About the Climate Resilience Project

The Climate Resilience Project aims to work directly with the residents of Beed to better understand the trials and tribulations that they face as an agricultural community faced with devastating impacts of climate change. Further, it will attempt to understand the modes of resilience, both adopted and developed, that the residents of Beed have displayed in the face of these climate challenges and their social, economic, and cultural implications. 

The way the project will go about doing this begins with the CRP (Climate Resilience Project) Case Studies. These will be carried out by administering narrative interviews to the residents of Beed, with questions covering topics such as their unique experiences of the droughts and their consequences, their experiences migrating owing to adverse weather conditions, and their social and economic reception in these destinations. Following the case studies, the project will conduct a thematic analysis of the data generated, and will be appropriately anonymised before making up the corpus of a research paper titled, “Shallow Waters: Examining Displacement, Migration, and Climate Resilience among Urban-Village Communities in Beed.” The paper will conduct an incisive discussion into the climate and sociocultural conditions of Beed, while examining the case studies through appropriate and relevant theoretical frameworks. 

Lastly, the Climate Resilience Project will also endeavor to set up a robust Resource Network wherein small businesses and organizations will be put in touch with non-profit organizations working with the residents of Beed. This, in addition to a fundraiser hosted on the Milaap platform, the proceeds from which will be donated to Nav Chetna, an organization working closely with the Beed community, and facilitating their wellbeing and upliftment.