Social resilience in the Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE4Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE4Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

OUR PROJECT

International organizations recognize that inhabitants of the Sundarbans, especially coastal communities in the river delta, face multiple climate hazards and are high-risk populations. In response, ENGAGE is a 3.5 year-long research project supporting localized social resiliency within the Sundarbans.

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ENGAGE4Sundarbans: In-Situ Workshop, July 2026

ENGAGE4Sundarbans: In-Situ Workshop, July 2026

Context: In this current phase of ENGAGE4Sundarbans, the prime activity is the Collective Canal Fishing Experimentation (CCFE) in Kumirmari island, assumes the vitality of local canals as a common resource, merits traditional inland fishing practices and brings...

Conventional approaches to climate change adaptation rely on top-down technical solutions and managed relocation of communities, but our ‘living lab’ experimentations build on existing situated adaptive practices to provide alternatives to outmigration.

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