Norway to provide $16 m for disaster management
Monday, 12 July 2010
Norway will provide 100 million Kroner (US$ 16 million) to Bangladesh for executing the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (2010-14), reports UNB.
An agreement to this effect was signed by Norwegian ambassador in Dhaka Ingebjorg Stofring and UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Priesner at the UNDP office. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Joint Secretary Dilip Kumar Das was present.
The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme is a joint initiative of the government of Bangladesh and UNDP, supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the European Union, the government of Sweden, the Government of Australia and now the Government of Norway.
It represents a harmonised approach to supporting Bangladesh in strengthening the disaster management system to reduce unacceptable risks and improve response and recovery activities by adopting a comprehensive risk management culture.
Strengthened disaster response and management capacity is an important national objective for Bangladesh, and the programme is designed to achieve this goal through interventions in six key areas, with focus on marginalised and vulnerable communities in urban centres and in 2,000 Union Parishads of 40 high-risk districts of Bangladesh.
It will make major contributions to policy advancements and to the development of national risk reduction capacities in 11 ministries to implement a range of risk reduction initiatives.
The programme, which will continue until December 2014, has a total budget of US$ 69.47 million.
An agreement to this effect was signed by Norwegian ambassador in Dhaka Ingebjorg Stofring and UNDP Resident Representative Stefan Priesner at the UNDP office. Economic Relations Division (ERD) Joint Secretary Dilip Kumar Das was present.
The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme is a joint initiative of the government of Bangladesh and UNDP, supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the European Union, the government of Sweden, the Government of Australia and now the Government of Norway.
It represents a harmonised approach to supporting Bangladesh in strengthening the disaster management system to reduce unacceptable risks and improve response and recovery activities by adopting a comprehensive risk management culture.
Strengthened disaster response and management capacity is an important national objective for Bangladesh, and the programme is designed to achieve this goal through interventions in six key areas, with focus on marginalised and vulnerable communities in urban centres and in 2,000 Union Parishads of 40 high-risk districts of Bangladesh.
It will make major contributions to policy advancements and to the development of national risk reduction capacities in 11 ministries to implement a range of risk reduction initiatives.
The programme, which will continue until December 2014, has a total budget of US$ 69.47 million.