When Bangladesh became independent in 1971, it was an agrarian country with low incomes on average. Today, agriculture is no longer dominant, contributing only about 14 % to gross domestic product. Nonetheless, the sector still matters very much. It employs a bit less than half of the workforce and accounts for almost 60 % of female employment. Rural livelihoods in the country’s …
Pay attention to what poor communities want and need
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 Youth Action Track
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP2100) Youth Action Track (YAT) is a program designed by Wageningen University (Netherlands) and the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), funded by the Netherlands, to link Bangladeshi young professionals to the BDP2100. Youth were connected to professionals and practitioners working on BDP2100 through dialogue and seminars, and were stimulated to contribute their suggestions …
Winners of the Catalytic Grant Awards
Three teams will be awarded with a $5000 grant. The award is a joint effort from Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF), Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). We are excited to announce the winners of the catalytic grants promoted at the 15th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA15) in June. The winning teams …
Imagining alternative futures
Programme Researcher, John Magrath, describes the process of applying ‘participatory scenario development’ to explore how Bangladesh might achieve zero hunger and zero carbon emissions by 2041. It is tempting to assume that the future will follow much the same trajectory as the past. Imagining alternative futures can be dismissed as dreaming, or science fiction. And if we do imagine the …
Training workshop on Climate Resilient Value Chain Analysis for Agriculture
The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) arranging a daylong Training workshop on Climate Resilient Value Chain Analysis for Agriculture Date and Venue: Monday, 18 December, 2017 Chief Guest: Dr. Wais Kabir Executive Director, Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF) Venue: CIRDAP Auditorium Chameli House, 17 Topkhana Road, Dhaka-1000 To know more please mail to: tanjimanika225@gmail.com …
The conference for a climate-resilient Bangladesh #Gobeshona3
Day 1: Research into Use Inaugural Session of Gobeshona3 Great start to 4-day #Gobeshona3 conference on #climatechange in #Bangladesh with @SaleemulHuq @Gobeshona @ICCCAD pic.twitter.com/ahZZ700ntM — Dr. Farhana Sultana (@Farhana_H2O) 8 January 2017 Inaugural session of the Gobeshona Annual conference on Climate change 2017. #gobeshona3 @SaleemulHuq @ICCCAD @MakameMahmud3 @cnazmul78 pic.twitter.com/olkmz8CUXE — Tasfiq Mahmood (@MahmoodTasfiq) 8 January 2017 "Gobeshona, a platform for …
