Network name: Challenge to Change Scope: International Geographic region: Asia-Pacific Central Coordinator Location - City: Kent Central Coordinator Location - Country: UK Principal focus: Mobilization Organization type: NGO Year started:   Short description*: “Challenge to Change is a British NGO supporting poor communities in Asia to build more resilient livelihoods and to adapt to the impact of climate change.” Focus and description*: We work primarily in Vietnam - in Quang Tri Province, where typhoons and floods are occurring with greater frequency and intensity; in three coastal cities - Quy Nhon, Da Nang and Can Tho - where poverty combined with risks from climate change can lead to disasterous consequences; and in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, where the livelihoods of poor ethnic minority communities are increasingly effected by flash-floods and mud-slides which destroy their villages and their basic food supplies. Complementing our assistance to the victims of climate change overseas, we campaign in the UK against over-consumption, and in favour of initiatives for environmental protection. We engage in development education programmes, and we promote local sustainable development and the use of renewable energy.” Funding Source: Partners: The Centre for Rural Development in Central Vietnam (CRD), he Centre for Sustainable Development in the Mountains (CSDM), The Centre for Development of Communities and Children (CDECC), The People’s Aid Coordination Committee (PACCOM), The Institute for Social & Environmental Transition (ISET), The Rockefeller Foundation, and local governments Contact details: info@challengetochange.org, or telephone 01227-794897. Our mailing address is: Hatters Croft, Radfall Ride, Whitstable, Kent, CT5 3EW. Email: info@challengetochange.org Website: http://www.challengetochange.org

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