Background 

The Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation (GCA) project empowers climate vulnerable coastal communities, especially women, as ‘change agents’ to plan, implement, and manage resilient livelihoods and drinking water solutions. GCF resources leveraged by GoB co-financing, is ensuring that (i) communities, especially women, adopt and implement climate-resilient livelihoods; (ii)value-chains/market linkages for these alternatives, resilient livelihoods are strengthened to ensure their adoption, sustainability, and scale; and (iii) Communities have knowledge and capacity to continue to monitor, safeguard and adapt livelihoods and livelihood strategies to evolving climate risks. The project is also utilizing GCF and GoB resources to support investments in and management of climate-resilient drinking water solutions to secure year-round, safe drinking water supplies for the targeted communities. Access to reliable, safe drinking water enables the communities, especially women and girls in targeted households, to invest the resulting time & cost savings and health co-benefits in enhanced livelihoods and income-generating and/or educational opportunities. The project is expected to bring gender transformational changes in the households and communities promoting shared responsibilities of unpaid care work to addressing the gender norms that restricts women to benefit from high value and productive roles.