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Name of Project: Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP).

 

1. Implementation Period:	Jan, 2003 to Dec, 2007
2. Project Cost:	Total                     PA	GOB
	8711.97LakTk. 8334.97LakTk.	377.00 Lak Tk.
3. Objectives:	To strengthen the capacity of the Bangladesh disaster management system to reduce unacceptable risk and improve response and recovery activities.
The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) was approved by the Bangladesh Government in 2003 as a key strategy to advance whole-of-government and agency risk reduction efforts in the country. CDMP is a strategic institutional and programming approach that is designed to optimise the reduction of long-term risk and to strengthen the operational capacities for responding to emergencies and disaster situations including actions to improve recovery from these events. Key benefits associated with this approach are that: The resources and expertise of government, NGO, private sector and the community are deployed according to national priorities, community risk reduction programming needs and not organizational preference. It provides a big picture of what needs to be done and as such, a mechanism for identifying gaps, monitoring and observing achievement. It provides the basis upon which formal collaborating partnerships are developed and nurtured. It facilitates the validation of new projects against country risk reduction needs It serves as a management tool for donor agencies and regional organizations to guide their inputs. Government Vision “To reduce the vulnerability of the poor to the effects of natural, environmental and human induced hazards to a manageable and acceptable humanitarian level” MoFDM Mission The Ministry of Food and Disaster Management (MoFDM) has been given the mandate to drive national risk reduction reform programmes. Its mission relative to this agenda is:   “To achieve a paradigm shift in disaster management from conventional response and relief to a more comprehensive risk reduction culture” Drivers for Change CDMP strategies have been designed to achieve objectives associated with a number of key global and national drivers. Global Drivers National Drivers Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) – National Platforms Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) Common Country Assessment (CCA) World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR)   United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) Programme Execution: The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) is managed under National Execution (NEX) modality. The Secretary, MoFDM is the National Programme Director (NPD). National Disaster Management Focal Point A Policy, Programme and Partnership Development Unit (PPPDU) had been established to operationalise the CDMP process and to serve as a national focal point for the coordination of disaster management activities.  This unit is an integral component of the MoFDM and undertakes the critical day-to-day CDMP management functions, establishes and nurtures partnerships, maintains liaison, advocacy and reporting responsibilities within government and with NGOs and Regional Stakeholders. The PPPDU is staffed by a team of full-time professional staff: Chief Technical Adviser and Team Leader National Programme Management Expert and Deputy Team Leader National Expert (Coordination) National Expert (Training & Preparedness) National Expert (Monitoring & Evaluation) Training and Awareness Raising Specialist National Advocacy Expert Community Risk Reduction Specialist Training and Monitoring Expert Community Risk Reduction Expert Programme Component Implementation Specialist Technical Adviser (Climate Change) Information Communication Technology Specialist Programme Structure CDMP seeks to reduce the level of community vulnerability and enhance sustainable development initiatives through a range of integrated strategies containing five strategic focus areas and ten components. Implementation Agencies are drawn from government and non-government sources with overall coordination provided by the PPPDU. Strategies focus on ensuring a comprehensive and well coordinated approach to community risk reduction.  CDMP utilizes the International Risk Management Standard AS/NZS 4360:1999 as the basis for effective risk assessment with risk treatments designed around prevention, preparedness, response and recovery strategies.   Strategic Focus Corresponding Component (s) Professionalising the Disaster Management System 1a - PPPDU 1b – Professional Development Partnership Development 2a – Advocacy and Awareness  2b – Capacity Building Community Empowerment 3a – Programme Gap Analysis 3b – Risk Reduction Planning 3c - Local Disaster Risk Reduction Fund Expanding Mitigation, Preparedness and Response Across a Broader Range of Hazards 4a – Urban Search and Rescue 4b – Climate Change and Research Strengthening Emergency Response Systems 5a – Disaster Management Information Centre and Emergency Procedures Beneficiaries CDMP is a whole-of-country strategy. Communities within high risk areas are the immediate beneficiaries of programme interventions. The direct beneficiaries of the programme are: Communities and community based organizations through improved country and local capacity to design and implement disaster management programmes that are based on formal and traditional community risk assessment. Key national, district, Upazila and Union officials (including NGOs) who have disaster management programming and operational response coordination responsibilities; Key government decision-makers and politicians elected local Government officials through advocacy and awareness programmes. National planning officers and all line government departments or agencies involved in development planning activities, through the promotion and incorporation of risk management measures within the development project validation process by way of Disaster Impact and Risk Assessment (DIRA) like the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) which has been incorporated in all development project analysis. NGOs, through their formal involvement in the CDMP process; Private sector through increased interface and involvement in disaster management programme design and implementation.   For further clarification please contact: Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) Disaster Management and Relief Bhaban (2nd Floor) 92-93 Mohakhali C/A, Dhaka - 1212 Phone: 88-02-9890937, Fax: 88-02-9890854 E-mail: info@cdmp.org.bd