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Bangladesh Resilience – Project Summary

“Response of Disasters through Resilience: Addressing Extreme Climatic Disasters to Annihilate the Insecurity of Food, Nutrition and Livelihood in Bangladesh”

This project aims to understand the impacts of climatic disasters on the vulnerable communities in terms of food security, migration, health and livelihood by considering gender dimensions in Bangladesh.

Objectives: Vulnerability analysis of populations in Bangladesh.

  • Vulnerability to environmental hazards: the focus was on four climatic hazards in four different regions (e.g. river flooding, cyclones, hilly flash-flooding, and drought).
  • Vulnerability regarding livelihoods, food/nutrition, water, health, and migration.
  • Focus on gender-differentiated vulnerability and gender-responsive approaches.

Lead Organisation: UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Team Leader: Dr Ilan Kelman, Reader, Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health, University College London (UCL), UK.

Project Manager: Dr Bayes Ahmed, Research Associate, UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction and UCL Humanitarian Institute, University College London (UCL), UK.

UCL Team Members:

  • Dr M Shamsudduha, Research Associate, UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, University College London (UCL), UK.
  • Professor Maureen Fordham, Professorial Research Associate, UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, University College London (UCL), UK.

Project Partners:

(a) University of Dhaka (DU) – Department of Disaster Science and Management, Bangladesh.

(b) Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) – Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh.

(c) Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) – Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh.

(d) Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) – Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh.

Duration: .

Methods: Questionnaire-Based Surveys, Participatory Action Research, Focus Group Discussions.

Funding Source: International Center for Collaborative Research on Disaster Risk Reduction (ICCR-DRR), Beijing Normal University, China.

The programme is supported by the Department for International Development (DFID) of the UK, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, China with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), China acting as the programme management agency.

I hold the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR) at University College London (UCL). My research experience spans across disaster risk reduction (DRR), conflict and migration, climate change adaptation, genocide diplomacy, community vulnerability assessment, climate mobility, and disaster displacement. I specialise in the intersection of conflict and disaster, with a vision to improve the quality of life of displaced persons and stateless populations. I am driven by a passion for collaborating with frontline communities, aiming to understand their challenges comprehensively and develop actionable policy recommendations to meet their specific needs. My academic journey led me to earn a PhD in Disaster Risk Reduction from UCL, a joint Master of Science degree in Geospatial Technologies from universities in Spain, Germany, and Portugal, and a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning degree from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).