# SheRAA — Case Study

> SheRAA is an alliance working toward inclusive climate change programming in Bangladesh — a country ranked 8th globally for climate vulnerability, where climate disasters fall hardest on women through increased labour, displacement, reduced mobility, and lost access to resources.

Canonical page: https://portfolio-shafin580s-projects.vercel.app/projects/sheraa
Author: Shafin Ahmed, Full-Stack Software Engineer (https://portfolio-shafin580s-projects.vercel.app)
Client: The Asia Foundation & Bonhishikha
Timeline: 2024
Role: Frontend Engineer
Published: 2026-08-04 · Updated: 2026-08-04
Live site: https://sheraa.network

## Key takeaways
- SheRAA is the Women's Climate Resilience & Adaptation Alliance, convened by The Asia Foundation and Bonhishikha to push for inclusive climate change programming in Bangladesh.
- The site's information architecture splits three audiences — prospective members, existing members, and researchers or press — so each has a direct path from the landing page.
- Impact Stories are a first-class content type documenting local adaptation practice, which keeps women's own expertise as the alliance's substance rather than as illustration.

## Key figures
- 8th — Bangladesh's global climate-vulnerability rank
- 2 — convening organisations

## The problem
An alliance site has a coordination problem before it has a design problem. Members need a directory, the coalition needs a joining path, and the substance — impact stories, publications, news — has to be findable by people who arrived for one of those three reasons and not the others. The framing matters too: the argument is women's leadership and local adaptation practice, not women as victims, and the site had to hold that line while still stating the vulnerability plainly.

## The approach
The information architecture separates the three audiences — prospective members, existing members, and researchers or press — so each has a clear path from the landing page. Impact stories are treated as a first-class content type documenting local adaptation practices, which puts women's own expertise at the centre rather than in a sidebar. Headless WordPress with GraphQL and ACF lets the coalition publish stories, publications, and events without a developer.

## What it does
- Member directory and a Join Us path for prospective coalition members
- Impact Stories as a first-class content type documenting local adaptation practice
- Publications and News & Events sections, coalition-editable
- Headless WordPress + GraphQL + ACF authoring, Next.js delivery
- Metadata and structured data for research and press discoverability

## Stack
Next.js, TypeScript, Headless WordPress, GraphQL, ACF, TanStack Query

## Outcome
- Three distinct audiences each get a direct path from the landing page
- The coalition publishes stories and publications without developer involvement
- Local adaptation expertise is presented as the alliance's substance, not as illustration

## Frequently asked questions
### What is SheRAA?
SheRAA is the Women's Climate Resilience & Adaptation Alliance, a coalition convened by The Asia Foundation and Bonhishikha that works toward inclusive climate change programming in Bangladesh and amplifies women's leadership in climate action.

### Why does the SheRAA site treat impact stories as a content type of their own?
The alliance's argument is women's leadership and local adaptation practice, not women as victims. Modelling impact stories as a first-class content type rather than blog posts keeps that documented expertise at the centre of the site instead of in a sidebar.

### Who can join SheRAA?
The site carries a member directory and a Join Us path for prospective coalition members; the alliance is aimed at organisations working on inclusive climate programming in Bangladesh.

## Organisations named
- The Asia Foundation (Convenor) — https://asiafoundation.org/
- Bonhishikha (Convenor) — https://unlearngender.com/
- ARITS Limited (Employer) — https://arits.tech

## Sources
- SheRAA — Women's Climate Resilience & Adaptation Alliance — SheRAA — https://sheraa.network
- The Asia Foundation — The Asia Foundation — https://asiafoundation.org/
- Bonhishikha — unlearn gender — Bonhishikha — https://unlearngender.com/

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