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.
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 …