Project Details

Title :   CLIMATE JUSTICE

Description :   ISDE Bangladesh has been implementing a number of activities to response the climate changes issues of the targeted people and it has integrated the climate change issues with its ongoing programme. It has become an active member of Climate Action Network-South Asia (CANSA), Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods-CSRL and NGO Coordination Council for Climate Change (NC4) networks. ISDE integrated nature and conservation education, livelihood of hardcore and coastal communities specially the fishing communities, disaster risk reduction, agricultural, coastal fishing community development programme etc with its normal programme in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong hill tracts districts. ISDE is implementing Community based Climate Resilience Initiatives in Coastal Areas of Bangladesh’ In Chakaria Upazila under Cox’s Bazar coastal areas under the support from WJR UK from April 2022. This is a pilot project for 10 months and later it will continue for further years. The major activities under this project is Awareness Raising on climate vulnerabilities and risk, Distribution of IEC Materials to the community peoples, Develop self-help group(SHG) with coastal communities and enhanced capacity of the coastal communities to cope with the climate vulnerabilities and risk, Develop Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment for coastal unions of Chakaria, Cox’s Bazar, Build capacity of climate vulnerable peoples to resolve livelihoods, Provide alternative livelihood support to selected climate vulnerable peoples, Build capacity of local government institutions, CSOs on climate responsive development. ISDE also become active member of Bangladesh Working Group on External Debt (BWGED) and Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR). Under this its playing an important role to organize advocacy issues on disaster risk reduction, climate vulnerability and risk, infrastructure monitoring of climate and energy related development projects, advocacy and awareness on energy rights, protect price hikes, promote renewable and green energy, advocacy on water logging, hill cutting and land slide related issues. ISDE develop some local actors to drive resilience building actions at the frontline. The actors playing important role to raise voice at the grassroots in many social issues which is hamper the environment, climate and energy issues.

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