Climate Strategy Development for Bangladesh

The Broad Objective of this study is to develop climate-resilient society, To develop a climate-resilient society climate resilient actions should be undertaken under five interactive pillars:

A) Agriculture and Food Security, social protection, and health

• Zero tillage and conservation farming in drought-prone areas (short term).
• Promotion of Saline-tolerant, flood-tolerant, and drought-tolerant crop varieties (short-term).
• Nature-based solution (agro-forestry, blue carbon crops) promotion in coastal belts (long term).
• Promotion of tower farming, sack farming, and bag farming in the salinity-affected areas (Short-term).
• Increase the resilience of vulnerable groups, including small farmers, fisherfolk, women, adolescents, and children, through the development of community-level adaptation and livelihood diversification (Off-farm and non-farm activities) (Mid-term and long-term).
• Development of salinity-tolerant, flood-tolerant, and drought-tolerant forage for livestock (Long-term)
• Establishment of a raised bed for crop harvesting and drying (Mid-term).
• Development of Local Support Person (Vaccinator, bio-fertilizer producer, bio- pesticide producer) (Short-term).
• Supporting fish dryer for fishermen in coastal areas (Mid-term).
• Solar irrigation for farmers in salinity and drought-prone areas (Mid-term)
• Waste-based entrepreneurship development in urban and rural areas (Long-term).

B) Water and Sanitation

• Establish mobile clinics for remote areas (Long-term).
• Skill development for a health support system for climate-sensitive diseases (Short- term).
• Climate-resilient planning for community clinics (infrastructure, accessibility, WASH support, hygiene items, etc.) (Long-term).
• Education institute-based reproductive health support and education (Mid-term).
• Informal health education at the community level (Short-term).
• Mother Club, Adolescent Health Club, WASH, and Health Watch Group formation.
• Access to a health-responsive budget in local government.
• Establishing and strengthening reproductive health support system (Mid-term).

C) Disaster Risk Management

• Location-specific early warning and climate advisory development and dissemination (Mid-term)
• Development of early warning for fishermen (Long-term)
• Disabled-friendly early warning development and dissemination (Long-term).
• Women, adolescents, and disabled-friendly shelter construction and renovation (Long-term and Mid-term).
• Restoration and conservation of nature-based infrastructure (mangrove, dune) (Long- term).
• Introduction of risk recovery mechanism (climate insurance, crop insurance, loss, and damage recovery instruments) (Mid-term).

D) Education

• Introduce income-generating activities for boys and girls at school (eco-friendly sanitary napkin entrepreneurship) (Mid-term).
• Education social safety net (stipend) for boys (Mid-term).
• WASH and reproductive health support at school (Short-term).
• School resilient planning (infrastructure, accessibility) (Long-term).
• Advocacy to establish a permanent or temporary female hostel near the secondary school (Mid-term).
• Climate education at the school level (Short-term).

E) Capacity building and institutional development

• Formation and activation of community groups (Climate Justice Group, Integrated Water Management Group, Nature-based Solution Group, etc.) (Short-term).
• Development of climate-responsive local government institutions (Mid-term).
• Mainstreaming climate-resilient innovation in the private sector (Long-term).
• Capacity building of youth on climate-smart employment and climate-smart entrepreneurship (Mid-term).

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