Interactive game from CDKN explores how people cope with climate change and create solutions
How would you feel if you faced climate hazards - in someone else’s shoes? How would your age, your physical and mental abilities, your health, the way other people treat you affect how you could respond? An interactive role-playing game by CDKN uses a colourful cast of characters to explore exactly these questions.
Resource
22nd September 2020
Inside Story: Fostering peri-urban resilience: Gender-responsive approaches in northern India
In Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) has been working with local people, mostly farmers on small and marginal plots, to address climate change and to empower women. GEAG's recent experiences in peri-urban areas are now summarised in a 'CDKN Inside Story on climate compatible development'.
Voices from the Frontline highlights lessons for climate resilience
CDKN's Director Shehnaaz Moosa speaks to the Paris Committee on Capacity-Building (PCCB) about the 'Voices from the Frontline' initiative by CDKN and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD).
Feature
31st August 2020
Community savings groups play crucial role in Bangladesh during Covid-19 crisis
Community savings groups in rural southwest Bangladesh are helping to revive local economies devastated by the double impacts of COVID-19 and cyclone Amphan. Saeqah Kabir reports. This is the thirteenth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN.
The making of female eco-entrepreneurs - Experience from Hyderabad, India
Achu Sekhar of ICLEI South Asia describes how the efforts of a handful of dedicated women have led to a hugely successful female enterprise in the city of Hyderabad which is overcoming plastic waste and providing a inspiring example for others to follow.
India's grandmothers harvest new social status from climate-smart farming
As they learn techniques to help them get a harvest even in the face of climate pressures, rural women are winning new respect and clout. Training in climate-smart agriculture is empowering women. Roli Srivastava reports.