Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation Project- Documentary on Capacity Building | March 2023

The Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation Project aims to build technical and coordination capacities of 525 officials from the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA), the Department of Public Health Engineering, and other relevant key Ministries through facilitating knowledge generation and exchange and establishing learning frameworks to sustain, replicate, and scale resilient livelihood and drinking water solutions for coastal communities. 

 

The project is:

(i) Strengthening institutional capacities for integrating climate risks in coastal livelihoods support efforts – the MoWCA will benefit from technical capacity to support coastal communities in adaptive livelihood planning and implementation along with coordination capacities to integrate climate change and gender into cross-sectoral socio-economic activities. This is intended to directly support the continued planning and effective implementation of the livelihood interventions in the targeted communities and enable upward linkages to ensure that MoWCA, in coordination with key ministries, is able to support replication and scale of climate-resilient livelihoods across the climate change affected communities along the Southwestern coast

 

(ii) Enhancing institutional capacities for technical innovation, design and implementation of climate-resilient drinking water solutions – the project is supporting DPHE in building their technical capacity for innovation, design, and implementation of climate-resilient drinking water solutions for the Southwestern coast of Bangladesh. The enhanced technical capacities is intended to ensure that DPHE is able to directly support the targeted communities and local government staff with the implementation and sustained O&M of the project investments in the light of evolving climate risks. Improved institutional capacities to assess and incorporate climate risks will also enable DPHE to replicate and scale project interventions across the southwest coast; and 

 

(iii) Improving knowledge management and learning for gender-based, climate-resilient livelihood and water security – the project is promoting knowledge codification and dissemination and evidence-based learning through generation of knowledge related to climate risks and gender-responsive management of livelihood and drinking water solutions and impact evaluation designed to enable systemic learning, replication and scale of project impact. The project is also fostering adaptive capacities of 3000 youth (boys and girls) through targeted behavioral change and awareness-raising campaigns.