The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) 

The Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) was approved by the Bangladesh Government in 2003 as a key strategy to advance whole-of-government and agency risk reduction efforts in the country.

CDMP is a strategic institutional and programming approach that is designed to optimise the reduction of long-term risk and to strengthen the operational capacities for responding to emergencies and disaster situations including actions to improve recovery from these events.

Key benefits associated with this approach are that:

·         The resources and expertise of government, NGO, private sector and the community are deployed according to national priorities, community risk reduction programming needs and not organizational preference.

·         It provides a big picture of what needs to be done and as such, a mechanism for identifying gaps, monitoring and observing achievement.

·         It provides the basis upon which formal collaborating partnerships are developed and nurtured.

·         It facilitates the validation of new projects against country risk reduction needs

·         It serves as a management tool for donor agencies and regional organizations to guide their inputs.