Santa Catarina Flood Infrastructure and Resilience Improvement Project

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The Santa Catarina Climate Resilience project will implement the first phase of an ambitious, multi-year integrated climate and disaster risk management investment program led by the Santa Catarina Civil Defense Agency. The project will support risk mitigation infrastructure works, increase institutional capacity to assess and monitor disaster risks, develop strategies to support the most vulnerable populations and increase participation of the private sector disaster recovery. Specifically, the project will carry out various river improvement, control and slope stabilization works to mitigate the impacts of floods and landslides on the residents of the rapidly urbanizing Itajai Valley, and other priority locations. The Project will also establish a foundation for future DRM investments in other parts of the state, through supporting the development of disaster risk reduction plans, which will identify specific investment priorities and estimated costings. The focus through these plans will be on the protection of vulnerable communities, public infrastructure, health and school facilities. Finally, the project will expand the climate monitoring and early warning capacities in Santa Catarina, with the aim of increasing radar coverage to the entire state, and cooperation with neighboring states, and improving the interface between climate monitoring and local civil defense agencies at the municipal level. Support to the private sector will be explored through existing emergency support programs for SMEs.