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Build Back Better in the Bangladesh Context

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Bangladesh is known as one of the world’s most at-risk countries due to natural disasters, and such disasters have seriously impacted on the people’s lives and property. While disaster fatalities have decreased in recent years, the damage to livelihoods and houses still exists, hindering the recovery of those affected. This chapter, focusing on livelihood and housing clusters, aims to analyze recovery policies and measures to discuss implications for Build Back Better and international frameworks. The government has conducted livelihood measures in the humanitarian and relief context, focusing on livelihood provision and protection. The governance and coordination of these practices need to be further strengthened. The country has an operating system that functions effectively for disaster response, but the organizations involved in post-disaster housing recovery have faced many failure factors during their implementation of the housing reconstruction program. The findings showed that two such factors are the absence of a National Housing Policy, and also that the roles of the various ministries in housing recovery are not explained within the legal framework. Landlessness is the major problem that influences post-disaster housing recovery strategy and its implementation. Due to cyclone trajectories, coastal areas tend to be severely affected, with impacts on primary industries and infrastructure. These are interrelated and delays in their recovery can impact not only on people’s livelihood of the affected areas but also on those of the whole country, which has now marked the highest economic growth rate in Asia. Also, livelihood support programs in the response phase, like cash for work for the vulnerable, need to be designed in consideration of long-term recovery and development perspectives. The findings suggest the recovery issues be solved in the whole DRR/DRM and development context beyond the response or recovery phase, involve multiple stakeholders and use both the latest and community-oriented approaches.

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  1. Asian Disaster Reduction Center, 1-5-2 Wakinohamakaigan-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 651-0073, Japan

    Yumi Shiomi

  2. Kobe University, 2-1 Rokkodai-Cho, Nada-Ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

    Swarnali Chakma

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    Jianping Wang

  3. Center for Social Systems Innovation, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

    Yuka Kaneko

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Shiomi, Y., Chakma, S. (2021). Build Back Better in the Bangladesh Context. In: Toyoda, T., Wang, J., Kaneko, Y. (eds) Build Back Better. Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5979-9_12

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