Empowering communities to advocate for their own resilience
This case study shows how simultaneously providing communities with hard evidence of capacities and needs while strengthening community-government relationships can lead to local government investment in resilience. By brokering community-government relationships, co-producing evidence-based knowledge on community flood resilience needs, and building community capacity to manage flood risk and advocate for themselves, Concern Worldwide Bangladesh (Concern) supported 21 char communities in Bangladesh to overcome the mindset that “floods are a regular event that will happen and we have to suffer”.
The programme also influenced local government investment in community flood resilience activities. As a result, several institutes have started investing in activities such as installing flood-resilient tube wells, providing livestock vaccination and treatment, distributing climate-tolerant seed, elevating and protecting roads, and repairing bridges.
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