included in Phase II) in Bagerhat and Patuakhali districts is centered on scaling up of the coastal com-munity-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) and school-based disaster risk reduction (SBDRR) program model and expanding it to new communities and schools. For the 5 new communities of Khulna district (included in Phase II), activities are geared towards the rep-lication of the CBDRR and SBDRR model through the newly established CPP organization mechanisms supported by the technical capacities of BDRCS, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), American Red Cross (AmCross), as well as the Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) and the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) of the Government of Bangladesh. The upcoming assessments will be a continuation of prior Community Disaster Readiness Assessment which was done during Oct-Nov 2021 and will utilize the same assessment tools to capture and measure progress and impact over time.