Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation

19/11/2023

16/11/2023

🌾✨ Celebrating the resilience and strength of rural women and girls on this International Day for Rural Women 2023! 🌍👩‍🌾

GCA project has commemorated this day through a series of events across the five upazilas – Koyra, Dacope, Paikgacha, Shyamnagar, and Assasuni – within our project area.

As a key initiative aligned with the project's objectives, is actively supporting rural women and girls by promoting climate-adaptive livelihoods. By empowering women beneficiaries, the project aims to enhance the adaptive capacities of coastal agricultural communities.

Additionally, GCA project is implementing rainwater harvesting systems in the project area. This initiative ensures gender-responsive access to year-round safe drinking water for targeted households. This not only empowers women and girls but also allows them to reinvest time and cost savings, along with health co-benefits, into improving livelihoods and seizing educational and income-generating opportunities.

14/11/2023

The Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation (GCA) project is empowering the climate vulnerable coastal communities, especially women, as ‘change agents’ to plan, implement, and manage climate resilient livelihoods and drinking water solutions. The project is ensuring that coastal communities, especially women, adopt and implement climate-resilient livelihoods; It is also establishing value-chains/market linkages for these alternatives resilient livelihoods and Communities have knowledge and capacity to continue to monitor, safeguard and adapt livelihoods and livelihood strategies to evolving climate risks.

14/11/2023

জিসিএ প্রকল্প, নারীদের উপর অমূল্যায়িত সেবামূলক কাজের ( Unpaid Care work) বাড়তি বোঝার বিষয়টিতে পরিবর্তন আনার লক্ষ্যে ও একই সাথে উপকূলীয় জনগোষ্ঠীর মধ্যে জেন্ডার সংবেদনশীল পরিবর্তন আনার লক্ষ্যে কাজ করে যাচ্ছে। এই প্রচেষ্টার অংশ হিসাবে, প্রকল্পটি “চলো পৃথিবীটা সাজাই” এই স্লোগান নিয়ে ৩০০০ কিশোর— কিশোরীকে 'এডাপ্টিভ লার্নিং ক্যাম্পেইন' উদ্যোগের আওতায় আনার মাধ্যমে তাদের জেন্ডার সমতামূলক এবং জলবায়ু সচেতন আচরণ সম্পর্কে ধারণা প্রদান এবং তাদের কে 'চেঞ্জ এজেন্ট' হিসেবে গড়ে তোলার প্রয়াস নিয়েছে।
এই ক্যাম্পেইনে অংশগ্রহণকারীরা নানামুখী কার্যক্রমের মাধ্যমে জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন এবং এর বিভিন্ন প্রভাব সম্পর্কে নতুন করে অনেক কিছু জানবে এবং শিখবে। সবচেয়ে গুরুত্বপূর্ণ হলো এর মাধ্যমে অংশগ্রহণকারীরা দায়িত্বশীল হয়ে উঠবে। জলবায়ু পরিবর্তনের বিভিন্ন প্রভাবের শিকার হবার পরিবর্তে তারা এক একজন পরিবর্তনের রূপকার হয়ে উঠবে। নিজেদের পরিবর্তনের পাশাপাশি অংশগ্রহণকারীরা তাদের মতো কিশোর—কিশোরীদের সম্পৃক্ত করবে।

13/08/2023

Empowering the next Generation for Climate Action and Gender Equality! 🌍🌱 Through the Adaptive Learning Campaign, GCA project is nurturing awareness, sustainable habits, and peer learning about climate change and gender responsiveness among 2,945 adolescents in Khulna & Satkhira. By instilling a climate and gender perspective, GCA project is shaping change agents who'll lead resilient, inclusive communities.

‘আমরা ছোটবেলা থেকে প্রাকৃতিক বিপদের মুখোমুখি। আমাদের পরিবারের সাথে দুর্যোগ মোকাবিলা করেই আমরা বেড়ে উঠেছি।

31/07/2023

08/06/2023

🌱 The coastal women of Khulna & Satkhira are embracing a promising solution- Hydroponic Farming with the active support of the GCA project jointly funded by GoB & GCF along with the technical support from UNDP which is helping them dealing with Rising Salinity! 🌊

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Soilless farming called hydroponics where plant growth in nutrient-rich water solutions is offering an immense potential for coastal regions amid a rising salinity.   The coastal regions have been facing not only acute potable water scarcity but also water availability for irrigation as

08/06/2023

Innovative farming methods and the use of earthen pots have pave the way for a greener future in Bangladesh’s vulnerable coastal areas

24/05/2023

The 6th Project Implementation Committee (PIC) of GCA Project (DPHE Part) took place today at the DPHE auditorium. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Md. Sarwar Hossain ,Chief Engineer of DPHE. Mr. Md. Iqbal Hussain, the National Project Director of GCA, Mohammad Iftekhar Hossain, Project Coordination Specialist and representatives from relevant ministries, UNDP and Senior Officials of DPHE attended the meeting.
The objective of the meeting was to review the progress of the last PIC meeting and the overall progress of the water component. The Project is ensuring year-round safe drinking water facilities for nearly 31 thousand households in five Upazilas of Khulna and Satkhira Districts.

11/05/2023

The 7th Project Implementation Committee-Department of Women Affairs (PIC-DWA) meeting of Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation (GCA) project was held on May 10, 2023 at the Conference Room of GCA project, Department of Women Affairs (DWA), Dhaka. The meeting was chaired by Ms. Farida Pervin, Director General, DWA and Additional Secretary.
The objectives of the meeting were to review the progress of the Livelihood Component and Distribution of BDT 1185 lakh allotted in RADP among the beneficiaries through EFT. Mr. Md. Iqbal Hussain, National Project Director, Project GCA and Joint Secretary at MoWCA, Mohammad Iftekhar Hossain, Project Coordination Specialist, Project GCA along with other PIC members from MoWCA, DWA, ERD, IMED participated in this meeting in person and virtually through zoom platform.