The project aims to conduct a country driven self-assessment and develop a strategy and action plan for capacity building in the environmental sector of the country. This project will enable the country to develop a plan of action to achieve global environmental management objectives in the context of the three Conventions relevant for NCSA: CBD, UNFCCC, and UNCCD. The focus of this project is to capture the concerns related to critical capacity constraints for implementing the MEAs; formulate strategic plan how to develop national capacity for thematic issues; increase awareness on various issues with regard to national capacity for the MEAs; and link past and ongoing activities for the MEAs with overall national development policies.

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Asian Elephant, a flagship species, is under threat due to habitat degradation and numerous anthropogenic disturbances. The situation leads towards intense human elephant conflicts in those areas where elephants still roam. Under such situation, IUCN Bangladesh had taken initiatives towards conservation of the species. Two phases of the project have been completed. The ongoing project activities will primarily concentrate in Netrokona, Cox’s Bazar and Rangamati districts of Bangladesh. The goal of the project is to conserve the Asian Elephants in Bangladesh through improving its habitat conditions, making the forest dwelling community aware about conservation importance of Asian Elephants and in this way minimize conflicts between human and elephants.

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This project attempt to establish of an effective and successful networking of professionals working in PA co-management. The major outputs of the project are: PA co-management working group, Experience of PA co-management sharing among PA managers, advocacy for PA co-management, assessment of PA co-management progress, identification of potential sites for new PAs and enhancement of capacity of PA co-managers.

Lack of cultivatable space over the long flooding period is a vital concern in the haors of Bangladesh and it restricts the livelihoods of the local communities. The present project aimed at the promotion of baira cultivation or floating gardening, an age old agricultural system in southern Bangladesh, in the haor area to overcome this constrain. This project will facilitate baira cultivation in the area including consumption/marketing of the products, and to sensitize the local vulnerable people towards this useful technique. Through appropriate capacity building and community organization this initiative will promote baira cultivation as a sustainable alternative livelihood in monsoon as well as in winter through seedling raising and vegetable gardening. The project will test the feasibility of baira introduced in the project area for the enhancement of livelihood, thus the food security of the vulnerable people will be promoted.

The people of Bangladesh are deeply dependent upon the natural resources where biodiversity occupies a significant part. The coastal areas are more vulnerable than any other areas of the country, especially as they suffer from natural calamities. The project focuses on establishing a linkage between biodiversity and livelihoods of the people of a village in Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh. This project will assess the natural capital (i.e. biological resources) available for the people in the project site and document traditional and current dependency on this capital. A participatory action plan will be developed through community initiative to establish the linkages between livelihood and biodiversity, and to encourage people to manage biological resources sustainably. It is expected that this project will demonstrate how a rural community with enhanced awareness and knowledge levels can recognize the importance of biodiversity in their livelihood and practice a sustainable utilization system in an organized manner.

As a follow up of a pilot project (2005-2006), IUCN Bangladesh and CARE Bangladesh have jointly been implementing the ‘Organizing Resource Generation and Nutritional Support (ORGANS)’ project in the haor region of CARE’s SHOUHARDO Program. The project aims to contribute to the food security of the vulnerable population through floating gardening (baira) and associated winter gardening farming initiative. Using the available natural resources, the project will facilitate community mobilization and capacity building to promote sustainable homestead-based year-round agriculture practices as an alternative livelihood option in 100 villages of all the four districts of SHOUHARDO Haor Region over April 2007 to June 2009. In the first year, the project will primarily focus on 25 villages of Kishorganj and Sunamganj Districts covering 250 households with about 1,700 family members. The project envisages to aware and trains the respective Village Development Committees (VDCs), relevant SHOUHARDO Partner NGOs and CARE staff in the project areas. It will further encourage the target farmers to sell possibly the surplus of their produces in the local markets and earning income for household livelihood support.

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The mitigation aspect of climate change has been endeavored through curtailing GHGs emission under the scopes of the Kyoto Protocol. However, mitigation is not enough to alleviate climate change threats. IPCC- Forth Assessment Report (2007) claimed that changes in temperature have had marked impacts on many physical and biological systems of the planet. To reduce threats of this climate change on people lives and ecosystems, it is highly recommended to enhance adaptive capacity. Climate Change Adaptation Target setting project endeavors to set up goal, targets and indicators for adaptation to climate change and climate variability that will lead to establish a common but differentiated framework to achieve adaptive measures to climate change across the world.

The envisioned aim of the project is to develop a format that includes specific goals, targets and indicators to measure and monitor adaptation interventions to enhance adaptability against climate change effects.