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Program Description and Accomplishments
Program
Accomplishments
National
Demonstration Projects
National
Demonstration projects are implemented in six countries and two
additional projects are actively in the design phase. Following
is an overview of the projects and a status review.
Bangladesh
Overview:
The Disaster Management Unit (DMU) of CARE-Bangladesh is the partnering
institution in implementation of Bangladesh urban flood mitigation
project. The project is expected to benefit from the experiences
and capabilities of CARE Bangladesh through the involvement of number
of associated projects implemented in the urban areas of the country.
Few such projects are: (i) ongoing flood mitigation program in rural
areas; (ii) recent experience in flood relief in urban areas (iii)
the ongoing USAID SHAHAR project targeting urban areas; and (iv)
also the expanding role and capacity of the DMU itself. Proposed
project activities include activation of municipal disaster management
committees, use of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) techniques
to assess the level of vulnerability and hazard, mobilization of
community resources for reduction of flood impact, and the development
of community mitigation plans, preparedness plans and implementation
of respective plans as demonstration initiatives.
The
BUDMP has successfully implemented demonstration project activities
in two urban areas: Tongi, an industrial municipality in the Dhaka
metropolitan area surrounded by branch river Turak. ; And Gaibhanda,
a northern district town on the banks of the Brahmaputra River and
now, the Project is in its Replication Phase.
Status:
Phase I of the Bangladesh Urban Disaster Mitigation Project (BUDMP)
commenced in March 2000 and completed in April 2001. Project partner
CARE Bangladesh, has implemented the project activities in association
with two local partner NGOs; namely Gana Unnayanan Kendra (GUK)
for Gaibandha Municipality and Association of Rural Development
(ARD) for Tongi Municipality. However, the MOU reached by CARE and
ARD had to be deactivated due to reasons outside the project involvement
and subsequently the project activities in Tongi were carried out
by the Committed Organization for Development Extention Services
(CODES) - another local partner NGO. At the end of phase I, BUDMP
has helped the communities in the two municipalities to deliver
Disaster Mitigation Action Plans and Preparedness plans for respective
areas. The other major activities undertaken by the project during
phase I, are foundation training for BUDMP staff, baseline survey
of households, training of volunteers selected from the communities,
risk mapping using PRA tools through a community participatory approach,
vulnerability assessment, ranking and prioritization of mitigation
solutions.
One
of the initial steps of the Bangladesh Urban Disaster Mitigation
Program (BUDMP) was reactivation of the Municipal Disaster Management
Committees (MDMC) in the above two selected municipalities.The MDMCs
now conduct regular committee meetings to discuss the connected
issues to reduce the impact of floods. The MDMCs have already approved
the mitigation and contingency plans prepared by the communities
for the respective municipalities under the project and assisting
the communities to implement the mitigation solutions.
During
the early stages of phase II, BUDMP has undertaken several activities
to create awareness among the vulnerable groups on the implementation
of household level mitigation practices and to assist effective
social mobilization within the target areas. BUDMP has successfully
launched a series of awareness programs, involving teachers and
school children from target communities. Project has also imparted
training on "Role of Civil Societies in Urban Disaster Management"
for the members of civil societies in both municipalities. Training
on "Community Based Scheme Maintenance for Urban Flood Mitigation"
through courtyard meeting has been organized to facilitate active
community participation A project review workshop was organized
in January 2002 between BUDMP and AUDMP to discuss the strategy
and methodology for implementation of structural mitigation solutions.
Familiarization visits for BUDMP staff have been undertaken for
other urban projects implemented by CARE to develop synergy between
projects.
One
of the tools designed for monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness
of the project is the Steering Committee (SC) meetings. SC is comprised
of representatives of Disaster Management Bureau (DMB), USAID mission,
AUDMP, CARE-DMU and political leadership of target municipalities.
Phase II of BUDMP was completed in December 2002.
BUDMP
Replication Phase has commenced in January 2003 and scheduled to
be completed by the end of August 2003. Under this Phase, BUDMP
expects to replicate the project activities in 5 other flood vulnerable
small municipalities namely: Shahjadpur (in Sirajgonj District),
Bhuapur (in Tangail District), Goalanda (in Rajbari District), Bhairab
(in Kishoregonj District), and Dohar. (in Dhaka District).
The
project is planning to have a national workshop on Earthquake vulnerability
of Bangladesh in June 2003. It is expected to share the rich experience
of Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Risk mitigation Project(KVERMP) at
this workshop. Previously, a study tour was also offered for a representative
of BUDMP to participate in the Earthquake Safety Day'02 program
in Kathmandu.
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