Overview
The BDRCS has continued the work to enhance communication with and involvement of beneficiaries in programmes. The live call-in radio program ‘Hello Red Crescent-We listen to you’ is the only one of its kind in Asia Pacific, and will rotate between community radio stations located in some of the most vulnerable areas of Bangladesh. A story has been published on this event on the IFRC public website.
The BDRCS was the first agency to respond to the floods in north-western Bangladesh in August 2014. The BDRCS’s volunteers carried out search and rescue and first aid services to the affected people and the operation has since expanded to address the needs. The latest Operation Update can be found here. In this operation, the community-based Disaster Relief Emergency Funds established in the Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction programme were utilised for the first time to procure relief items, demonstrating the sustainability of the community DREF and the benefits communities can avail from them in disaster situations.
The BDRCS’s Chairman was supported by the joint ICRC/IFRC Commission for National Society Statutes to bring the constitutional review process forward with the Bangladeshi government. A notable progress in the process to review law and statutes of the National Society in line with standards was made.
