Bangladesh is the world’s seventh most climate-vulnerable country. Many of its most climate-vulnerable regions are also quickly becoming its poorest.
Households in the most climate-vulnerable areas of the country are now spending up to half of their incomes on climate disasters. We focus on supporting communities to strengthen their resilience and ability to adapt to an increasingly unpredictable climate. Our network of climate adaptation clinics act as a one-stop service centres for farmers to get information, access high-quality inputs, and use services like crop storage.
As climate impacts disrupt access to basic services like water, we work with households and communities to scale locally-led solutions like rain water harvesting systems. We promote nature-based solutions, and work with communities to scale initiatives like agroforestry and afforestation - and our climate information services deliver actionable climate information that reaches farmers.
180,000
farmers provided with climate-adaptive training
110,000
people equipped with access to rainwater harvesting systems
700,000
trees and mangroves planted
Climate-smart agriculture in Khulna, Satkhira, and Sirajganj
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Battling the climate and global edible oil crises with sunflowers
Most households in Bangladesh use oil to cook meals three times every day. Since neither soybeans nor palms are grown on a large scale in Bangladesh, 90% of the country’s cooking oil is imported. However, a group of Bangladeshi farmers are trying to change that.
According to Bangladesh’s Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), the average food expenditure for a family is approximately BDT 18,335 (USD 150) a month in the country. Yet, the average farmer earns only about BDT 12,223 (USD 100) a month. -
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Rethinking shelter: Bangladesh’s new approach to protecting lives and livelihoods
A piece from the Global Center for Adaptation shares how BRAC is rethinking shelter amid climate shocks.
BRAC has been constructing climate-resilient houses that double as mini cyclone shelters. This adaptation approach has been locally led by communities using existing resources and has resulted in 35 small two-story structures that serve as homes on a daily basis and mini shelters during cyclones or tidal surges. -
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Adaptation clinic: An exemplary advisory service to the climate vulnerable farmers in Bangladesh
An article in The Business Standard shares the latest climate innovation from BRAC.
From 2018, BRAC's Climate Change Program initiates an extension service approach titled as ‘Adaptation Clinic’, from where farmers can avail primary extension services related to their crop production such as diseases problem, crop variety selection, climate adaptive technologies in agriculture. -
We must prioritise locally-led solutions that can catalyse sustainable economic growth. Experience demonstrates that effective solutions emerge when communities themselves identify the challenges they are facing and co-create solutions for them.”
Asif Saleh
Executive Director, BRAC
