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About CReLIC

The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is establishing a Climate Resilient Local Infrastructure Centre (CReLIC) under its Climate Resilient Infrastructure Mainstreaming (CRIM) Project funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Government of Germany through the German Development Bank (KfW) and the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) to mainstream climate resilience in the design, planning, and implementation of local infrastructures. During the project period, CReLIC will work as a distinctive entity within LGED financed from the CRIM Project. Subsequently, CReLIC will be institutionalized to ensure the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation and mitigation options in the infrastructure development activities of LGED and other organizations. CReLIC will trigger a stepwise institutional learning process fully integrated into LGED structures and backed by pilot investment schemes under components 2 and 3 of the CRIM Project, i.e., climate-resilient infrastructure development in rural and urban areas, respectively. As a result, the CRIM Project aims to increase directly the adaptive capacity of more than 134,000 people to climate change. Indirectly, 10.4 million people (6.8 percent of the total population of the country) will benefit from climate-resilient infrastructure planning and implementation in the long term.

Services of CReLIC

  • Develop and update climate-resilient infrastructure guidelines and procedures
  • Knowledge management for climate resilient local infrastructure
  • Training, awareness, mainstreaming on climate resilient infrastructure

Mission

Systematically support LGED for the integration of climate change adaptation into decision-making regarding local infrastructure planning, design, supervision, and maintenance.

Vision

CReLIC evolves as a center of excellence and a hub of knowledge on climate resilience for local infrastructure at LGED and for Bangladesh.

Consultative Advisory Group

A twenty-member high-level group of most renowned and reputed national and international experts on climate change adaptation, as well as representatives of relevant Governmental, Non-Governmental organizations, as well as institutional and development partners has been formed to provide technical guidance to CReLIC. The group is chaired by the Secretary, Local Government Division.

Cooperation Network

To strengthen its institutional network, CReLIC has signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with prominent national and international research institutes and think-tanks, such as the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Institute of Water Modelling (IWM), Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), Housing and Building Research Institute (HBRI), Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research (C3ER), Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Aspire to Innovate (a2i). The collaborations are expected to enhance the exchange of knowledge, sharing of data and information, lessons learnt as well as co-development and implementation of research studies.

Services of CReLIC

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Develop and update climate-resilient infrastructure guidelines and procedures

  • Conduct Climate Risks Screening and Climate Impact Analysis (CIA).
  • Support filling up TPP/DPP format from a climate perspective.
  • Assess and update work process/guidelines, procedures regularly, and conduct necessary research and propose recommendations based on the analysis of climatic issues.
  • Act as advisor to urban, rural and water resources sectors.
  • Propose construction, maintenance-related best practices for LGED infrastructure and recommend on environment-friendly alternative material use.

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Knowledge management for climate resilient local infrastructure

  • Cooperation and facilitation with networks for climate information and knowledge.
  • Provide historical and processed climate data and information.
  • Regular collection and dissemination of lessons learnt and best practices.
  • Act as a help desk.
  • Act as a knowledge catalyst through facilitating collaboration.

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Training, awareness, mainstreaming on climate resilient infrastructure

  • Capacitate through learning & training on the climate related aspects.
  • Mainstreaming climate concepts and methods.