World Bank

The proposed Project has drawn on international best practices such as “working with nature”.

The objective of the Uttarakhand Decentralized Watershed Development Project (II) is to increase the efficiency of natural resource use and productivity of rainfed agriculture by participating communities in selected microwatersheds of the State of Uttarakhand.

The project will have an important components on using NbS for erosion, flood risk reduction, and landslide control. This will largely include increasing green spaces, revegeation, and use of microretention areas.

Investments will include a variety of green infrastructure measures, sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices, and livelihoods diversification. Green infrastructure will be designed in conjunction with gray infrastructure to optimize the functionality, cost-effectiveness, and resilience of the integrated natural and built system.

The project used farmer-led natural regeneration, which is mostly to create food forests, but also improve forest cover to reduce water runoff and maximizing rain infiltration (and protection from wind).

The Government of Brazil, through the Municipal Secretariat for Planning, Teresina, is implementing the Teresina Enhancing Municipal Governance and Quality of Life Project for Brazil with the objectives to: a) modernize and improve the management capacity of Teresina Municipal Government in the financial, urban environmental, service delivery, and economic development fields, and b) improve the quality of life of the low-income population of the Lagoas do Norte region of the city.

The Government of Ghana aims to demonstrate improved sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices to reduce land degradation and maintain biodiversity in selected microwatersheds and build capacity for upscaling in northern Ghana. The project combines soft and hard investments at the community level with planning activities.

The project will use green infrastructure, such as green roofs and green spaces to reduce energy consumption, but also reduce flooding.

This component focuses on incorporating innovative technologies in community-based sustainable NRM. Subcomponents include (a) addressing climate change impacts on water resources and agriculture by promoting innovative climate-smart NRM technologies and (b) alleviating negative impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on livelihoods.

This component aimed at empowering municipalities, residents, and community groups to actively engage in urban flood risk reduction measures and adaptation to climate change through piloting the development and implementation of participatory urban community investments and an awareness raising and communication campaign. It supported the participation of community members in urban flood risk management and small-scale pilot investments aimed at the rehabilitation and maintenance of natural or artificial retention basins and/or urban wetlands allowing for natural runoff.