The programme is expected to contribute the following resilience dividends to human development in the country: (a) reduced impacts of disaster events in terms of loss of lives, affected population, economic loss, and damage to infrastructure, (b) inclusive, faster and resilient recovery of social and community functions, key services, and businesses, and (c) ensuring that development opportunities continue by reducing drivers of vulnerability and responding to changes and uncertainty.
National Resilience Program (NRP) has the following sponsoring ministries- Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives, and Ministry of Women and Children Affairs. This is a joint programme being implemented by four Government agencies of Bangladesh: Department of Disaster Management, Programming Division of Bangladesh Planning Commission, Department of Women Affairs and Local Government Engineering Department. The NRP’s goal is to sustain the resilience of human and economic development in Bangladesh through inclusive, gender responsive disaster risk management and risk informed development. The outcome of the programme will be a substantial increase in resilience to disaster and reduction in disaster risk, loss of lives, livelihoods and health of men, women, girls and boys, and protection of persons, businesses and communities in Bangladesh. The objective of the programme is to increase disaster resilience and reduction of disaster risks, loss of lives and livelihoods, and protection of persons, businesses, and communities in Bangladesh. They work in collaboration with NRP to achieve the following outputs:
• Improved capacities for risk informed and gender responsive development planning.
• Strengthened gender-responsive national capacities to address recurrent and mega disasters.
• Improved capacity of GoB to achieve resilience through designing and constructing risk informed and gender responsive infrastructure systems.
• Enhanced women leadership capacities for gender responsive disaster management decisions, investments, and policies at national and local levels.
• Strengthened disability inclusive, gender responsive community preparedness, response, and recovery capacities for recurrent and mega disasters.
According to the latest approved joint programme document, the timeline of NRP is 1 May 2017 – 31 December 2022, although the programme kicked off in late 2018. It has been decided by the Joint Programme Steering Committee to revise programme timeline from 1 Jan 2018 to 31 December 2022 to address the delayed start and achieve targeted results.
