Developing a Case study on BRAC's Best Practices on CCA & Mitigation

• Project Duration: 2018-2019
• Location: Bangladesh
• Client: BRAC Climate Change Program (CCP)
• Position: Climate Change Specialist

BRAC is a development organization dedicated to the alleviation of poverty by empowering the poor to bring about change in their lives. BRAC was established in Bangladesh in 1972 and over the course of its evolution it has proven itself as a pioneer in recognizing and tackling the many different realities of poverty. Over the course of time BRAC has helped the poorest of the poor - those who are destitute and outside the reach of most NGOs – to rebuild their lives towards achieving financial independence. The organization provides the climate-vulnerable people with access to the tools and knowledge to adapt and respond to the adverse climatic changes and adopt various sustainable practices to combat the impending climatic impacts. BRAC’s work overall is, therefore, contributing to protecting resources, improve quality of life and build awareness about the environment in rural and urban communities.

BRAC ensures integration of climate change related aspect into every stage of programmatic activities and interventions, thereby identifying approaches that could support in responding, minimizing and adapting to localized task and responsibilities. BRAC’s approaches towards tackling climate change impacts are implemented fallowing the organization’s own climate change policies, aligned with international policies and SDG 13. In order to gain an overview of already existing activities that have been designed and implemented, it would be useful for BRAC to compile such ongoing and previous activities (projects, programs, policies and capacity-building efforts and analyses how these have been developed and implemented, supported, funded and overall effectiveness of these interventions and how it helped to tackle the adverse effect of climate change at the national and regional level.