The Ministry of Food and Disaster Management (MoFDM) is implementing a programme called the Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme (CDMP) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UK Department for International Development - Bangladesh (DFID-B) and the European Commission (EC). CDMP has been designed to strengthen the Bangladesh disaster management system and, more specifically, to achieve a paradigm shift from reactive response to a proactive risk reduction culture. CDMP has adopted a holistic approach, embracing processes of hazard identification and mitigation, community preparedness and integrated response efforts, where relief and recovery activities are planned within an all-risk management framework. CDMP aims to raise the capacities of communities at-risk and to lower their vulnerability to specific hazards through executing different programmes under a well-defined framework. Under the CDMP framework, there are several components, Component 4a-Earthquake and Tsunami Preparedness being an important one. Different activities (sub projects) have also been initiated under component 4a, one of which is the “ Geological data inventory and cataloging of geological data” project. The major activities carried out under this project are (i) data collection and organization of collected data (ii) conversion of soft and hardcopy data into a standard GIS format, and (iii) capturing, processing of data and database development, (iv) data quality checking, (v) development of a geological data catalog, (vi) development of a geological data catalog software, (vii) deployment of the data catalog software to CDMP, and (viii) documentation
