Assignment name: Disaster risk management and reduction program in disaster prone area of Kalaroa Upazila.
Approx. value of the contract (in current US$ or
Euro): Euro: 79,365
Country: Bangladesh
Location within country: Kalaroa
upazila Satkhira district
Duration of assignment (months): 16 Months
Address: 92-93 Mahakhali C/A, Dhaka-1212
Start date (month/year): 15/12/2006
Completion date (month/year): 14/04/2008
Narrative description of Project:
The objective of the
project were to:
§ Objectives:
§ The
broader objective of the proposed project is to “strengthen capacity of the
community, especially of the most poor and vulnerable group to reduce their
risk to livelihood insecurity.
§ Specific
Objectives:
§ To
increase adaptation capacity of the vulnerable female and male community
members in livelihood security areas; and
§ To
make proactive the DMCs and community in initiating community level risk
reduction plans.
This project envisaged
developing 35 villages under the Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira district through adaptation
capacity of the vulnerable female and male community members in livelihood
security areas and provided support for socio-economic development of the vulnerable
groups In order to implement the programmes based on the above objectives, the
quantitative targets of the components were set forth in the project which were
completed by the end of the project period. The specific activities of the
project were as follows:
§ CRA
Revisit component for reviewing the recommendations which have been either over
looked or omitted during CRA operation and as such BNM conducted CRA revisit at
4 unions of Kalaroa Upozila.
§ Support
to run small business for poor persons with disabilities project at Kushodangha
union’ for enabling the disable people to reduce their risk of hazards of
disaster. the IGA trainings were
imparted to 9 people with disabilities to run small business who got logistic
support to run small grocery shops at 9 wards of Kushodangha.
§ Support
9 poor persons with disabilities to run small business in Kushodanga Union
under Kalaroa Upazila in Satkhira District.
§ Installation
of rain water harvesting plants and building awareness for safe water to reduce
water borne health risk. in Kushodangha union.
§ Supporting
Ultra poor women of 9 wards of Langhaljhera union to enhance family income and
there by reduce disaster risk. through duck rearing program.
§ Construction
of 18 Rain Water Harvesting Plants in 9 wards under Koila union of Kalaroa Upozila
of Satkhira district to reduce the Risk of arsenic Contamination of Community
people.
§ orientation
meeting for building awareness of the students and taught on arsenic
contamination and alternative options arranged at Purba Koila registered
primary school.
§ Seminar
on arsenic contamination and its adverse impact on human body was arranged on
13-04-2008 at the Premises of Koila Union Parishad.a
registered primary school.
Plantation of saplings of different fruits and timber trees.
Description of actual services provided in the
assignment:
Under
these context BNM has undertaken the disaster management and it’s risk
reduction program. Preliminarily to identify the local risks of disaster and
points of solution of its hazards with the decisions of local community people,
women, representatives of the disable people, members of union disaster
management committees (UDMCs). With the assistance UNDP and DFID Bangladesh
Government has been trying to take steps to reduce risk of disaster permanently
and introduced Community Risk Assessment
(CRA) operation in the project district including project area.
It
could be reasonably expected that through CRA operation and CRA revisit the
actual situation of the project area and project district could successfully be
identified and risk reduction solution could be obtained through participation
of the community leaders, landless people, marginal agriculturalists, women,
people with disabilities and development workers. Through CRA operation and CRA
revisit all hazards which the community people of the project area and that of
project district are to face due to flood, over flood, water logging, droughts
and arsenic contamination could be identified and solutions could be obtained.
It is
expected that by strengthening capability of the community people and building
adaptation capacity of the vulnerable female and male community members in
livelihood security areas, and by making the community people proactive united
to cope with the hazards the risk of disasters could be reduced. To these ends
in view the project planning is prepared and the project activities were undertaken.
Beneficiaries
have been identified and the lists of prospective illiterate and neo literate
male and female and adolescent boys and girls were prepared. A wide rage of
motivational campaigns have been undertaken in the project area which had
created an atmosphere in favour of education in all walks of life. Organisation
of centres, selection of learners, recruitment of teachers and training to the
teachers were made on yearly basis. Are normally made. Intensive training
Programmes for the teachers and supervisors were arranged in phases. Assessment
of achievement was made phase by phase by the centre management committee,
supervisors, and MIS officers from BNM central office.