Impact Evaluation of the Community Based Disaster Preparedness Project in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

The Community Based Disaster Preparedness Programme was implemented from 1996 to 2002 in the district of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society with technical and financial support from the German Red Cross. It targeted communities and individual families within a radius of 1,5, km around 30 cyclone shelters in the five Sub-districts Cox's Bazar Sadar, Moiscal, Kutubdia, Teknaf and Chakaria. The project covered in total 90.000 direcet and 120.000 indirect beneficiaries. 

The evaluation team consisted of eight members and visited 10 out 30 cyclone shelters and communities. Since luckily no cyclone hit the area directly and unfortunately no baseline data on the situation before the prokect was available, the findings of the evaluation are based on individual and group discussions with various partis of the communities on their behaviour and actions during the cyclone warnings since porject end as well as on physical observations by the evaluation team.