The goal of this project, implemented by Action Aid, is to reduce people’s vulnerability to natural disasters by contributing to the implementation of the Hyogo framework. The purpose is to make schools in high-risk disaster areas safer, enabling them to act as a locus for disaster risk reduction. The project works in 7 countries in selected districts at high-risk of diverse natural disasters.

This project, led by SouthSouthNorth and Caritas, has five objectives. The first is to build community partnerships and engage stakeholders in preparing for climate change. To complete this objective, the project will conduct surveys and hold workshops on the topic. The second objective is to  identify vulnerable groups and specific vulnerabilities, as well as identifying existing coping strategies and local knowledge that can be drawn on to counter these vulnerabilities.

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.

This Oxfam project targets poor communities vulnerable to climate change, by (1) encouraging them to grow fast-growing or water-resistant crop varieties and to store harvest for times of crisis; (2) encouraging women to participate in community groups dedicated to climate change preparedness and adaptation; (3) training community members in disaster coping; (4) making sure vulnerable households have adequate water and sanitation facilities; (5) making sure vulnerable households have enough emergency medicine, food and fodder assistance to survive crises; (6) helping families whose houses have

The Grameen Bank provides small loans, issued without formal collateral, which enable the poor to set up small income-generating businesses and climb out of poverty in flood-prone regions of Bangladesh.  The Grameen Bank has developed two standard house designs for which it will provide loans.  In many cases the family add their own savings to the loan and are spending up to USD 800-USD 1,000 on their home and its furnishings.  The houses vary in appearance throughout the country but have the same basic structural components.  There are four reinforced concrete pillars on brick foundations

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 Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) began efforts in 1965 to establish an early warning system for the residents of the coastal belt to cope with cyclonic winds and storm surges.  In the mid-1980’s a complementary disaster preparedness program was initiated to promote community participation in the construction and maintenance of cyclone shelters.  The official mandate of the BDRCS as stated in the Standing Orders for Cyclones, Floods and Famine is to complement the government’s efforts in case of emergency relief situations, emphasizing the development of disaster preparedness r