JJS - Jagrata Juba Shangha

Jagrata Juba Shangha (JJS) is a community-rooted NGO in Khulna, Bangladesh, working since 1985 to build a society free from violence and discrimination through human rights, child protection, climate action, and environmental justice. The JJS
Jagrata Juba Sangha (JJS) is a regional, non-government, development organization that seeks to advance scientific knowledge and practices in the field of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, health and sanitation and sustainable livelihood to help coastal population better prepare against the impacts of both climatic and non-climatic factors. It has been working in this region for about 20 years to build a sustainable resilient coastal community with the supports of various donors including European Union (EU), GIZ, JICA. Bangladesh being a deltaic coastal country is one of the worst victim of the impacts of climate change. Khulna region, located at the south-west corner of coastal Bangladesh is frequently ravaged multiplicity of hydro-meteorological disaster such as coastal flooding, cyclones, tidal surges, salinity intrusion. Scientific evidences has established a link between likely rise of seas level and submersion of vast areas of south-west coast in Bangladesh. Therefore, livelihood of more than 35 million coastal populations who are dependent on coastal resources is in constant threat. Any pragmatic initiatives to respond against the impacts of these disastrous events would require solid information on how the coastal hydrology, soil, land use would be affected in the changing context of climate. Furthermore, to make such initiatives more participatory knowing how peoples are currently responding against these climatic disasters is an urgent issue. Therefore, JJS being a leading development NGO in the South-west coastal regions have been organizing a conference series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation since 2012. This year the theme of the conference is Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation in South-west Coastal Bangladesh.