MainDBNew: Gana Unnayan Kendra
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Gana Unnayan Kendra
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http://gukbd.net, http://gukbd.net
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Non-governmental organization - NGO
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GUK
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Adaptation planning and practices; Capacity building; Climate observations; Climate scenarios; Communication and outreach/awareness; Education and training; Financial support; Impact assessment; Knowledge management; Monitoring and evaluation/M＆E; Science and research; Socio-economic data and information; Stakeholder involvement; Vulnerability assessment
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Adaptation finance; Agriculture; Community-based adaptation; Disaster risk reduction; Energy; Food security; Gender; Health
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Desertification; Drought; Floods; Increasing temperatures; Land and forest degradation; Loss of biodiversity; Salinization; Sea level rise; Shift of seasons; Storm surges
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Gana Unnayan Kendra (GUK), a community led development organization has been working since 1985 for the poor and extreme poor people in Bangladesh covering 11 districts in the northwest part of Bangladesh. Most of the working areas of GUK are disaster prone and vulnerable due to climate change. Through 31 years continuous and sincere efforts, it has been possible for GUK to achieve significant success particularly in the arena of strengthening leadership quality of grassroots poor, empowerment of women, ensuring employment and livelihood of poor and extreme poor, disaster management, emergency humanitarian support, health and sanitation, access to local resources, primary education and mass awareness in changing patriarchic as well as conservative mindset. So far, altogether about 65,000 families came out from extreme poverty situation through financial and technical support of GUK. Besides, approximately 150,000 families are directly involved at present in different interventions of the organization. GUK is also accredited NGO of UNFCCC, UNCCD and other organizations.
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Created at 10/10/2018 14:30 by Serkant Samurkas
Last modified at 10/10/2018 14:30 by Serkant Samurkas
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