Bangladesh is experiencing the adverse effects of climate change, including sea level rise in coastal areas, increasing severity of tropical cyclones and extreme rainfall events. Recognizing that climate impacts are undercutting hard won human development gains, Bangladesh has already taken strides on adaptation planning over the last decade, by implementing the National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPA), setting-up climate change trust funds, and pioneering community based adaptation approaches. However,institutional arrangements and a coordinated strategy for mid- and long-term climate change adaptation investment are not yet in place.

To transition fromurgent tolong term sustained investment planning in climate change adaptation, Bangladesh has prepared a “Roadmap for Developing a National Adaptation Plan for Bangladesh”, issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests in 2015. This NAP Roadmap identifies steps, priority sectors and thematic areas and results required and emphasizes the iterative nature of adaptation planning. In March 2017, this NAP Roadmap was re-visited in a national stocktaking and consultation meeting organized by the government (supported jointly by UNDP and GIZ) and reaffirmed with more detailed discussions. The NAP Roadmap is fully compatible with climate change adaptation priorities in Bangladesh’s Nationally DeterminedContribution(NDC). The objective of this project isto formulate the Bangladesh National Adaptation Plan with a focus on long term adaptation investmentand enhancing national capacity for integration of climate change adaptation in planning, budgeting and financial tracking processes.