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Mr. Kisinger Chakma
University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences

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0 Governance and policy making
0 Disaster and emergency management
0 Climate adaptation & resilience
0 Disaster and risk management

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Chakma Kisinger is a cadre officer of the Bangladesh Civil Service under the Ministry of Public Administration in Bangladesh. He is also conducting doctoral research under the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is a research fellow of the Japan Human Resource Development Scholarship Program, which is funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

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Published: 12 July 2021 in Sustainability
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Population displacement by extreme weather events have long plagued Bangladesh, a low-lying disaster-prone river delta. The country experiences yearly displacement of approximately one million people and losses of about 1% of its gross domestic product due to cyclones, floods, and riverbank erosion. This study examines how the Bangladesh government has managed climate-induced displacement with a particular focus on socioeconomic development policies. We analyzed the country’s 1984 Land Reform Ordinance, the 2009 climate change strategy and action plan, the 1997 agricultural Khasland settlement policy, perspective plan for 2010–2021, poverty reduction strategy paper, and five-year plans to understand governance changes for displaced communities. We found that, overall, the central government implemented four main strategies. In the first strategy, Bangladesh resettled displaced people in cluster villages on public lands. Then, it provided life skills training (e.g., leadership, disaster preparedness, income generation) to rehabilitate the residents. The third strategy was to align resettlement efforts with local-level climate change adaptation and poverty reduction activities. Here, the central government and its seventeen departments collaborated with local councils to support resettled households under the social safety program. The fourth strategy was to diversify financial resources by obtaining more fund from donors and establishing its own financial mechanism. However, we also found that the decision-making and implementation process remained top-down without need assessment and community participation. This paper intends to offer insights on how similar challenged countries and regions may respond to climate displacement in the future.

ACS Style

Chakma Kisinger; Kenichi Matsui. Responding to Climate-Induced Displacement in Bangladesh: A Governance Perspective. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7788 .

AMA Style

Chakma Kisinger, Kenichi Matsui. Responding to Climate-Induced Displacement in Bangladesh: A Governance Perspective. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7788.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Chakma Kisinger; Kenichi Matsui. 2021. "Responding to Climate-Induced Displacement in Bangladesh: A Governance Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7788.