Piloting an integrated community driven resilient model in urban and peri-urban setting in south coastal area of Bangladesh (Ongoing)

Published: 05 Nov 2025 | MD. Mamun

Climate Resilience-Climate smart Agriculture, Livestock poultry and Aquaculture; DRR & Early Warning; Green Entrepreneurship, Livelihood; Health & Nutrition, and Environment.

Project Name: Piloting an integrated community driven resilient model in urban and peri-urban setting in south-west coastal area of Bangladesh-Khulna (KCC-W#31 and Jolma Union Botiagatha)

Duration: July 2024 to June 2028

Donor: Own funded (contribution by Core member of GRACE)

Outcomes and Activities:

Outcome

Associated Activities

1. Enhancing community resilience through the implementation of sustainable educational and developmental initiatives

• Organize annual sports events engaging children, youth, women, and community leaders to promote moral learning, peer understanding, recreation, and education.

• Conduct screening to identify underprivileged children for intensive academic coaching support.

• Promote and engage children in environmentally friendly and greener practices.

2. Increased practices of safe food production, consumption, and preservation, including market linkage for ensuring green health and nutrition in urban and peri-urban areas

• Establish the GRACE Agro Lab to support adaptive agricultural practices in response to climate vulnerabilities.

• Replicate agro-based models at household level among targeted beneficiaries.

• Provide training on climate-smart agriculture, livestock, poultry, and aquaculture.

• Conduct leadership, early warning, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and market linkage training.

• Distribute agricultural inputs and technical assistance to program participants.

3. Introducing social safety net systems to enhance resilient social justice

• Strengthen linkages with existing government social safety net services.

• Provide food package support during major religious or crisis periods.

• Conduct advocacy initiatives to improve access to government social safety net programs.

4. Transforming lives through healthy and nutritious practices

• Conduct Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) sessions on personal hygiene, maternal and child health, nutrition, and food diversity.

• Carry out Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) screening and referrals

• Organize community-based free health camps.

• Promote improved WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) behaviors.

5. Ensuring sustainable communities through youth participation

• Provide vocational training on sewing, tailoring, IT skills, and freelancing for youth empowerment.

• Offer training on agro-business development (vermicomposting, climate-smart agriculture), marketing, and leadership.

• Build youth capacity in event management, including organizing annual sports, training sessions, workshops, and community meetings.



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People's Republic of Bangladesh
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Department of Social Service
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