Coastal Towns Climate Resilience Project

T he Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) is providing technical support to Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Coastal Towns Climate Resilience Project (CTCRP) aims to address the vulnerability of 22 coastal towns in Bangladesh by improving municipal infrastructure, enhancing livelihoods, and strengthening institutional and local capacity.
 
GCA is providing support to the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and ADB in assessing and prioritizing climate resilience and adaptation solutions for 22 coastal towns and piloting NBS solutions for four towns (Bagerhat, Chalna, Kuakata and Morrelganj).  
 
GCA is also supporting the residents of informal settlements in three towns – Patuakhali, Kuakata and Borhanuddin – to develop People’s Adaptation Plans to inform investments under the CTCRP’s slum improvement component. GCA’s local partners BRAC and the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) are supporting residents of 20 of the most climate vulnerable informal settlements in each of the three towns to map and profile key climate threats, and to identify priority solutions to reduce vulnerability, for implementation by the CTCRP project. 

Investment Value Influenced by GCA

$250 million

Beneficiaries

People of 22 coastal towns in the Southern part of Bangladesh

Implementation Period

2023-2029

Partner

GCA’s Added Value

GCA’s interventions included:

  • Targeted investments in climate-resilient infrastructure assets and services for vulnerable and marginalized communities.
  • Local ownership of municipal infrastructure constructed under the project.
  • Use of community-led operations and maintenance for sustainability of investments
  • Climate vulnerability analysis conducted in collaboration with local universities to inform the People’s Adaptation Planning process.
  • Capacity strengthening for locally led adaptation

Expected Outcomes

GCA’s support will reinforce the project’s outcomes by:

  • Strengthened resilience of vulnerable infrastructures at coastal towns
  • Higher and climate-resilient growth trajectories achieved in the face of the various weather
  • Enhancing knowledge level and ability of municipality officials engaged on how to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, and recover from the effects of climate shocks and stresses for public infrastructures.