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Programme for Disaster Risk Reduction:

Objective of Programme :

Every year in Bangladesh  experience flood, tornados, draughts, tidal surges, fire, river bank erosion resulting loss of huge properties. Government and several development agencies provide support in post disaster period. People having  lower income generation  activities and do not get support of financial institutions can  hardly overcome disaster loses. Objectives of the programme to support lower income generating peoples for post disaster rehabilitation and enabling them in income generation.

 

Target group selection:

Lower income generating peoples, income only 3500 Taka/ monthly or below and lost income generating assets by disaster.

 

Activities:

• Prepare list of beneficiaries  victimized  by natural disaster, fire
• Measuring quality of assistance
• Ensure proper unitization of assistance
• Ensure repay back of loans

 

Areas of Assistance:

• Properties that damages by disaster;
• Small cottage industries like handloom
• Boat, Rickshaws, Cycle Van, Cart etc.
• Nursery, fruit garden
• Livestock and poultry farm
• Aquaculture
• Grocery shop
• Self employed and income generating assets

 

Quantity of Assistance:

Depending on losses victims get 5000-20000Tk. Assistance allocation between 5000-10000 Taka is 25% is grant money and rest on 75 % is loan. But allocation between 5000-20000 Taka is 20% is grant money and rest on 80 % is loan. 4% interest rate being charge.

 

Activity area:

Activities are all over the Bangladesh.

 

Implementation Strategies:

Programme drives under supervision of  Ministry of Food & Diasaster Managemnt and department of  Relief & Rehabilitation and being implement by District, Upazila and Union/Pourashava, through national steering committee, District, Upazila, Union/Pourasha.

 

Activity Areas of Ministry of Food & Disaster Management:

• Determining activity areas
• Assist in funding and sanction of funding
• Monitoring, review and evaluation  activities all committee, organizations
• Organizing programme implementation progress meeting half yearly
• Submit progress report to national steering committee
• Formulate yearly action plan of implementation activities.
• Disseminate  current mission & future goal

 

 

Activity area:

Activities being supervised by Department of Relief & Rehabilitation and being implemented by District, Upazila and Union Disaster Management Committee.

 

Special Activity:

• Timely releasing funds   to field level  after being sanctioned from Ministry
• Monitoring activities of all concern committees, Organizations
• Disseminate objectives and implementation strategies of the organization.

 

 

Fund Releasing :

• Ministry of Food & Disaster Management will release  fund to directorate  of relief and rehabilitation as per proposed size submitted by DC on his administrative areas.
• Directorate issue fund releasing order  to DC for required fund
• DC

 

 

Fund Distribution Methodology :

 

 

 

Programme Implementation & Management cost :

 

 

 

Revolving fund :

 

 

 

Strengths and weaknesses of the current approach :

 

Strengths :

There are three particular strengths of Australia’s current arrangements for managing natural disasters:

 

• State and Territory operational preparedness and capacity for disaster response which are effective for
• Managing the most common natural disasters
• He strong emergency services career and volunteer sectors which provide a speedy, visible And respected capacity to respond to natural disasters, and
• The complementary Commonwealth, State and Territory natural disaster relief arrangements which are sound and effective in providing basic assistance to affected communities.

 

Weaknesses:

 

The HLG has identified eight main weaknesses in Australia’s current arrangements:

 

·         Lack of independent and comprehensive systematic natural disaster risk assessments, and natural disaster data and analysis

·         A focus on response and reaction at the expense of prevention, mitigation and recovery of affected communities

• Lack of independent and comprehensive post-disaster assessments to identify lessons learnt, and opportunities for improvement
• Uneven recognition of the important role Local Governments have to play
• Lack of preparation for catastrophic disasters
• Limited availability of flood insurance
• A tendency on the part of governments to introduce ad hoc special relief schemes which may lead to confusion, inequities and higher costs, and
• Lack of effective inter-governmental, and in some cases intra-governmental, machinery to support a coordinated national approach to disaster management.

 

• An emerging issue is the need to ensure, in relation to critical infrastructure, that public safety considerations are taken into account.