2014 Resilience Academy: Participant Pledges The Resilience Academy was held in Frauenwörth Abbey on the Fraueninsel on Lake Chiemsee earlier this year. Organised by the Munich Re Foundation, the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and ICCCAD, applications for the Resilience Academies run every two years with participants meeting the first year in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the second year in Germany. All the participants … Read More
BBC Media Action: Training Workshop The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) organized a three day workshop on 19-21 July 2014 focusing on the theme of “Climate Change and Disasters”. The training was organized for the crew of BBC Media Action’s TV Show “Amrai Pari”. The purpose of the training workshop was to enhance participants’ understanding on the basics of climate change, disaster … Read More
Setting up a regional network for disaster risk management in Southeast and South Asia The workshop in Yogyakarta brought together representatives from academia, UN organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as the private sector from ten countries with the aim to establishing a regional network for disaster risk management in Southeast and South Asia. The main objectives of the workshop were to define common areas of interest in the field of disaster risk … Read More
Inception Workshop: Supporting Implementation of Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan Tuesday, 8th October, 2013 Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) with support from the Asian Development Bank organized a half day workshop to introduce the technical assistance and to capture stakeholder’s views and suggestions on the Technical Assessment implementation. Md. Shafiqur Rahman Patwari, Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests have kindly consented to be the Chief Guest in the … Read More
Index-based Insurance Workshop Since this summer ICCCAD partnered with WorldFish to identify and facilitate the diffusion of knowledge and best practices on index insurance in Bangladesh. Index insurance is a means of risk transfer that allows weather related risks to be insured. Weather index insurance is based on a pre-defined weather event which when triggered ensures automatic payout to farmers who have taken out … Read More
At the VSOB National Sharing Workshop “Some actors in this development world focus on building resilience of children, some actors focus on building resilience of youths, we need to build a bridge between these two and we get Climate Resilient Citizens for this world.” At Action Research for Community Adaptation in Bangladesh (ARCAB) we believe that building resilience to climate change is not a one-dimensional task, neither can … Read More
