ECHO Factsheet – India – January 2016
Key messages India is highly vulnerable to natural disasters including cyclones, floods, earthquakes and drought; strengthening people’s resilience to natural disasters is an essential part of the...
Key messages India is highly vulnerable to natural disasters including cyclones, floods, earthquakes and drought; strengthening people’s resilience to natural disasters is an essential part of the...
This time last year I was travelling to Bangladesh to the coastal areas to see Islamic Relief Bangladesh Climate Adaptation Livelihoods projects. Looking back, the people I met along the way have...
Authored By : Usha Dewani Das In 2009, Cyclone Aila caused significant damage to livelihoods in the Sunderbans. While saline soil is subversive to agriculture in the area, integrated farming gives...
Global Estimates 2015 - People displaced by disasters
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report examines the resilience of communities in South Asia to disasters and the displacement they cause. It considers their risk landscape and resilience capacity in...
Highlights 16,755 people affected by Aila benefitted from the comprehensive recovery efforts 265 families benefited from core family shelters 30 deep tub-wells and 250 rainwater collection ponds were...
Mohammad Alomgir, of Islamic Relief Bangladesh, was amongst the first to respond in the aftermath of Cyclone Aila, which devastated communities in Bangladesh five years ago. He blogs on how people...
SUBMITTED BY MUTHUKUMARA MANI ON WED, 05/07/2014 Life for people living in the Jalekhali village of the Sathkira District in Bangladesh has not been the same since Cyclone Aila made landfull in 2009...
By Mahin Rashid and Troy Beckman After losing everything in Cyclone Aila, farmers use flood- and salt-tolerant seeds to resurrect rice paddies. Mohammad Mofizul Islam Gazi is a farmer and father of...
Less than five years since a powerful tropical cyclone devastated swathes of India and Bangladesh, Islamic Relief reports on how one Bangladeshi community is looking forward to a greener and more...