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87% of the poor people of Bangladesh are women and only 3.47% land

property are owned by them

Women eat meals after all family members and look after family livestock

Climate Change impacts severely on Pregnant and Breast-feedingwomen (UNFPA 2009)

Nutrition and food consumption of women decreased due to CC (WEDO2009)

Women are 14 Times More Vulnerable to death during disasters. 77% and

73% of total death toll are women in 1991 and 2009 cyclone (CCC 2009).

Women in southwest coastal zone of Bangladesh rely on Drinking Water

3 Times More Saline than the safe level (Vineis et al. 2011)

Women of coastal zone experiencing Eclampsia, Miscarrage and Still

Birth 20 times more than other areas of Bangladesh (Khan et al. 2011)

Climate Vulnerability of

Women in Bangladesh


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BCCSAP endorsed in 2009 and recognized Population, Gender and

Reproductive Health as concerns in climate change management

Vision 2021 and Perspective Plan: defined climate change as a

threat to the national security

Sixth Five-Year Plan includes Climate Change as a key cross

cutting sector of Development Plan

National Budget 2008-2013 allocated BDT 25 billion (USD 320

million) for BCCTF

BCCRF formed with USD 189 million fund from the Annex-1

countries and governed by World Bank

BCCTF Act endorsed in 2010 to regulate the fund

PolicyConsiderations


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The Scenario So far, 116 Projects are approved under BCCTF and

BCCRF

Only 1 Project focuses on Women and Adolescent girls

directly

Other 115 projects have no specific actions on Genderissues and mentioning the projects will confirm No

Discrimination on Gender issues.

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Infrastructure should be more gender sensitive and

vulnerable women can be entitled to benefits ormanagement.

Projects focusing on reproductive health and

population can be undertaken by the LGI and

Ministry under BCCTF.


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Advocacy for addressing gender andreproductive health in Climate Adaptation

Programs and Plans of Bangladesh

Our Initiative


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ObjectivesEnhance awareness of worst climatevictims;Create mass opinion in favor of thetopic;

Sensitize local level key stakeholders;Create commitment of policy leaders;

Ensure equitable participation of ruralvulnerable women in project

implementation;


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StrategySTUDY through collecting directinformation from community people

and reviewing research reports andliteratures;

SOCIAL MOBILISATION in the waysof community level orientation, human

projection and strong tie activatingcivil society and likemindedorganisations;

POLICY LOBBY through lobby

meeting and dialogue with policyleaders and key decision makers;

MEDIA MOBILISATION using theactivities like press briefing, journalists

visit and regular communication.


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Stakeholders

Local Communities | LGI and LA | CSOand NGOs

Media | Policymakers

Ministries (MOWCA, MOEF)


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Lessons Learned Information Gap of Policymakers although they are positive onthe issue;

Top-to-bottom approach in project formulation;

Lack of community ownership;

Community people are the most powerful advocates for ensuring

their rights if they have information and facilitation;

LGI representatives are agreed to create a space for gender and

reproductive health within their existing capacity;

Political leaders feel uncomfortable to discuss on this issue

because they think it as technical;

Media people is mostly interested to highlight the destructive

incidents rather than the silent sufferings;


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Way Forward

Advocate at local level to incorporate genderand reproductive health in regular budget of

the Union Parishad (lowest LGI)

Create broader alliance with other non-state

actors, donors and practitioners;

Build evidence and linkage researchers,

academia and political leaders;

Develop toolkits for monitoring projects;

Initiate small scale pilot project example ofgood practices;

Review to find-out women shares in climate

adaptation projects of NGOs


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