- See Also
- ACCCA experiences: implications of risk communication strategies for adaptation decisions
- Lessons learned from Bolivia NCAP Project
- Organisational change and learning across scales
- Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)
- Anticipatory Learning for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
- Penn State University
- ACCCA experiences: examples of risk communication strategies
- Lessons learned from Mongolia NCAP Project
- Related Subjects
- Action on climate change
- Adaptation
- Adaptation to global warming
- Agriculture
- Bangladesh
- Capacity building
- Climate change
- Emergency management
- Global warming
- Implementation
- Mitigation of global warming
- Natural resource
- Natural resource management
- Positive psychology
- Poverty
- Practical Action
- Psychological resilience
- Resilience
- Sustainability
- Water conservation
Increasing the resilience of poor communities to cope with the impact of climate change
Activities
By strengthening the capacity of vulnerable communities, the project aims to increase the resilience of poor people to cope with and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. Outputs from the project were: 1. Community based disaster preparedness plans; 2. Implementation of sustainable technologies for natural resource management, water conservation and agriculture. 3. Capacity building of support institutions, local and regional stakeholders to incorporate community based climate change mitigation strategies into development planning and natural resource management strategies; and 4. Effective changes in policy and practice at local, regional and international levels to support community based climate change adaptation measures.
Implementing Organisation
Practical Action, Bangladesh
- Type
- Data-Point
- Latitude
- 25.656052
- Longitude
- 89.494629
- State:
- Published @ Thu, 10 Dec 09 16:33:05 +0000 by Maliha Muzammil
- Visible:
- Yes
Engagement of vulnerable communities in decision making processes on climate related adaptation strategies