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Jute is an eminent cash crop of Bangladesh, the 2nd largest producer in the world, with 41.% percent of total production averaging 1.08 m ton/year.
Friendship's training helps farmers with knowledge on
- high yielding varieties
- land selection & preparation
- time & method of sowing
- seed treatment & rate
- recommended manures & fertilizer
- intercultural operation
- irrigation
- plant protection measures
- fiber Extraction
- washing and drying of fiber,
all of which work to increase the yield and quality in the most efficient manner.
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This week in Cox's Bazar, the Friendship Health Staff received their refresher training on Family Planning Services, which help to re-familiarise them with the aspects, principles, components and criteria for family planning services, and the best practices to provide the same.
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“We also call on countries to conduct environmental and social impact assessment at regional scale before taking any mega infrastructure projects”, a point to keep in mind, that was emphasized in the Bangladesh Call for Action at GP2019Geneva
It is therefore relevant for all actors, and not just NGOs like Friendship, who was involved in the development of the Call to Action. This particular agenda is being promoted on Friendship’s behalf by Kazi Amdadul Hoque, Director-Strategic Planning and Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management (CCADM) at the conference.
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There must be civil society engagement and network involvement in afforestation, reforestation and ecosystem management; a sentiment stressed by the Bangladeshi delegation’s Call for Action at GP2019Geneva.
Friendship ensures community-initiated involvement in all its CCADM interventions, headed by Kazi Amdadul Hoque, Director-Strategic Planning and Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management (CCADM), who is present at the conference to represent Friendship.
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In addressing displacement and migration, the Call for Action at GP2019Geneva by the Bangladeshi delegation states that the platform for disaster Risk Reduction must work with all involved stakeholders to ensure that the people who are forced to migrate have formally prepared a safety strategy; which includes the provision of safe shelter and protection within the community, or nearby, according to their preference. Friendship also presented its flood shelter and cluster village on raised plinths.
Kazi Amdadul Hoque, Director-Strategic Planning and Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management (CCADM), Friendship was there to relate his experience with community involvement in Friendship’s Community Initiated Disaster Risk Reduction CIDRR approach, which is built around this kind of proactive involvement.
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“We also call to consider 2% project funding of any programme for humanitarian response and the transition periods between post-disaster and resilience, to ensure their rights and dignity” – stressed in the Call for Action by the Bangladeshi stakeholders at GP2019Geneva
Kazi Amdadul Hoque, Director-Strategic Planning and Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management, Friendship is part of the delegation at the conference, promoting this call for action.
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The effectiveness of applying 'Standing order of disaster (SoD)' was stressed on at the opening ceremony of the Stakeholders Meeting of GP2019Geneva by A B Tajul Islam, Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee of Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief
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On Day 1 at GP2019Geneva Kazi Amdadul Hoque, Director-Strategic Planning and Head of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management (CCADM) shared Friendship's overview and DRR approach with María Alexandra Ocles Padilla, Minister of Disaster Risk Management Ecuador
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Refresher training on ante-and-post-natal care was conducted in Cox's Bazar on the 5th and 6th of this month, helping the Friendship Health staff keep up-to-date on the latest procedures and care methods for pregnant mothers and new borns.
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A big thank you to Embassy of the Netherlands in Bangladesh for featuring us! Ambassador HE Harry Verweij visited our interventions in Kurigram and Gaibandha; particularly the Emirates Friendship Hospital and Char Sidhai and Goynarpotol.
The field visit included much of our work in the area, including the primary and secondary education program, vocational training, cluster-based villages or raised plinths, healthcare & family planning, assistance for development for disaster risk management and inclusive citizenship.
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Imagine you are in need for a medical treatment and the hospital comes to you? Friendship NGO with their floating hospitals is doing exactly that by providing medical assistance to more than 50000 people living in various shoals that emerge in the middle of gigantic Brahmaputra.
Ambassador Harry Verweij was on a field visit to Kurigram and Gaibandha to experience firsthand the service delivery being provided by the Friendship floating hospitals. A high standard facility where patients receive various treatments that ranges from first aid to cervical cancer treatment, cataract operations and treating broken limbs. Foreign medical teams from Europe also visit regularly. Free medical service for the most needed and vulnerable people. A remarkable act to save lives.
