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Coordination for Resilience in Disaster Management in Bangladesh
Mst. Marzina Begum
Abstract

The debate over disaster management approaches have undergone significant changes in the recent decades and especially their effects have been profoundly felt in the disaster prone countries. The focus of this paper turns into a specific form of coordination challenges and investigates its current disaster management practices in Bangladesh. In the recent days, disaster management experts argue that disaster management is not the responsibility of any particular agency or organization rather it requires well-coordinated efforts from all concerned bodies. Therefore, coordination is required from all stakeholders such as government, NGOs, volunteers, local government, international agencies, policy makers, community representatives and other professionals from different relevant agencies with a view to making their roles and responsibilities specific related to disaster management. However, in the findings it is found that there are disaster management policies and activities in Bangladesh, but it is observed that a lack of integration and overlapping of responsibilities prevails among the agencies that hampers effective disaster management. Apart from that, there is a lack of coherence among policies in disaster management, and no accountability mechanisms are functioning in an effective manner in order to mitigate disaster in Bangladesh. I intend to discuss those issues throughout the whole paper, however, this paper will be descriptive in nature and principally, secondary data has been used to collect information and that is collected from the existing published literature on disaster management in Bangladesh.  

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