Sub-Programme 3: Community Empowerment Component 3 (c)

Community level disaster management programmes and projects

CDMP component 3 aims to broaden and strengthen the coping capacities of communities to natural and human induced hazard impacts. This aim contributes substantially to the primary objective of CDMP, which is to strengthen the capacity of the Bangladesh disaster management system to reduce unacceptable risks and improve response and recovery activities. Fundamentally, more effective disaster management both locally and nationally is a governance issue.  Vulnerable sectors of the population can only be assured of equitable treatment before, during and after disasters when they are confident that government and non-governmental strategies are guided and implemented on the basis of accurate and up-to-date information about community-level capacities and needs. Equally, local level interventions must be guided and complemented by the implementation of imaginative but realistic national policies and strategies.

The Development Objective of component 3c is to build the technical and institutional capacity of (and on behalf of) the most vulnerable to resist and cope with disaster threats.

LDRRF will provide a series of inter-related, demand-driven competitive funds, soliciting applications and commissioning specific assignments from a wide range of organizations involved explicitly or implicitly in disaster risk reduction work that contributes tangibly to community empowerment and its outputs will be instrumental to achieve the overall objectives of the programme component.

LDRFF will be implemented by UNOPS and managed by a small team of project personnel with active support and guidance from PPPDU.