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Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50
As Bangladesh’s Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) celebrates its 50th anniversary, we reflect on its legacy, the gains made, and progress that still lies ahead. The CPP is unique among disaster risk-management agencies, as more than 90% of its staff consists of community volunteers. This unique i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9657222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36361380 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114503 |
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author | Haque, Ahmadul Haider, Dilruba Rahman, Muhammad Saidur Kabir, Laila Lejano, Raul Perez |
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description | As Bangladesh’s Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) celebrates its 50th anniversary, we reflect on its legacy, the gains made, and progress that still lies ahead. The CPP is unique among disaster risk-management agencies, as more than 90% of its staff consists of community volunteers. This unique institutional design influences its functioning. An important part of its growth has included the expansion of the involvement and leadership of women in the CPP, so that today, women constitute about 50% of the volunteer corps. We reflect on the improvements made, since Cyclone Bhola of 1970 (the deadliest natural tragedy on record) and analyze institutional features of the CPP that other countries can learn from. Lastly, we reflect on remaining challenges for the years ahead. |
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spelling | pubmed-96572222022-11-15 Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50 Haque, Ahmadul Haider, Dilruba Rahman, Muhammad Saidur Kabir, Laila Lejano, Raul Perez Int J Environ Res Public Health Brief Report As Bangladesh’s Cyclone Preparedness Programme (CPP) celebrates its 50th anniversary, we reflect on its legacy, the gains made, and progress that still lies ahead. The CPP is unique among disaster risk-management agencies, as more than 90% of its staff consists of community volunteers. This unique institutional design influences its functioning. An important part of its growth has included the expansion of the involvement and leadership of women in the CPP, so that today, women constitute about 50% of the volunteer corps. We reflect on the improvements made, since Cyclone Bhola of 1970 (the deadliest natural tragedy on record) and analyze institutional features of the CPP that other countries can learn from. Lastly, we reflect on remaining challenges for the years ahead. MDPI 2022-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9657222/ /pubmed/36361380 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114503 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Haque, Ahmadul Haider, Dilruba Rahman, Muhammad Saidur Kabir, Laila Lejano, Raul Perez Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50 |
title | Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50 |
title_full | Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50 |
title_fullStr | Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50 |
title_full_unstemmed | Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50 |
title_short | Building Resilience from the Grassroots: The Cyclone Preparedness Programme at 50 |
title_sort | building resilience from the grassroots: the cyclone preparedness programme at 50 |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9657222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36361380 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114503 |
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