Government launches digital platform for risk-informed development

The federal government has launched a web-based platform underneath the Planning Fee on Wednesday (Feb 2) to combine catastrophe threat data into improvement planning and budgeting, insurance policies, and programmes, with the help of the Nationwide Resilience Programme (NRP).

The United Nations Growth Programme (UNDP) is offering technical help, the programme is being financed by the Authorities of Bangladesh, FCDO of the UK Authorities and SIDA of the Authorities of Sweden.

Planning Minister M A Mannan inaugurated the Digital Danger Info Platform (DRIP) in a launching ceremony held Wednesday on the fee’s NEC convention room.“Strengthening Danger Governance and Institutionalization of resilience is a worldwide and in addition to a nationwide dedication of the Authorities of Bangladesh,” the Planning Minister mentioned in his inaugural handle.

He continued that the financial losses on account of catastrophe have to be minimized, and efficient use of public cash have to be ensured by risk-informed funding.

DRIP will present knowledge and knowledge for catastrophe and local weather threat and vulnerability evaluation and potential local weather change adaptation choices in addition to catastrophe threat mitigation measures to deal with recognized dangers and vulnerabilities attributable to the venture and within the venture implementing areas.

It should enable completely different Authorities ministries and businesses entry to greater than 300 maps for threat, hazards, publicity, vulnerability, and local weather change on this web site. The longer term situation of temperature and local weather situation can be accessible in its software program. 

The launching ceremony was addressed by Dr Shamsul Alam, State Minister for Ministry of Planning, Sudipto Mukerjee, Resident Consultant of UNDP, Nick Harvey, Senior Humanitarian Adviser, FCDO, Christine Johnsson, Deputy Head of Mission within the Embassy of Sweden, Arif Abdullah Khan, Programme Analyst of UNDP and Dr. Nurun Nahar, Challenge Director of NRP in Programming Division.

Sudipto Mukerjee, in his speech, says, “Nationwide Resilience Programme (NRP) with the help of Programming Division of Bangladesh has taken the initiative to ascertain instruments and database to generate an in depth evaluation of catastrophe and local weather change-related dangers to tell improvement initiatives, plans and programmes of related key sectors.”He additional added, “By way of Digital Danger Info Platform (DRIP); the proposed screening system will allow the Programming Division and Sector Divisions of Planning Fee to raised perceive and validate how the initiatives permitted and endorsed could also be affected by local weather and catastrophe dangers, and thus be more practical in its duties. It simply began of the journey and wish steady help for mainstreaming, updating and skill-building”.

Representatives from Authorities businesses, diplomatic missions and scientific organizations had been current on the occasion. Pradip Ranjan Chakraborty, Secretary, Planning Division, presided over the session.

Danger data of 11 hazards, together with flood, salinity, landslide, earthquake in 64 districts, is offered within the DRIP in order that authorities officers can think about the native dangers throughout venture formulation to make sure risk-informed improvement.

The planning division’s secretary identified that the fee has launched Catastrophe Affect Evaluation (DIA) within the feasibility examine format, and inclusion of DIA in venture formulation is underneath course of, which shall be positioned within the subsequent assembly of NEC.

Authorities launches digital platform for risk-informed improvement

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The federal government has launched a web-based platform underneath the Planning Fee on Wednesday (Feb 2) to combine catastrophe threat data into improvement planning and budgeting, insurance policies, and programmes, with the help of the Nationwide Resilience Programme (NRP).

The United Nations Growth Programme (UNDP) is offering technical help, the programme is being financed by the Authorities of Bangladesh, FCDO of the UK Authorities and SIDA of the Authorities of Sweden.

Planning Minister M A Mannan inaugurated the Digital Danger Info Platform (DRIP) in a launching ceremony held Wednesday on the fee’s NEC convention room.

“Strengthening Danger Governance and Institutionalization of resilience is a worldwide and in addition to a nationwide dedication of the Authorities of Bangladesh,” the Planning Minister mentioned in his inaugural handle.

He continued that the financial losses on account of catastrophe have to be minimized, and efficient use of public cash have to be ensured by risk-informed funding.

DRIP will present knowledge and knowledge for catastrophe and local weather threat and vulnerability evaluation and potential local weather change adaptation choices in addition to catastrophe threat mitigation measures to deal with recognized dangers and vulnerabilities attributable to the venture and within the venture implementing areas.

It should enable completely different Authorities ministries and businesses entry to greater than 300 maps for threat, hazards, publicity, vulnerability, and local weather change on this web site. The longer term situation of temperature and local weather situation can be accessible in its software program. 

The launching ceremony was addressed by Dr Shamsul Alam, State Minister for Ministry of Planning, Sudipto Mukerjee, Resident Consultant of UNDP, Nick Harvey, Senior Humanitarian Adviser, FCDO, Christine Johnsson, Deputy Head of Mission within the Embassy of Sweden, Arif Abdullah Khan, Programme Analyst of UNDP and Dr. Nurun Nahar, Challenge Director of NRP in Programming Division.

Sudipto Mukerjee, in his speech, says, “Nationwide Resilience Programme (NRP) with the help of Programming Division of Bangladesh has taken the initiative to ascertain instruments and database to generate an in depth evaluation of catastrophe and local weather change-related dangers to tell improvement initiatives, plans and programmes of related key sectors.”

He additional added, “By way of Digital Danger Info Platform (DRIP); the proposed screening system will allow the Programming Division and Sector Divisions of Planning Fee to raised perceive and validate how the initiatives permitted and endorsed could also be affected by local weather and catastrophe dangers, and thus be more practical in its duties. It simply began of the journey and wish steady help for mainstreaming, updating and skill-building”.

Representatives from Authorities businesses, diplomatic missions and scientific organizations had been current on the occasion. Pradip Ranjan Chakraborty, Secretary, Planning Division, presided over the session.

Danger data of 11 hazards, together with flood, salinity, landslide, earthquake in 64 districts, is offered within the DRIP in order that authorities officers can think about the native dangers throughout venture formulation to make sure risk-informed improvement.

The planning division’s secretary identified that the fee has launched Catastrophe Affect Evaluation (DIA) within the feasibility examine format, and inclusion of DIA in venture formulation is underneath course of, which shall be positioned within the subsequent assembly of NEC.