Learning Hub Event aims to support the Planning Commission of Government of Bangladesh to set up a learning/knowledge hub for enabling knowledge exchange and dialogues on climate resilient development planning. This month’s event will be on Urbanization and Climate Change.The recent pace of urbanization in low and middle income nations is placing the pressure to the urban population on relevant urban services. Subsequently the increased frequency of storms, flooding, landslides, heat waves and sea level rise that climate change is bringing which also laying additional challenges to overwhelm urban population, services and systems. Expected outcomes from the event will be the identification of effective responses to the dual challenge of urbanization and climate change. This knowledge sharing dialogue will help address these emerging issues to the planners, policy makers and stakeholders to create more resilient urban communities all over Bangladesh in order to better support new migrants through generating the policy outcomes. The presentations and the following discussions will draw from global and regional experiences.

Event invitation

Event agenda

Presentations from the event:

Climate Change and Urbanization – David Dodman, IIED

Urbanization: A Case of Man-Nature Coexistence – Prof. Khandaker M. Ansar Hossain, BIP