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The Daily Star and Save the Children in association with C&A Foundation and Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) organized a roundtable titled "Review of Earthquake Contingency Plan of Dhaka City Corporation" on December 13, 2017.
Climate change impacts have largely affected the livelihood of fishermen along the country's southern coast, deteriorating their financial conditions and forcing them to migrate to urban areas, according to a recent study by the The Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB).
A vast majority of banks in Bangladesh do not have a disaster recovery plan in place. A survey shows that this is largely due to lack of awareness of the consequences, risks, and losses posed by disasters. With no system in place to record disaster risk and loss data, banks are unable to identify risks and adjust their loans thereafter.
Recently Practical Action and The Daily Star with the support of Zurich Foundation organised a roundtable titled 2Flood Early Warning System: Prospects and Challenges".
Social cohesion is often lacking in urban slum settings. However, capacity building projects allow for communities to be better prepared for and recover from disasters. Success from local government interventions and CARE's Building Resilience of the Urban Poor project is demonstrated in the stories of increased resilience from the Tetultala Slum following a fire.
As an ascending middle income country, Bangladesh is seeing heavy investment. Coupled with social development work, an unprecedented number of people are out of poverty, entering education, gaining employment, and living better every day. Supported by a well-functioning system for disaster warning and preparedness, the number of lives lost to disasters is at record lows.
The photo of schoolgirls, wading through knee-deep floodwater at a school in Bangladesh to attend classes, spoke more than a thousand words. Education in emergency deserves more attention in Bangladesh, one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Children - comprising 39.7% of the population - have to bear a disproportionate brunt of its effects.
'River bank erosion contributes immensely to the marginalisation process of a large number of people of the country by displacing households and adversely affecting their social and economical circumstances, triggering the flow of migration and increasing urban poverty as consequences,' write Mohammed Norul Alam Raju and Afroza Taznin in the Daily Star...
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