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Better preparedness to confront natural disasters in Bangladesh

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Mohammad Abdul Qayyum, National Director of the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme, welcomed Terre des hommes on the International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction in his office at the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management in Dhaka to discuss their work in disaster risk reduction, as reported by AlertNet.

Bangladesh is very vulnerable to flooding and earthquakes. Therefore, the resiliency of the community needs to be improved with state structural measures (building embankment, sea walls, anti-cyclone shelters) or non-structural ones (increasing the individual and community level of preparedness).

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Hazards Earthquake Flood
Themes Community-based DRR
Country and region Bangladesh
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