Linha de Crédito para Resiliência Urbana no Sul do Brasil

The development objective of Southern Brazil Urban Resilience Program Project is is to promote urban resilience in selected municipalities in Southern Brazil to address natural disaster and extreme climate-related events. This project has three components. 1) The first component, : Investments to Promote Urban Resilience, aims to support BRDE to finance eligible sub-projects in selected municipalities to promote urban resilience through the construction or the upgrading of existing infrastructure to mitigate the impacts of natural disaster and climate-related risks such as floods, flash floods, landslides and other erosion processes. 2) The second component, Institutional Strengthening of Selected Municipalities for Urban Resilience, aims to support Southern Regional Development Bank (BRDE) to improve the institutional capacity of selected municipalities to design, implement, and monitor urban resilience projects. 3) The third component, Project Management and Institutional Strengthening, aims to support BRDE to build its institutional capacity and support with Project-management-related activities ranging from technical, fiduciary, social and environmental risk management, communication and outreach, to monitoring and evaluation (M and E) through, inter alia, operating costs, training, technical assistance, services, and equipment, as required.