Overview

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $8 million in the Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) program, which will provide technical advisory and assistance services to government ministries and technical agencies and to community-based organizations co-managed by aid donors and recipients. CREL will promote alternative, climate-resilient livelihood activities; biodiversity conservation through co-management of natural resources; polices that institutionalize community-based natural resource management; and climate change strategy implementation, including the 2009 Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan. CREL's objective is to achieve responsible, equitable, climate-resilient growth and good environmental governance.