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Addressing inequalities in the time of COVID-19: collaborations we need to create a new normal where no one is left behind
[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”] This blog talks about how unprecedented impacts of COVID-19 have given rise to inequalities among grassroot communities that are responding against the pandemic and fighting the battle on their own. It also highlights on how to create a now normal collectively without leaving anyone behind by taking into account the reflection points…
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Climate Change: Turning Bangladesh into the learning capital of the world
The adverse impacts of human induced climate change are already occurring around the world, including in Bangladesh. It is incumbent on all countries to gear up their ability to be better prepared for the impacts before they occur through enhancing adaptive capacity, and to also be prepared to deal with the loss and damage after…
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Tales of local resilience on the frontlines of COVID and climate change
Migrant workers and slumdwellers have received little official help during the pandemic, but are finding their own ways to cope As the months pass from the start of the COVID19 pandemic, the world is on a rapid learning curve about what, and who, really matters. In developed countries, there has been a recognition that often…
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Dhaka, Bangladesh: How One Woman’s Idea Unleashed the Power of Community Spirit
In Aftabnagar, a rapidly developing residential area in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, one woman has taken it upon herself to support the residents of the informal settlement in her neighbourhood. What started as a food distribution initiative was quickly transformed into a full-fledged community project working towards self sufficiency, food security and solidarity. Maheen…
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Collaborative research can be integral to climate action
The government of the United Kingdom has had a very cordial relationship with Bangladesh since our independence and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has been a significant bilateral development partner for many years. DFID is currently in the process of designing a new, major five-year programme to support Bangladesh’s efforts to tackle climate…
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Rafiq Nagar, Mumbai: Residents Confront COVID-19 On Top of Existing Health threats
In Rafiq Nagar, a low-income neighbourhood in Mumbai, India, COVID-19 is an addition to the existing public health issues that are already faced by its residents. Shamimbanu Salim Sheikh shares her neighbourhood’s predicament. This is the fifth story in the series of ‘Voices from the Frontline’ by ICCCAD and CDKN. “If you ever come…
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A paradigm shift in knowledge transfer on adaptation
The traditional North-South paradigm of technology transfer ignores the increasing importance of developing countries as sources of appropriate climate-friendly technologies The expressions of `knowledge’ or `technology transfer’ has traditionally evoked in us a unidirectional trajectory – from advanced, developed to developing countries, which are popularly called the `Global North’ and `Global South.’ This pathway has…
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Fiji: Community Voices Highlight Lessons and Opportunities for Resilience
As COVID-19 intensified globally between February and May, the government of Fiji reinforced different levels of lockdown throughout the country. Despite relatively fewer cases, communities across the region have felt the impact of the crisis in their own way, such as the Nanuku settlements in Vatuwaqa, Suva. Jioje Fesaitu reports. This is the fourth in…
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Climate change budget must be used efficiently
Other vulnerable countries can learn from Bangladesh’s innovations
Earlier this month, the Finance Minister of Bangladesh presented a special Climate Change Budget as part of the national budget for the fiscal year 2020-21, which accounts for approximately 7.5 percent of the national budget. This is the fourth year in succession that the Climate Change Budget has been included to cover 25 different ministries…
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Climate change impacts are not taking time off because of Covid-19 crisis: Dr Saleemul Huq
Climate change and disaster risks are increasingly affecting the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) across the world. Bangladesh, a lower- middle-income country which graduated from the LDC status in 2015, is no exception. In this backdrop, the Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests is executing the Formulation and Advancement of the National Adaptation Plan…