Key messages
● Bangladesh’s Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) is one of the most ambitious of its kind in a developing country.
● Collaborative networks have enabled the CDMP to expand its operations.
● Support from government leaders ensured that challenges to implementing the CDMP were overcome.
● The institutionalisation of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation beyond the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management has proved slow and challenging.
● Challenges to CDMP implementation included natural disasters, political unrest and turnover of high-level officials.
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- Bangladesh
- Disaster Management