1. Community Risk Assessment:
From Rhetoric to Action
A Case Study of Collaboration from
Bangladesh
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2. Source: worldmapper.org
Persons Killed by Disaster (75-04)
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3. Source: worldmapper.org
Person Killed by Storm (75-04)
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4. Source: worldmapper.org
Human Poverty Report (2002)
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5. Source: worldmapper.org
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Carbon Emission (2012) 5

6. Factors Affecting Vulnerability
• Poverty
• Demographic and social factors
• Migration to high risk areas
• Escalated environmental degradation
• 10% of the land mass at risk of being
inundated (2050, climate change)
• Arsenic contamination (2/3)
• Inadequate building practices
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7. What the World Leaders Feel
“Because of its
adaption and
preparedness
measures, the
people of Ban Ki Moon
UN Secretary General, 2011
Bangladesh are
much safer
today.”
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8. The Brighter Side
Bangladesh is
the “epitome of
resilience,” as
evidenced by its
successful
efforts to reduce
mortality from Margareta Wahlström, UNISDR
cyclones over National Disaster Preparedness Day March
2012
the last 40 years.
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9. Research Study on the Impact of
CRA
• 26 CRA tools and processes being applied by
different agencies
• Based on the CRA  RRAP
• High visibility areas 5-6 RRAPs
• Unplanned planning, competition, confusion,
doing more harm than good
• Limited and unplanned flow of resources:
negative sum game
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10. The Churning
Process
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11. Addressing the Issue
• Realization of the issues
• Agree to Uniform tools and processes
• Govt. supported and CDMP facilitated
• Review of CRA tools and processes (collection and in-
depth analysis)
• Harmonized and Inclusive CRA (tools and processes)
• Field testing and validation at the community level
• National Level Validation (developing the buy-in)
• Approval by the Government
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12. Roll Out of CRA: Putting the
Thoughts into Action
• Defining participation: Process owned, managed and
controlled by the community: Gradual Process
• Community: The Invisible force, recognized village
leaders, community leaders and local government
officials
• Three tiered structure for skills transfer
CDMP+ NARRI  Community Vol  Community
• Initial Training followed by hand holding support in
the field
• Till date 60 (rural) and 30 (urban)
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• CRA  RRAP : Community at the center of processes

13. Resource Mobilization Mechanism
• RRAP validation at community level and
reinforcing the needs
• Project management and advocacy team
• Action matrix (activity, timeline, budget and
budget source)
• Bottom to top: sharing
• Management, transparency and
accountability mechanism sharing
• Target: Self, SSN, ADP, NGOs, CDMP
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14. Implementation of RRAP
• The project management team supervises the
implementation of RRAP
• The local government officials along with the
local governance representative monitor the
progress directly
• A certain % of the budget is earmarked for
monitoring
• Different models for resource channelization
are being explored at the moment
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15. Recommendations and Challenges
• Universalize (Pan Bangladesh): Mandatory,
Incentivize
• Capacity Enhancement of Community and
Community Resource Persons (PMC)
• National level resource base: data
• Disaster: A development issues (finding of CRA into
ADP)
• Resource flow: Management, Transparency and
Accountability
• Assumes a good coordination: Dynamics, Conflict,
Politics: Realistic ???
• Up-scaling the model: how, what, resources???
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16. Thank you for
your kind
listening
www.narri-
bd.org
Shakeb Nabi
nabi.shakeb@gmail.com
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