Bangladesh Weather and Climate Services Regional Project

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The development objective of the Weather and Climate Services Regional Project for Bangladesh is to strengthen Bangladesh’s capacity to deliver reliable weather, water, and climate information services and improve access to such services by priority sectors and communities. The project comprises of four components. The first component, strengthening meteorological information services will help achieve the project development objective (PDO) by strengthening the Bangladesh Meteorology Department (BMD’s) meteorological monitoring network, forecasting capacity and delivery of weather and climate services. It has three sub-components: (i) modernization of meteorological observation systems and forecasting; (ii) technical and institutional capacity strengthening, regional collaboration, project management, monitoring and evaluation; and (iii) strengthening weather services, early warning systems, and climate services delivery. The second component, strengthening hydrological information services and early warning systems objective is to improve hydrological observation, forecasting, and early warning systems. It consists of three sub-components: (i) strengthening hydrological observation network and forecasting; (ii) technical and institutional capacity strengthening, regional collaboration, project management, monitoring and evaluation; and (iii) strengthening hydrological services and flood early warning systems. The third component, agrometeorological information systems development objective is to provide agro-meteorological services to farmers in order to increase agricultural productivity and assist them in coping with weather and climate extremes. It consists of three sub-components: (i) establishment of the Bangladesh agrometeorological information system (BAMIS); (ii) training, capacity building, project management, monitoring and evaluation; and (iii) agricultural disaster risk management through agrometeorological information dissemination. The fourth component, contingent emergency response component may be used to reallocate or channel additional funds, as available, to support disaster response, recovery, and reconstruction.