ADB TA-6834 BAN: Support to Southwest Area Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management Project – Additional Financing

The physical interventions under the ensuing project will include strengthening climate change- and disaster- resilience of FCDI structures, such as river and channel dredging, re-sectioning and construction of embankments, rehabilitation of existing regulators and gates and construction of new regulators, re-excavation of khals, protective works, and construction of other structures, while the non-physical interventions will include support for capacity building and training of beneficiaries and relevant stakeholders in O&M of assets developed under the ongoing and ensuing projects, increase productivity of agriculture and fisheries, and gender and livelihood trainings. The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) is the implementing agency for the project.