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Shompritee – Towards Locally Led Development for Climate Migrants

Bangladesh ranks as the seventh most climate-vulnerable country, with coastal regions exposed to sea level rise, salinity intrusion, river erosion, and cyclones. These hazards have displaced millions, many of whom face inhumane conditions in urban areas, especially secondary cities.
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Jashore Municipality, Bangladesh
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Bangladesh
Project duration
2025 - 2027
Financed by
  • Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC
  • Lokales Wasser / Max Ditting AG
Project partners
  • Jashore Municipality

These cities struggle to provide essential services – water, healthcare, education, and housing – due to limited coordination, planning, and resources. To better manage climate migrants and support host communities, Shompritee, in collaboration with the municipality, is piloting a Climate-Resilient Municipality (CRM) model that strengthens locally-led planning, service delivery, and governance systems.

The Project

Shompritee – Towards Locally Led Development for Climate Migrants is an 18-month pilot in Jashore, Bangladesh. The project strengthens municipal systems to better plan for and respond to the needs of climate migrants through inclusive, resilient, and gender-responsive governance. By piloting a Climate-Resilient Municipality model, it aims to improve access to health, education, WASH, and livelihoods while generating evidence for national policy adoption and future scale-up.

Shompritee works across three connected areas:

  1. Municipal Governance: Advance gender-responsive and inclusive municipal governance by enhancing coordination and capacity to support participatory planning, including the establishment of structures such as the Local Climate Adaptation Coordination Unit Action Cell (LCAC).
  2. Service Design & Delivery: Co-developing socially inclusive and financially viable service models (e.g., WASH, primary health, livelihood, housing).
  3. Evidence & Policy Influence: Supporting municipalities in mapping climate-induced migration, assessing community vulnerabilities, identifying capacity gaps among government and non-government service providers, and generating evidence to inform municipal action plans aligned with national climate policy frameworks.

Grounded in the principles of Locally Led Development (LLD), the pilot initiative strengthens municipal ownership and accountability, fostering urban growth and enhancing service delivery for city dwellers, including climate migrants. Building on the lessons learned from Jashore, the model is designed for replication in other cities across Bangladesh and the South Asia region. 

By linking municipal innovation with national policy dialogue, the initiative transforms the challenges of climate-induced migration into opportunities for inclusive urban systems, improved public services, and enhanced resilience.

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News

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Green cities, Growth entrepreneurship
20.05.2026
Bringing Climate Migration and Urban Adaptation into Focus: A Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue in Jashore
A multi-stakeholder dialogue, featuring Emeritus Professor Dr. Ainun Nishat, brought together key actors to deepen understanding of climate migration and urban development, while strengthening locally led approaches to inform policy and climate finance discussions.
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Growth entrepreneurship, Green cities
15.12.2025
Laying the Foundations for Climate-Responsive Urban Services in Jashore
Jashore Municipality has initiated a structured planning process to address the growing impact of climate-induced migration on urban services through a three-day Strategic Planning Workshop held from 4–6 December 2025 at BRAC CDM, Rajendrapur. The workshop was organised under Swisscontact’s Shompritee – Towards Locally Led Development for Climate Migrants project. The initiative is jointly funded by the Embassy of Switzerland/the Government of Switzerland and Lokales Wasser/Max Ditting AG, and implemented by Swisscontact Bangladesh.
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Green cities, Growth entrepreneurship
27.10.2025
“Shompritee – Locally Led Development for Climate Migrants” Project Fosters Inclusive Urban Systems to Support Climate Migrants in Jashore
The Shompritee project strengthens Jashore Municipality’s capacity to provide inclusive urban services, improving access for climate migrants through local partnerships and sustainable solutions.