Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable countries to flooding and climate change impacts. Innovative community-driven adaptations are building climate change resiliency. Around 15,000 families escaped the calamity of recent floods and protected their homes and assets by building on elevated grounds. To address extreme inland monsoon flooding, the Community Climate Change Project (CCCP) under the Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF) helps communities adapt weather flooding and impacts from climate change. "The floods we experienced last year were devastating. But this year, we did not have to move from our home, as our homes are on higher and safer ground,? said a smiling 35 years old Sharifa Begum, standing in front of her thatched home on a small plot of elevated land in Datiar Char, Chilmari. Elevation from the ground saved her home from the flood that inundated Northern Bangladesh in August and September 2014. ?In earlier years, my husband and I had to shift homes, even seven times a year, as the rush of the flood water had destroyed our makeshift homes,? she added. Her home, among a cluster of homes built on an elevated foundation on a sandbar, appear to be on an island.

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