Stakeholders meetings with flood affected communities in two Neighbourhood Democratic Councils in Region 4, Guyana- August 2025
Cody Danaher, PhD student at McGill and Dr. Liam Kirkpatrick from Imperial College, London spent 10 days in August 2025 in the Demerara-Mahaica region of Guyana to collect preliminary data regarding flood resilience in two focus study areas: the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) of Cane Grove and Caledonia/Good-Success.
In collaboration with the Civil Defense Commission and Ms. Alana Norville from the University of Guyana, the researchers traveled to each NDC and met with local community representatives to collect data on the perceived causes, consequences and stakeholders impacted by flooding.
Two workshops were conducted where participants were asked to a) describe the level of impact felt across their NDC on maps prepared by the research team and b) identify stakeholders with interest in, influence over or that are impacted by flooding.
The data collected will help guide future research efforts aimed at designing and testing solutions – co-created with local community members – via models to be developed by the research team.
Seminar to MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) – November 7, 2024
Chandra Madramootoo presented the following seminar: Localized approaches to climate resilience and adaptation for water and food security.
Inception mission and field visit to Guyana – August 12-16, 2024
Project researchers, Chandra Madramootoo and Jan Adamowski (McGill), Steven Cole, Angus Garbutt and Tarun Bisht (UKCEH), and Emad Habib (Louisiana) met with officials of the Government of Guyana, Civil Defense Commission, University of Guyana, the Mangrove Unit of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute, National Drainage and Irrigation Authority, Hydrometeorological Department, Neighbourhood Democratic Councils, and civil engineering consultants, as well as with World Bank officials, to officially launch the project. The researchers made field visits in Region 4, to define the study area, the scope of the flood issues, and discuss some of the sub-projects that are to be implemented.
Stakeholder involvement in flood governance field visit – November 16-23, 2024
Principal Investigator, Chandra Madramootoo and Dr. Alexandra Collins of Imperial College, London, met with officials of the Civil Defense Commission, University of Guyana, and the Mangrove Unit of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute to discuss the undertaking of stakeholder surveys in various Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) in Region 4. The researchers held meetings with the NDCs in Cane Grove, Caledonia/Success, and Canal’s Polder in Region 3.
