IIED and ICCCAD Jointly Organizing Webinar on what we have learned from past capacity building initiatives and how we can ramp up climate ambition. Date: Wednesday, 18 November Time: 11:00–12:15 (GMT) Where: Online, using Zoom To effectively adapt to the escalating impacts of climate change, support for locally led climate action is needed. Training, advocacy, and capacity building are proven pathways to change …
Mainstreaming and Decentralizing Climate Change Adaptation Finance
We already live in a climate changed world. Such is the conclusion reached by the IPCC AR4 and the latest findings of Working Group I of the AR5. The impacts are manifest already in different parts of the world in varying degrees of sea level rise and greater frequency and severity of climate disasters. The LDCs are particularly vulnerable to …
Combating Climate Change: The Case of Knowledge Management
The objective of this policy brief is to inform Members of Parliament (MPs) about adverse effects of climate change on the economy of Bangladesh and outline their role in using research-based information in advocating policy changes that would institutionalize, build capacity and raise efficiency in knowledge management system for combating adverse climate change effects. Example fallback content: This browser does …
Local Adaptation to Climate Change: The Gender Perspective
Gender-related inequalities are pervasive in the developing world. The concept of “feminization of poverty” is also about ‘the result of the deprivation of capabilities and gender biases present in both societies and governments.’ The importance of placing women at the heart of the vision of sustainable development ensuring equitable and fair share of opportunities for growth is critical to the …
National Funding Entities for Local Adaptation: Lessons Learned from Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF), supported by national budgetary endowment and the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF), a multi-donors trust fund have started their journey in 2010 as National Finding Entities (NFEs). Bangladesh, among the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), is the first country that has established and operationalized NFEs to address adverse impacts of climate change within …
Capacity Building & Finance Moving in Bangladesh
A three day residential workshop on “Strengthening Partnership for Capacity Building and Finance of Local Level Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh” was conducted by ICCCAD and Action Research for Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB) in Partnership with UNDP’s Poverty Environment Climate Mainstreaming (PECM) project of General Economic Divisions (GED), Government of Bangladesh. Lasting from the 14th to the 16th February, 2014.An opening seminar …