Adapting to a Changing Environment

TREE-Training Research Education for empowerment

Savar, Bangladés

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
Ecosistema
Freshwater
Freshwater
Tipo de comunidad
Urban
Urban
Suburban
Suburban
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: Asia
General Info

Dirección

Bangladesh
Savar -
Bangladés

Correo electrónico

tree_bd@yahoo.com
Problem

Size

Ethnic and religious breakdown: Muslim 88.59% Hindu 10.41%, Christian 0.93% Buddhist 0.03% and Others 0.04%, and ethnic minority group nationals numbered 319 including Buno, Garo, Sangma and Barman.

Ocupaciones principales

Saver is one of the largest populated upzila in the country and population is increasing rapidly total population is 1,385,910 in the year 2011. Male female population is 54.20% and 45.80%.

Recursos locales de los que depende la comunidad y con qué propósito

Agriculture 24.34% Agricultural labors 12.84% Wage laborer 4.44% Cattle breeding, forestry and fishing 1.90% Industry 1.37% Commerce 17.35% Service 20.68% Construction 1.66% Transport 3.96% and flow Others 11.46%

Amenazas locales a los recursos

Surface river water, traditional fishing livelihoods, agriculture, and other domestic use

Riesgos climáticos

Industrial pollution and low watre flow

Nivel de sensibilidad

All the rivers around the Dhaka capital of Bangladesh namely Turag, Balu, Dalshwari, Shytalakhya, Burignaga and Bangshi are being seriously polluted by industrial and municipal waste. Since there is low water flow from the upstream and pollution concentrated in one place and become polluted destroy water ecosystem killed other fish and other aqua resources create imbalance in ecology and the environment.

Nivel de capacidad adaptativa

Water and life are interrelated, without water there is no questions of life again polluted water is threatening to live, low water affects livelihoods create conflicts among the communities and different user groups and affect whole ecosystems. .
Solution

We are in a process to success it is not that we have already been successful of endeavor? there bureaucracy, local and national politics. Some powerful community i.e. business community is also the stakeholders of the project. We are able to involve local elected representative (Pathalia union parisad) with us. We have done an intensive survey of a village called Ghugudia and found that fishing and farming community are in the most vulnerable position from the case. The issue of decisions making is a very complex one its not such that they can take the decision that industries who are polluting the river will be punished and compensate to the farmers and traditional fishing community, its a collective issue and we try to bring them their opinion and suggestion in the top of the list. Department of Environment (DoE), Ministry of Environment and Forest, the government of Bangladesh, Jahangirnagr University, every school (primary and secondary) alongside the river Bangshi, Alumni of the Future Generations Graduate School, and The Global Citizen Initiatives (TGCI) (www.gcitizen.org ) are partners of the project

Results

Beneficio ecológico

Due to pollution in the Banghsi river there mono fish culture introduce at local fish ponds

Indicadores económicos utilizados para medir el beneficio

Diversified and various types local species will be revive in the river

Costo comunitario/social

Villagers mentions there no fishing cats along side the river as there is no fish or other things to eat for them

Beneficio comunitario/social

It is to some extend against of human rights to force from their ancestors occupations. Bring back of the traditional fishing profession is peace building as they will not conflicts with other occupation other than voluntary choice

Indicadores comunitarios/sociales utilizados para medir el beneficio

More people in the formal jobs and income generations activities also improve the community purchase power. Some members of the fishing family may encourage to work in the factory and their income will help other member harvest less and not to catch small fish in the rivers (such as million of Hilsa (national fish of Bangladesh) fry catch by the fisherman because of no or low income.
Action

Describa el proceso basado en la comunidad utilizado para desarrollar la solución, incluidas las herramientas y los procesos utilizados.

The people of this land have the huge resilience to cope with many natural calamities such as seasonal flash floods, drought, cyclone but climate change is more than natural and it is more on human inducing. Therefore new and innovative approaches are important. Within the limited resource there needs a good local resource use planning. Different users group i.e. Industry, agriculture and domestic users should have fare share and equal access to local resource i.e. Water.

Peligro climático de preocupación

Clean up of the pollution create open access for all into the river, reduce ground water demand, the traditional fishing community gets back their livelihood. Since industries are an important sector for creating employment, once its stop polluting local

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege el ecosistema afectado?

Changing temperatures and weather patterns

How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?

Pollution in the river reduces the fish production and other water living i.e. insects and others. Therefore to stop pollution at local level simply contributing to global climate issue. Such as once due to climate change reduce water flow or stream temperature polluted the water, there local initiatives to reduce pollution add value to local climate change adaptation.

¿Cómo reduce su solución la exposición y amortigua/protege a las comunidades afectadas?

Reduction of pollution enhance the tolerance of species, hence to increase capacity to adapt to potential climate change

¿Cómo su solución reduce la sensibilidad de las comunidades afectadas?

Fishing and farmer community have more diversified adaptive opted as industries create more employment in the community and not reducing the job opportunities by polluting the river.

Scale

¿Se puede replicar esta solución en otros lugares?

Local politics and industrialist are main barriers for the success. Such as businessman wants profit by any means and they just polluting local environment and water. However, for time being they think they are benefited themselves but in the long run in questions of their next/future generations they came to realize all these are harmful for them. Not every one some business people join with the activities and we are continuing with our advocacy and social mobilization campaign, lobbing with local government and political groups for work together in the project.

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