 Let me start off. Thank you everyone for coming in. My name is Adnan Kathir. I'm currently working as an advocacy officer for the Water and Climate Campaign for Water Aid Bangladesh. I'll be moderating today's session titled Bringing Community Voices in Water and Climate Camp in Policy Discourse hosted by Water Aid Bangladesh and the International Center for Climate Change and Development. Our session will be divided into three parts. The first half an hour would be the storytelling round, the next half an hour would be the breakout room discussion, and lastly we will have a feedback round where we will also be taking your questions. So our session will look into how we can convert stories from the grassroots level into effective advocacy strategies and bridge existing gaps in the current status quo. We have three goals, winning the global argument to use wash as an effective climate adaptation strategy. The second goal would be how can we make climate finance more inclusive, especially through the lens of GCF so that we can develop high level wash adaptation bits in the future. And lastly figuring out effective pathways for multisexual collaboration or coalitions to make our communities we are working for more resilience to climate change impact. Now stories have existed for a long time, especially from communities and today our session will share four such stories. And we'll use that as a pathway for discussion on how we can achieve the same targets as I mentioned earlier. So without any further ado, I'd like to introduce Hasin Jahan, who is the director for WaterAid Bangladesh. He's been working in the sector, the wash sector for the last 25 years. Prior to joining as country director for WaterAid Bangladesh, she was the country director for practical action, and she's been involved in other work with the government and other partners as well. So without any further ado, Aapa, over to you. Thank you very much. Can you please show the slides? Yeah. Chandler, can you go to the next one? Yeah. Yeah, please. Next slide please. Yeah. Thank you so much. Welcome everybody. According to the climate change index Bangladesh ranks ninth among the most vulnerable countries, the frequency of extreme events has already increased. Average temperature has risen and the duration of winter period has shortened. There is sea level rise leading to increase in salinity, both in river water as well as in soil. The climate change related phenomena are prominent in coastal belt of Bangladesh and over 30 million people across the coastal line are facing the consequence of climate change. The next slide please. Drinking water is a curse in coastal belt. The shallow water aquifer, aquifer is contaminated with arsenic and iron, while the deep aquifer is contaminated with salinity except a few pockets of sweet or portable water. At the same time, river water is also saline due to tidal effect, but it remains saline part of the year, not maybe all the time of the year. People mostly depend on pond water, which is basically the rainwater. They also use rainwater harvesting plants at household level or community level, but these rainwater harvesting plants are not remaining operation around the year. So that's the problem. Next slide please. Gender inequalities persist and men and women experience the impacts of climate change very differently. Let me explain a bit how climate change impacts differently for women. Women have to travel a few kilometers, which may take hours to collect water for domestic purpose. Girls drop out from schools to help their mothers. Women and girls suffer from sexual enhancement while carrying water from distant places at dark. Within such prevailing context, my story begins. Next slide please. Tamina, a bold lady from Shamnapur, one of the coastal village, took the courage to set up a water business. She lives in a village, as I mentioned in the coastal area, which was washed away by Cyclone Isla in 2009. And all the ponds of that village were overgrown by the tidal surge during that cyclone. As a result, the villagers actually suffered, started suffering from having a safe potable water source. And they depend mostly on rainwater harvesting, and that is not a round-the-ear solution. As a result, they have to fetch water from the neighboring villages during dry season. Water Age and its partner, Rupantar, started working in that particular village under its HSBC funded project. During community consultation, Tamina proposed to form a woman cooperative to run a water business, provided the project can install a water technology for the villagers. Seeing the boldness, Water Age and Rupantar, the partner NGO, decided to go for this venture, and a reverse osmosis plant has been installed. Tamina led a woman cooperative and managed that water business. And she served the villagers that is the size of the villages around 300 households since March 2019. And at an affordable rate, while the profit is being shared among the committee members for the last one and a half years. She is serving the people of the village and at the same time created income opportunity for the entrepreneur group, creating an example how women leadership can shine. Now I will tell the next story that's about another lady. Can you please go for the next slide? Okay, my next case is about Geeta is the tale of a daughter-in-law. Let me explain why I mentioned daughter-in-law under inverted comma. In our traditional culture, the daughter-in-law's role remains more suppressed. Her prime role is often expected to remain limited to household chores. Her voice should remain low. And her aim in life should be making the family members and the extended family happy. But Geeta made an exception. Geeta got married and came to a coastal village of named Asashuni. She has two school-going children. A wash project of WaterAid along with its partner, Rubanthol, started in that particular area. And the project noted that the villagers are suffering from acute water prices, but they are unable to mobilize people and get a piece of land to install any RO, that is reverse osmosis land. Rubanthol made this lady Geeta and found her very proactive and progressive minded and requested her whether she can help to organize a meeting with the villagers. Even being a so-called daughter-in-law, she took the challenge and courage to convince her family and arranged a meeting with the community members, I mean community villagers, and asked for a sparing a piece of land. Sadly, none of them agreed, but she didn't give up. Along with two other ladies, she went to the assistant headmaster of the school that did the tour and requested the assistant headmaster and the school committee whether they can spare the land for river osmosis land. And finally the school committee agreed and a river osmosis plant had been installed at the school premises and fillets the villagers started getting water from that plant. Seeing the perseverance, Geeta had given the opportunity to manage the water point forming 10 member women water purer group. Since then, I mean from the last March, she is managing the plant, the villagers and earning money. And the entire women entrepreneurship group has been empowered through this process. So let me stop here and I'm giving the floor to Adnan. Adnan, next slide please. Thank you Hasinapa for your insight. So far, just to reiterate for the people joining in right now. So we have three specific goals. One is to include wash as an effective climate adaptation strategy. At the same time, learn from the communities who are working in the grass root level, especially we have seen the women are taking the role there. So as a way forward from the stories from the water and I would like to ask two questions to our participants so that as we move forward for the discussion session, we have these two questions in mind. First being, how can we make women lead movements more inclusive? Secondly, how can we scale up such actions to bridge policy gaps in the future? At this point, I would like to introduce my colleague from the International Center for Climate Change and Development, Sharon Mannan to share the next two stories. Please, Sharon, over to you. Thank you so much Adnan and Hasinapa. I was great the way Hasinapa has said the scene at the beginning and then share the two stories. So from the stories we have heard that how despite having a lot of infrastructures and interventions in built women, particularly women often face some, often are faced with some systemic barriers and challenges within the system that hinders their way of moving forward and access all those resources. We also have a different struggle and different fight to achieve or attain all these issues. While it is important to consider the interventions and the infrastructures are in place, it is also crucial to have some sort of platform that provides the place for the local actors to speak and influence in the decisions making. At this point, I would like to introduce two stories and we will hear from the local actors about two advocacy interventions that has been taken under the Pani Jivon, which is Water is Life project, which is a project funded by Helvetus Swiss Intercooperation and Climate Justice Resilience Fund. This is a multi-partner project and which also really focuses on the interventions on climate change and water security and wash aspects. So today we have Mr. Shauko Choudhury and Ms. Sufiya Begum with us today who will speak in Bangla and share their interventions of having these two advocacy platforms. So while they speak in Bangla, I will put the translation in the chat box and I'll also try to summarize and wrap up their interventions very quickly by the end. Thank you. So Mr. Shauko Choudhury, I think he got disconnected for some reason. I can see his video but I don't think he can speak or maybe he's having difficulty connecting. I think they're having microphone difficulties. Karin, why don't you go to the next one? I think in this case, I'm Zubar, I think in this case I can help and contribute. Sure, Zubar, if you could introduce Zubar Bhai, then we can start. So I see we have a bit of a technical difficulty connecting in with the local speakers. Now we have Mr. Zubar Hassan who is the director at the development organization of the rural port. Zubar Bhai, if you can finally speak about the wash budget monitoring club at this moment and basically the interventions and outcomes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Karin. Yes, I'm sorry about this connection because so far I know this is in Moral Gorge, there is a P number of signal, maybe the connectivity problem. Anyway, yes, the budget club as you know from the name that says it relates to the money and it relates to the number, but these things have been translated in the ground in such a way that community people can engage in the process and they can use the budgeting process as a intervention of right to water and sanitation and ultimately addressing their wash needs. So, as the introduction, Pani Jibon which is in Bangla but it's in Water is Life is one of the initiative undertaken by Halvitas Bangladesh with the partnership of many other partners, including ICAD. So this wash budget has been undertaken as a, as a club which is consisting of numbers of community leaders who are a school teachers, women leaders, youths and local inhabitants including marginalized so that a group of people can come together and discuss their right to water and sanitation and ultimately advocate to the local authority because in Bangladesh, administratively, Union Purushad which is the lowest part of the local government system is the main institutions who is really working with the local people. So, and they have a lot of allocation in relation to the health and other safety net program, but there was not very much focus on water sanitation hygiene. So in this budget monitoring club has become a catalyst in the community level and they started to discuss and convince the local responsive or local authority and the duty bearers that see this is the government commitment and there is allocation which is coming in every year. So it's better to allocate water sanitation for the poorest of the poor so that they can avail or they can consume or they can consider the water sanitation for the poor. And this monitoring club also lobby and advocate with the local administration which is called sub-district level Upojala Purushad. In Upojala in the government structure there is a standing committee and also in Union Purushad. So they are repeatedly or frequently asking the question and discussing with them about their rights. So, in the in the last and as you know, the project area where the Alvitas implementing through Dorp and other organizations, the southwest of Bangladesh is Muralgon, one of the very climate vulnerable area. And those areas, particularly water is saline and only the source of water is surface water and the ponds and filter is one of the options of the surface water. And those surface water and the ponds and filters are not very cheap. It's very costly and a lot of households are sharing the same ponds for water. In my last previous presenter, Haseena was mentioning that how women are collecting water from distance. So this budget club is also advocating for better water supply in the ponds and PSF so that community can access the water properly and short distance. So, as you saw in the slides that look at for local water wash needs, monitor and track wash budget, how much budget is coming, how they can increase the budget for particularly hygiene and wash and ensuring the proper channelization of effective utilization of wash budget. For example, that's not putting the money in the drainage in the other known structural process rather than the PSF ponds and filter because many of the ponds and filters of that area are not functioning. Once it is installed or established but it is not properly functioning and people not accessing because of lack of operation and maintenance allocation. So the on these issues, the budget monitoring club are mobilizing and also advocating with the local government. I don't know how much time I have but maybe later. Thank you. Thank you so much. Do you want to try? I think we have Shaukot Bhai again. Shaukot Bhai, why don't you just turn on the video and open the mic. Shaukot Bhai, what's your name? In that case, Karin, if you do the next thing. Yes, I think they are facing technical difficulties. Well, we apologize for the technical difficulties. Since they're from the community and they're in the rural level, we have sometimes having difficulty connecting with them. Anyway, Shain, if you do the next thing. Hello. Yes, so maybe next slide, Chandler please. Yes, sister. Shaukot Bhai, are you okay? Yes, I'm okay. If you can speak to Sufiya, she's from the mother parliament. Sister, I'm from Shaukot Bhai. Shaukot Bhai, if you can speak to Sufiya, she's from the mother parliament. I guess I can summarize the mother parliament and if we have Sufiya, maybe we can give her. Yes, speak to Sufiya. Shaukot Bhai, if you can speak to Sufiya, maybe we can give her. If we can give her, maybe we can give her. So thank you so much, Sofia, I hope you all heard her, but I know the translation is already available in the chat box, but I can quickly summarize what she has said. First of all, let me apologize because we are directly asking the community village people to join with us at this point. So I think we can consider the technical difficulties because they are often not equipped with the high speed internet connection. So I hope you all don't mind. So just to summarize what Sofia has just said, she is a speaker at the mother parliament, which is a platform for women, particularly for women advocacy. The area where she lives in, in Bagheer Heart District, which is at the southwest coast of Bangladesh, which is highly vulnerable to different disasters and particularly in the face of climate change, it is increasingly being faced with high intensity cyclones and salinity intrusion. So and as we all know, water sector is particularly vulnerable as particularly for these people who depend on natural resources like the river for their livelihoods and they basically do agriculture and fish farming. So and the and the impacts on the health of women is also very crucial at this point because women are often in charge of collecting water and managing the household. So they are often dealing with this saline water, which results in different skin diseases and different gastrointestinal diseases and even in some cases some pregnancy related issues. So considering all these issues, these local community women have as a part of its support from Pani Jivon Project has established this women advocacy platform, which is called the mother parliament, where women, young girls and particularly elderly women and widowed women when often don't get chance to get heard of, you know, come together and sits once in a month and talks about all these women's specific needs and challenges and what are the interventions that are required. One interesting outcome that she has highlighted is salinity is one of the important factors and major, major disaster that these communities face. And in some cases the ponds and the ponds and filters that they have are often not well managed and they require re-excavation and all that. So basically through the mother parliament, they have they have issued a petition at the local authority to re-excavate the canal so that at least it doesn't increase the level of salinity coming out of the leakages from the nearby shrimp farms. So they have put the petition and issued the petition to the local authority and after a lot of back and forth and series of dialogues and lobbying, they have finally been able to get the pond re-excavated and now they kept on continuing all these advocacies. And this way they also get a platform to raise their voice and influence the decision making. Thank you so much. I hope you all enjoyed what Sufya and Zubair Bhai has summarized about these two advocacy platform. Now I would like to hand it over to Abdan. Thank you so much. Chandler, thank you, Shahreen. Thank you everyone who joined to share their stories. Chandler, if you go to the next slide. Again, time and time again we are seeing, please go back to the previous slide please. Time and time again we're seeing women-led communities taking the lead in their communities especially to bring interventions for the wash sector at the same time tackling the adverse effects of climate change. Again, in addition to the two questions we prompted at the beginning of our presentation, we have two additional questions. That being, how can we scale up local policy advocacy for women-led institutions? And the second one is, which actors can make wash climate financing more wide ranging? Again, we are looking into how we can use wash as an effective strategy for climate adaptation both nationally and globally. So now we're at the end of our storytelling round. Now we'll go into the breakout session. So our volunteers will be putting you into the breakout room. We would ask facilitators to assist. And so in the chat you will see who will be leading the breakout room. So as that happens just give us some time while our volunteers will be putting you in the breakout room. Thank you so much. Sharon, should I start? Yes please, please. Okay, I would ask the moderators. We have some people coming in still. So Sharon, do you want to start? Any interesting insights from your breakout room? Sure. Thank you so much Adnan. So as you all know that the breakout room was decided to identify a few strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats within the local actors so that we can identify the gaps and put them in a position and enable them so that they can be the influencers in future. So while addressing we have a couple of really, really good and interesting points and everyone was really active throughout the session. So during the strengths session, what is an interesting point was that the communities not only know about their community, the priorities, their needs, they also are very, very well aware of the service providers within their communities. So that can be an interesting strength for them as well so that they know and can quickly go and access the support they require or the services the demand from the service providers. In terms of weaknesses, although the speakers in our group had a I completely agree with them, the word weakness is not right for them and a lot of systemic barriers often become a weakness for the communities themselves. For example, the power dynamics within the system and the relationships can be a weakness for them and also their poor access to technologies and improved devices often becomes a weakness for them. In terms of opportunities, one interesting point, we all know that opportunity they have their potential to collaborate with NGOs, governments, private sectors, but one interesting opportunity that came in my group was the opportunity for peer-to-peer learning. Within the within different districts, within the communities or even among the countries, nearby countries, there is a very good chance of peer-to-peer learning and adopting the technologies and adaptation measures, the community was adaptation measures. So we thought that was a very interesting opportunity. And in terms of threats, again, we have preferred the word challenges over threats. One of the important challenge that was highlighted is the effective flow of fund within the system. And again, you know, the concern of not being heard, you know, anymore, that is an interesting challenge and threat within the system. In terms of key actors, one interesting point was raised that local schools and school communities can be a very effective key actor in this regard to get their voices heard to disseminate their information. And in terms of considering the issues, one important factor was that the effective channelization that people should consider and also the issue of, you know, accountability, particularly the willingness of the local service providers to hear from the community, they should have the willingness to, you know, co-create solutions. So that's all from my end. Thank you. Thank you so much. Saki Bhai, if you could summarize your room Saki Bhai, are you there? Saki Bhai, Mike's muted. Sorry, I thought I'd unmuted it. Shohel, could you maybe put up the SWAT analysis? So I think we had quite a lot of points that resonated with the Shahreens group as well, sort of understanding the sort of power dynamics and local actors that the communities need to be working on. And I think in sort of building up with some of the prompts that we put into the slides that really resonated with some of the discussions that we were having in terms of local communities being a little bit more embedded within the need. You know, the local communities are often the ones that are where we're getting the demands from the projects, which is a very good thing that we know the project and activities are demand driven. But then it's also about the local communities are a lot more invested in the agenda of getting that need met. So I think in terms of both understanding the demand and the commitment for seeing that through, that was a common strength that we were sort of focusing on. Also looking at some of the ways that communities are a little bit more responsive. Oftentimes, they're the ones right there at the impact level before any other actors can really mobilize themselves, get themselves geared towards working towards the activities and impacts. So again, that's the strength that we were looking into how we could turn that into an opportunity, then being a little bit more responsive, a little bit more effective. And we had some talks about how oftentimes working with local communities, that's a lot more cost effective for the project in general. So again, in terms of looking at when you're doing sort of maybe the national budgeting or donor driven projects in terms of cost effectiveness and value for money, that's something that to consider it's not whether you invest in other actors to be coming in and working at the local level, working with the local communities again, gives you that demand driven but then also gives you a better value for money in the project. So maybe that might be an opportunity that we could be taking forward. We had some talk about how to effectively channelize funding at the local level. So again, one of our comments was about how oftentimes local communities specifically lack the knowledge and access for going for bigger funding, whether there was our international funding mechanism, sometimes even national budget funding. So again, the opportunity is to be investing in the knowledge and developing those sort of capabilities within the community and using other financial institutions, microfinance institutions and Bangladesh being a case study that can be a good way of effectively channelizing climate finances because oftentimes, even if the local communities aren't able to access anything, microfinance institution is something that they're able to take a micro loan from. So then again, a bigger channel and bigger international funding might be difficult. But then what are some of the other private sector entities that we could be working with? We had some talk about how building linkages with academic sectors specifically in local schools and colleges that might be a good way of building the sort of resilient knowledge within the communities. And again, one of the points that I was sort of putting towards is working with local communities specifically earlier on develops the resilience of the community rather than them only being adaptive to something, something has to happen and they're going and repairing a flood embankment or a pond or a colder. It's not only an adaptive reactive sort of measure, working with the communities beforehand can actually build their resilience. They know what's happening beforehand. They're aware of some things that are happening beforehand. So capacity building in that element might be something that we could also consider as a step forward. I think we can, if I missed anything overarchingly, anybody would like to come in? Shohail, you're added. I think those are excellent points. I think comparing to the group discussion we had, I think we have some similar insights. I think most of the local level interventions often are being missed out because there is no proper channeling of their ideas to the global level or their local authorities as well. I think those are the key challenges everyone is facing and it's good that those things came up in two different groups. Sakip, if you would still like to continue, you have the floor or we can move on to the next break. I think we're okay for this. If we hear from some of the other breakouts, we can come back in the discussion if we need. Sure, sure. Thank you. Tashvia, Tashvia, if you would like to come in? Isstakbha will do the summary from our session. No problem, Mr. Guhai. Yeah. Thank you, Abnan. So we had a similar discussion despite of some technical difficulties we really had a good discussion among ourselves. The points are a bit similar that my colleagues already have mentioned but a few additions that I want to mention is like in this part of strengths, one of our discussion was the local people are more acceptable in the local communities and that's why they had a good influence in the communities, in their own community. That's why that is kind of one of their main strength. Some of the weakness is lack of understanding of these specific issues like climate change. In a lot of cases we have seen that the local people they don't have a clear idea what climate change is and that kind of comes up as a weakness or like challenge for them. At the same time they have limited opportunities to raise their voice even though a lot of organizations are kind of working at the community level to have their voice at different levels but still they don't have like the opportunity that they should have. They have limited opportunities. In terms of opportunities that we see is if we can train them to build their capacity and conduct different activities that can be a good opportunity for them they will have a good understanding of the topics. At the same time the NGOs can play a role to facilitate and linkage their community level to the national level in decision making. The test that we see is one is the political interference. A lot of time the political leaders they have their role, negative role to play in this process. At the same time the power imbalance, the power imbalance that we have with the local community and the policymakers that plays a kind of negative role in this way. At the same time vested interest even a community is not a homogenous and that a different group has a different agency so sometimes the local elites with the business interest kind of comes up as a threat to this process. Some key actors that we think is from our group is like local institutions definitely the local Indian bodhisattva, Upojala Purishavad and the local health care center, health complex. At the same time department of public health, water research management they play a vital role in this process. In terms of things to consider what we think is really important effective channelization of fun. At the same time as Shari mentioned transparency and accountability will play a big role to formulate the process in formal. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, if you have any questions, especially participants, you can please write them down in the chat box. We'll get back to you after the feedback. At this point I would like to Arusa to summarize the breakout room from our end and at the same time after I would ask Dr. Hop since he was present in the room to share his thoughts. Arusa over to you. Hi everyone. So at this point I think I don't have anything really new to say but however out of the top of my mind I know besides discussing what has already been discussed till now I know we talked about the fractured nature of the government departments where each government departments have their own agendas and viewpoints and oftentimes it seems that because of that the local change makers cannot really go in and make a difference. So and then another key thing that we discussed also was formalizing the informal groups. So oftentimes we know that in community places we have a lot of associations or groups that are informal but whoever is present in that group are very influential. They have the means to make change however they don't really have that authority. So by formalizing them we can give them the access to really make a change in their community and besides this I think I will give the floor to Dr. Hop so that he can go over the points that he talked about. Thank you. Yeah Dr. Hop if you could come in I think you shared some really insightful thoughts in our group. I would request you to share that with the larger participants present here right now. Thank you very much Abnan. So just to repeat my reflection within the group to me there are three big challenges that we need to be thinking about all of us collectively and not just this particular session but all the sessions of the CBA. The first one is how do we and by we I mean all of us are not the grassroot communities. We are outsiders associated with some grassroot community. What role can we play to assist the grassroot communities to enable them to be more effective in the activities that they do in this particular case access to water use of water but in the larger context adaptation to climate change going forward and we've got some very good examples of NGOs doing things academics doing things and what we now need to think about is how do we make the outcomes of all of these activities more effective going forward and there are several things that we can do one all of them have been discussed here so this is not anything new is how do we empower people and empowerment requires organization it requires collective action it requires connecting people from different locations together so that they can act together to influence decision-making initially primarily within the local decision-making structures and the national decision-making structures but for this particular conference what I would like us to all think about and and hopefully take out from the conference and take forward after CBA 14 is over in the next few days is how do we take this to the global level how do we link up with each other grassroot groups people working with grassroot groups in different localities countries towns rural areas continents how do we connect with each other and how do we stay connected to each other and how do we take forward at the global level these different advocacy items and evidence-based information and and knowledge that we are producing together with local communities that to me is the big challenge we have not been able to do that so far so my my question all the time when I listen to all of this is how can we make that happen are there thoughts that we can bring together to make our collective action globally collective action of the grassroot community is more effective in this particular context obviously water water has helped and watched as a very very big role to play in adaptation to climate change almost anything to do with adaptation has to do with water at the same time so these are integrally linked that you can't de-link them so it's very relevant for the community based adaptation agenda to talk about wash and water as well so thank you all everybody for excellent discussions I really enjoyed being part of it thank you thank you Dr. Hawk for insights at this point we'll be taking questions we have really good panel members from the community level at the same time from water aid and in the international center for climate change and development so if you have any questions you can use the raise hand feature we can give you the floor at the same time we you can type in the questions in the chat box we can prompt the question to our experts afterwards so I'll just give one minute if you have any questions please use the raise hand option we also have some questions that came earlier we can directly jump into that as well you have any I think Olivia had a comment Olivia would you like to prompt that question to the panel yeah so it was more more just a point than a question but around where we were talking about informal and formal communities and I mean obviously I can only speak from Cape Town perspective but I think Bangladesh possibly has a similar situation as well where the informal informal communities are kind of considered like an other that they're not necessarily kind of embraced as as you know part of part of the society and unless that happens I'm not sure that their you know the the voices of the informal communities are you know going to be listened to and respected and I'm not I don't know what the answer is to that to be honest it's a big it's a big problem that's bigger than you know obviously that we can say but I just think it's an interesting problem yeah thank you thank you I think that's a really interesting question I think top provoking question I might say and I think everyone should like me moving forward we should all figure out going on to Dr. Hawthorne point also your point we have a hand raised from Sakib Bhai Sakib Bhai if you could I think sort of related to that as well we had a point about oftentimes at the local level specifically local water issues it's often the women of the household in the community that are the ones that are in charge of dealing with the problems and sort of figuring out what to do with it I've just seen from some of our case studies as well so I think one of the points that we had about being inclusive about that is not only sort of looking at them as being a sort of end beneficiary of a project but then including them into the planning and the design stages as well so that your your project is able to sort of target the local community needs as well as be gender responsive right from the beginning from the planning and the onset of it and then building that forward into the structures of the project I think is a much better perhaps more effective way of going ahead with the project rather than having to retrofit these sorts of considerations and inclusivity issues later on once the project is already designed and integrated thank you thank you Sakib Bhai I think Sumiti had a really good point in the chat box regarding convergence of wash problems and solution with climate adaptation Sumiti would you like to from that question I would like Hasina part to come in and give her insight on that Sumiti I'm sure thank you Adnan I basically felt that I think from a technical as well as academic circles these two domains have been kept a bit apart because wash again may have a solution space which is both technological as well as you know technique technologically dependent and derived as we heard you know with the RO plant plants in Bangladesh as well as an ecosystem element so both in terms of solutions as well as approaches wash and climate adaptation have not really been seen as parallel processes or not they have been seen as parallel but as converging processes so maybe some awareness building is required in that domain to to build the interlinkages I would say at a very practitioner and community level understanding but as I was listening to the conversation especially Olivia talking about formalizing the informal communities engagements etc I think I just wanted to raise this element of Cape Town and South Africa particularly where crime impedes a lot of people from engaging within formal settlements because of the history of the country which may not be the same in all countries but definitely it's a very very critical element here because I know researchers who worked in informal settlements and the strategies that they then employ so that they can be tracked by colleagues and friends all the time you know through GPS so I mean that's the thing that I was saying about how different cities have their own contexts that one then has to put in so I appreciate that the point that Salimullah raised about connecting to global discourses and yet we are also very much entrenched in our local context so yeah so you have an interesting question regarding the convergence of wash problems and solution with climate adaptation I think it's a very important comment yeah yeah sharn sorry so I particularly during my breakout session I had Mr. Zubair Hassan within the session and he raised out if very quite a few interesting points like he has been working in this sector for quite a while and has been closely linking the grassroots voices with the local and national national and subnational actors maybe I can quickly ask Zubair if you can hear us and if you can share how the exactly the challenges are in place and what you think can be the solutions to you know include the local actors and a march with the national and subnational government if you can quickly in two three minutes summer thank you thank you very much I think we had a lot of discussions and all the distinguished participants they already know their point of view but as a local implementing organizations and as we are directly communicating with the local people and already two of them have participated and today's caption of our session is local solution and inspiring local action so solution I think it is depends but very difficult at some point but what we have found that community know what we have learned that community know what they should do only we need to create some enabling environment that what to do in relation to the water sanitation hygiene particularly for their needs as well as the climate responsive initiative and also accordingly we need to have create the facilitation for example making the opportunities because they don't know where to go and appeal for water and sanitation government are saying at the national level that we have the proper strategy we have sufficient budget allocation we have numbers of PSF related projects local rural water and we have separate ministry environment and climate change ministry so but local people don't know we need to create enabling environment so that they can get the proper information how much budget is coming for them and how they can receive it and how they can best utilize it and also particularly focusing on inclusive and gender responsive budget because all of we know that water is very much related to the gender issues and it is it should be inclusive and in the first presentation as well as Dr. Hawk also mentioned that the empowerment needs to come from somewhere that is important very much important because without giving empowerment or giving the the the rights or duties at the local level we are just putting the top down approach it will not work the solution should come from the local level we have to explore and lastly what we would like to say that from our implementing project what we have seen that resources are not going at the local level all it is stuck at the national level for example in the SDG approach we know the per capita allocation 1200 taka it's a planning commission estimated budget which is 12 euro per capita but is this enough for the local community have we assessed any time or have we discussed at the local level we know the corruption and the accountability issue also but top of that we need to think the local needs creating the enabling environment and giving them the chance to explore the budget and and that's what Pani G1 is trying to do it thank you very much thank you thank you so very very interesting insight on that date at this point since we're at the end of our session i would like Hasina up to come in firstly i would request upper to share her insight about the overall session and her finding and then i would ask her to give the closing remarks but before everyone leaves after the closing remarks i would request everyone to turn on their video we'll take a picture before you are allowed to let go of the end of this session apai if you could come in thank you so i'll be very brief just to say a few words one about that climate the climate impacted areas what our solution is not neither easy nor cheap we have to understand that and the technical technological solution whatever we give them that is high cost and the operation and maintenance require high high cost as well and if we engage the local community the overall operational cost may minimize so that is another point to understand and consider for future and my third point is political commitment is a must so flow of resource will be there if political commitment is there so we we cannot ignore that and the last point is gender responsive and gender inclusive planning is essential and let me move on to my closing remark and at the outset i would like to thank Dr. Salimul Haq a director of ICAC for attending this session and i'm really thank you for his presence and i would also like to thank Zubair Hassan director of research planning monitoring of dot monitoring director of dot and i would like to thank Shauko Choudhury who is the Kojila coordinator of dot and Sufiha Begum speaker of mother mother parliament and lastly i would like to thank all all the audience for attending the cv conference especially our session Shahreen Adnan Shatil and all the moderators who attended the Begum sessions and as my last remark i would like to say one thing and give an example actually i have heard Shahreen was telling several times and she was asking for apology because of the technical difficulties but this is here i want to emphasize a point that you can see that often we talk about community and the community remains missing and here is the platform online group platform and we try to bring the community present here with us and we had technical bridge and everywhere this is this happens that when we want to bring the community make them inclusive we we encounter several problems and we have to accommodate them and we have to bear with this so i i i really thank everybody to bear with us and we have to understand that if we want to make the inclusive planning then we have to accommodate like this and we have to accept the reality and we have to tailor our intervention our project like this like today we have managed the situation so thanks everybody and we hope that we can go for inclusive planning like today thank you very much for attending today's session thanks thank you thank you so much thank you doctor hot thank you for joining the session today so before everyone leaves please turn on your video we're going to make it fun we're going to take a quick picture before everyone can leave volunteers if you could take a screen screen or a picture um rukh sir are you taking it if people all of them could turn on their mics i see some of them are still not on video thank you okay everyone's here yep i got most of the photos only a few are still not on camera but i think we're good most of them are thank you everyone thank you thank you so much thank you for listening thank you for coming in thank you for participating thank you so much thank you so much everyone i hope everyone enjoyed the session and thank you so much for your active participation