Urban Resilience Project

The proposed project will initiate a set of procedures that aims at transforming the vulnerable and prone to hazards Dhaka in the next 5 to 20 years into a resilient concept to major earthquakes and other natural disasters. The overall goal of the proposed project is take first step to save lives and reduce the social, economic and financial impacts in the event of future earthquakes. The specific objective of the project is to establish the foundations toward disaster preparedness and enhancement of response capacity, post-disaster recovery and disaster risk reduction associated with natural hazards in facilities.

The activities to be carried out will be based on the methodology provided herein with this inception report with due consideration for existing studies conducted at national and international level, as well as the modules and methodologies carried out for Hazards Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (HVRA) studies for critical structures under the scope of the Project. To achieve project expected achievements, the tasks, outputs and envisioned deliverables are broken into several stages outlined herein