期刊
LOCAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 26, 期 9, 页码 1092-1108出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2021.1962829
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Climate change; community; NGO; participation; planned adaptation
The involvement of external agencies in funding, planning, and implementation of community-based adaptation projects in Bangladesh negatively impacts the principles of CBA, leading NGO-initiated interventions to repeat past mistakes. To ensure future initiatives align with and prioritize community needs, it is essential to deconstruct NGO interventions and provide flexible funding, planning, and implementation structures.
Community-based planned adaptation has become a popular vehicle for building the adaptive capacity of communities vulnerable to climate change. In the global south, planned adaptation interventions are often implemented by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with the support of bilateral and multilateral donors. This paper examines the influence of external agencies involved in funding, planning and implementation of community-based adaptation (CBA) initiatives in Bangladesh. We show that the principles of CBA are negatively impacted by top-down project design, simplistic notions of community, lack of downward accountability and pressures to meet tight timeframes. We found that NGO-initiated CBA interventions tended to repeat the past mistakes of bottom-up approaches, primarily because of embedded institutional culture that inhibits the possibility of achieving socially just, effective and sustainable adaptation outcomes in Bangladesh. We argue that the automatic and normative attribution of NGO interventions as being good needs deconstructing to ensure that future initiatives are aligned with and prioritise community needs over external expectations. This requires flexible funding, planning and implementation structure for adaptation projects, which may forge new ways of engaging communities and locally led innovation to adapt to climate change.
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