Community-Driven Attempts to Build Climate Change Resiliency
Bangladesh is one of most vulnerable countries to climate change due to its unique geographical position. The Government has set up a multi-donor trust fund Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF), a ‘one-stop’ mechanism for large-scale climate change financing in Bangladesh. The Community Climate Change Project (CCCP) is one of the two windows of BCCRF, and videos highlighted show how the project recognizes the importance of local empowerment and NGOs in community-based programs and services.
The frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events are expected to increase in Bangladesh because of climate change, with devastating economic, social and ecological consequences. The risks from climate variability and change are geographically concentrated in six specific regions of the country. These regions also have higher concentrations of the poor — the subsistence farmers, the rural landless, fishing communities, and urban poor. The areas are largely defined by their physiology and ecology and have varying climate change risks.
The South, Southwest, and Southeast coastal region is at risk from increasingly frequent and severe tropical cyclones, sea level rise causing drainage congestion, and saline intrusion in surface, ground water and soil. The Northwest Barind Tract is prone to drought. The Northeast haor or freshwater wetland area alternately face delayed rainfall or early flooding, and sedimentation from erosion of the surrounding hill areas. On the other hand the Central char and floodplains are prone to flooding, flash floods, and river bank erosion; the Hill Tracts are prone to landslides; and the urban areas are impacted by drainage congestion.
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