World Bank

The project will use green roofs for public buildings to reduce urban heat island effect.

The project finances nature-based solutions to revitalize selected protected areas of ecological significance to the Western Balkans. Also include includes forestry management in Vrbanja, Vrbas, and the Sava River Basin, which will mitigate the threat of drought.

The project will use green solutions may also be trialed to remove pollution, such as introducing flood retention areas (ponds or wetlands) with recreational amenities, establishing green corridor parks, and introducing permeable paving to encourage infiltration or bioretention areas with enhanced vegetation and filtration.

The project will support the design nd pilot implementation of the Community Adaptation Fund (CAF) in the Gicumbi District. This includes piloting landscape restoration in the Gicumbi District through the CAF on investments such as catchment restoration and rehabilitation through reforestation, silvo-pastoralism and other watershed protection measures that have demonstrated community resilience to climate change. The project will also support the development of flagship programs such as Water Security for All Flagship Program.

Project preparation advance (PPA) enabled the Freetown City Council (FCC) in partner with CBOs to plant and grow 225,000 trees in 48 reforestation areas across Freetown. Phase 1 of the tree planting has been completed and created 550 short term-jobs, especially for youth, women and other vulnerable groups affected by the economic impact of COVID-19. Phase 2 will focus on tree monitoring to ensure a high tree survival rate and knowledge development based on lessons learned for further capacity building.

The grant supports Panama City in developing a concept plan for urban and coastal resilience, articulating a comprehensive strategy of public investments and infrastructure financing, aiming to strengthen urban resilience.

The project has been restructured to include nature-based solutions, which aligns with their NDC ambitions. They will use NBS relating to forests, conservation, and other to meet PDO. The work will be implemented by the National Disaster Risk Management Fund. It will also have community resilience component.

The Government of Poland has requested funding to increase access to flood protection for people living in selected areas of the Odra River and the Upper Vistula River basins and to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Borrower to mitigate the impact of floods more effectively. The large-scale project will improve flood protection through selected structural gray measures, as well as green measures, institutional strengthening and enhance forecasting. Green measures will include opening space for the river to inundate the natural floodplain, while also diminishing flood velocities.

The Government of China has set aside funds to implement the concept of new urbanization and support Ningbo as one of the pilot municipalities in promoting inclusive cities for low-income people and migrant workers. Specifically, the objective of the Ningbo Sustainable Urbanization Project is to improve the use of urban public space, improve urban mobility, and reduce flood risk in selected counties in Ningbo Municipality. This is to be achieved through the components 1) Urban Regeneration, 2) Urban Transport, 3) Flood Risk Management, and 4) Technical Assistance and Capacity Building.

The Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Environment, state and local governments, is implementing this project to reduce the vulnerability to soil erosion in targeted sub-watersheds. The multi-sectoral project will finance interventions to prevent and reverse land degradation on a demand-driven basis, initially focusing on gully erosion sites in southeastern states that threaten infrastructure and livelihoods.