Disaster Management & Climate Change

DF, aiming at reducing the destruction and saving the lives of the catastrophic stricken people, has been implementing disaster management program for the welfare of the group-members from its begining. The organization makes the target people aware about the unexpected disasters, stands by the disaster-stricken members with reliefs and grants, provides them with necessary food, clothes, medicines and organizes need-based free medical camps. Along with the members, DF affords support and services to the other families in the disaster affected area.

Disaster resilience, humanitarian response and climate change:

Bangladesh is well known for its high-profile floods and cyclones, yet parts of North West Bangladesh suffer with the opposite problem of insufficient water for household level & agriculture and South area suffer with saline water. And for many years the Bangladesh has suffered with insufficient food growth to sustain the population. As water tables fall, and regular climatic patterns change, sea level raising, increasing salinity, the severity of the problem is rapidly increasing.

Dipti Foundation’s projects trying to help communities in Bangladesh to minimise the effects of disasters, particularly those arising or worsening through climate change. Projects help the communities in disaster prone areas will be better prepared, more resilient and healthier, reducing impact from through following initiatives:

• Identify the local risk, vulnerabilities and capacity and preparing local risk reduction plan.
• Demonstration of hazard tolerance crop filed.
• Ensure the evacuation ways to reduce the human causalities.
• Ensure safe water sources to reduce the waterborne diseases, hygiene especially of women and children.

• Community base volunteer in place on anticipatory action.
• Planting environment friendly tree and increase organic fertilizer production
• Encourage to get involve with renewable energy system i.e., solar energy, rain water harvesting system etc.
• Introduce with hazard tolerance crops.

Disaster Management Committees

Encouraged the local level disaster management committee’s leader who will be growing in confidence of the important role they play as on the SOD. Communities, groups will taking joint responsibility for the community as they develop sustainability together. They provide education and aware on climate change and its impact to others, creating opportunities to understand environmental issues and help them take action to reduce degradation.

Approach: Community-Based Adaptation

Community groups identify people who are most vulnerable to disaster and climate-change risks. They raise awareness of salinity, flood or drought-resistant farming methods, alternative livelihoods, planning ahead for availability of food and water during floods, and ready volunteers for rescue efforts if needed.