Disaster Management Strategy for Resilient Society-An Approach to Train Flood Management Stakeholders of Bangladesh

Abstract

In order to resolve disaster related issues, always there are strong and imperative requests for close collaborations between Japanese and Bangladesh researchers and policy-makers. As an initiative of such collaboration a SATREPS project titled 'Disaster Prevention/Mitigation Measures against Floods and Storm Surges in Bangladesh' started in April 2014. This project is composed of 5 different components. Among these, only component 5 is primarily dealing with local people. It addresses flood related different social aspects of a community. Component 5 is working on two phases. First phase is evaluation of current disaster management practices and second is development of a new disaster management strategy and its implementation. Finally, outputs of the component 5 are contributing to formulate a series of training modules to train different stakeholders related to flood management including local communities. It is expected that this trained manpower would be efficient to deal with flood disaster of Bangladesh and that would be locally effective for a flood resilient society.