Md Saifur Rahman Books

It is well recognized both in the scientific and global community level that Bangladesh is the worst sufferer and potential victims of climate change. Bangladesh is a low lying, highly densely populated countries in the world and her economy depends mostly on agriculture and natural resources that is vulnerable to the impact of climate change. The challenges and impacts of climate change and extreme climatic events on various sector has focused separately. Bangladesh has demonstrated good potential to adapt with adverse impact of climatic and non-climatic variability and extreme events over the generations. The government of Bangladesh has also undertaken several initiatives, policies and programs for adaptation against climate change. The paper has exposed several traditional community level adaptation and highlighted recent government policies, programs and strategies for adaptation against climate change. Finally, the paper fulfills the needs by providing adequate information and recommendation through analyses critically with due consideration of government policies, planning, institutional capabilities and multiple level adaptation strategies and techniques.

Following internationalisation, the influence of non-domestic actors on domestic policy processes has been rising, and diverse actors and institutions have started to extend their influence beyond state borders. The study attempts to analyse how do foreign donors influence domestic policy making process as well as gain power and serve interests employing Bangladeshi forest policies. The study established the idea that donor funding can have an impact on domestic policy changes. In its political process, specific donor (USAID) may build coalition with non-state actors at all level circumventing national bureaucracies to fulfill their desired political interests. They use prominent policy issues like forest biodiversity and climate change to gain particularly incentives and dominant information power capability. Furthermore, in allocating their development aid foreign donor organizations (USAID, GIZ and EU) simultaneously to their formal development-oriented interests, pursue informal political, economic and strategic self-interests.