Gender-responsive and climate resilient water solutions for coastal communities by GCF-funded GCA project in Bangladesh

Backed by the Green Climate Fund, the project 'Enhancing Adaptive Capacities of Coastal Communities, especially Women, to Cope with Climate Change-Induced Salinity in Bangladesh' (known locally as the Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation, or GCA , project) is addressing the barriers of limited understanding and, technical know-how and the constraints on vulnerable communities to safeguard against the deterioration of their drinking water resources due to climate change-induced salinity. 

 

The project supports women and girls who are burdened with providing water for their families and additionally suffer from drinking water insecurity.

 

The project is also promoting the synergistic benefits between the livelihood and water user groups as the same communities are being targeted for the interventions to jointly address climate change-induced salinity risks to the community freshwater resources. 

 

It is ensuring the access to reliable, year-round, safe drinking water enables the communities, especially women (including those supported through livelihood interventions) and girls in targeted households, to invest the resulting time and cost savings and health co-benefits in income generating and/or educational opportunities further reducing their vulnerabilities to climate change.