Bangladesh

<p>The coordination between departments of the Ministry of Defence (technology providers) and the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management (technology users) should be enhanced in order to ensure cooperation at the working level with the aim of incorporating space-based information as a common resource for the purpose of disaster management and ensuring that space technology providers make their services accessible to end-users.</p> <p>There is a need to raise the awareness of decision makers regarding the usefulness of using space-based information to support disaster management.</p> <p>All stakeholders should have access to the national spatial data infrastructure templates, baseline data and operational disaster-related databases. Such access should ensure the timely availability of appropriate satellite and geospatial data and a strong data policy should be in place to conform with the data standards and formats.</p> <p>Early warning efforts (flood and cyclone predictions) can be further strengthened by providing better access to the space-based information and related technologies.</p> <p>Data- and information-sharing policies, standards and coordination mechanisms need to be developed to support disaster risk reduction at the national level, based on the principle that data are a national property and need to be shared openly, in particular in the event of a disaster. To facilitate data-sharing, the data catalogue and sharing platform should be created based on existing resources. Information products should cater to the precise requirement of end-users.</p>