The 13th international conference on community based adaptation to climate change (CBA13) brought together practitioners, grassroots representatives, local and national government planners, policymakers and donors working at all levels and scales to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future which is led by the community.Cognitive learning techniques the conference took place on april 1 to april 4, 2019 in addis ababa in ethiopia and offered four days of discussion and debates, skill sharing and knowledge exchanges.Cognitive learning techniques

This opportunity was great for BRAC’s climate change programme (CCP) to join CBA 13 as there have been an enormous number of takeaways which are essential to plan for a paradigm shift to combat the severity of climate change impacts.Cognitive learning techniques A total of 8 members, represented BRAC bangladesh and BRAC international countries attended CBA 13. Dr saleemul huq, advisor climate change programme, was among the BRAC team members.Cognitive learning techniques attending with others provided an excellent opportunity for BRAC to have a look at what is being discussed at the international level and at the same time share what the community-based adaptation that BRAC has been doing as best practices.Cognitive learning techniques

Climate change hits the poor hardest. BRAC believes that poor people lack the opportunity to change their lives and BRAC works to link people with opportunity and options appropriate.Cognitive learning techniques as a change catalyst, BRAC has a more extensive portfolio and successful track record on facilitating opportunity creations; it has become a real means of reducing poverty by improving both people’s standard of living and economic self-sufficiency, as well as offering a pathway to education, health care and equity between men and women and adaptation to the climate change.Cognitive learning techniques

Community-based adaptation is a community-led process where communities’ are the owner of their choices, priorities, knowledge need and capacities.Cognitive learning techniques CBA is an excellent method to eradicate poverty by improving livelihood, communities in order to plan for coping with the impacts of climate change.Cognitive learning techniques to do so, strengthening resource mobilisation must seek linkages between climate change finance and countries’ long term planning and budgeting by mainstreaming climate change in every aspect.Cognitive learning techniques

On this note, BRAC has that capacity to strategies this source of financing for resource mobilisation in order to establish community-based adaptation and can play a vital role to tackle future impacts of climate change.Cognitive learning techniques it would be a mutually beneficial approach due to their association with livelihoods, assets and money-generating activities used by households for consumption, coping with uncertainties and responding to new opportunities.Cognitive learning techniques

On the other hand, BRAC’s ultra poor graduation programme (UPGP) is driving a large number of beneficiaries towards creating income sources to come out of poverty and graduate to receiving microloans by making them financially capable and socially acceptable in the community.Cognitive learning techniques BRAC WASH programme is providing hard and soft solution for climate change adaptation.

One of the most talked windows for climate financing, which the green climate fund (GCF) is the new hope for vulnerable climate countries.Cognitive learning techniques GCF is committed to fighting climate change and must ensure a sufficient flow of at least 50% resource for adaptation that supports resilient activities.Cognitive learning techniques what we must do is to ensure the funding to be driven towards the priority actions in favour of communities regarding climate change adaptation.Cognitive learning techniques

On the discourse on adaptation technology—it must be obtainable, sustainable and expandable to go further. However, the CBA has extended its discussion on the following technologies which are limited to the level of effectiveness for community-based adaptation to climate change as of now.Cognitive learning techniques the approach will only be successful if it reaches the communities where lives and livelihoods are threatened by climate change. More research and piloting is required to make it a game changer.Cognitive learning techniques

CBA platform can be useful as a source of identifying community-based funding to take the effort forward in a more meaningful way. Ensuring successful CBA at a larger scale requires integrated funding sources and institutional arraignments within the relevant stakeholders.Cognitive learning techniques the characteristics of this kind of collaboration have to be flexible enough to allow communities to remain in the driving seat of their initiatives, and there is a belief that CBA would be successful in achieving that.Cognitive learning techniques