Innovations for Climate-smart Urban Development

About this project

Context: Bangladesh is one of the countries most affected by climate change. Impacts include heavy rainfall, flooding, cyclones, river erosion, heatwaves and other natural disasters. Every year, around 30 per cent of the land area is underwater due to monsoon rains and river floods. The climate change and the growth of informal settlements are creating complex problems in cities that cannot be adequately addressed due to limited resources and weak institutions. There is a lack of basic services, as well as insufficient affordable and needs-based infrastructure measures to make neighbourhoods more resilient to climate change and thus improve the urban population’s living conditions. Small and medium-sized cities do not have access to sufficient funds to implement climate-resilient infrastructure measures. Objective: Climate-resilient urban development in Bangladesh is improving through locally led, innovative solutions. Approach: The project pursues its goals by: • Developing locally led innovative measures to improve climate resilience within the framework of ‘Innovation Labs’ and implementing them in selected cities. These Innovation labs are problem-solving processes in which innovation is encouraged through the development of ideas, implementation and knowledge sharing. The focus is on user-centric, agile methods. • Peer-to-peer exchange and mutual learning between cities on climate-resilient urban development. • Giving recommendations for the national policy framework fo…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 11Sustainable Cities and Communities
• 13Climate Action

Published by

Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) · Government

Countries

Bangladesh

Sectors

Urban development and managementPublic sector policy and administrative managementBusiness policy and administration

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesGood governance · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focus

Places

Dhaka

Published by Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 31 Aug 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: DE-1-202221620.

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