In Kurigram district of Bangladesh, a women-headed, community-based organisation is training rural women and extending support to deal with Covid-19 and monsoon floods. Md Fahad Hossain reports.

This is the thirty-fifth in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN.

Kurigram, located in the northwest region, is the poorest district of Bangladesh. The northwest region has already started facing slow onset climate change (temperature rise, changes in precipitation, drought) as well as sudden climatic shocks (floods, erratic rainfall). Such climatic events put huge pressure on the livelihood of the inhabitants of this region.

Nari Associate for Revival and Initiative (NARI), a women’s community-based organisation, came into being in 2016. Farida Easmin is the founding executive director of NARI.