Mr. Shuvashis Chandra Mahanta is working in the training sector for more than eleven years. He has vast experience in conducting training on disaster management, human rights, governance, and advocacy at local & national level. Mr. Shuvashis has participated in different workshops, trainings, seminars on DRR, human rights, governance at national and international level.

Mr. Farid Hasan Ahmed has been engaged in Program design and management at the senior level in humanitarian, post humanitarian and normal situations. He has been managing DRR capacity building Program with different actors in Bangladesh. He is active in advocacy and lobbying with different actors. He had practical experiences on DRR and related issues both in country and abroad while he worked with Oxfam GB, Concern World Wide and Dhv consultants. He is now working with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC as a Senior Program Officer. He is a lawyer. He completed his education in Dhaka University and participated at lot of trainings and programs on DRR in abroad.

Ms. Dilruba Haider has long experience of working as an Assistant Resident Representative & Team Leader of Disaster Management and Crisis Prevention Team, UNDP Bangladesh and Disaster Program Manager, Department for International Development (DFID). Ms. Haider is highly professional in maintaining liaison with donors and resource mobilization; ensuring coordination with all: Government, donors, NGOs; ensuring monitoring and reporting requirements of programs are fulfilled; managing knowledge network of disaster risk reduction professionals in country. She has the experience of supporting the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management, at the highest level (the Minister, and the Secretary) with advisory inputs on risk reduction (e.g. incorporated the issue of disaster risk reduction in IPRSP) and handled missions at time of crisis. She is also renowned for her media related activities, e.g., design and present talk shows in Televisions on various social issues, News caster of the national English bulletins in Bangladesh Television (BTV). Video production on various social and environmental issues; producing talk shows, dramas, documentaries, produced two documentaries on SIDR, the super cyclone: Phoenix: Surviving SIDR and Coordination of SIDR Response (shown in television channels on 15 January 2008).

Mr. Moloy Chaki, a renowned figure in the community based disaster risk reduction domain in Bangladesh, is the proposed Principal Manual and Handbook Developer. Mr. Chaki has been working in the field of disaster management for more than twenty years. During his professional life, Mr. Chaki has managed almost twenty projects in the field of community based disaster risk reduction. He was involved with a number of studies relating to enhancing the capacity of the community regarding DRR. Mr. Chaki is a pioneer in mainstreaming DRR into sustainable development.

Mr. Chaki has developed almost 20 modules, manuals and handbooks, and a number of information, communication and education materials, which are widely used by disaster management practitioners in Bangladesh. He has also conducted more than 500 training courses for different levels of disaster management practitioners, such as members of District/ Upazila/ Union Disaster Management Committees, project personnel of international/ national/ local level NGOs, Change Agents (community leaders) and volunteers. These trained personnel are contributing a lot in disaster risk reduction and preparedness activities in their respective areas. Mr. Moloy Chaki has conducted trainings in and outside of Bangladesh. The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) of Japan has formed a pool of DRR trainers in South Asia, in which Mr. Moloy Chaki is included.

Mr. Chaki is also a team member of ADPC’s trainer pool in Bangladesh. On behalf of ADPC, Mr. Chaki has developed a number of training modules and conducted several training courses. Over more than twenty year’s experience in disaster management, Mr. Chaki has developed very good professional relationships with different government, national, international and local level NGO personnel. He is therefore well-positioned to ensure their active participation and inputs in developing the proposed comprehensive disaster management modules and handbook.

Mr. Muhammad Saidur Rahman, Founder and Director of BDPC, is the only Bangladeshi to have received the Certificate of Distinction under United Nations-Sasakawa Award for Natural Disaster Reduction from UNISDR in the year 2002. The Award was presented in recognition of his proven and credible services in the field of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) at home and abroad.

Graduated from the Australian Counter Disaster College in Disasters Services Administration, Mr. Saidur held important positions such as the Country Representative for Oxfam-UK in Bangladesh, Deputy Country Representative for Oxfam-UK in Somalia, Deputy Secretary General of Bangladesh Red Cross Society and the First Director of the widely acclaimed Cyclone Preparedness Program (CPP).

National Project Director (Additional Secretary), Comprehensive Disaster Management Program. He has a vast experiences working in the government functionaries. Given leadership in disaster response and rehabilitation work, prepare planning for disaster management. Burden the responsibility of coordinating all responding organization, organizing communities and local govt. in relief and rehabilitation work.

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