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Annex 1: Project strategy and methodology: Community Based
Disaster Preparedness
Project Goal: Mobilising, engaging with and supporting the most vulnerable communities
in each participating district to achieve disaster preparedness self-
sufficiency.
This annex is excerpted and based on the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society 5-Year
Community Based Disaster Preparedness Strategic Plan (1998-2002).
Project strategy and methodology
Water and Sanitation was chosen as an appropriate community entry point on the basis that
poor sanitation was identified as a number one priority in PRA exercises carried out at
community level and is universally accepted as the single biggest cause of disease in
Bangladesh. Water and sanitation disaster proofing activities (tubewell extension and
capping, arsenic testing plus latrine raising and siting) are important to disaster
preparedness This activity will also give the Unit useful experience in project
implementation and management and a better understanding of the needs of vulnerable
people. Technical assistance will be provided by the Construction and Estates Department.
It is intended to establish initial contact and trust with most vulnerable communities
through Community Based First Aid (CBFA) training and Health awareness. This work
will be carried out by the Unit Disaster Preparedness Squad volunteers and their Unit level
Officer. This requires good community development skills and the careful selection and
training of Unit Officers and volunteers. This project activity is well accepted at community
level in Bangladesh and should prove implementable and appropriate to community
development and organisation for disaster preparedness in the future.
The initial PRA exercise was carried out with those communities identified as the most
vulnerable in each district. The gender component of assessment highlighted the fact that
women and children were often more vulnerable to disaster than males within the same
family or para (group of families). In tackling this, it will be important to engage women in
the programme as well as raise the awareness of men and local leaders about these issues.
Unit Level Officers together with Unit CBDP Squads will identify three communities (2 in
1st year) in each of their Districts of not more than 200 homogeneous families which are
considered to be most vulnerable to disaster. They will then recommend these for Project
work to the Unit Executive Committee (UEC).
Prior to commencement of Project work, the communities selected by the Units will be
checked to ensure that they are in fact most vulnerable. Following approval and subject to
community commitment to a water and sanitation project, the community will be invited to
elect a CBDP Group who will be responsible for organising the work, contributions,
maintenance etc. of the Project. Women will be required to elect at least one in three of the
members to form the group. Project management will be a matter for the Unit under the
technical supervision of NHQ.
International Federation
Disaster Preparedness Training Programme
of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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