Community Empowerment and Disaster Risk Reduction in Chittagong City

Publication language
English
Pages
8pp
Date published
01 Nov 2008
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Capacity development, Disaster risk reduction, Urban, Community-led, Local capacity, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction
Countries
Bangladesh
Organisations
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)

The community is at the frontier
of any kind of natural hazard and
disaster. Empowering the community
by internalizing the tools and methods
of disaster risk reduction is a good
way to deal with the future potential
risks. This case study highlights how
to build up community ownership in
responding to the existing hydrometeorological
hazards in the most
vulnerable wards of Chittagong City,
Bangladesh.