Rozina Haque

Rozina Haque is the Programme Head of the Ultra-Poor Graduation Programme at BRAC. She possesses over 18 years of proven experience in international development, focusing on social protection and economic inclusion and has built thematic expertise in the areas of climate change adaptation, disability inclusion, humanitarian response, urban, and gender.

Building Resilience through the Graduation Approach Recording

A large number of studies and reports exist on the impacts of climate change and disasters and on the efficacy of different response mechanisms of the Government, donors, and various NGOs. More recently, greater attention has been paid to the interface between urbanization, climate change, and vulnerable groups, linked with strengthening resilience in urban areas.

Deepa Joshi

Deepa Joshi is the Gender, Youth and Inclusion Lead at WLE and International Water Management Institutes (IWMI). A feminist political ecologist by training, her research has analysed shifts in environmental policies and how these restructure contextually complex intersections of gender, poverty, class, ethnicity and identity. Her interests lie in connecting gender and environmental discourse to local capacity-building initiatives and advocating for policy-relevant change across developmental institutions.

Gordon Prain

Gordon Prain is a social anthropologist and independent consultant who advises Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) Centers on issues related to urban and rural food systems and food security, gender, and agricultural change processes. Most recently he has been advising a team of CGIAR researchers in the preparation of a global initiative on the contribution of urban and peri-urban agri-food systems to city resilience.

The Role of Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Urban Resilience Recording

Urban households predominantly depend on foods grown from rural and peri-urban areas. Urban agriculture is small-scale and informal, resulting in unstable production and inadequate to meet the growing demands. As a result, poor, vulnerable, and marginalized households in urban areas regularly face food insecurity issues, and they are nutritionally deprived, despite food-related expenses being their significant expenditure.