Understanding climate change from below, addressing barriers from above
Practical experience and learning from a community-based adaptation project in Bangladesh:
This report communicates the local, practical experiences and learning from an action research project on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (CCA-DRR), aimed at facilitating local people's analysis of their own vulnerability towards climate change and piloted a variety of community-based adaptation measures. It analyses the strength and weakness of community mobilization activities for climate change adaptation and also suggested a set of future actions both at policy and implementation level.
The report aims to help in changing the policies and interventions in the direction of pro poor adaptation. It is intended for development practitioners, adaptation researchers, CBOs and NGOs working on climate change, and government officials. The action research project was piloted by ActionAid Bangladesh and funded by the Embassy of Denmark. It ran from 2008–10 and operated in three areas of rural Bangladesh vulnerable to natural hazards: Sirajganj on the Jamuna River, which is vulnerable to floods; Naogaon in the north-west, which is vulnerable to drought; and Patuakhali on the coast, which is vulnerable to cyclones, sea-level rise and salinity intrusion.
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