Enhancing climate resilience among people stressed
NN Report:
Speakers at an event called on all concerned to take steps for raising awareness among people about the importance of climate resilience for the sake of economic activity.
Climate resilience is crucial because it helps communities, ecosystems, and economies cope with and adapt to the impacts of climate change, including rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and sea level rise. Building resilience minimizes the harmful effects of these changes, protects livelihoods, and promotes sustainable development, they observed.
Climate change has triggered an increase in extreme weather events such as floods, storms, wildfires, sea level rise or desertification and droughts. It’s also causing long-term changes to weather patterns that are destroying livelihoods, they said.
Climate resilience is the ability of social, economic and environmental systems to withstand these impacts so that they can thrive in spite of the impact, they observed while addressing a daylong training programme on climate resilience among people at Mohammadpur in the capital.
Coastal Development Partnership (CDP), a NGO working on environment, is now implementing a project titled ‘Promoting Gender-sensitive Climate Resilience and Effective Climate Governance through Locally-Led Climate Resilient Development Model (PROCEED)’ in Mohammadpur area under 32 Ward of Dhaka City North Corporation.
The project is aimed at contributing to making climate resilient country.
As part of the project, a training programme aimed at imparting practical knowledge on climate resilience among the representatives of different section of people (NGOs, CBO, educational institutions, mosques, and business establishments) through flourishing multi-sectoral-based development partnership process was held at CBCB Centre at Asad Avenue in Mohammadpur on Thursday.
A total of 22 participants attended the event.
CDP along with multi-actor partners (MAP) will work in that ward till May, 2027 for building climate resilience in the area.
The speakers said, as many communities and natural environments around the world already suffer climate change impacts, it has become a major priority to take actions that reduce vulnerability to these impacts, especially by taking actions to increase their capacity to enact climate change adaptation. Addressing the climate-related risks can not only protect people and property, but also generate economic activity that will create domestic jobs and drive prosperity.
Representatives from MOMODA, CPD, Prenoa CBO, Lalmatia Mohila College, BRED, Voice, Development Wheel, Disabled Development Society, CGRDS, Swanirvor Unnoto Karjacram Foundation, SHIELD, and Sobar Torei Foundation took part at the event.
Jahangir Hasan Masum, Executive Director of CDP; Adourd A Madhu, Senior Programme Manager of CDP; Shahida Amin Priyanka, Gender and Development Manager of CDP; Nazmun Taiyeba Propa, Area Coordinator of CDP; and Akib Ahsan, Resource Mobilization Coordinator of CDP; were among the trainers who also moderated the event.