Project Details
Bangladesh’s rapid economic development, urbanization, and population growth have led to serious environmental pollution that threatens the long-term sustainable development of the country. To address its environmental challenges, the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate (MoEFCC) of the Government of Bangladesh has requested the World Bank to support the preparation of the Bangladesh Environmental Sustainability and Transformation Project (P172817). As part of this request, the Ministry has requested a Project Preparation Advance (PPA) from the World Bank to prepare this proposed project. The ministry also decided to task its Department of Environment (DoE) to manage project preparation activities.
The proposed development objective of the project is to strengthen environmental governance and to reduce pollution discharges from key sources at selected areas of Bangladesh. This objective will be further refined during project preparation.
At the concept stage, it has four components:
Component 1 Strengthening Environmental Governance, which will support DoE to implement policy and institutional reforms, carry out technical studies, develop various strategies/plans, procure equipment and train its staff on technical subjects, and promote environmental information disclosure and citizen engagements in its efforts to improve environmental monitoring and enforcement in the country.
Component 2.1 Air Quality Management (AQM). This component will support specific AQM investments in Dhaka and its surrounding areas with an aim to reduce emission of air pollutants from targeted sources and thus to improve air quality. Such sources are industrial (esp. brick kilns), transport (vehicle emission, fuel quality, traffic management etc.), and municipal (road dust, construction dust, waste open burning etc.). For industrial sources, resource efficient and cleaner production (RECP) technologies will be promoted to minimize the generation of air pollutants while pollution control units may be considered as necessary to minimize the releases of air pollutants.
Component 2.2 Water Quality Management (WQM). This component will support WQM investment in Dhaka and its surrounding areas with an aim to reduce the discharge of industrial effluents and thus improve water quality of targeted water bodies. Similarly, targeted industries will receive support from the project to adopt RECP technologies and invest in effluent treatment.
Component 3 Plastics and Waste Management. This component will support plastics management, hazardous and electronic wastes management at selected localities. Re cycling, storage, treatment and disposal facilities may be supported to better manage such wastes.
Component 4 Project Management. This component will support DoE and related implementing agencies to proper manage their respective project implementation.
Location
Bangladesh
Client
Department of Environment (DoE) funded by World Bank
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