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Reflections on ICCCAD

My name is Dr. Shadrack M. Kithiia from Kenya. I am currently a senior Lecturer at the University of Nairobi in the Department of Geography & Environmental Studies. My duties are teaching and supervision of both undergraduate and graduate studies. My area of specialization is water resources management and climate change. In 2012, I attended…

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Learning from the Field

We were walking deep within a maze of narrow, muddy pathways that separated the simple homes of the Bola slum in Dhaka. The structures around us were created of sheets of tin, held together with bamboo sticks and rope that somehow managed to rise up into two-story buildings. Open sewage drains ran between the houses,…

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Short Courses: Beyond the Classroom

The first ICCCAD course held in Dhaka, November 2009, opened a window to the climate change adaptation arena for me. At that time, as a Research Fellow of United Nations University, I worked on agrodiversity projects that looked at on-the-ground realities to develop identify alternative ways of enhancing the coping capacity of rural communities and…