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Displaying 6 of about 6 resultsA recently launched website 'Disaster Friendly Water and Sanitation' a joint initiative of Dhaka Ahsania Mission and Concern Bangladesh, is intended to help the process of formulating a coordinated disaster risk reduction strategy whilst strengthening field level activities.
A national advocacy campaign '2008 Year of Disaster Friendly Wat-San in Bangla…
Rangu Debi, 70, lives on Monpura, an isolated island of Bhola district in Bangladesh, surrounded by Meghna River. A widow with six children, she has seen many cyclones and floods in her lifetime, some of them catastrophic. Fifty years ago, Cyclone Bhola’s flood waters took everything from her, including one of her daughters. Since then she has been livi…
The COVID-19 pandemic is becoming the most critical health catastrophe in the world and one of the greatest challenges faced by our civilization. According to the report of the World Health Organization, the current outbreak of COVID-19 has affected over 11 million people and killed more than 0.5 million people in more than 215 countries throughout the…
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Perspectives on the Pandemic: COVID-19 in South Asia’ and brings forth different perspectives on managing the COVID-19 outbreak in South Asia. South Asia is unlike other regions in the world, it is culturally diverse, economically dynamic and demographically young. Moreover, South Asia is also the world’s…
In hundreds of cities community organisations developed many different ways to address the pandemic in informal settlements, to counter its devastating social, economic and health impacts.
Many are federations of savings groups, affiliates of Slum Dwellers International (SDI). Despite their effectiveness and success at reaching the poorest, most g…
By Md Fahad Hossain
In Kurigram district of Bangladesh, a women-headed, community-based organisation is training rural women and extending support to deal with Covid-19 and monsoon floods. Md Fahad Hossain reports.
This is the thirty-fifth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN.
Kurigram, located in the…