Small-sized water storage is a key source of resilience for rural communities in many parts of the world. The World Bank’s Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project and Integrated Watershed and Water Resources Management Project are supporting the rehabilitation of tanks in climate hotspots and integrated watershed management in critical watersheds in Sri Lanka.
The Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP), which began in 2019 to improve productivity and climate resilience of smallholder agriculture in Sri Lanka, has played a key role in the government’s COVID-19 relief and recovery initiatives.
World Bank has reallocated $56 million from ongoing projects in Sri Lanka to protect the most vulnerable in the agriculture sector, improve COVID19 protection measures on public transport, facilitate tele-education, provide digital solutions.
12 Highlights of Sri Lanka and the World Bank partnership in 2019
Sri Lanka and the World Bank today signed two new agreements worth $150 million to improve climate resilience and agriculture productivity for small farmers and support priority infrastructure through public-private partnerships
The new project improves the resilience and productivity of agriculture for more than 470,000 small farmers in 6 provinces in the dry zone of the country. The provinces selected are those that are most exposed to climate impacts.
he objective of Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project for Sri Lanka is to improve the productivity and climate resilience of smallholder agriculture in selected hotspot areas.