CBA7: Seventh International Conference on Community-based Adaptation
What are the latest approaches for mainstreaming community-based adaptation into international, national and local planning and processes? IIED’s 7th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference (CBA7), co-organised with the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, aims to provide the latest thinking from climate scientists, policy makers and practitioners to answer this question, and to share lessons learned.
The conference will include three days of field visits to projects in Bangladesh to see how communities living in different ecosystems have adapted to climate change, and three days of plenary sessions and interactive sessions at the conference in Dhaka. If you can't make the conference itslelf, you can also sign up as a virtual partcipant and watch video interviews from key speakers and join in the discussions online.
What are the latest approaches for mainstreaming community-based adaptation into international, national and local planning and processes? IIED’s 7th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference (CBA7), co-organised with the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, aims to provide the latest thinking from climate scientists, policy makers and practitioners to answer this question, and to share lessons learned.
Field trips 19 - 21 April CANCELLED
As many of you may have seen in the news, the political situation in Bangladesh is quite volatile with frequent "hartals" (general strikes) being called, which makes travelling around the country inadvisable.
As the security of all our participants is our principal concern, we have decided not to go ahead with the pre-conference field trips. The CBA7 Conference itself will go ahead from 22 - 25 April as planned.
Conference 22 - 25 April
Each day will consist of a plenary session and a number of parallel interactive sessions that will explore how to make community-based adaptation to climate change a mainstream part of national and local planning. Topics covered will include:
- CBA in practice in sectors and regions: water, agriculture and food security, ecosystem‐based approaches, disaster risk reduction, economics, human health, urban areas, children, gender, migration and population
- Knowledge, education and awareness on CBA: challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming adaptation
- Monitoring and evaluation of CBA
Virtual participants
Those unable to attend can register as a Virtual Internet Participant (VIP) to receive all the conference materials and live updates from the event.
You can also participate virtually via this webpage. There will be tweeting and blogging live from the conference, and video interviews with key speakers will also be posted on the webpage.