Disaster preparedness
Community involvement key to disaster preparedness
Thursday, November 18th, 2010DHAKA, 18 November 2010 (IRIN) – Working in one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Bangladeshi aid groups have learned that well-intentioned disaster relief programmes without community participation do little to protect those communities in the long run.
“Communities have been living with disasters for much longer than we have been talking about disaster [...]
Getting ready for the big one
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010BANGKOK, 15 June 2010 (IRIN) – The densely populated Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, which lies dangerously close to a major fault line, comprises thousands of shoddily engineered buildings at risk of collapse in a powerful earthquake, experts warn.
Almost 80,000 buildings would be destroyed if a six magnitude tremor originated beneath Dhaka, according to a government [...]
UN Helps to Mitigate Disaster Risk
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, Jun 24, 2009 (IPS) – Disasters happen regularly in East Timor, but until now, the institutions called on to deal with them have struggled to effectively react to seasonal events that impact thousands of Timorese lives every year.
“We are yet to be truly prepared to act together as one to plan for the consequences [...]