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Do Good: Risk Response
A burgeoning project management community is helping Bangladesh prepare for a range of natural disasters, slowly transforming a reactive leadership model into a solid risk-assessment culture.
The goal of the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) is both radical and simple — help make a better future for one of the poorest and most disaster-prone countries on Earth. And the ambitious collaborative effort — established in 2004 between the government of Bangladesh, the European Commission, the U.K. Department for International Development and the United Nations Development Programme — is already making a difference on the ground, helping Bangladesh better manage risk and prepare for a range of natural disasters, according to Ian Rector, chief technical advisor for the CDMP.
Natural disasters hit Bangladesh worse than anywhere else it seems, from killer cyclones to massive floods. A full 15 percent of the country floods yearly, something that if happened in the U.S., would render a stretch of land comparable to Texas and California useless.
Yet the work the CDMP is doing in Bangladesh is a ready example of how traditional project management techniques are being put to enormously good use in developing countries and where reactive leadership is slowly transforming into a solid risk-assessment culture.
For example, the $25 …
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