Voices from the Frontline, an initiative of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in collaboration with different partners to document and amplify community-led stories of climate resilience, loss, and damage. Since 2020, the initiative has provided a platform for local communities to share their experiences, responses, and lessons through blogs, interviews, and video documentaries. The VFL-IV was supported by Climate Ambition Support Alliance(CASA) / DAI- Global.
This phase focuses on centring community voices from the Global South within the Loss and Damage discourse. Through five written case stories and five video documentaries, the project will highlight lived experiences of climate impacts, local resilience practices, and the evidence needed to support just and community-centred climate action.
The publication will draw on in-person and online interviews, photographs, transcripts, audio, and video materials, with ethical clearance and consent ensured throughout. By bringing frontline perspectives into wider policy and advocacy spaces, it aims to support evidence-based storytelling, peer learning, and stronger action on Loss and Damage.
For generations, Khaleque Mia’s family depended on the Bay of Bengal for survival. Born and raised in Somitipara, Ward-1, Cox’s Bazar district Khaleque, 42, learned the rhythms of the sea from his father and grandfather. Fishing was more than a livelihood. It was his identity, culture, and continuity. Yet, over the past decade, the waves that once carried life now …
While the streets of Dhaka hum with the sound of private cars and aging buses, a different kind of struggle unfolds behind the vibrant aquatic murals of a small school in Gabtoli. Despite the “beautiful” sunny weather outside, the reality for students within these walls is a grueling battle against an invisible enemy: urban heat stress. In a city where …
A Life Shaped by the Tides On the east coast of India, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, in the small fishing hamlet of Dibbapalem, a village in Visakhapatnam District, lives Nolli Erramma, a seventy-year-old fisherwoman whose story mirrors the struggles of thousands of older women in small-scale marine fishing communities. For more than four decades, Erramma balanced heavy baskets …
