Bangladesh Resilient Urban and Territorial Development Project

About this project

The Resilient Urban and Territorial Development Project (RUTDP), approved by the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on June 21, 2024, effective on January 14, 2025, and scheduled to close on October 31, 2030, provides an important bridge from the current city-based model to an urban cluster/territorial-based approach to urban and regional development through a multi-phased, multi-sectoral investment program to support spatially differentiated, climate resilient and inclusive urban growth in Bangladesh. The project is the first phase of a potential three-phase, Series of Projects (SOP) and targets seven urban clusters and 87 participating urban centers along an approximately 950-kilometer economic corridor extending from Cox's Bazar in the southeast to Panchagarh in the northwest, with an expected direct benefit to approximately 17 million people, including women and vulnerable groups. Since 1999, the World Bank has supported basic urban services development and capacity building of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) through a series of stand-alone municipal development projects. The project builds on the success of MGSP (P133653), while focusing on strengthening resilient planning and services in secondary cities and improving regional coordination and development along the selected economic corridor and its urban clusters.The project, to achieve the objectives, has investments under three components covering urban infrastructures and services, capacity building and systems im…

Published by

World Bank · Multilateral

Countries

Bangladesh

Sectors

Local government administrationMulti-hazard response preparedness

Places

Dhaka

Funded by

International Development Association

Implemented by

Local Government Engineering Department, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives

Accountable

People's Republic of Bangladesh

Passes funds through

International Development Association

Published by World Bank to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 3 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: 44000-P178985.

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