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Call to link disaster management to rural development planning
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Barrister Abdus Salam Talukdar Saturday called upon the natural disaster-prone countries of the Asia-Pacific region to launch concerted efforts to mitigate effects of natural disasters, reports BSS.
Inaugurating a regional seminar/workshop titled "Development of Modules for Training on Integrated Approach to Disaster Management and Regional/ Rural Development Programme" tn Dhaka he said concerted actions in this regard were necessary considering the enormity of the problem.
The five-day seminar/ workshop is jointly, organised by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) and Centre for Integrated Rural Development in the Asia and Pacific Region (CIRDAP).
ATM Shamsul Huq.
Director of the CIRDAP. addressed the inaugural session while Hidehiko Sazanami. Director. UNCRD. presented the key note paper on the theme of the seminar.
Salam Talukdar said the Asia-Pacific region was highly vulnerable to natural disasters, which were recognised as phenomena spreading across the frontiers of different countries.
Bangladesh, he said, as a country exposed to recurrent floods and cyclones-not to speak of floods was particularly concerned with the occurrence of natural disasters.
Natural disasters do not lend themselves to total eradication but are amenable to preventive and mitigating actions and as such all out efforts should be made towards that direction, he added.
Stressing the need for integrated planning in tackling the
menace of disaster manage ment and rural development, the Minister said the twin objective could not be achieved since development to often set at naught by natural disasters.
Salam Talukdar expressed his satisfaction that the UNCRD and the CIRDAP had recognised this interactive requirement between rural development and disaster management and were concentrating on integrated approach.
Sazanami in his paper underlined the enormity of the problems of natural disasters and the need for rural development tn the countries of Asia-Pacific region and said development of modules for training on integrated approach to two fields was of major importance.
Shamsul Huq gave a brief account of the role the CIRDAP was playing in the spheres of rural development in the region and said the Jink between
rural development and prevention of natural disasters called for Integrated approach In two areas.
The seminar/workshop is being participated by experts from different countries including India. Pakistan. Sri Lanka, Nepal. China. Japan. Malaysia. Indonesia. Philippines and host Bangladesh.
Part of the seminar/ workshop will be held in Chittagong when the experts would also take field trips to further assess the links between rural development and natural disasters.