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Bangladesh is a country that is highly vulnerable to a wide range of natural hazards due to its geographical location and topography. In 2024, Cyclone Remal (severe cyclonic storm) made landfall on May 26, 2024, and devastated the western coastal areas of Bangladesh, with flooding and high wind speeds destroying homes and infrastructure, farmland and fisheries, increasing food insecurity and health challenges, altogether placing vulnerable communities at further risk.
Cyclone Remal was the very first event where the three funding pathways were activated for the same crisis event in Bangladesh. To understand the implications of this, an evaluation was conducted to explore the outcomes for affected communities, operational good practices and challenges, cost saving and cost effectiveness, as well as to provide learnings on risk layering and the complementarity of the three projects.
The experience from implementing anticipatory, early action, and rapid response highlights initial insights into how different windows of opportunity could complement each other and best minimize losses and damages, increase community resilience and preparedness, and enable faster recovery.