2025

• World Drowning Prevention Day 2025 observed in Sandwip on 25 July 2025
• DADO interns undertake four weeks’ social media campaign on the observance of World Drowning Prevention Day 2025.
• DADO Summer 2025 Internship project supported 25 interns from seven major public and private university graduates who worked on fire incidences, drowning prevention, traffic incidences, drought and community violence in Bangladesh.
• Waste management in Cumilla in association with Cumilla waste management system in June 2025.
• Alam E, Al Hattawi KS, Akter H, Sufi, F. et al. 2025. Socioeconomic, demographic and environmental factors of child drownings in Northern Bangladesh, Injury Prevention, 0:1–10. doi:10.1136/ip-2024-045434 (Research Article)
• Perceptions of climate change and its Impacts on local communities along the Noakhali Coast in Bangladesh (Research article)

2024

• Rescue and relief operation in Flash flood in August 2024 in Fatikchari, Chhattogram.
• Courtyard meetings to generate awareness in Maghdhara, Haramia and Rahmatpur unions in Sandwip led by the Volunteers of DADO and the research students of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh in May 2024.
• Training volunteers and leaders of Sandwip Youth Club Chittagong about the importance of inclusion of child drowning prevention on their annual agendas on 7 March 2024.
• Child drowning baseline survey among 16500 households in Sarikait and Maitbanga unions in Sandwip, Chittagong, Bangladesh between January and February 2024.

2023

• Courtyard meetings to raise awareness about child drowning prevention in Sarikait union, Sandwip, Chittagong, Bangladesh on 22 December 2023.
• The necessity of civil society engagement in child drowning prevention at Rotary International Rotary International District-3282 and 03281, Rotary Club Baridhara, Rotary Club-Sagorika, Rotary Club of Royals, Chittagong, Bangladesh
• ‘Childhood Drowning Prevention through Awareness, Action and Development (DAAD) in Bangladesh’ (Awareness and capacity development event organized at Upazila complex in collaboration with Sandwip Upzila Administration, Chittagong)
• Childhood Drowning Prevention through Awareness event organized at South Sandwip High School in collaboration with Sandwip Janokallan Sangstha July 2023
• Childhood Drowning Prevention through Awareness event organized at Sarikait Union Parshad Office at Sandwip Upazila in July 2023.
• Rising child drowning deaths - a neglected national crisis (Editorial Daily Ittefaq on 20 July 2023)
• Factors of cyclone disaster deaths in Bangladesh (Published Research Article)
• Modified Mercalli Intensity Map in Bangladesh: a proposal for earthquake zoning in Bangladesh (Published Research Article)
• Enhancing Effectiveness of Occupational Health and Safety of Garments and Textile Industry Workers in Chittagong, Bangladesh (Published Research Article)

2022

• DADO team conducted research on the impact of Rohingya refugee on host communities in Ukyia and Technaf region, Bangladesh.
• Why do some people fail to evacuate following cyclone warning and stay home?
• Factors of cyclone disaster deaths in coastal Bangladesh
• The Local Governance of COVID-19: lessons learned and ways forward in rural Bangladesh
• A new decision support system for analysing factors of tornado related deaths in Bangladesh (Published Research Article)
• Sustainable flood risk assessment using deep learning-based algorithms with a blockchain technology (Published Research Article)
• Vulnerability assessment based on household views from the Dammar Char in South - Eastern Bangladesh (Published Research Article)
• Climate change perceptions, impacts and adaptation practices of fishers in southeast Bangladesh coast (Published Research Article)

2021

• DADO team provided clothing and cash money to cyclone affected residents at eleven coastal sites in Bangladesh
• DADO team conducted research on changes on Changes in cyclone disaster vulnerability and responses in coastal Bangladesh
• Who make the call for reducing cyclone disasters deaths in Bangladesh?
• Limitations of COVID-19 testing and case data for evidence-informed health policy and practice
• Disaster risk governance for landslide risk management in local level administration in Bangladesh (Published Research Article)
• Factors Affecting Small-Scale Fishers Adaptation toward the Impacts of Climate Change: Reflections from South Eastern Bangladeshi Fishers (Published Research Article)

2020

• DADO team provided food and medical items and promoted social distancing among the ultra-poor people in the remote areas of southern Sandwip Island during the outbreak of COVID-19 Crisis
• DADO team supported field research of Ms Valerie Jane Leishman at Charles Darwin University Australia for her PhD thesis entitled ‘Addressing Socio-Cultural Recovery in Disaster Displaced Communities: Understanding and Assessing Quality of Life in Context’.
• Earthquake hazard knowledge, preparedness and risk reduction in readymade garments industries in Bangladesh (Published Research Article)
• Landslide hazard knowledge, risk perception, and preparedness in southeast Bangladesh (Published Research Article)

2019

• DADO team explored climate impacts and adaptation of the fishing communities in southeast Bangladesh coast
• DADO team worked on assessing climate resilient livelihood at Deluti Union, Khulna
• Dr Edris Alam has been partnered as a team member of international consortium of research grant application submitted to the ESRC UK led by Professor Jonathan Rigg of the University of Bristol
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has been invited to deliver a lecture on multi-hazard risk assessment workshop organised the EPIC centre, University College London (UCL)
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has been offered Rutherford Research Fellowship at the University of Leicester, UK
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has presented a research paper on disaster risk governance in local level administration

2018

• DADO team worked on awareness generation on human trafficking among Rohingya refugees
• DADO team worked on hazard and vulnerability assessment to Landslides in Rangamati
• DADO investigated hazard and risk of landslides at Kutu Palong Rohingya camp
• DADO investigated hazard and risk of landslides in Cox’s Bazar City
• Launching ceremony of book on ‘Coping and Adaptation with disasters’ by Dr Edris Alam on 29 April 2019 in Chittagong Press Club
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has been partnered as a co-investigator for a research project entitled Landslide and Flash Flood Risk Reduction in Refugee and Non-Indigenous Populations in Southeastern Bangladesh (SAFE REFUGE) submitted to the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) of the UK led by Professor Peter Sammonds of the University College London (UCL).

2017

• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has been contacted by national electronic media to comment on causes and mitigation of Landslides 2017 in Rangamati
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam participated Bangladesh Television Chittagong programme on World Environment Day 2017
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has been funded research grant under the Sharing and Learning on Community Based Disaster Management in Asia (Phase II) jointly by the DFID and UNDP China
• DADO organised a Seminar on Awareness on earthquake preparedness in Bangladesh
• Seminar on Climate change and tropical cyclones at Chittagong Press Club on 29 April 2017
• Workshop on Earthquake risk reduction in RMG industries in Bangladesh at Chittagong District Council on 23 July 2017
• Seminar on Awareness on earthquake preparedness in Bangladesh at Chittagong District Council on 23 July 2017

2016

• Seminar on Climate change and tropical cyclones at Chittagong Press Club on 29 April 2017
• DADO team supported climate refugees in Noakhali coast
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has been invited to join as team member of the major international research consortium which includes 7 institutions: University College London (UCL), University of Sheffield (US), Middlesex University (MU), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Chittagong University (CU), Beijing Normal University, HR Wallingford (HRW).
• DADO’s Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam has been selected as a Co-Investigator for research grant application submitted to International Growth Centre (IGC) led by Professor Martin Mayfield of the University of Sheffield, UK

2015

• DADO team explored that hill cutting as a major cause of landslides in Chittagong City
• DADO team supported Landslide victims in July 2015

2014

• DADO team planted trees jointly with Youth AiD in Comilla in 2014

2013

• DADO supported tornado affected victims in Brahmanbaria

2012

• DADO Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam was the first author for a leading research paper entitled ‘Tsunamis in the northeastern Indian Ocean with a particular focus on the Bay of Bengal region– a synthesis and review published in Earth-Science Reviews, Elsevier publisher

2011

• DADO team initiated a research about the possibility of the AD1762 type of tsunamigenic earthquake in SE Bangladesh
• DADO team collected and synthesized tsunami record from historical and archived records in the northern Indian Ocean

2010

• DADO team investigated community level earthquake hazard knowledge, risk perception and preparedness in SE Bangladesh
• DADO Chief Executive Dr Edris Alam was the first author for a leading research paper entitled ‘Cyclone Disaster Vulnerability and Response Experiences in Coastal Bangladesh’ published in Disasters Journal

2009

• DADO extended partnership activities with community based organisations in the United Kingdom
• DADO explored cyclone disaster vulnerability in coastal Bangladesh

2008

• DADO team evaluated Cyclone Sidr Preparedness and Response at Barguna district, Bangladesh
• DADO supported Monga (seasonal chronic poverty) affected communities in Gaibanda
• DADO and YPSA joint Seminar on tropical cyclones