INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT (ICCCAD)

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  • Financing Local Adaptation and Good Governance

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    A bottom-up approach emphasizing transparent, responsive governance and community empowerment is an important element of effective climate change adaptation. The international community is increasingly focused on ensuring that climate finance reaches vulnerable people and that local institutions have the capacity to plan for climate change. Bangladesh has begun addressing this issue, but more mainstreaming and coordination…

  • Gobeshona – Joining the Dots in Bangladesh

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    Gobeshona is a new initiative being instigated by ICCCAD. It is being established in acknowledgement that much research about climate change in Bangladesh has and is being conducted both nationally and internationally. Resulting publications, however, remain widely dispersed and often unused and little acknowledged. As such, Gobeshona seeks to bring together the wide reaching research…

  • Graham Reeder’s Reflections

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    Arriving in Dhaka the day after a general election embroiled in controversy and starting my time off confined to one neighbourhood because of hartals had me understandably uneasy about my time here at first, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. From the mountains in Bandarban to the rice paddies in Jessore, from a small…

  • The Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage

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    Loss and damage encompasses a wide range of issues varying from the economic loss of crops due to variable rainfall patterns to the cultural losses that may occur from the relocation of communities due to permanent sea level rise or extreme weather events. While some of these impacts are avoidable, others are not and therefore…

  • Capacity Building & Finance Moving in Bangladesh

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    A three day residential workshop on “Strengthening Partnership for Capacity Building and Finance of Local Level Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh” was conducted by ICCCAD and Action Research for Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB) in Partnership with UNDP’s Poverty Environment Climate Mainstreaming (PECM) project of General Economic Divisions (GED), Government of Bangladesh. Lasting from the 14th to…

  • Loss & Damage: What’s New

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    In the past few months ICCCAD has participated in numerous international meetings and workshops regarding Loss and Damage. Most of these meetings were focused on enhancing knowledge on the subject of Loss and Damage both regionally and globally. The Asia Pacific Network (APN) organized a three-day workshop on “Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and…

  • Clare Stott’s Reflections

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    I visited Bangladesh for ten weeks in the spring, joining the team at ICCCAD as a visiting researcher and volunteer for CBA 07, whilst completing my masters research. My overall experience was fruitful and rewarding, though it held many challenges throughout. My masters research examines the impact of global climate change knowledge for local climate…

  • ICCCAD at the the Hamburg Conference

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    Last month I had the pleasure of attending a conference at the University of Hamburg with some of the world’s leading experts on the subject of climate change and migration. The event, ‘Actions for Climate Change Induced Migration’, sought to bring together academics and researchers from across the globe to discuss how we can improve our…

  • Seminar on Environmental and Development Economics

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    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…

  • Alice Baillat’s Reflections

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    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…

  • ICCCAD at CBA7

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    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…

  • The ICCCAD Learning Experience

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    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…