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13 July 2026

This case study explores how Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) approaches strengthened locally-led climate resilience in Dhangadhi, Nepal. Through community-led planning and collaboration with local authorities, communities transformed Raptauna Lake into a community-owned nature-based solution that improved water security and strengthened local ownership.

• Climate change
• Community Champions
• Community-led solutions

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13 July 2026

This case study explores how Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA) approaches strengthened community-led conservation in Kailali, Nepal. By building on indigenous knowledge, existing community systems, and collaboration with local authorities, the project strengthened biodiversity conservation, local leadership, and community ownership.

• Climate change
• Community-led solutions
• Indigenous knowledge

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9 June 2026

This technical note outlines why community insights and trust are fundamental to effective social protection systems for climate resilience, and how they can be systematically integrated into programme design and implementation.

• Climate change
• Trust
• Social Protection

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12 May 2026

A PowerPoint training module designed for inclusion in training courses on locally led adaptation (LLA). It introduces Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA), explores its role in supporting effective LLA, and provides practical guidance on strengthening community engagement throughout the assessment, design, and implementation phases.

• CEA training
• Locally-led adaption

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28 April 2026

This condensed BDRCS and NLRC study explores how community engagement and accountability (CEA) drives effective locally led adaptation (LLA) in Khulna and Tangail, Bangladesh. Using surveys and focus groups, it shows that inclusive, transparent, and responsive engagement is central to building community ownership, trust, and sustained local leadership. The study also highlights key constraints and offers practical recommendations for embedding CEA in climate adaptation programming.

• Climate change
• Community-led solutions
• Extreme weather

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28 April 2026

This BDRCS and NLRC study explores how community engagement and accountability (CEA) drives effective locally led adaptation (LLA) in Khulna and Tangail, Bangladesh. Using surveys and focus groups, it shows that inclusive, transparent, and responsive engagement is central to building community ownership, trust, and sustained local leadership. The study also highlights key constraints and offers practical recommendations for embedding CEA in climate adaptation programming.

• Climate change
• Community-led solutions
• Extreme weather

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23 April 2026

This case study shows how the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society worked with coastal communities in Paikgacha, Khulna, to strengthen resilience in the face of recurring climate shocks. By embedding CEA throughout the programme, communities helped shape disaster risk reduction measures, livelihoods, and infrastructure improvements that reflected local priorities and built trust.

• Case study
• Climate change
• Community-led solutions

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23 April 2026

This case study shows how the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society embedded CEA throughout a flood‑prone resilience programme in Jamalpur. Through participatory assessments, community‑led planning, transparent decision‑making, and ongoing feedback mechanisms, communities shaped priorities and influenced implementation, resulting in more inclusive, trusted, and locally owned solutions.

• Climate change
• Community-led solutions
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

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12 March 2026

This case study documents the first pilot of the Child School Trust Index (CSTI), conducted by the Dominican Republic Red Cross with IFRC support. Developed to capture children’s perceptions of trust in school‑based early warning and protection systems, the index was piloted to test its ethical, operational, and methodological feasibility. The study highlights how the pilot was designed and implemented, the safeguards that ensured its ethical use, and the key learning generated through this applied social‑science exercise in a humanitarian context.

• Anticipatory action
• Children
• Climate change

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28 January 2026

A comprehensive guide to anticipatory action for displaced people and refugees centred on the Middle East and North African region. The guide includes information, tools, short case studies and practical activities that provide actionable, useful and eventually impactful outcomes relating to co-production of AA for displaced people.

• Anticipatory action
• CEA and Migration
• Climate change

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22 January 2026

This practical guide explains what “meaningful participation” looks like in Red Cross Red Crescent work and how to apply it in a realistic and structured way across programmes. It includes key concepts, practical recommendations, and examples from National Societies to support participation that is inclusive, safe, and leads to tangible outcomes.

• Inclusion
• Meaningful participation
• Migrants

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6 October 2025

This case study highlights the experience of three National Societies — Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Chad — in establishing community-based food security and livelihoods surveillance mechanisms. The document outlines key steps for setting up these mechanisms and shares practical lessons on aligning with national early warning systems, anticipatory action, and shock-responsive social protection.

• Anticipatory action
• CEA and Food Insecurity
• Climate change

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