Inception_Workshop

Inception Workshop: Supporting Implementation of Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan

Tuesday, 8th October, 2013 Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka  The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) with support from the Asian Development Bank organized a half day workshop to introduce the technical assistance and to capture stakeholder’s views and suggestions on the Technical Assessment implementation. Md. Shafiqur Rahman Patwari, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests have kindly consented to be…

Index_based_Insurance_Workshop

Index-based Insurance Workshop

Since this summer ICCCAD partnered with WorldFish  to identify and facilitate the diffusion of knowledge and best practices on index insurance in Bangladesh. Index insurance is a means of risk transfer that allows weather related risks to be insured. Weather index insurance is based on a pre-defined weather event which when triggered ensures automatic payout to…

Resilience_Academy_September_2013

Alice Baillat at the Resilience Academy 2013

I had the chance to attend the first Resilience Academy the BRAC CDM centre in Savar and it was an unforgettable experience. All the participants came from different places in the world, with different backgrounds, different experiences and different approaches of what resilience means in the context of climate change. This diversity made the group very vibrant…

VSOB Workshop

At the VSOB National Sharing Workshop

“Some actors in this development world focus on building resilience of children, some actors focus on building resilience of youths, we need to build a bridge between these two and we get Climate Resilient Citizens for this world.” At Action Research for Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB) we believe that building resilience to climate change is not…