Urban risk reduction initiatives in Bangladesh include school safety programs, mass casualty management training, and earthquake/fire preparedness in garment factories. Steps for school safety included awareness creation, mandatory safety planning, and making building structures safer. Mass casualty management involved developing understanding through demonstrations during incidents and producing manuals. For garment factories, initiatives built capacity of compliance officers, included earthquake training, and developed information materials. The way forward includes further institutionalizing these programs.
5. 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
9. Lessons learned
Making
building
Towards School Safety
structure
safe
Non-
structural
Mitigation
School
Safety
Planning
Awareness
Creation on Mandatory or
Basics of
DRR a Choice?
No Initiatives
12. Possible Scenario
DIPECHO Bangladesh
Promising Practices from
DIPECHO V Program
Source: UNDP
13. 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
14. Process and Achievements
Developed
understanding
Demonstrated
Enhance
skill during fire
coordination
incident
MCM manual
develop and Institutionalization
contingency plan of MCM
as output
Capacity built
15. Way Forward
Strengthening Introducing
MCM at National Plan of New Technology
National and MCM and Instruments
District level for MCM
17. Process and Achievements
MoU with
Home
Ministry
and FSCD
Equipping
Capacity
volunteer on
building of
emergency
Volunteers
response
Continuous Replication
support by with other
FSCD agencies
19. Way forward
Encourage Institutionalizing
Policy women Strengthening Volunteers roles
review and person capacity and
dialogue with program responsibilities in
disabilities SOD
20. 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
21. Process and Achievements
Change in behavior
of BGMEA
Inclusion of
Capacity building of
Earthquake
1000 compliance
Training Manual
officer
into Fire module
Coordinated effort by
garment authorities, govt Development of IEC
department and material
community volunteers
Garment
Simulation
Guideline
22. 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