Community preparedness in Bangladesh: learning from floods of 2007

Communities living in flood prone areas can learn lessons from Bangladesh's recovery from the 2007 floods. This publication asserts that awareness and preparedness enabled communities in Gaibandha, Bogra and Srajgong districts of Bangladesh to cope with and recover from the floods of 2007. Adjacent communities, who were unprepared suffered greater losses. Read more on this issue at: http://www.preventionweb.net/files/17349_17349communitypreparednessinbanglad.pdf