Civil society/NGOs

This report explores the local resilience agents (LRAs) approach implemented by Practical Action in Bangladesh.

Humanitarian groups have pushed ahead with innovative efforts to protect people in conflict zones from worsening climate impacts – but they are struggling to go it alone.

This research aims to investigate the impacts of external interventions on the responsive adaptation process by studying a riverside flood-prone urban slum in Bangladesh.

This report details an ARA learning journey that identified existing mechanisms for locally-led adaptation, examined community members’ experiences in financing LLA projects, and investigated ways to foster better collaboration and mutual understanding.

Drawing on a qualitative approach and situated in a disaster-vulnerable community of Dome, Greater Accra, this paper unpacks the activities of Faith-based Organisations (FBOs) in filling the voids in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.

This case study analyses preparedness, actions and results on the part of election officials and their election emergency policies in New Jersey and neighbouring states on the East Coast of the United States, amid Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Community health worker Noushadbi Mujawar safely evacuated everyone from Rajapur, an isolated village in India, as its streets began flooding in August 2019. Mujawar, 42, remained in the village herself even as floodwaters rose 12 feet above her house.

This case study shows how UNICEF, the Government of Madagascar and civil society are working together to pilot a ground-breaking, innovative finance solution that includes a child-responsive, parametric risk transfer product for tropical cyclones.