Challenges of climate change: GO and NGO approaches in Bangladesh

Abstract

The study focus on the vulnerability to climate change and to show the direction how to attain sustainable development by identifying the major climate change related problems e. g. reduced fresh water availability, surface drainage congestion, sea level rise, increasing floods and costal storms etc. The study tried to examine the way GO and NGO working towards addressing this challenge and what are their lacking and how it can be improved. The study also focus on how the effective collaboration can be made by exchanging and sharing resources and expertise to better cope with the situation and to effectively address the problem. The findings of the study revealed that although plethora of GO and NGOs are working towards addressing the problem their needs to be better coordination among and between the organizations is needed. In this regard strategic partnership specially sharing of experiences, ideas and resources, taking insights from international and experiential knowledge, community involvement can play pivotal role in coping with the situation.