Community Based Approaches to Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

Abstract

Bangladesh is disaster prone country and community participation is most effective way to cope up disaster risk. As a disaster prone country)) ever!- year thousands of live and resources has been destroying at the time of tornados, river bank erosions, cyclones, tidal bores, landslides and earth quakes etc. Every year those kind of natural hazard are affecting in our country)'. Basically Bangladesh is surrounded by thousands of river, Himalayan range and Bay of Bengal are creates punitive situation for the large number of people in the apart of Southern. For the sustainable development, we need to minimize impact natural disaster. On the others hand prevention of rate of natural disasters prejudiced by natural causes may be impossible but we can reduced it by proper planning, management, humctn cooperative participation and through awareness. For the realization of this situation, the government of Bangladesh looks disaster management plan and program for the mitigation of disaster and Jbreign agency like EU, UN, JICA etc. doing work with government and also with national NGO to minimize the disaster risk for sustainable development. This study analyzes the approaches to disaster management by mass contmtrni Q participation and also has some recommendation after disaster based on literature review.