Northeast conclave
climate resilient livelihoods
17th February, 2023
NEDFi House, Guwahati
About
Ashoka, Ashoka Fellows and SDS with support from IKEA Foundation bring you the Northeast Conclave 2023!
Building climate-resilient livelihoods and ecosystems is a critical step towards unleashing the immense potential that Northeast India has. This event will bring together ecosystem stakeholders such as Ashoka Fellows, prominent state actors, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists to engage in an immersive dialogue around climate resilient and contextually relevant livelihoods. It will bring forth examples of exemplary public-private partnerships, scalable value chains, established innovations, and technological adaptations that are catalysing sustainable growth in the region. It will also be a platform to celebrate, connect and create collaborations!
Agenda
Climate Change: Livelihood Challenges in Northeast India
Northeast India is not only a hotspot of biodiversity, but also home to many different ethnic groups with a rich cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment. The livelihoods of people in this region are highly dependent on natural resources and are threatened by climate change. Therefore, it is important to understand the challenges of this region in order to develop strategies to promote climate-adapted, sustainable livelihoods.
Climate Change adaptation and Sustainable livelihood Strategies
Protecting and enhancing natural services that protect communities from the impacts of climate change and provide them with a range of resources to cope with shocks will not only address immediate development priorities, but also improve local capacity to adapt to climate change in northeast India. Various adaptation approaches used by the government, nongovernmental organisations, Ashoka fellows, and other organisations could provide learning opportunities for the states of NE.
Co-creating an Enabling Ecosystem for NER towards climate resilient livelihoods
The role of government, NGOs, CBOs, private sector, CSRs, financial institutions, and philanthropists in strengthening the community around climate resilient livelihoods is very important. Therefore, this session will focus on the role of different organisations in creating an enabling ecosystem for NER towards climate resilient livelihoods.
Scaling up adaptation action : Way forward to climate resilient livelihood
Scaling up successful climate change adaptation efforts could be a potential way to build a solid foundation for promoting climate resilient livelihoods. This session will therefore discuss and tap into various opportunities for scaling up adaptation actions and corresponding approaches.
Speakers
Alay Barah
Executive Director, ICCO
Anil Kumar Verma
Executive Director
Arijit Sarmah
Team Leader, Incubation & Acceleration, CIIE.CO
Arpon Bhattacharjee
TRIF
Dr Jaideep Baruah
Director, ASTEC
Dr K. Karthikeyen
CEO, NEATEHUB
Dr Razdan Sarim Rahman
Assistant Professor, TISS
Dr Razdan traches in Centre for Livelihood and Social Entrepreneurship, School of
Dr. Pradeep Ramavath J
Associate Professor, TISS
Pradeep Ramavath J teaches at Centre for Livelihood and Social Entrepreneurship, School
Kangkana Goswami
Member, Assam Wetland Authority Govt. of Assam
A Journalist ,an Advocate , and a Research Scholar in the domain
Krishna Baruah, ACS
State Mission Director, ASRLM
Manish Goswami
Assistant Editor, Assam Tribune
Mita Nath Bora
Member, Assam State Youth Commission, Researcher, Writer & Social Worker
She has worked extensively on Livelihood Cluster, particularly on the poverty and
Olee Bora
General Manager, NeDFi
Pranjal Baruah
Ashoka Fellow, MDF
Ramakrishna NK
Co-founder and Director
Ram was chosen for the Ashoka Fellowship in 2012 in recognition of
Rituraj Phukan
Founder & President Indigenous People's Climate Justice Forum
Samir Bordoloi
Secretary General,SPREAD NE
Sanjoy Hazarika
Managing Trustee, C-NES
Sanjoy Hazarika is honorary research professor at CPR and holds the Dr.
Vishal Mukhia
Director, SIRD, Sikkim
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