BSS, Dhaka :
Secretary of Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Mohammad Yamin Chowdhury urged the authorities concerned to build necessary capacity to deal with all types of disasters in the country.
“Bangladesh is a role model in the world for disaster management. Women and children have been found to be more vulnerable than men during the disasters. Data in this regard needs to be figured out. For this, we’ve taken initiative,” he said.
Yamin stated this on Monday while speaking as chief guest at a seminar on “Integrating Gender and Social Inclusion in Environment, Climate Change and Disaster-related Statistics: Methodological guidelines and protocol for data producers and users” organized by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in cooperation with UN Women and EMPOWER at the BBS auditorium here.
He said natural disasters are increasing day by day with increasing destructive power. “For this, economic activities and infrastructures are also being damaged. But, now we’re showing our capabilities in adaptation. We’re dealing with many big natural disasters,” Renowned Environmentalist and Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) Dr. A. Atiq Rahman attended the seminar as special guest.
Atiq said Bangladesh has always been dealing with disasters like floods, droughts, river erosion and cyclones, even there is flood five times a year.
Secretary of Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Mohammad Yamin Chowdhury urged the authorities concerned to build necessary capacity to deal with all types of disasters in the country.
“Bangladesh is a role model in the world for disaster management. Women and children have been found to be more vulnerable than men during the disasters. Data in this regard needs to be figured out. For this, we’ve taken initiative,” he said.
Yamin stated this on Monday while speaking as chief guest at a seminar on “Integrating Gender and Social Inclusion in Environment, Climate Change and Disaster-related Statistics: Methodological guidelines and protocol for data producers and users” organized by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in cooperation with UN Women and EMPOWER at the BBS auditorium here.
He said natural disasters are increasing day by day with increasing destructive power. “For this, economic activities and infrastructures are also being damaged. But, now we’re showing our capabilities in adaptation. We’re dealing with many big natural disasters,” Renowned Environmentalist and Executive Director of Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) Dr. A. Atiq Rahman attended the seminar as special guest.
Atiq said Bangladesh has always been dealing with disasters like floods, droughts, river erosion and cyclones, even there is flood five times a year.
