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February 2003
BANGLADESH
Foundation Training for New Municipal Councils
To promote mitigation, CARE Bangladesh and partner NGOs under the BUDMP has mobilized funds and in-kind contributions from the municipalities and community groups in developing small, cost-effective mitigation schemes to mitigate against flood risks. Examples of schemes include raised roads, bridges, culverts, arsenic-free tube wells, widened drains, etc. Complementing these schemes were awareness raising campaigns and training programs.
The work of the Bangladesh Urban Disaster Mitigation Project (BUDMP) of ADPC is now in Replication Phase. Under this Phase, BUDMP expects to replicate the project activities in five other flood-prone municipalities of Bangladesh namely: Shahjadpur (in Sirajgonj District), Bhuapur (in Tangail District), Goalanda (in Rajbari District), Bhairab (in Kishoregonj District), and Dohar (in Dhaka District), following its successful implementation in two demonstration project municipalities—Tongi and Gaibandha. Main activities would include foundation training for new PNGOs and other officers of those municipalities on:
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Basic Disaster Management;
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Municipality Disaster Management Committee
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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
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Training of Trainers
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Community Volunteers
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Role of Civil Society in Urban Disaster Mitigation
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Scheme Maintenance
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Awareness raising among school children on urban Disaster
For more information on BUDMP, please visit
www.adpc.net/audmp/bangla.htm. Alternatively, please contact:
Mr. Monzu Morshed <morshed@carebangladesh.org> or
Mr. Nurul Huda, <dmputt@mail.bangla.net>
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