Adopt effective info strategy to reduce climate risk

Speakers at workshop in Barisal yesterday said effective information strategy with easy to understand weather cautionary signaling systems for people of different regions can help reduce climate risk.
Local government and administrative channels should interact and function in coordination round the clock before and after the disaster period to give accurate and fast information to all sections of people, they said.
Mass-line Media Center (MMC) in assistance with 'XIX Article 19 Global Campaign' organised the day-long workshop in the auditorium of Barisal NGO Development Network.
The speakers suggested expansion of radio frequency and community radio services and making local committees of disaster management, volunteers of cyclone preparedness programs of Red Crescent well equipped and repeatedly giving weather signals by voice messages in Bangla over mobile phone.
A sustainable system should be introduced in combination of wide wireless and radio networks in remote areas and floating vessels to face emergency needs of information during power and communication disruptions and it should be a part of disaster management, the participants said.
Dr Habibur Rahman, district president of human rights alliance, presided over and Shamim Reza, teacher of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism of Dhaka University and Rabiul Islam, senior coordinator of MMC, worked as resource persons in the workshop.
Joirnalists, NGO representatives and cultural activists participated in the discussions.