landslides & erosion

The objective of the Government of Myanmar’s Flood and Landslide Emergency Recovery Project is to support the recovery in priority areas affected by the 2015 floods and landslides and to provide immediate and effective response in potential future eligible crises. The project components will include the climate-resilient rehabilitation of national and rural roads and the provision of eligible goods.

The project will fill critical infrastructure gaps in the Integrated Transport Network Development Plan (“ITNDP”) demonstrating use of innovative, climate-informed, safe, and nature-based solutions. It will also invest in innovative, climate resilient, nature-based design and construction solutions for roads and bridges, least-cost-engineering solutions for local infrastructure.

The project financed a cash-for-trees program which part of an erosion prevention activity that provided incentives for smallholders to reforest their lands in the watersheds surrounding the irrigated areas.

This project implemented by the Government of Rwanda was to demonstrate landscape management for enhanced environmental services and climate resilience in one priority landscape. Specifically, the project restored the highly degraded Gishwati-Mukura landscape, enhancing both productive and environmental values.

The project was comprehensive, using insitutional capacity building and awareness raising of SLM for DRM, using community-based activities to restore and sustainably manage areas such as the restoration of natural waterways, reforestation of hillsides and watersheds and bush fire control (Savanna, Maritime and Kara regions). Community-Based activities in Cropland and Grazing Land included SLM best practices will be piloted and promoted in targeted areas.

The project objective was to strengthen institutional capacity of targeted institutions to manage the risk of flooding and land degradation in targeted rural and urban areas. The Government of Togo aimed to achieve objective through 1) community-based activities in watershed and flood-prone areas; 2) community-based activities in cropland and grazing lands; 3) community-based sustainable forest and wetland management; as well as 4) early warning, monitoring and knowledge systems and 5) institutional strengthening and awareness raising.

The measures to be integrated in the designs of bridges, roads and river crossings include bioengineering solutions for landslide and erosion protection, drainage systems, and so on. The resilience mainstreaming applies to the entire road under the upgradation works contract, as the road alignment falls in the midst of the Himalayan mountains. The bioengineering solutions and drainage improvement in slide risk locations apply to the roads under maintenance as well.

The project's development and global environment objective is to reduce land degradation and improve land productivity in selected watersheds in targeted regions in Ethiopia. The project implemented sustainable land management (SLM) and afforestation to remedy gullies and erosion damage, while also increasing capacity for adoption of climate-smart techniques.

The Government of the Brazilian State Espírito Santo has requested World Bank funds for the Espírito Santo Integrated Sustainable Water Management Project with the objectives to: (a) improve sustainable water resources management; and (b) increase access to sanitation in the project area. The project aims at strengthening the state’s water sector institutions, providing increased wastewater collection and treatment services, supporting reforestation and sustainable land management practices, and improving the state's capacity to identify, monitor and prepare for disaster risks.

A variety of sub-projects were financed that included coastal ecosystem restoration, which included coral reefs.