Bangladesh Locally Led Response

About this project

The three-year multiyear plan aims to enable BDRCS to strengthen existing preparedness and response capacity, scale risk-informed advocacy at national level and enhance climate preparedness at the community and district level. Key outcomes include: 1. Empowered Disaster Management Committees at different level across the flood and cyclone prone locations in the country - ensuring an effective, coordinated emergency response. 2. Increased climate risk-informed decision making by supporting effort to ensure functioning Emergency Operation Centre in BDRCS NHQ. 3. Strengthened Unit-level anticipatory action and emergency response through the decrentralized disaster fund in flood and cyclone prone Units. 4. Strengthened the effective use of cash assistance in future emergency response. This multiyear grant is part of the BDRCS DRM strengthening following two recent strategic exercises - Meta Evaluation of 10-years emergency responses and Theory of Change for Floods Response and Resilience. The main focus on this grant is to enhance the effective use of decentralized disaster funds for a faster response, ensure the compliance in CVA practice and their auxiliary role in strengthening local DM capacities. In addition, we are supporting a critical role to improve the functioning of their Emergency Operation Centre and the use of data-driven decision making. Aside from CVA - which Nigel has given his feedback on and additional requirements added in the GAD - other procurement includes…

Published by

British Red Cross · International NGO

Countries

Bangladesh

Sectors

VIII.3. Disaster PreparednessVIII.1. Emergency Response

Implemented by

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society

Accountable

British Red Cross

Published by British Red Cross to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 30 Jul 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: GB-CHC-220949-P9602.

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