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Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2017 CANSA monthly digest. In 2016 world temperatures hit a record high for the third year in a row, resulting in unprecedented heat in India and ice melt in the Arctic. CANSA and its member organisations in South Asia continue to proactively engage with their respective governments, impacted communities and key stakeholders to mitigate, adapt and survive the worst impacts of climate change. Through this monthly digest we will highlight and share the initiatives of our members so be sure to keep sending in your articles, event details and other organisational news of interest that we will be thrilled to share on our website, social media channels and other partners.
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Climate Change Knows No Borders – CANSA Report on Climate Induced Migration Launched in Dhaka
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CANSA, Action Aid and Bread for the World, (Brot Fuer Die Welt) collaborated to produce first ever report on climate induced migration in South Asia titled ‘Climate Change Knows No Borders ‘ that was launched in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The report is first of its kind analysis of climate induced migration, protection gaps and need for solidarity in South and was launched at the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Dhaka in December 2016. The report continues to be extensively reported in the regional media.
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CANSA-UNICEF-PHIA Project for Women and Child-Centred Climate Action and Disaster Risk Reduction Planning Launched in Thiruvananthapuram
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In 2017 CANSA in partnership with UNICEF India and PHIA will work together with CANSA members in four states – Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) in Uttar Pradesh, , Oxfam and Utkal University in Orissa, IIPM in Sikkim/Assam and Thanal in Kerala on a first of its kind initiative to advoacete for the recognition of vulnerabilities of children and women and inclusion of their role in design and implementation of State Action Plan on Climate change (SAPCC) and State Disaster Risk Reduction Plans (SDRRP) by developing capacity of and collarbarating with relevant government officials, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).
The project was launched at a two days workshop in January 2017 in Thiruvanthapuram to explain the project activities in details, understand the status on ground in terms of implementation of SAPCC and focus of UNICEF State Offices that would carry forward the project activities based on expectations of State Governments, add value to the State UNICEF program by integrating climate aspects for long term climate change co-benefits and strengthen the objectives of CAN South Asia at sub-national level through its member organisations and partners.
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Climate Resilient Kerala – 2nd Roundtable Consultation with Key Stakeholders
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In September 2016, Thanal, UNICEF and Climate Action Network South Asia, hosted ‘Climate Resilient Kerala’, a 2-day workshop in Thiruvananthapuram for policy makers, government officials, civil society organisations, scientists, academicians and media, with the objective of strengthening Kerala’s State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plans. The three main recommendations of the workshop were: a- total revision of the SAPCC with a more participatory planning process, b-integration climate action and disaster risk reduction plans across all the developmental missions of the state government and c- to prioritise the needs of women, children and the most vulnerable peoples in planning and implementation of all programs .
As a direct outcome of the workshop in November 2016, the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DoECC) announced that the Kerala SAPCC is open for revision and has invited inputs from the citizens of the state.
The second consultation in the Climate Resilient Kerala initiative, in January 2017, in partnership with the Government of Kerala once again brought together all key stakeholders to assess options and opportunities to integrate climate action and disaster risk reduction, particularly from the perspective of women and children in the Kerala Government’s Nava Keralam mission.
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Watch this space for further updates on this initiative.
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Welcome ActionAid, Pakistan Country Programme to the CANSA Family!
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ActionAid is an international organisation whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. It helps people in using their own power to fight poverty and injustice. Formed in 1972, for over 40 years, the organisation has been growing and expanding to where it is today — reaching out to over 15 million of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged people in 45 countries worldwide, helping them to fight for and gain their rights to food and land, women rights, democratic governance, climate change, education, emergencies and conflict, HIV and AIDS and youth.
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Welcome Social Scientists' Association Sri Lanka to the CANSA Family!
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The Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) is an organisation working to investigate the way in which social change is contouring the multiple realities faced by communities in Sri Lanka and South Asia. The SSA is deeply committed to promoting a culture of knowledge production that informs and undergirds interventions aimed at achieving social emancipation for marginalised communities. SSA’s work has broadly been categorised under four themes – gender, democracy, conflict resolution & identity, and political economy. It’s work in political economy has been marked by a deep concern with agriculture and its link to the economy, most recently studying the role of women in agriculture.
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Welcome Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the Physically Vulnerable in Bangladesh to the CANSA Family!
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SARPV working for person with disability since 1989 after a catastrophic tornado in Saturia near to Dhaka division. Since then it is working for an inclusive society. After 1991 cyclone it introduced the inclusive Disaster Response for the first time in Bangladesh. It has a large and capable team for disability management and it is specialised on rickets prevention.
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Welcome Social Economic Development Society, Bangladesh to the CANSA Family!
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SEDS was established in 1993 as a nonprofit, non-governmental, non – political, voluntary development organisation (NGO). At the beginning of SEDS few development approaches had been taken in response to the felt needs of the neglected disadvantaged people of the poor communities. Some enthusiastic social worker educationalists and dedicated youth initiated the establishment of the SEDS with a view to educate and help its target beneficiaries improving their over all socio-economical condition and standard of their living.
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Welcome Partnering Hope Into Action Foundation, India to the CANSA Family!
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ActionAid is an international organisation whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. It helps people in using their own power to fight poverty and injustice. Formed in 1972, for over 40 years, the organisation has been growing and expanding to where it is today — reaching out to over 15 million of the world’s poorest and most disadvantaged people in 45 countries worldwide, helping them to fight for and gain their rights to food and land, women rights, democratic governance, climate change, education, emergencies and conflict, HIV and AIDS and youth.
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In 1971, a cyclone strikes Bagapatia, a village close to Bay of Bengal in Kendrapada district in Odisha. The residents, mostly farmers were caught unaware of its ferocity and intensity. The village was inundated by sea level rise that followed the cyclone. Most of the residents are swept away by the water current and died. Mr. Tejan Mondal saved his life by holding on to a tree branch. For next few days he and few survivors lived on tubers and wild leaves till help reached them. He and other victims lost everything that was important to them – family members, home, temple, land, their savings, land records and most importantly their identity.
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