The document summarizes Bangladesh's national adaptation initiatives and plans to address climate change impacts. It outlines Bangladesh's National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) from 2005 and updated Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan from 2009. It also discusses Bangladesh's Nationally Determined Contribution submitted in 2015 and ongoing efforts to develop a National Adaptation Plan (NAP) with support from the Green Climate Fund. The NAP process will focus on strengthening coordination, updating adaptation options, integrating climate risks into decision making, and establishing a mechanism to track adaptation investments and financing.

1. Bangladesh’s adaptation initiatives:
institutional arrangement and
support for the NAP process
Dr Fahmida Khanom
Director (Natural Resource Management and Research)
Department of Environment
Ministry fo Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

2. Climate change impacts
 Coastal Zone: SLR, Cyclone, Salinity
 Recurrent severe flooding, water logging/ permanent inundation;
 Increase in the frequency and intensity of drought
 Loss of agricultural productivity;
 River bank erosion;
 Recurrent cyclone, storm surges with more intensity

3. Source: Bangladesh
Climate Change Strategy
and Action Plan 2009

4. Adaptation initiatives
 Bangladesh prepared it’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) in
November 2005 (updated in 2009)
 Bangladesh Government formulated the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy
and Action Plan (BCCSAP), 2009 to address climate change in a comprehensive
manner with the vision to eradicate poverty and achieve economic and social
wellbeing through a pro-poor climate change resilience strategy.
 The BCCSAP is a 10 year programme, built on six themes/pillars –
1) Food security, social protection and health;
2) Comprehensive disaster management;
3) Infrastructure;
4) Research and knowledge management;
5) Mitigation and low carbon development;
6) Capacity building and institutional strengthening.
 The country is now updating the BCCSAP that will be completed by the end of
2019.

5. Adaptation initiatives
To implement the BCCSAP -
 Enactment of Climate Change Trust Act, 2010 by Parliament
 Establishment of -
 Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF) in the fiscal year 2009-
10 from its own revenue resources.
 Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience Fund (BCCRF), a multi-donar
trust fund
 Bangladesh is the first LDC country to set up its own Climate Change Trust
Fund from its own resources.

6. Adaptation initiatives…integration in
fiscal policies
 Climate Fiscal Framework (CFF), 2014
 Inclusive Budgeting and Financing for Climate Resilience
(IBFCR)
 climate change information and knowledge
management (CCIKM) network.

7. Nationally Determined Contribution
(NDC)
 As an active member of UNFCCC, Bangladesh prepared and submitted its
INDC in September 2015 that includes both Adaptation and Mitigation
initiatives in the country.
 The NDC -2015 identifies the adaptation goal as “protect the population,
enhance their adaptive capacity and livelihood options, and to protect
the overall development of the country in its stride for economic progress
and wellbeing for the people”.
 also identifies key adaptation priority areas of actions, a list of on-going
adaptation actions, climate funds, and an estimate of adaptation costs.

8. Adaptation initiatives …in National
development strategies
the government’s ongoing national development strategies focus on climate
change adptation
 Vision 2021,
 the 10-year perspective plan (2010-2020) and
 the 7th Five Year Plan (FY 2016-FY2020)
 Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP 2100)
 seeks to integrate the short to medium term aspirations of Bangladesh to achieve
Upper Middle Income (UMIC) status and eliminate extreme poverty by FY 2031
with the longer term challenge of sustainable management of water, ecology,
environment and land resources in the context of their interaction with natural
disasters and climate change.

9. GAPS and barriers
 the NAPA identified immediate CCA priorities, but did not set out medium- and
longer- term adaptation needs and options
 In the BCCSAP
 the lack of a framework for stakeholder collaboration and
 Lack of adaptation options with specific timelines,
 Limited M& E options
 Information for medium-term adaptation investment planning not fully assessed
or available
 Coordination mechanisms are inadequate for prioritization of CCA planning
and action
 Institutional and technical capacity is limited at national
 Tracking of adaptation related investment is not available and there is a lack of
options for funding mid to long term CCA

10. NAP Roadmap and NAP process
 Bangladesh prepared a NAP Roadmap in 2015 and has already initiated the
process for the formulation and advancement of NAP process with 03 million
USD Green Climate Fund (GCF) financing.
Other ongoing/proposed supporting programmes
 Community-based coastal afforestation phases I and II
 Ecosystem-based approaches to Adaptation (EbA) in the drought-prone Barind
Tract and Haor "wetland" Area
 Community Based Adaptation (CBA) Programme
 Integrating climate change adaptation into sustainable development
pathways of Bangladesh
 Adaptation of climate change into the national and local development
planning

11. The NAP development process
 4 key areas
1. Strengthen institutional coordination and climate change information and
knowledge management for medium- to long-term planning;
2. Update and appraise adaptation options; prioritizw and formulate
National Adaptation Plan;
3. Develop climate risk informed decision-making tools and piloting by
planning and budget departments at national and sectoral levels;
4. set up nationally appropriate participatory adaptation investments
tracking mechanism and financial plan for mid- and long-term CCA
implementation

12. (The NAP Process…)
institutional coordination and climate change
information and knowledge management
 Assess (at the national, sectoral, and thematic levels)
 technical and institutional capacity,
 information, and data gaps
 Enhance climate change adaptation mandate and institutional coordination mechanisms
to support the NAP process
 Prepare nationally appropriate institutional framework and coordination mechanism for NAP
process
 Build expanded information and knowledge base with focus on detailed CC risks and
vulnerability and interpret CCA planning scenarios for the mid- and long-term
 Expand and re-launch the central web-based national climate change information and
knowledge management (CCIKM) portal
 Update climate change-induced vulnerability assessments at sector and national levels

13. (The NAP Process…)
Review adaptation options and formulate
National Adaptation Plan
 Review and prioritize mid-and long-term adaptation options for inclusion in
NAP, national development plans, and other CCA policies, actions, and
investment programs
 Formulate and communicate the NAP based on identified CCA priorities
and in close coordination with plans already in place
 Design M&E framework including process and performance indicators for
tracking CCA activities within priority vulnerable sectors
 Develop a complementary communications and outreach strategy for the NAP
 Finalise NAP based on peer review and public comments

14. (The NAP Process…)
Develop climate risk informed decision-making tools and
piloting by planning and budget departments at national
and sectoral levels
 Develop technical guidance and tools to support integration of CCA into development
planning, programming, and budgeting in prioritized sectors
 Expand training on CCA mainstreaming and bankable project development skills,
 Develop an adaptation-specific capacity building action plan (CBAP) and implement it for
upgrading CCA technical and project implementation skills of climate change related technical
government staff at national level
 Conduct national level dialogue on integrating national adaptation priorities into SDGs
and aligning the NAPs process with SDGs in national policies, budgets and indicators
 Prepare technical guidelines (e.g. climate-proofing/resilient guidelines for up to 3 of the
priority sectors) to mainstream climate change into future budgeting and planning
processes
 Create and pilot integrated SDG planning and budgeting tools

15. (The NAP Process…)
4. Set up nationally appropriate participatory adaptation
investments tracking mechanism and financial plan for
mid- and long-term CCA implementation
 Establish standards and protocol to track CCA project financing and investments
 Develop a NAP programming and financing strategy that focuses on catalyzing CCA
investments in the priority sectors

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