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Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience through Adolescent Leadership

This presentation gives an overview of the collaborative initiative by CWIN - Nepal aimed at empowering adolescents to address climate change challenges in urban settings.

People’s Problems, People’s Solutions, through the People’s Process

This presentation gives an overview of a transformative approach to community engagement and problem-solving.

Sirat Mahmuda

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Dr. Sirat Mahmdua Joined the Economic Relations Division, Ministry of Finance as Deputy Secretary on 5 September 2022. Since then she has been working with the UN Wing mainly dedicated funds including the Green Climate Fund (GCF), Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Adaptation Fund (AF). She is working with the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and V20 and has been assigned as the Focal Point for Global Shield Against Climate Risk in Bangladesh. She drives initiatives that promote climate resilience and sustainable economic development.

Sohel Rana

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Sohel Rana possesses 24 years of experience in civil engineering field focusing urban, rural and water resources development sectors in Bangladesh. He started his career as a research engineer at BUET-DUT linkage project on water management in 2001. Later he joined the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) as Assistant Engineer in 2005.

Climate Resilience of Watersheds, Nepal (pages 42-45)

This article describes the project that intends to improve climate resilience in Nepal’s mountain communities with improved access to reliable water resources for communities in selected watersheds.

Online Report Launch: Bringing Culture into the Conversation on Water Resources Management Policy

The new report, Sociocultural Dimensions in Water Resources Management: Policies, Practices, and Challenges, aims to promote the importance of incorporating sociocultural dimensions in water resources management, an underexplored aspect for achieving water security and climate resilience.

Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Partnership Forum 2025

The Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) is a partnership program to help countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific region scale up investments in climate adaptation, especially investments at the community level, that explicitly target the nexus between climate change, poverty, and gender. The CRPP has a dedicated gender window with funds earmarked specifically for supporting women-focused investments.