Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2009.

This Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2009 (BCCSAP 2009), as a cross-sectoral policy document, is a 10-year framework(2009-2018). The Government's vision on management of climate change is an integral part of its Vision 2021, which is to eradicate poverty, increase employment opportunities, ensure food security, provide access to energy and power, and achieve economic and social well-being of all citizens of the country. To achieve this goal, the climate change strategy of pro-poor, climate resilient and low carbon development is set out. The Action Plan comprises 44 immediate, short, medium and long-term programmes based upon six pillars: 1. Food security, social protection and health; 2. Comprehensive disaster management; 3. Infrastructure; 4. Research and knowledge management; 5. Mitigation and low carbon development; 6. Capacity building and institutional.
The BCCSAP seeks to eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. The actions to be implemented include collection and preservation of local varieties of robust cultivars and documentation of their characteristics, research to develop climate resilient varieties, development of climate resilient cropping systems, fisheries and livestock systems to ensure local and national food security, etc.
This BCCSAP 2009 is a revised version of the BCCSAP 2008 and reflected the changed development priorities of the new Goverment including inter alia, very substancial eradication of poverty by the year 2021. The needs of the poor and vulnerable, including women and children, are prioritised in activities to be implemented under the Action Plan. Actions include livelihood protection of vulnerable socio-economic groups (including women), livelihood protection in ecologically fragile areas, etc.
Regarding to comprehensive disaster management, the programmes envisaged include improvement of disaster forecasting and early warning, awareness raising and public education towards climate resilience, risk management against loss on income and property, adaptation actions in fisheries and livestock sectors, repair and maintenance of infrastructure, revision of sectoral policies for climate resilience, lower emission from agricultural land, etc.
In the field of governance, the programmes designed concern strengthening institutional capacity for climate change management, and main-streaming climate change in national, sectoral and spatial development. The Climate Change Action Plan will be implemented under the overall guidance of the National Environment Committee. The implementation of the BCCSAP will be financed through Government's own resources and external support. A monitoring mechanism will be set up during the implementation process by developing a set of indicators to measure progress.