Ethiopia wants to follow Bangladesh experience
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
FE Report
Ethiopia wants to follow Bangladesh experience in facing natural disasters and shows interest in building institutional cooperation.
This was expressed by visiting Ethiopian state minister for agriculture, disaster risk management, food security and refugee Ato Mitiku Kassa during a meeting with Food and Disaster management minister Abdur Razzak in Dhaka Monday.
The minister was leading a four-member delegation.
Mr Kassa said: "Bangladesh has a long experience in disaster management and it has achieved international appreciation for disaster management."
"Ethiopia is mainly affected by draught and flood. For this reason the country is incurring huge losses every year," he said.
Mr Razzak said: "Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country. Draught is not the main problem for us but we have to face cyclone and flood every year."
Bangladesh has a permanent disaster management and specific instructions are given from high administrative level about taking steps befitting to the nature of calamities.
H said: "There are 42,000 volunteers are enrolled for Cyclone Preparation Programme (CPP) in the costal area of the country. Recently, the government is focusing on disaster risk management which will help reduce damage due to calamity."
Ethiopia wants to follow Bangladesh experience in facing natural disasters and shows interest in building institutional cooperation.
This was expressed by visiting Ethiopian state minister for agriculture, disaster risk management, food security and refugee Ato Mitiku Kassa during a meeting with Food and Disaster management minister Abdur Razzak in Dhaka Monday.
The minister was leading a four-member delegation.
Mr Kassa said: "Bangladesh has a long experience in disaster management and it has achieved international appreciation for disaster management."
"Ethiopia is mainly affected by draught and flood. For this reason the country is incurring huge losses every year," he said.
Mr Razzak said: "Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country. Draught is not the main problem for us but we have to face cyclone and flood every year."
Bangladesh has a permanent disaster management and specific instructions are given from high administrative level about taking steps befitting to the nature of calamities.
H said: "There are 42,000 volunteers are enrolled for Cyclone Preparation Programme (CPP) in the costal area of the country. Recently, the government is focusing on disaster risk management which will help reduce damage due to calamity."