Caritas set up groups of community members and provided them with saplings. Reforestation addresses the threat of local climate change by reducing erosion (thereby providing a defense against floods), retaining moisture in soil (thereby helping crops, which in turn helps reduce vulnerability), creating a harvestable forest resource that can be sold of used for fuel, and creating a stock of standing biomass that can be used in the event of a calamity.

This project, implemented by the Ministry of Environment and Forest, consisted of the establishment of a plant to harness biogas from poultry waste for electricity generation. This biogas was used the heat the poultry plant, thus eliminating the need for other sources of energy (a mitigation benefit). If biogas is also used, in the future, to provide electricity to homes and businesses, it can result in improvements to income and quality of life, making communities more resilient to climate change.

This project, led by North South University, aims to develop a community-driven adaptation plan of action, as well as to facilitate the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into the sustainable development planning process. Primary beneficiaries will include poor and marginalized farmers, agricultural laborers, landless women, indigenous people, small traders, and students.

As part of disaster preparedness, Oxfam has built cluster villages in flood-prone areas – small settlements raised more than two meters above the water level in high-risk areas. Elsewhere in the country, land has been set aside for flood shelter so that, when the waters come, hundreds of households can relocate and take their livestock and possessions with them. Rescue boats and lifesaving equipment has been funded. Within small communities, disaster preparedness committees have been given support and training. Individual homesteads have been raised above water level.

Bangladesh regularly suffers from floods due to its position in the flat delta of three rivers, the  Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, damaging houses, which need repair and maintenance on a regular basis.  Aiming to improve this situation, the Intermediate Technology Development Group conducted a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) to study the local building techniques and materials available in the Faridpur district to develop feasible and cost effective flood resistant housing options for the poor.  The PRA identified who is doing what, in order to ensure participation and capacity buildi

The Intermediate Technology Development Group-Bangladesh’s needs-assessment in three villages in the Faridpur district looked at fisheries to identify opportunities for interventions that will not only reduce their vulnerability to floods but will improve the food security situation of households at the time of disaster.  In the past, villagers incurred losses when fish floated away as floodwater poured into fish ponds. To minimize the knowledge gap, ITDG-B developed and disseminated appropriate flood-friendly fisheries technologies.

This CARE Bangladesh project aims to increase the capacity of Bangladeshi communities in the southwest to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change by improving climate-change related information collection and dissemination from and to all the stakeholders in the region. The climate change information management system will be improved, climate change information wil be disseminated to stakeholders regularly, and collection, preservation, and dissemination between local organizations will be fostered. Link to Source

In this project, led by SouthSouthNorth and Caritas, different types of capacity-building activities including learning-by-doing type activities are implemented to enhance adaptive capacity of the targeted communities. Capacity building will target the areas of agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, alternative livelihoods development and small entrepreneurship, access to safe water, and disaster risk reduction.

South-Central Bangladesh is prone to extended monsoon flooding and water-logging from the ocean and the Ganges and Januma Rivers. Various climate change studies have revealed that this region will be more prone to flooding and water logging due to heavy rainfall and other predicted effects of climate change. Erratic rainfall and temperature fluctuation are hampering crop production and livelihood activities in the area.

Communities in Bangladesh recover from floods by mending houses and boats (neighbours help each other); draining  floodwater from agriculture land; choosing appropriate rice varieties (late transplanting cultivars) or bringing seedlings from other places; choosing a quick-growing low-cost non-rice minor crop; and skipping, if deemed appropriate, the entire cropping season.