Ms. Shaila Shahid
Senior Programme Coordinator-Gender and Climate Change at International Centre for Climate Change and Development as Coordinator-Gender and Climate Change (ICCCAD) (Women’s Major Group)
Shaila is serving International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) as Senior Programme Coordinator- Gender and Climate Change. Prior to that, she served Gender and Water Alliance (GWA), GIZ, UNDP, IFPRI, WaterAid and Oxfam as a full-time advisor. She is an environmental lawyer and a World Wilf Life Fund (WWF) Fellow with long experience in Disaster Risk Reduction, Integrated Water Resources Management, Climate Change Adaptation and building community resilience. She is the Advisor of the local farmer’s research institute “Krisoker Sor (Farmers’ Voice)” a UNISDR nominated Global Champion Community on Disaster Resilience in 2015 from Bangladesh. She holds diverse professional background from social activism to gender equality and environmental sustainability. She is the global and regional voice on women’s issues, climate justice and SDGs campaign. She is also an active member of Women’s Major Group, Women and Gender Constituency of UNFCCC, GNDR and Asia-Pacific RCEM, a platform on SDGs. Shaila closely worked with government and involved with a number of policy development process nationally and globally like Disaster Management Act, Water Act, Gender and Equity Strategy and Risk Reduction Action Plan for Climate Change and Disaster for different Ministries in Bangladesh.