Total Project Cost: $240,000

PEF Financing: $180,000

Approval Date: 25 November 2010

Main Project Partner(s): Practical Action Bangladesh

Project Officer: Arif Faisal, BRM

Type of Intervention: Pilot intervention

Status: Ongoing

Summary:
The subproject is piloting a model to reduce climate and disaster risks through community-based adaptation and disaster risk reduction in selected villages in the southern coastal belt (Shyamnagar and Kaliganj subdistricts of Satkhira district). Specific activities include: (i) practicing adaptive agriculture and aquaculture; (ii) providing low-cost service for safe drinking water; and (iii) providing resilient shelter.

Poverty-Environment Linkage:
In vulnerable communities, the project is initiating innovative ideas at the community level to reduce climate-induced risks. It is working towards improving community understanding of climate change and variability, as well as enhancing adaptive and risk reduction capacity with viable adaptation options.

Expected Outputs:

• Climate vulnerability maps, climate and disaster risk assessment reports, and socio-economic and livelihood assessments for target communities
• Ten demonstration plots for adaptive agriculture
• Ten demonstration plots for adaptive aquaculture
• Demonstration of low cost service for safe drinking water in twenty households
• Seven climate-resilient community shelter homes
• Pilot demonstration of ten solar home systems and ten biogas plants
• Training to improve understanding and dissemination of cyclone signal warning
• Manuals on adaptive agriculture and aquaculture

Related Documents:

• MEPR Proposal