Climate change in south-west Bangladesh is linked to even small changes in sea levels that had forced villagers rely on monsoon rains for their drinking water or risk sickness by drinking from contaminated and salty ponds. Grants delivered using the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility have enabled local governments to provide water treatment plants to supply communities with clean drinking water to hundreds of families.

LoGIC project is supporting the local governments to adopt some adaptive technologies to improve access to clean drinking water and boost communities’ climate resilience. Along with water treatment plants, which charge users a small fee to fill their water containers with purified water, other actions include rainwater harvesting and storage systems.

Local Government Initiative on Climate Change, (LoGIC) project, led by the Local Government Division of the Ministry of Local Government Rural Development and Cooperatives, is a joint 4-year initiative of the Government of Bangladesh, UNDP, UNCDF, the European Union and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). LoGIC is phase II of UNCDF’s global Project Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) in Bangladesh.

LoCAL provides a mechanism to integrate climate change adaptation into local governments’ planning and budgeting systems, increase awareness and response to climate change at the local level. The LoCAL Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) builds on over two decades of UNCDF experience in fiscal decentralization, local public financial management, and local investments and procurement around the world. LoCAL is a further refinement of these experiences.

Now engaged in over 30 countries, LoCAL helps to coordinate public policies for adaptation and decentralization. It gives the choice to those most affected by climate change impacts to adapt to new conditions, to test new practices and to live with dignity. LoCAL also makes it possible to increase the level of funds made available to local communities.

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