8/8/2019 Poster Presentation of ACCCA Bangladesh Project

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Bangladesh ProjectIntroductionProposed Methodology

Pilot Action AreaReconnaissance Survey in Project Areas

Understanding Livelihood Vulnerabilities

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Highlighted Gaps in Data

Areas of Future Work

Contributors:Mizan R. Khan (NSU), Ashoke Adhikary (ADO) and Md. Shofiullah (Jesh)ACCCA Principal Investigator : Dr. Mizan R. Khan, North South University

Participatory Climate RiskAssessment and Developmentof Local Adaptation Action Plan

NSU, ADO and JESH jointly conducted areconnaissance survey from 17-25 December 2006 forunderstanding the livelihood vulnerabilities of the poorin relation to climate change in the Assasuni,Dashmina and Porsha Upazila. The team alsodiscussed with personnel of Comprehensive DisasterManagement Programme (CDMP) and Department ofEnvironment for scoping the mainstreamingstrategies. The team pre-tested the usefulness ofCommunity Risk Assessment (CRA) tools of CDMP forunderstanding vulnerabilities of peoples l ivelihood.The tools appeared good and useful for understandingmultiple exposure (climate change, disaster risk, etc)of peoples vulnerabilities.

The reconnaissancesurvey revealed the following vulnerability aspects:

Fresh and safe drinking water crisis is severe in Assasuni and Dashminadue to salinity intrusion inland, which affects women and children most.

Cropping, freshwater fisheries, forestry and livestock are at risk inAssasuni and Dashmina due to salinity and other natural hazards.

Food production and agri-wage labour are at risk in Porsha area, due toincreasing drought. Vulnerability to water scarcity both for drinking andirrigation from deep aquifer put the water table at risk. of arseniccontamination of drinking water sources.

Local storms (including tornados) are also increasing in frequency andmagnitude in Porsha and Assasuni areas, while Dashmina is very proneto cyclonic storms regularly.

Proneness to droughts is increasing in Assasuni, Dashmina areas in dryseason.

Due to drainage congestions and heavy rainfall in monsoon, Assasuni isextremely vulnerable to waterlogging.

Biodiversity of Sundarban Mangrove Forest, a world heritage site, is atrisk due to growing dependency of community livelihoods on thoseresources, as others livelihood options are severely constraint by salinityintrusion and other natural hazards. This scenario will worsen due toclimate change impacts.

The core concept of the project is to facilitate thehouseholds, communities, local governments and

education institutions to assess their livelihood riskassociated with climate change and other naturalhazards, and to develop a local adaptation action plan.This action plan will be used as a reference formainstreaming adaptation into the developmentprogrammes of central and local governments.

Six community based pilot adaptation actions will beimplemented in 3 most vulnerable spots inBangladesh: Assasuni in Satkhira, Dashmina inPatuakhali and Porsha in Naogaon. The lessons fromthese pilot actions will be shared with local, nationaland international stakeholders.

The learning from Reducing Vulnerability to ClimateChange (RVCC) project of CARE Bangladesh will be

taken into consideration during selection of livelihoodadaptation strategies.

The project will be jointly implemented by North SouthUniversity (NSU), Area Development Organization(ADO) and Jesh Foundation. The duration of theproject is 18 months and the estimated project cost isUSD 69300.

Reconnaissance survey highlighted gaps in dataon the following.

climate change impacts on local ecosystemsand livelihoods

areas of complementarity between mitigationand local adaptation options

areas of synergies between disaster riskreduction and climate change adaptation

multi-criteria assessment of local adaptation

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effective strategies for mainstreaming local

level adaptation options into development

Development of context and area-specific vulnerabilitycriteria to Climate Change Impacts (CCI)

Scaling up of efficacious indigenous coping mechanism ofexisting vulnerabilities for the cl imate change adaptation

(CCA) Multi-exposure (climate change, globalization, populationgrowth, national and international economic policy, etc.)assessment of livelihood vulnerabilities

Community Based Monitoring of CCI and CCA

Finding out areas of synergy in disaster management andclimate change adaptation

Multi-criteria assessment of livelihood adaptation options

Development of effective strategies for mainstreamingclimate change adaptation

Study of complementary areas between mitigation and locallevel CCA