Background
CRSS & KIA Bangladesh implementing a comprehensive and integrated program in the targeted low lying/swampy (beel) areas so that the communities over there can increase their resilience against the climatic vulnerabilities, come up with some disaster risk reduction activities and undertake resilient livelihood/ income generating activities. CRSS will address both the underlying factors of poverty in targeted areas of 6 Unions under 2 Upazilas of Barisal Districts side by side of their on- going other activities. Many poverty reduction strategies have been considered potential to address the underlying risks and to recognize disaster impacts as a contributing factor to poverty. In this particular program, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), and poverty reduction through undertaking resilient livelihood are strongly integrated. In order to build community resilience, identification and expansion of indigenous coping capacities and strengthening traditional warning systems have been considered as very important strategies and those have been integrated as major thrusts of the project. Poor and marginalized groups (women, children, disabled persons and the hard-core poor) will be specifically targeted with a goal to strengthening their capacity and confidence to access a range of support services with a view to minimizing the all individual, family and community level negative impacts associated with vulnerabilities related to natural disasters and climate change.
Goal of the Project:
“Targeted area households lead poverty free well capacitated life resilient to local disasters with adaptation to the adverse effect of climate change for their survival, subsistence and sustainable development.”
Objective of the Project:
- Community people, living within the project area (54 Wards of 6 Unions under 2 Sub-districts of Barisal District) in vulnerable conditions are identified and well organized into small groups (15-30 members) and they are aware about the local hazards, vulnerabilities, and techniques to cope with disastrous situation and they are responsive to the local disasters and adverse effect of climate change at family and community level based on their own enhanced capacities and proper use of local resources.
- Volunteers and Rescue Teams (Within and outside the Churches) formed at Ward level are operative in the process of sensitization and community mobilization for preparedness, emergency response and adaptation activities related to disaster risk management and adverse effect of climate change.
- Ward, Union and Upazila level Disaster Management Committees are well coordinated ensuring the representation of CRSS’s project or its target group/social leaders that the target area people/leaders (within and outside the church) are courageous enough to have easy access to structural and non-structural supports/ opportunities to reduce the impacts of disaster risks and adverse effect of climate change.
- Selected group members with Socio-economically backward/ underprivileged background and vulnerable to Disaster Risks and adverse effect of Climate change are provided with required support in terms of skill development training, guidance/ technical and financial support, structural improvement, etc. that they can lead their life and livelihood resilient to local disasters and adverse effect of climate change.
Working Area:
- Upazila: 2 Upazila, (Wazirpur & Agailjhara)
- Union: 6 Unions, (Harta, Satla, Jolla, Gaila, Ratnapur & Bagdha)
- Village: 77
Duration: 1st oct 2022- 30th sep 2025
Total Beneficiaries:
| Male | Female | Boys | Girls | Person with Disabilities | Third Gender | Total |
| 75,209 | 74,545 | 13,032 | 14,119 | 2,102 | 00 | 1,79,007 |
