Click the star to add/remove an item to/from your individual schedule.
You need to be logged in to avail of this functionality.
Log in
Accepted Paper:
Is the National Plan for Disaster Management enough to reduce the vulnerabilities of the ultra-poor women in the coastal area of Bangladesh?
Taslima Aktar
(Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD),Brac University)
Tasfia Mehzabin
(BIGD, Brac University)
Lopita Huq
(Brac Institute Of Governance And Development (Bigd))
Paper short abstract:
Ultra-poor women experience poverty and climate change differently. Drawing on livelihood experience of ultra-poor women in costal Bangladesh, this paper examines the necessity for ultra-poor women specific policies to reduce their vulnerability and strengthen their resilience to climate change.
Paper long abstract:
Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. The National Plan for Disaster Management 2021-2025 integrates previous disaster management policies including national climate change policies to undertake strategies and actions to reduce vulnerabilities, especially of the poor and women, save lives and minimize economic losses. Using the framework of community based climate adaptation it promotes livelihood strategies for the poor. However, 26.7% of Bangladesh's coastal population in the south-west is ultra-poor, majority of who are women (World Vision Component Brief 2020). Ultra-poor women are characterized and differentiated from other poverty groups in terms of limited access to natural and social resources, absence of asset ownership, low level of education and skills, exposure to violence, malnourishment and disease (Halder & Mosley, 2004). Their needs for climate resilience may be different from other poor women for their unique challenges. This paper seeks to understand the specific experiences of climate change among ultra-poor women in coastal Bangladesh to identify their particular needs and examine the necessity for ultra-poor women specific policies. The paper draws on 40 life histories and 9 FGDs with ultra-poor women with different poverty experiences gathered as part of a research on a World Vision intervention integrating ultra-poor graduation with multi sectorial interventions for sustained poverty escapes in south-west coastal Bangladesh. The paper concludes that policies that generalize the vulnerability of the poor may need to be re-oriented to the specific needs of ultra-poor women to reduce their vulnerability and strengthen their resilience to climate change.
Click the star to add/remove an item to/from your individual schedule.
You need to be logged in to avail of this functionality. Log in
Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. The National Plan for Disaster Management 2021-2025 integrates previous disaster management policies including national climate change policies to undertake strategies and actions to reduce vulnerabilities, especially of the poor and women, save lives and minimize economic losses. Using the framework of community based climate adaptation it promotes livelihood strategies for the poor. However, 26.7% of Bangladesh's coastal population in the south-west is ultra-poor, majority of who are women (World Vision Component Brief 2020). Ultra-poor women are characterized and differentiated from other poverty groups in terms of limited access to natural and social resources, absence of asset ownership, low level of education and skills, exposure to violence, malnourishment and disease (Halder & Mosley, 2004). Their needs for climate resilience may be different from other poor women for their unique challenges. This paper seeks to understand the specific experiences of climate change among ultra-poor women in coastal Bangladesh to identify their particular needs and examine the necessity for ultra-poor women specific policies. The paper draws on 40 life histories and 9 FGDs with ultra-poor women with different poverty experiences gathered as part of a research on a World Vision intervention integrating ultra-poor graduation with multi sectorial interventions for sustained poverty escapes in south-west coastal Bangladesh. The paper concludes that policies that generalize the vulnerability of the poor may need to be re-oriented to the specific needs of ultra-poor women to reduce their vulnerability and strengthen their resilience to climate change.
Poverty and climate change
Session 1 Friday 8 July, 2022, -