Staff Reporter :
Speakers at a Workshop emphasized on taking sustainable development programme for climate change and river erosion affected people.
They also stressed on for inclusive rehabilitation programme for those affected people and to take multipurpose policy to protect local culture, rituals and historic installations.
“It is highly necessary to take integrated sustainable development programme for the riverbank erosion affected people especially in the coastal areas,” said Shah Kamal, the Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief while speaking as the Chief Guest of the workshop in CIRDAP Auditorium on Sunday night in the capital organised by Islamic Relief Worldwide, Bangladesh.
Akmal Sharif, the Country Director of Islamic Relief Worldwide, Bangladesh, presided over the programme.
Abdus Salam, Additional Secretary and Director General of Bangladesh NGO Affairs Bureau and Enamul Haque Sarker, the Project Manager of the IR worldwide, among others delivered speech.
A team led by Professor Dr. AM Rezaul Islam of Dhaka University conducted a survey on Vulnerability, Social Dignity and Livelihood Choices of the River Bank Erosion Victims in Daulatkhan, Tajumuddin and Borhanuddin upazilas in Bhola district in last one year.
Dr. AM Rezaul Islam said, about 94.6
percent of people from Bhola district have been displaced many times due to the river erosions.
On the other hand, another team led by Professor Dr. Md. Abdul Quader of Bangladesh Agricultural University conducted a survey on Action Research for introducing/ promoting climate adaptive and resilient crops at Tazumuddin, Bhola in last one year.
Officials of the Islamic Relief Worldwide Bangladesh said it has taken a project on Integrated Sustainable Development Programme for Climate Vulnerable Ultra Poor Communities of Southern Bangladesh (ISD Climb UP).
The NGO has granted non-refundable Tk 16, 000 per families of the total 3,000 families under the project.
Professor Salma Akhter of Social Science Department of Dhaka University said in her evaluation on the project that, the average income of those 3,000 families increased by 360 percent.
“Their per capita income was Tk 3511 in the beginning of the project, now it has been increased by Tk 12,760. The NGO also allotted 3000 sanitary toilets and 52 deep tube-well for the families which decreased their diseases,” Professor Salma Akhter said.
Speakers at a Workshop emphasized on taking sustainable development programme for climate change and river erosion affected people.
They also stressed on for inclusive rehabilitation programme for those affected people and to take multipurpose policy to protect local culture, rituals and historic installations.
“It is highly necessary to take integrated sustainable development programme for the riverbank erosion affected people especially in the coastal areas,” said Shah Kamal, the Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief while speaking as the Chief Guest of the workshop in CIRDAP Auditorium on Sunday night in the capital organised by Islamic Relief Worldwide, Bangladesh.
Akmal Sharif, the Country Director of Islamic Relief Worldwide, Bangladesh, presided over the programme.
Abdus Salam, Additional Secretary and Director General of Bangladesh NGO Affairs Bureau and Enamul Haque Sarker, the Project Manager of the IR worldwide, among others delivered speech.
A team led by Professor Dr. AM Rezaul Islam of Dhaka University conducted a survey on Vulnerability, Social Dignity and Livelihood Choices of the River Bank Erosion Victims in Daulatkhan, Tajumuddin and Borhanuddin upazilas in Bhola district in last one year.
Dr. AM Rezaul Islam said, about 94.6
percent of people from Bhola district have been displaced many times due to the river erosions.
On the other hand, another team led by Professor Dr. Md. Abdul Quader of Bangladesh Agricultural University conducted a survey on Action Research for introducing/ promoting climate adaptive and resilient crops at Tazumuddin, Bhola in last one year.
Officials of the Islamic Relief Worldwide Bangladesh said it has taken a project on Integrated Sustainable Development Programme for Climate Vulnerable Ultra Poor Communities of Southern Bangladesh (ISD Climb UP).
The NGO has granted non-refundable Tk 16, 000 per families of the total 3,000 families under the project.
Professor Salma Akhter of Social Science Department of Dhaka University said in her evaluation on the project that, the average income of those 3,000 families increased by 360 percent.
“Their per capita income was Tk 3511 in the beginning of the project, now it has been increased by Tk 12,760. The NGO also allotted 3000 sanitary toilets and 52 deep tube-well for the families which decreased their diseases,” Professor Salma Akhter said.
