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Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes

People with disabilities, elderly are assets

Roundtable told emphasising inclusion of issue in post 2015 Hyogo Framework for Action

Staff Correspondent
The elderly and people with disabilities should be viewed as asset rather than liability while planning disaster risk reduction programmes, said speakers at a roundtable in the capital yesterday a day ahead of the International Day for Disaster Reduction.
Though the persons with disabilities were focused upon in last year's IDDR, the 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action created in 2005 to make the world safer from natural hazards did not address the issue on them, said Nazmul Bari, director CDD.
He stressed the need to include the
issue in the post 2015 framework.
Once it appears in the framework, it would come into national policies and resources would be allocated for ensuring the rights of these vulnerable groups, hoped Bari.
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of elderly people about natural disasters and volunteer service provided by the people with disabilities, the speakers stressed protecting these vulnerable groups during disasters.
The roundtable on "Resilience is for life and inclusive disaster risk reduction”, organised by the Department of Disaster Management of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, and the Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), was held at The Daily Star Centre.
This year's theme of United
Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction's IDDR, which has been celebrated worldwide since 1989, focuses on elderly people and their vulnerability during disasters.
However, HM Noman Khan, executive director of CDD, pointed out that everyone would be benefited when inclusive strategies taking persons with disabilities were made.
Md Quamrul Hasan, deputy secretary, MoDMR, said a lack of coordination among the ministries often created problem in implementing the
policies properly.
He gave an example how the LGED bypassed the rules on cyclone centre to build a two-storey centre instead of a three-storey one as specified in the rules.
Abdul Wazed, director general of the Department of Disaster Management, also pointed out the lack of awareness about the vulnerable groups among the mainstream.
"There are a lot of policies but we need to find out the gaps and what changes should be made to bridge the gap," he said. PHOTO ON PAGE 4