National Strategy on the Management of Disaster and Climate Induced Internal Displacement (NSMDCIID).

The National Strategy on the Management of Disaster and Climate Induced Internal Dispacement (NSMDCIID) of Bangladesh is a sectoral policy with the following objectives:Create common and coherent basis for policy directions and action plans at the national and local levels; Adopt both preventive and adaptive measures to minimize the internal displacement caused by climate-related disasters; Guide development of sectoral programmes for the creation of conducive environments for safe, voluntary and dignified return/integration or relocation/resettlement of the Climate Induced Internally Displaced Persons(CIIPDs); Ensure effective and efficient management and access to entitlements; promote livelihood opportunities and overall human development of CIIDPs as part of the inclusive development programmes of the Government of Bangladesh. The policy aims to chalk out a comprehensive strategy covering all three phases of displacements: pre-displacement, displacement phase and postdisplacement.
The vision of the Government of Bangladesh is to ensure people’s socio-economic emancipation and build a poverty and hunger-free prosperous country by 2021. Addressing climate change and disaster management is an integral part of its strategic vision. Towards this end, the Government of Bangladesh has been aligning and developing different social policies, programmes and strategies through its broader Social Development Framework(SDF). This Strategy must be seen as a part of the Social Development Framework, that forms a wider umbrella incorporating the Government’s poverty reduction strategy and strategies on education, health, nutrition, population, sanitation and water supply, financial inclusion, women and gender empowerment, social inclusion of ethnic and religious minorities, environmental protection, climate change management, disaster management, social security and overall sustainable development. The aim of this framework is to have a comprehensive and consistent set of policies that can help Bangladesh achieve better equity and social justice in the context of its development effort.
This Strategy builds upon the country’s long history of resilient community, climate sensitive interventions and disaster risk reduction efforts. Over time, the Government of Bangladesh has shifted its focus fromconventional response and relief approach to a more comprehensive risk reduction approach in order to make communities more resilient to disasters and climate change by aligning humanitarian and development approaches and action on disaster risk reduction. The long-term vision of the Strategy is to make vulnerable communities in Bangladesh resilient to climate change and disasters through sustainable management of disaster and climate-induced internal displacement. The goal of the Strategy is to set out a comprehensive and realistic rights-based framework that respects, protects and ensures the rights of climate-induced internally displaced persons (CIIDPs) in different stages of displacement and during the search for durable solutions.
Disaster management activities are already embedded into the government system at national, regional and local levels through different ministries and agencies. Therefore, to properly implement the Strategy, it should be linked within the institutional setup of disaster management at different levels.