Cyclone Preparedness Programme and shelters
Programa de preparación ante ciclones y refugios elevados
- Date
- 1972 · confidence high
- Place
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Credited to
- Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and the Government of Bangladesh
- Field
- Tools
What it is
After the 1970 Bhola cyclone (some 300,000-500,000 dead), Bangladesh created a network of volunteers who spread warnings door to door and thousands of raised concrete shelters. Mortality from comparable cyclones has since fallen to a few hundred victims.
The programme was launched with support from the League of Red Cross Societies; its effectiveness was seen in Cyclones Sidr (2007) and Amphan (2020).
What it led to
- international model of disaster risk reduction
- multipurpose shelters (schools) on the coasts of the Bay of Bengal