Climate knowledge is often built top-down, overlooking diverse experiences and expertise of women and marginalized communities. This needs to change.

During this session hosted by Micro Save Consulting, panelists explored the key challenges, opportunities, optimal solutions, and innovative approaches to ensure effective climate adaptation strategies in Africa.

A one-of-its-kind insurance policy has started making payouts to tens of thousands of women across India to help them cope with the impact of extreme heat.

Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina graciously accepted the Global Center on Adaptation’s Local Adaptation Champions Award from GCA CEO Professor Patrick V. Verkooijen, on the occasion of his official visit to Bangladesh.

GCA CEO’s Official Visit to Bangladesh Paves Way for Enhanced Collaborations for Climate Resilience.

A locally-led process to support low-income communities in Chattogram to understand climate threats and prioritize solutions through People’s Adaptation Plans has been initiated in Chattogram, the second largest city in Bangladesh, to inform investments by the World Bank’s Chattogram Water Supply and Sanitation Project (CWSIP). This process is facilitated by WaterAid Bangladesh and Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK), with support from the Global Center on Adaptation. 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) as Bangladesh won the maiden award for its leading role in introducing local adaptation program to face climate change impacts.

Bangladesh won the maiden award for its leading role in introducing a local adaptation program to face climate change impacts. GCA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Professor Patrick V Verkooijen handed over the award to the prime minister while paying a courtesy call on her at Ganabhaban on Tuesday, 11 June.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) as Bangladesh won the maiden award for its leading role in introducing local adaptation program to face climate change impacts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) as Bangladesh won the maiden award for its leading role in introducing local adaptation programs to face climate change impacts.

Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, accepted the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) as Bangladesh won the maiden award for its leading role in introducing local adaptation programs to fight climate change.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accepted the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) as Bangladesh won the maiden award for its leading role in introducing local adaptation program to fight climate changes.

Bangladesh has won the Local Adaptation Champions Award of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) for its leading role in introducing local adaptation program to face climate change impacts.

গ্লোবাল সেন্টার অন অ্যাডাপটেশনের (জিসিএ) সিইও প্রফেসর ডা. প্যাট্রিক ভি ভারকুইজেন ওয়াটারএইডের সঙ্গে চট্টগ্রাম পরিদর্শন করেছেন। সোমবার (১০ জুন) তিনি চট্টগ্রাম ওয়াটার সাপ্লাই ইমপ্রুভমেন্ট প্রজেক্ট (সিডব্লিউএসআইপি)’ শীর্ষক প্রকল্পের বিভিন্ন এলাকা পরিদর্শন করেন। ওয়াটার এইডের এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে এ তথ্য জানানো হয়েছে।

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Global Center on Adaptation Prof Dr Patrick Verkooijen visited different areas of Chattogram to witness the impact of climate change firsthand.

Residents of 17 wards under the Chattogram City Corporation in Bangladesh are being affected due to climate-induced hazards, including salinity of groundwater, landslides, and waterlogging, said speakers at a workshop jointly organized by the Global Center on Adaptation, Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) and WaterAid.

CEO of Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), Prof. Dr. Patrick V. Verkooijen, visited Chittagong with WaterAid. On Monday, 10 June 2024, he visited different areas of the project titled 'Chattogram Water Supply Improvement Project (CWSIP)'.

Professor Patrick V. Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), visited Chattogram today to listen and learn from local communities who are leading in the preparation of People’s Adaptation Plans, aimed at improving climate resilience in the city’s informal settlements. The visit underscores the GCA’s commitment to supporting local leadership by vulnerable populations in their fight against climate change, and linking their priorities for resilience building to investments by international financial institutions.

Most community engagement methods fail to effectively integrate the voices of local communities. Here's how this can change.

Global warming is shifting rainfall patterns across South Asia, and each area will be affected differently — local approaches are needed to track and respond to these changes.

Experiences from the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) in Niger, Lesotho and Cambodia indicate that while the Facility is a powerful vehicle for engaging local governments in LLA efforts, local governments often mirror the power dynamics of higher levels of governments and have exclusionary politics, which the LoCAL mechanism alone cannot shift. Intensifying efforts to involve non-governmental entities could enhance community participation in planning and budgeting processes.

GCA's Global Lead on LLA, Anju Sharma, reflects on the first Community Based Adaptation Conference without colleague, friend, and pioneer of the CBA tradition, Saleemul Huq.

Community leaders from Mongla shared their experience in developing People’s Adaptation Plans with residents of informal settlements in Kuakata, another secondary city in Bangladesh where the GCA is collaborating with BRAC to facilitate locally led adaptation planning, to inform investments by the Asian Development Bank’s Coastal Towns Climate Resilience Project.

Dhaka releases its first-ever Climate Action Plan (CAP) to improve lives, reduce pollution and increase resilience to increasing climate impacts.

Local communities bear the brunt of climate change-related disasters, made evident in three municipalities of Nepal (Aathbis, Panchadewal Binayak, and Barbardiya), where residents face challenges recovering from and responding to flooding, landslides and drought. As a result, residents often resort to loans for infrastructure reconstruction, while others relocate entirely.