Achievement – LoGIC

Achievements

OVERALL KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

All components of the Local Government Initiative on Climate Change (LoGIC) project became fully operational in 2019. The planned activities made progress and significant initial results were achieved in relation to the expected project outcome of “Improved and inclusive local level planning, and increased funding for community based CCA-DRR solutions, supported by a strengthened financing mechanism”.

Rolling out the LoGIC Model as delivery mechanism:

LoGIC has emerged as a system to deliver climate finance to the most vulnerable households and to the local government institutions (Union Parishads). The selection process undertaken to identify the 72 most vulnerable, physically disconnected and hardest-to-reach Union Parishads frequently affected by environmental hazards (particularly cyclone, sea level rise, salinity, flood and flash flood) is justified by the national vulnerability ranking and hard-to-reach areas mapping, and is acknowledged by the government and the other stakeholders in general. The facilitation provided by the project for carrying out the technical and participatory Community Risk Assessment (CRA) has supported the design of long-term strategic climate actions for the Local Government Institutions (LGIs).

Enhanced the financial inclusion:

The direct transfer of grants to the vulnerable institutions for implementing project actions (through the Performance Based Climate Resilience Grants- PBCRG) and individual households (Community Resilience Fund- CRF) made the process roll. At the same time, the effectiveness of the PBCRG and CRF in curving down the climate vulnerability of the people in high risk areas is yet to be measured. However, as co-benefit, the LoGIC project enhanced the financial inclusion of the most vulnerable 17,000 women, who never thought of having access to the formal banking system. It has resulted in enhanced confidence among the women beneficiaries expressed, through their empowerment and internalizing meaningful ways in building resilience.

Economic and social empowerment:

Women are not alone while they implement their adaptive livelihood options but are in groups with unified business plans to reduce their investment risks. This has created enthusiasm among the local stakeholders to engage in the process of resilience building.

Mainstreaming adaptation at the local level:

LoGIC, through the CRA process, facilitated the participatory representation of the LGIs and the vulnerable communities. This helped brainstorming and identifying their risks with a bottom-up approach, which was prioritized while planning and incorporating the long-term strategic plan of the UPs. While UPs plan on building public goods for climate resilience (Risk Reduction Action Plan or RRAP), the communities have been planning for their own adaptive livelihood options (Household Risk Reduction Action Plan-HHRRAP). Out of 72, targeted 71 UPs have received PBCRG grants (USD 1.79M) for implementing 228 climate change adaptation (CCA) schemes from their RRAP to create climate resilient public goods. On the other hand, 17,000 vulnerable households of the community received USD 4.64M (2.88m disbursed in 2019, and 1.76m disbursed in 2018) and came up with 22 types of gender-responsive adaptive livelihood options. Both the grants support is promoting adaptation actions to reduce the vulnerability to climate change,and both followed the community risk assessment methodology. However, such links between households to community level require further strengthening and be informed from science-led predictions and scenarios of climate-induced risks.

Use of innovation for tracking and measuring adaptation (ATM mechanism):

LoGIC demonstrates a comprehensive approach to ensure climate resilience. To keep records, track and measure adaptation, LoGIC has developed and put in place the state-of-the-art Accounting & Management Information Systems (MIS), Adaptation Tracking and Measuring (ATM) system for the project to make sure all the climate fundingis spent with rationale, the data is regularly entered and updated in the software which generates reports and tell stories of change in the field. Tapping upon innovation towards maximizing results, project has successfully trained 72 Union Parishads (LGI) Secretary on Accounting & MIS software. Field level project staffs have been provided hands-on training on filed-level data entry in changing context, future risks, use of grants etc. in the app-Tab-based ATM software. This approach has started to evolve as a transparent and accountable tool to measure climate change and adaptation data on the ground. Out of 72, targeted 71 UPs have received PBCRG grants (USD 1.79M) for implementing 228 climate change adaptation (CCA) schemes from their RRAP to create climate resilient public goods. On the other hand, 17,000 vulnerable households of the community received USD 4.64M (2.88m disbursed in 2019, and 1.76m disbursed in 2018) and came up with 22 types of gender-responsive adaptive livelihood options. Both the grants support is promoting adaptation actions to reduce the vulnerability to climate change,and both followed the community risk assessment methodology. However, such links between households to community level require further strengthening and be informed from science-led predictions and scenarios of climate-induced risks.

Leaving No One Behind:

LoGIC followed participatory approach for developing climate change risk reduction action plan to engaging ethnic minority groups, fisherfolks, Persons with Disability, marginal occupational groups, and adolescent mothers in climate risk assessment and Risk Reduction Action Plan at household and Union Parishad level. In the CRF beneficiary selection the ethnic, marginal e.g. disadvantaged groups were also emphasized and out of 17000 CRF beneficiaries 14110 are from the disadvantaged groups. Out of 72, targeted 71 UPs have received PBCRG grants (USD 1.79M) for implementing 228 climate change adaptation (CCA) schemes from their RRAP to create climate resilient public goods. On the other hand, 17,000 vulnerable households of the community received USD 4.64M (2.88m disbursed in 2019, and 1.76m disbursed in 2018) and came up with 22 types of gender-responsive adaptive livelihood options. Both the grants support is promoting adaptation actions to reduce the vulnerability to climate change,and both followed the community risk assessment methodology. However, such links between households to community level require further strengthening and be informed from science-led predictions and scenarios of climate-induced risks.