The government is committed to increase investment for youth for creating self-employment, career development by improving skill and efficiency, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief, Md. Enamur Rahman on Saturday.
He said that Bangladesh is now considered a role model in the field of disaster management. Earlier disaster management was only confined to relief distribution. But now, through a paradigm shift, we are now shifted in risk reduction.
State Minister was addressing an event titled “Youth Engagement in Preventing Pandemic and Social Disasters in Bangladesh”, the SEASON-2 of Youth Engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction (Y-DRR) as the chief guest. BRAC Humanitarian Programme (BHP) organised the program.
Along with this, he also assured that to work on the apps 999 for its further improvement as per the recommendations received from the youths. The government will continue to recognize the efforts of the youths in development works, says Enamur Rahman.
With the aim to create an opportunity for the promising youth across Bangladesh to participate in an open dialogue with the policymakers, networks, and influential stakeholders in the country, yesterday,
Around 65 selected youth who are mainly university and college students, young professionals and researchers, member of youth clubs, youth icons, youth women groups, young media journalist and activists, young members of different cultural groups, etc. along with policymakers, networks, and influential stakeholders in the country have attended the programme.
Sajedul Hasan, Director of Humanitarian Programme, BRAC and BRAC International, shared that BRAC will work to create a platform for the youths through which these groups can work to stand beside the people who need the support in times of crises.
He recommended creating a database for these youth groups who would like to work as a volunteer in different disasters in different regions. Along with these, these groups can disseminate awareness messages via community radios in local languages and reach the root level of people.
Md. Tawohidul Haque, Assistant Professor of Institute of Social Welfare and Research, University of Dhaka, shared that there a number of reasons behind each social problem, and we need to sort out those root reasons and must work on those reasons at first in order to limit the problems.