One year after Cyclone Sidr: fear replaces hope

Publication language
English
Pages
12pp
Date published
01 Nov 2008
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Contingency Planning, Disaster preparedness, Disaster risk reduction, Early warning, Disasters, Cyclone
Countries
Bangladesh
Organisations
Oxfam
Link
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/one-year-after-cyclone-sidr-fea…
Long before Cyclone Sidr struck the southern coastal areas of Bangladesh on 15 November 2007, many important life-saving actions had been carried out. Thanks to early warning systems and disaster preparedness measures, up to 3,000,000 people had already evacuated low-lying coastal areas, many finding refuge in anti-cyclone shelters. Local government officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) quickly moved contingency stocks of relief items into areas expecting to be affected.