BSS, Rajshahi :
Speakers at a daylong field level stakeholders workshop here emphasized the need for collective efforts of all quarters including the local government institutions for successful disaster preparedness and management.
Stressing the need for a comprehensive approach to effective risk reduction, they mentioned that strengthening of the local level government bodies could be the effective means of managing any natural calamity.
Disaster Management Bureau (DMB) under its “Hyogo Framework for Action Progress Monitoring 2013-2014” program organized the workshop titled “A Disaster Resilient Future: Mobilizing Communities and Institutions for Effective Risk Reduction” on Sunday in the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner Office.National Alliance for Risk Reduction and Response Initiatives (NARRI) Consortium supported the workshop. The discussants noted that a need-oriented and realistic plan should be formulated through wide-ranging survey and importance should be given to timely implementation of the time-fitting programmes to face the risks as early as possible.
