In Satkhira, Bangladesh, local grassroots organisations are raising awareness and extending essential services to communities to tackle the compounding effects of COVID-19 and cyclone Amphan. Sohanur Rahman reports This is the sixteenth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Satkhira is a coastal district in the southwest of Bangladesh. The area is …

Creating development pathways for alternative futures When Henry Kissinger infamously said in 1971 that Bangladesh would be a famine-prone “basket case,” he could not have predicted that less than 50 years later the country would have moved from the brink of starvation to being well on the way to middle-income status, and become a shining star for development success in …

Mama Jobe Jeng is a farmer in The Gambia’s west coast region and member of the local organisation Tresor Women Warrior. She recounts how belonging to the group has strengthened her ability to cope with COVID-19 and argues that the government should support women’s groups with resources and information in order to shore up community resilience more widely. Hbibatou Drammeh …

Community savings groups in rural southwest Bangladesh are helping to revive local economies devastated by the double impacts of COVID-19 and cyclone Amphan. Saeqah Kabir reports. This is the thirteenth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN. Since 2015, community savings groups in southwest Bangladesh have been providing economic support to their …

My time at ICCCAD has been short, but very rewarding. I came here as a visiting researcher working on a project for my master’s degree thesis, and while I was only in Dhaka two months I will be leaving feeling as if I have accomplished all the goals I set for myself while being here. My research is not particularly …

The latest addition in our ICCCAD seminar series was in conjunction with the Centre for Health & Population Development (CHPD) at IUB hosted a seminar for a rising academic in the field of environmental and development economics, Dr. Jesse Anttila-Hughes.  Dr. Anttila-Hughes is an assistant professor of applied econometrics at the University of San Francisco, whose work spans from the impact of environmental shocks …

Working on my PhD research in France, I have been at ICCCAD since April 2013 as a Visiting Researcher. I am currently in Bangladesh conducting 4-months of fieldwork, as I am working on climate migration in Bangladesh, with a focus on the discursive practices surrounding this growing issue and its related political implications. According to me, ICCCAD’s greatest asset  is …

Loss and Damage (L&D) has emerged as a critical pillar of global climate action, supported by an emerging, dedicated financing stream. While the scale of L&D financing is far below what may be required, fundamental questions remain about how this financing can effectively minimise losses and damages at local climate frontlines. Recognising the limits of past and ongoing adaptation efforts, …

I have been working with ICCCAD for the past year since completing my Masters in Development and Emergency Practice from Oxford Brookes University. Many opportunities exist under ICCCAD for visiting researchers to work in and develop an area of expertise that appeals to them. For me, I chose to work for one of ICCCAD’s flagship research programmes, ARCAB (Action Research …