On a competitive basis, the project provides grant financing to various NGOs to help communities build long-term resilience to climate change impacts. The CCCP project empowers local organizations that can access remote areas where the most vulnerable communities live. The project supported participating communities to raise household plinths and provide opportunities for better and secured livelihood. CCCP has already helped around 15,000 households save their assets and livelihoods from floods. The project aims to help communities adapt to extreme climate changes. To address extreme inland monsoon flooding, the government of Bangladesh has undertaken Community Climate Change Project (CCCP) under the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF). The Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan has identified inland monsoon flooding and tropical cyclones accompanied with storm surges as two of the three major climate hazards for Bangladesh. Frequent floods devastate poor and marginalized communities, destroying their homes and precious assets, year after year.Ĭlimate change scenarios suggest an increase in extreme rainfall coupled with the melting of the Himalayas will contribute to a greater frequency of riverine and flash floods. In early August, rivers like the Brahmaputra, Dharla and Teesta in the northwestern Bangladesh starts to over flow. Electricity is scarce and wood is mostly used as cooking fuel. During the dry season, they travel by walking and cycling. Agriculture is difficult in the sholas because of the presence of sand and frequent inundation of water.

Residents who live on these vast stretches of dry, sandy land usually make living from fishing and farming.

Like Sharifa Begum, many poor families live on sandbars known as chars (shoals) that are spread across the vast Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. Democratic Republic of Congo - Français.

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