b) It concentrates on two activities: i) an assessment of the vulnerability of the built environment in greater Dhaka to earthquakes and other major hazards, focusing on essential and critical facilities and infrastructure. The assessment will establish the patterns of vulnerability of the cities, understand the hotspots, and serve as a basis for a long term vulnerability reduction in greater Dhaka; and ii) the development of risk-sensitive land use planning as a practice in Bangladesh. This will be informed by an understanding of the hazards, vulnerability and risk facing urban centers, and by clearly stated consensus-driven DRR objectives and policies... Urban Resilience Project seeks to create and enabling environment for centrally coordinated and locally managed Disaster Risk Management (DRM). There are three core pillars of disaster resilience in urban settings as described in figure below including : i) Effective emergency management; ii) Improving structural resilience through..