The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has approved a $10 million fund to enhance resilience of vulnerable communities of small islands and riverine char lands islands in Bangladesh.
The allocation will be spent through a project being jointly implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) titled
“Adaptation Initiative for Climate Vulnerable Offshore Small Island and Riverine Charland in Bangladesh”.
Bangladesh, despite being one of the most climate change vulnerable country, is receiving the fund for the first time.
The allocation was made at a board meeting of the Adaptation Fund held in Bonn, Germany in March 2019.
A total of US$ 32.5 million were approved for new projects in Armenia, Dominican Republic, Bangladesh and Western Balkan to serve the Paris Climate Agreement smoothly.
“Despite a very full agenda, it was great to see the progress in new projects funded to benefit vulnerable communities across a variety of adaptation sectors including adaptation in small islands in Bangladesh, ” said the Fund’s Manager Mikko Ollikainen.
“UNDP was pioneer in supporting the Government of Bangladesh’s transformational change through providing policy recommendation and thought leadership during formulation of policies and strategies to address climate change,” Sudipto Mukerjee, UNDP Resident Representative in Bangladesh, said.
“It has provided innovative solutions for community-based adaptation and ecosystem-based adaptation to enhance resilience of climate vulnerable communities, helping Bangladesh move closer to attaining SDG13 by 2030,” he added.
