Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50

Ahmadul Haque; Dilruba Haider; Muhammad Saidur Rahman; Laila Kabir; Raul Perez Lejano

doi:10.3390/ijerph192114503

Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50

Ahmadul Haque, Dilruba Haider, Muhammad Saidur Rahman, Laila Kabir, Raul Perez Lejano

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As Bangladesh’s Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) celebrates its 50th anniversary, we reflect on its legacy, the gains made, and progress that still lies ahead. The CPP is unique among disaster risk-management agencies, as more than 90% of its staff consists of community volunteers. This unique institutional design influences its functioning. An important part of its growth has included the expansion of the involvement and leadership of women in the CPP, so that today, women constitute about 50% of the volunteer corps. We reflect on the improvements made, since Cyclone Bhola of 1970 (the deadliest natural tragedy on record) and analyze institutional features of the CPP that other countries can learn from. Lastly, we reflect on remaining challenges for the years ahead.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	14503
Journal	International journal of environmental research and public health
Volume	19
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114503
State	Published - Nov 2022

Keywords

Cyclone Preparedness Programme
disaster risk reduction
gender equality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Pollution
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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