Rural Infrastructure : New Cyclone Shelter 45 Nos : Rehab Cyclone Shelter 20 Nos : Critical rural Rd connectivity 80 km
Urban Infrastructure: Upgrade/Rehab. urban Rd. 32 km : side drains 6.8 km : Three footbridges Bridge 20 m
Drains 39.71 km : Water supply : Rehab and improv of existing water produciton facilities : expansion 25 km, replacement 15 km and leak reparis 40 km of water distribution network, provision of 6000 Nos water meter, service connections 5000 no, construction 1 Nos of puphouse for PTW-5, rehab 4 nos pumphouses and rehab of accounts room house 1 nos, provision of chlonination units 15 nos and water quality test kits 6, const. of hand tube well 200 nos. Sanitation & Solid Waste Management LS
Slum Improvements : Foothpath & side drains 2895 m, 1515 meter of footpath drainage and 155 meter of wall/palisades beside water bodies.
CReLIC will act as a knowledge and information hub to collect, process and provide knowledge and exchange of information on climate resilient infrastructure to and from LGED Engineers,institutions and agencies.
Direct benefit : CRIM project increases adaptive capacity of more than 134,000 people to climate change.
Indirect benefit : 10.4 million people (6.8 percent of the total population of the country) will benefit from climate resilient infrastructure planning and implementation in the long term.
Direct co-benefits : creation of more than 1,700 full-time jobs , education support to more than 18,000 children and the reduction of local transport costs by an estimated average of more than 20 percent .

Project Districts

Satkhira, Barguna, Bhola

Project Background

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change risks. According to median predictions of General Circulation Models (GCM), Bangladesh will be 1.5 degree Celsius warmer and 4 percent wetter by 2050, however with stronger seasonal variations. Natural disasters of some kind almost every year, mainly during monsoon season, either by upstream river floods and or by coastal cyclones from the Bay of Bengal. Typically, high rainfalls during monsoon season – resulting in full-flowing floods of upstream rivers (which the country has no control to regulate beyond its boundary) – often times coincide with impeding high tides of the sea, results in extensive inundation on the floodplains that cost Bangladesh average of one percent of GDP each year (World Bank 2010).

The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) has received grants from Green Climate Fund (GCF) and KfW for the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Mainstreaming (“CRIM”) project. The Project Executing Agency (“LGED””Employer”/”PEA”) is the Local Government Engineering Department (“LGED”). LGED is the technical arm of the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives of the Government of Bangladesh (“LGRDC”). It is mandated with planning and implementation of local level rural, urban and small scale water infrastructures.

The German Development Cooperation is supporting Bangladesh with a main emphasis on “Climate Change-Adapted Urban Development (“CCAUD”), in particular through investments in climate change-adapted urban infrastructure (including basic infrastructure in urban poor areas), capacity development at local and national levels as well as with mainstreaming of climate change in all relevant processes, such as urban development planning, project audits, and strategy development. KfW and LGED have been cooperating since 1988, with a total of 12 development projects (bilateral German funding over EUR 122.7 million, all grant) and maintain a successful and professional relationship of mutual trust. This project represents a new level of inter-institutional cooperation between KfW and LGED.

The GCF is starting its contribution towards adaption to climate change in Bangladesh. This is the first project funded by the GCF in Bangladesh. GCF approved the CRIM project at the November 2015 GCF Board meeting as the fourth GCF project ever approved since the creation of the Fund in 2010 . KfW is the Accredited Entity for the GCF-funded CRIM project.

LGED now intends to procure Consultancy Services for the Design, Management and Supervision of the main infrastructure measures of CRIM (the “Services”). The Services will be split into two contracts according to the two relevant project components and their separate funding sources, GCF and the German Financial Cooperation via KfW.

Total Project Cost

GoB 32253 LTK
KfW 22446 LTK (19.60 M Euro)
GCF 40566 LTK (40 M USD)
Total 95265 LTK

Cyclone Shelter GPS below