Bangladesh

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Study on women and girls’ participation in community disaster risk management in Bangladesh
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This study on women and girls’ participation in community-based disaster risk management in Bangladesh is part of Plan International’s Inclusive Community Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (ICDRM) project.
Addressing Covid-19's uneven impacts on vulnerable populations in Bangladesh
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This brief draws on key findings from a UNDP Bangladesh survey on COVID-19 impacts during the pandemic’s first wave in early 2020.
Inclusive Community Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (ICDRM)
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The aim of this booklet is to show how the ICDRM Project succeeded in supporting communities in the Asia Region to become more inclusive, especially in disaster risk management.
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Documents and publications
This paper aims to foster the understanding of systemic risk and the actionable ways of promoting risk governance at local and national levels, while promoting cross-practice collaboration within UNDP on risk reduction and prevention.
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Policies and plans
Bangladesh is updating the nationally determined contributions (NDC) incorporating additional sectors following IPCC guidelines and includes an adaptation component that describes what it has already done and its priorities for its long-term vision.
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This study aims to conduct rigorously designed research on DRR education for children in Bangladesh by involving children’s active input and participation.
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In the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) region, large areas in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan get inundated by floodwater during every rainy season. Among them, Bangladesh has been experiencing record-high floods where four

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Examines the welfare impact of an anticipatory cash transfer provided to households forecasted to experience extreme floods in Bangladesh.

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