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Urban Risk Reduction inChallenging Environment

Shakeb Nabi (ActionAid), Arvind Kumar (ADPC) and Manish Kumar Agrawal (Oxfam)

Making Cities Resilient

World Disaster Risk Reduction Campaign 2010-2011

Approaches for Urban Risk Assessment Approaches for Urban Risk Assessment

CBDRR

Sectoral Approach

Target Orient Approach

Institutional Approach

Steps of Urban Risk Assessment

URR Initiatives

• School Safety Program• Mass Casualty Management• Garment factory Workers safety• Capacity Building of Urban Slum Volunteers• Designing of the Urban Risk Assessment kit

School Safety

Dhaka Chittagong Sylhet

Khulna Shyamnagar Sathkhera

Netrakona Jamalpur

Understanding School Safety- from school perspectives

Steps of School Safety and Preparedness

Lessons learned

No Initiatives

Awareness Creation on

Basics of DRR

School Safety

Planning

Non-structural Mitigation

Making building structure

safe

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Sch

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Mandatory or a Choice?

Way Forward

1. Integrating DRR in School Curricula (?) 2. Safer school construction

DIPEC

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Mass Casualty Management

DIPEC

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Promising Practices from DIPECHO V Program

Source: UNDP

Possible Scenario

Why Mass casualty Management• Capacities of the

hospitals overwhelmed in the event of a disaster

• Limited capacity of the hospitals in terms of trained HR and equipments

Developed understanding

Enhance coordination

Institutionalization of MCM

Capacity built

MCM manual develop and

contingency plan as output

Demonstrated skill during fire

incident

Process and Achievements

Strengthening MCM at

National and District level

National Plan of MCM

Introducing New Technology and Instruments

for MCM

Way Forward

Enhance Voluntarism in Urban Areas: Achievements

MoU with Home

Ministry and FSCD

Capacity building of Volunteers

Replication with other agencies

Continuous support by

FSCD

Equipping volunteer on emergency response

Process and Achievements

MFR and SARD

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Policy review

dialogue

Encourage women

and person with

disabilities

Strengthening capacity program

Institutionalizing Volunteers roles

and responsibilities in

SOD

Way forward

Earthquake and Fire Preparedness in Garment Factories

• 80% of the export revenue• Around 2.4 million people working in 4500 garment factories• Most of the buildings where the factories are established

have not been constructed for industry• Multi storied building with high population, no evacuation

plan• Most of the worker are young girls and illiterate or half

literate• Fire incidents in garment factories is a common phenomenon• Understanding their language: labor laws, factories act,

safety audit

Change in behavior of BGMEA

Inclusion of Earthquake

Training Manual into Fire module

Development of IEC material

Garment Simulation Guideline

Coordinated effort by garment authorities, govt

department and community volunteers

Capacity building of 1000 compliance

officer

Process and Achievements

Way Forward

• Replication of this model in other factories and EPZs which is labor intensive

• Enhance investment by the garment factory workers on safety measures of the works

• Sharing this model with the larger community