This short course was running in parallel with the 7th international Community-Based Adaptation conference (CBA7), and build into the conference special sessions specifically for course participants.  Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is of increasing importance for all organisations – from NGOs through to major donors, especially in regard to ensuring “value for money”. “Upward” accountability tends to be looking at how donor …

As a three-time participant in the ICCCAD short course, I consider myself as a veteran by now! The first course I attended was the 7th Short Course on Scientific Approaches to CBA, in July 2011. At that time I had just arrived in Bangladesh. I had come to conduct an initial participatory research assessment, for participatory action research on climate risk management …

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 …

While the work of ICCCAD spans many countries and engages people from the local to the international levels, our program on Action Research for Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB) has a very specific focus on helping the most vulnerable communities adapt to climate change. Our research under ARCAB aims to generate and disseminate new knowledge on best practices for community-based …

For the past year and a half ICCCAD has been facilitating a process to enhance understanding of loss and damage in Bangladesh and how to address it as part of the Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative, which is being implemented globally with our partners Germanwatch, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative and United Nations University Institute for Environment and …