Background

The concept of the PROVATi³ Project (Promoting Resilience of Vulnerable through Access to Infrastructure, Improved Skills and Information) had been endorsed by the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) in December 2016 and by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s senior management in February 2017. An initial design mission was mobilized during 6 to 29 March, 2017. The project design report (PDR) presents the detail design features of the project prepared by a final design mission fielded during 15 to 28 July 2017. This is one of the two projects designed in 2017 under IFAD COSOP 2012-18. The project concept and design builds on past successful projects implemented by LGED, particularly the Coastal Climate Change Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP) project and replicates good practices. Several innovative features have been incorporated in the area of climate-proofing infrastructure, economic empowerment of ultra-poor people working on construction and maintenance through continued guidance towards income generation activities (IGA), improved maintenance of structures for long-term sustainability, vocational skills-training (VST) for on- and off-farm employment, local flood infor

mation and dissemination at village level, project management and monitoring, and knowledge management for wider mainstreaming of good practices. Improved resilience of the population in a flood vulnerable and extremely poor area is the central theme of the project more…