The Sundarbans is situated in a region prone to a high incidence of cyclonic storms. Over the past two centuries the coastal areas and offshore islands of Bangladesh, which the majority of the Sundarbans belongs to, have been affected by many severe cyclones and storm surges. According to the IPCC projections, the frequency of dramatic weather events will increase as temperatures and sea levels rise.
Increasing the likelihood of flooding events, the Sundarbans region will become more vulnerable to cyclonic events. Extreme events impact ecological and human systems causing human suffering and economic losses thereby impacting human well-being.
It is necessary to recognize that people living in the Sundarbans inhabit a disaster-prone zone and take preventive measures accordingly. For example, the recent Amphan cyclone showed that loss of life could be mitigated to a great extent if people took shelter in the Flood Centers during the storm. Consequently, it is more economical to invest in risk prevention, than to fund post-disaster recovery. So, BEDS arranged a training for the local people on constructing disaster adapted building at Shyamnagar of Sathkhira district.
All classes of people including women were presented in the training. They were taught about basic structure of disaster adapted building via photos and videos. They learned about the necessity of constructing such kind of house. In this training participants also shared their opinions. It was a participatory program. Local people said that, they always suffer for various disasters. Every year they have to build their house. But this training will help them to build sustainable house and will help to minimize their loss from natural calamities.
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Sundarbans Coastal zone of Bangladesh is most vulnerable to disaster due to the geographic location of the country. Every year natural disasters like small to medium scale floods, cyclones, flash floods, and river erosion occur in Sundarbans coastal region of Bangladesh and thousands of people become homeless. Most of the people adjacent to Sundarbans are the resource harvesters and they go to forest. Sometimes they are stalked into the forest due to cyclones and other natural disasters. Some of them have lost their life. There is no such weather forecasting availability to the poor unprivileged resource harvesters. So, weather forecasting and is a must for the safety of the resource harvesters. BEDS is going to establish a ‘Weather Club’ at Dacope of Khulna district. Local people will be able to get the knowledge of weather forecasting and other IT knowledge regarding weather forecasting.
For this reason, BEDS conducted a focus group discussion among the farmers of Paschim Dhangmari (under Dacope sub district of Khulna district) adjacent to Sundarbans to find out the problems they used to face due to the knowledge gap of weather fircasting. In the focus group discussion, they made a calendar of their cropping pattern and the problems caused due to the gap of weather forecasting. They have mentioned that they always suffer a lot due the information gap of weather forecasting.
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Sundarbans Coastal zone of Bangladesh is most vulnerable to disaster damage as it faces the first attack of any natural calamities. Each year several catastrophic events attack the southwestern part of Bangladesh and do humongous damage. BEDS together with Village Disaster Management Committee (VDMC) members are working to mitigate the disaster risks of the Sundarbans coastal community of Bangladesh.
BEDS team recently capacitating the disaster vulnerable community on how to handle the adverse condition during the disaster and after disaster actions. What they should do, what preparedness they take to limit the disaster loss.
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Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, as well as one of the most disaster-prone countries. This is said that “A person living in the region is 4 times riskier than those in Africa and 25 times than in Europe or North America”. The Sundarbans (the world’s single largest mangrove forest and UNESCO World Heritage Site) is situated in a region prone to a high incidence of cyclonic storms. Over the past two centuries the coastal areas and offshore islands of Bangladesh, to which the majority of the Sundarbans belong, have been affected by more than 35 severe cyclones and storm surges.
In response to climate change and frequent catastrophic events BEDS together with Village Disaster Management Committee (VDMC) members are working to strengthen the capacity of local coastal villagers who are more susceptible to damage due to cyclones. They are teaching them pre-during and post-disaster preparedness so that the villagers can mitigate the loss due to natural disasters. We are extremely grateful to our donors for their continuous support.
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Sundarbans Coastal zone of Bangladesh is most vulnerable to disaster damage as it faces the first attack of any natural calamities. Recent heavy monsoon caused flooding in the Sundarbans coastal areas. The suffering of people is intolerable. Peoples’ house, cropland, the fish farm has drowned into the water. Coastal people are going through harsh conditions.
Initiative: BEDS together with Village Disaster Management Committee (VDMC) members are working and helping the people. They are taking them into Cyclone Shelter and Training Center and providing them first aid and food for survival.
Impact: In this harsh condition of natural disaster, they have got shelter and first aid which were their basic priority. People are now getting safe water and living conditions where everything is submerged into water. People are having safe life in this disastrous situation.
Feedbacks from the beneficiaries: A man who got support during this flood, shared his expression like– “I live beside the Sundarbans. I am a fisherman. As I am poor, I live in a hut. Due to this flooding, my house is fully submerged in water. My children are suffering from water-borne diseases. BEDS and VDMC members helped me and provide me shelter in Cyclone Shelter and Training Center. Now I can stay here with my family safely. I am very much grateful to BEDS and VDMC members.”
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