By NNN-BSS,
Dhaka, Bangladesh : Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC) is going to transcend its origin to further cater to the cause of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) by training 12 high level government officials of six African countries-Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, and Sudan-on Disaster Risk Management (DRM).
This will be a Training of the Trainers (TOT) programme to be held in Uganda from 5 to 10 October 2009, it’s an initiative of EEFORM, a European Union funded programme for IGAD (Inter-Governmental Agency for Development) `region, a BDPC press release said here today.
BDPC was selected through an international competitive bid for the job for it’s long experience in CBDRR.
The BDPC’s role in the 2nd Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) in June this year, especially that of it’s director Muhammad Saidur Rahman as the moderator of the ‘High Level Panel for Enabling Community-led Resilience Through Preventive Action’, drew the global attention to BDPC.
GPDRR was participated by over 1800 people from 170 countries.
Bangladesh is a world leader in DRR. The African countries recognize the need for focussing more on disaster risk reduction/disaster risk management to harness the capacity and resilience of their people.
This is an opportunity of BDPC to train and thus influence the DRM policies and practices through the 12 top level government officials of IGAD region and contribute in consolidation of the global demand for CBDRR.