Building Mangrove Greenbelts (Char Kukuri Mukuri, Bangladesh)

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overview:
sector:Agriculture, Coast, Forestry
stimulus:Sea-Level rise
impacts:Agricultural production loss, Food loss, Land loss, Wetland loss
Sea levels on the coast of Bangladesh are expected to rise up to 23cm, directly affecting the lives of 38 million Bangladeshis living in coastal areas. More land is being affected by increasing salinity, also threatening food security, and livelihood options. Char Kukri-Mukri, with a population of around 20,000, is already experiencing a marked increase in both the frequency and intensity of cyclo [...]
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project classification:
project type: natural resource management
project status: implementation running
running time: not specified
spatial scale: local
effect emergence: not immediate
effect persistence: not specified
 
project costs:
total costs: not specified
initial investment: not specified
maintenance costs: not specified
problem solving capacity and reversibility:
problem solving coverage: high
reversibility: medium
responsibilities:
initiating agent: UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
executing agent: UNDP, Ministry of Environment and Forest , local communities
funding source: UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
additional information:
Mangroves provide physical protection, trapping sediment in their intricate root structure at such a high rate that they can potentially reverse the effects of sea level rise.
evaluative information:
success factors: It’s very important to pick the right varieties, the right species and also to involve the communities in the plantations and the maintenance and the management of the plantations.
limiting factors: not specified
synergies to mitigation: Yes, Mangrove forests act as extremely effective carbon sinks, able to absorb 97.57 tons of carbon per hectare, or more than three times the absorptive capacity of non-mangrove forests.

no regret / win-win option: Win-Win option
project evaluation: The programme is doing the Natural Resource Managment by training local people to run mangrove nurseries and manage forests and then paying them, a move that will have benefited 5,000 families by the end of 2010.
contact information:
Sakil Faizullah, UNDP Bangladesh
UNDP G.P.O Box No. 224 Dhaka 1000 Bangladesh
tel.: +880 171 304 9900
email: sakil.faizullah@undp.org
information source:
http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2010/november/bangladesh-mangrove-forests-provide-protection-from-climate-change.en