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NAVIGATING MANGROVE RESILIENCE THROUGH THE ECOSYSTEM BASED ADAPTATION APPROACH: LESSONS FROM BANGLADESH

Paramesh Nandy And Ronju Ahammad Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation (CBACC-CF) Project in Bangladesh, Financed by LDCF-GEF-UNDP

Enhancing resilience of communities and protective ecosystems through adaptation interventions (Coastal afforestation and Livelihood diversifications) Capacity building - at national, sub-national and local level Policy Development- reviewing existing policies and developing climate resilient policies Knowledge Management- Capturing and sharing climate related knowledge within and outside Bangladesh.

CBACC-CF Project Strategy

Enhancement of Resilience Capacities through different Adaptation Interventions

Protective Ecosystems

• Existence of monoculture;
• Previous focus mainly on land

stabilization while 25% matured trees exist per unit area;

• Introduction of 9 new

mangrove species;

• Mangrove afforestation in 6000

ha;

• Ditch- Dyke plantation in 112

ha;

• Mound plantation in 332 ha;
• Strip plantation in 615 km and
• Capacity building of coastal

people.

Vulnerable Communities

• Existence of low adaptive capacity

to withstand CC impacts;

• Livelihood dependence on

climate sensitive sectors;

• Introduction of improved

agricultural technologies;

• Introduction of improved

livestock technologies ;

• Introduction of modern aqua

cultural technologies ;

• Capacity building of coastal

households in each sector.

Gap between matured trees

Introduction of new mangrove species

Women Groups in Mangrove Nursery Maintenance

Model Demonstration Mangrove Model Plantation Mangrove Regeneration

Periodically inundated and fallow coastal lands behind mangrove forests before FFF intervention

Community based digging of ditch and mound preparation

FFF beneficiary is nursing own mound vegetation

Production Stage of FFF Model

Scaffolding for Climbing Vegetables

Fish production from individual ditch

Beneficiary Groups Annual Income, Before Project (Thousand BDT)

Income after Adaptation Intervention (Thousand BDT))

Annual Income- After Project (Thousand BDT) Difference (Thousand BDT)

Adaptive Capacity Ranking (H for High; M for Moderate; L for Low)

a AI*1 AI2 AI3 b b-a 1 29.00 40.00 15.00 12.00 67.00 38.00 H 2 67.00 18.00 80.00 36.00 134.00 67.00 H 3 25.00

• 40.00

6.00 46.00 21.00 M 4 50.00 41.00 41.00 10.20 76.20 26.20 M 5 79.00 60.00 60.00 27.40 102.4 23.40 M AV 50.00 24.50 47.20 18.32 85.12 35.12

• Effects of different adaptation interventions

*Adaptation interventions (AI), AI1-Agriculture, AI2-Aquaculture, AI3-Livestock

Significant Features of FFF Model

• Community empowerment through lands right;
• Saves the land from encroachment;
• Ensures water security by harvesting rain water;
• Productive use of fallow lands;
• Voluntary role in protecting coastal forest;
• Rational land use model in a land scarced country;
• Increases adaptive capacity through providing at

least $ 1000 USD / family / year additional income;

• Recurrent income to sustain livelihoods.

LESSONS LEARNED

Scalling up Required intervention

• Introduction of new

mangrove species;

• Productive use of

periodically inundated lands;

• Community

empowerment with lands right.

• Develop self-help
• ptions within the

vulnerable coastal communities;

• Remove relief

culture from disaster prone coastal areas.

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