Asian Cities Climate Resilience WORKING PAPER SERIES 25: 2015 Urban climate resilience, water and sanitation Improving multi-stakeholder collaboration in Dhaka, Bangladesh BY SARDER SHAFIQUL ALAM, ATM JAHANGIR ALAM AND SOWMEN RAHMAN 2 ASIAN CITIES CLIMATE RESILIENCE About the author Sarder Shafiqul Alam, Principal Investigator, Urban Climate Change Group, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). Email:
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[email protected] Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh for selecting the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) as a research partner and to the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) for supporting the study. We are grateful to the city stakeholders, community members, government officials and others who provided support during the collection of data. The authors also want to thank the reviewers of this working paper from the Asia-Pacific regional office of Habitat for Humanity International, especially Joebel Gurang and Shenard Mazengera, as well as Victoria Maynard and Diane Archer from IIED for their constructive comments and suggestions. Additional thanks go to John Armstrong, National Director of Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh and the Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh team. ASIAN CITIES CLIMATE RESILIENCE 3 Contents Acronyms