GLOW Coastal Resilience Satkhira · Open for funding

A women-ledresilience systemfor coastalhouseholds.

Women-led groups connect safe water, safer homes, resilient livelihoods and community voice through one accountable local platform.

Women
1,500
Proposed participation
Groups
60
Proposed operating network
Decision period
1 cycle
Seasonal evidence and replication decision
Discuss the programme
Women gathered around harvested produce in rural Bangladesh
REPRESENTATIVE CONTEXT Women-led agricultural activity in Bangladesh. This image is not a project delivery record.
01 · Why Satkhira

In Satkhira, water pressure reaches the whole household.

Salinity, unreliable water access and seasonal waterlogging affect homes, livelihoods, mobility and local decision-making together.

A woman and child moving through floodwater in a rural settlement
REPRESENTATIVE CONTEXTSeasonal water exposure in Bangladesh. This image is not a Satkhira baseline or project delivery record.

Why the response must be integrated

Water
Source reliability, storage and maintenance must be assessed together.
Home
Plinth, floor and seasonal access disruption shape household exposure.
Income
Livelihood support must account for disruption, recovery and a viable buyer route.
Voice
Women need a documented route into local adaptation and budget decisions.
Survey finding73%

An UNDP survey across five coastal upazilas, including Assasuni and Shyamnagar, reported people drinking unsafe saline water.

Programme reach13,308

Households in Khulna and Satkhira received 2,000-litre rainwater harvesting systems under the GCA programme.

Design frame4 pressures

GLOW tests water, home, income and voice together before fixing the first-cluster asset scope.

Context sources: UNDP water-security survey and UNDP/GCF rainwater programme. These figures are external context, not a GLOW baseline.

02 · Site atlas

Select the geography where household pressure and delivery access overlap.

Read the map as public orientation, then apply the four tests and selection route. No household, community or asset site is selected here.

Editorial planning map of Satkhira District A schematic map labels Satkhira's seven upazilas and shows a broad southern baseline-screening belt. No final community or site has been selected. SOUTHWEST · SATKHIRA KALAROA SATKHIRA SADAR TALA DEBHATA ASSASUNI KALIGANJ SHYAMNAGAR BASELINE SCREENING BELT Broad context only · no site selected
EDITORIAL PLANNING MAPSchematic upazila orientation for first-cluster screening. It is not a survey, hazard, cadastral or site-selection map.

How to read the atlasContext → screening → field selection

Established district context Baseline screening Final site not selected

Four tests govern the first-cluster geography.

Household pressure
Water reliability, seasonal access and household exposure.
Delivery access
Road, service and maintenance reach through a complete seasonal cycle.
Local operator
A credible women-led group base with named governance and records.
Institutional route
Working links to union, upazila and relevant technical services.
  1. 01Map

    Identify plausible operating geography.

  2. 02Baseline

    Verify household and service conditions.

  3. 03Select

    Confirm community and operator.

  4. 04Cost

    Finalise the first-cluster scope.

Selection ruleThe first cluster advances when household pressure, access, operator readiness and the costed delivery route are confirmed in the same geography.

DryPre-monsoonMonsoonPost-monsoon

Boundary orientation is informed by the BBS Small Area Atlas and OCHA COD-AB standard. LGED GIS and field verification must confirm roads, facilities and final coordinates. Coastal planning context follows the World Bank CEIP approach linking polders, tidal flooding, storm surge and saline intrusion.

03 · Operating model

One women-led platform supports four connected resilience lines.

Organisation keeps asset selection, maintenance, household records and local accountability connected.

Operating platform

Organise

Women-led groups establish governance, savings practices, records, asset responsibility and local accountability before infrastructure is distributed.

Proposed network
60 groups
Release evidence
Group register, leadership roles, savings rules and meeting record
01

Safe water

Transparent siting, household access rules, named maintenance roles and usable service records.

Outcome · Maintained service
02

Safer homes

Raised plinths and household adaptation selected through clear exposure and vulnerability criteria.

Outcome · Reduced exposure
03

Resilient livelihoods

Adapted production, livestock and organic inputs linked to technical support and viable markets.

Outcome · Diversified income
04

Community voice

Risk maps, group records and dialogue forums create a route into local decisions.

Outcome · Public accountability
04 · Field context

Daily routines and local institutions must shape the operating model.

Representative views keep the design grounded in household settings, movement and collective organisation.

Field verification priorities

  1. Household water routinesObserve collection, storage, treatment and maintenance conditions before fixing the service design.
  2. Seasonal movementConfirm how disruption changes access to homes, markets and public services across one complete cycle.
  3. Group practiceTest meeting, record-keeping and local decision routes with the women-led operating groups.
Women standing together on a river boat in Bangladesh
REPRESENTATIVE DAILY-LIFE CONTEXTRiver-based movement and community relationships. Not project evidence.
05 · Initial scope

Define one bounded first investment.

Targets are separated from candidate geography and technical quantities that still require assessment.

Proposed initial scope and readiness status
ComponentProposed scopeReadiness
Women-led groups60 groupsConfirm after community selection
Participating women1,500 womenProposed target
Safe-water systems60 systemsTechnical assessment required
Raised homesteads150 plinthsHousehold baseline dependent
Candidate community set30 communitiesPipeline for site selection
Operating periodOne complete seasonal cycleEstablished decision period
Programme horizon3 yearsPlanning horizon, not first decision period

The final geography and quantities release only after the baseline and technical assessment.

06 · Readiness and release

Observe one complete seasonal cycle before fixing the final scope.

The baseline follows changing water, access and livelihood conditions instead of treating one visit as a complete household record.

  1. 01
    Dry season

    Observe salinity and water-source reliability.

    Water baseline
  2. 02
    Pre-monsoon

    Test storage, maintenance and service access.

    Technical design
  3. 03
    Monsoon

    Record waterlogging and household disruption.

    Selection criteria
  4. 04
    Post-monsoon

    Assess repair, recovery and income effects.

    Final cluster scope

Visible readiness register

Critical release conditions remain visible.

District and community selection
Confirm before release
Household and participant baseline
Baseline required
Women-led operator arrangements
Confirm before release
Water-system design and maintenance
Confirm before release
Homestead selection criteria
Confirm before release
Livelihood and market pathway
Confirm before release
Final capital and operating cost
Finalise after assessment

Capital release ruleCapital releases when the community, operator, participant baseline, technical scope and costed delivery plan are confirmed together.

07 · What the partner funds

Fund preparation, accountable assets and one complete operating cycle.

The first phase combines the work required to define the cluster with the systems required to operate and evaluate it.

01

Cluster preparation

Community selection, consented household baseline and technical assessment.

02

Women-led organisation

Group formation, governance, savings practices and delivery records.

03

Safe-water systems

Technical design, installation, user arrangements and maintenance systems.

04

Household adaptation

Raised homesteads and documented selection, completion and ownership.

05

Resilient livelihoods

Household plans, technical support, inputs and market pathways.

06

Operation and evidence

Service records, seasonal monitoring, public dialogue and replication assessment.

08 · First-phase outputs

The partner receives an operating model and a replication decision.

The first phase is designed to leave behind accountable systems, documented assets and a decision-ready evidence base.

  1. 01A confirmed operating geography

    Selected communities and a documented participant catchment.

  2. 02A functioning women-led operator network

    Governance, savings, records and delivery responsibilities.

  3. 03Installed and documented resilience assets

    Water and household-adaptation assets with clear ownership.

  4. 04Maintenance and service accountability

    Named roles, user arrangements and operating records.

  5. 05Household, water and livelihood evidence

    Performance records across one complete seasonal cycle.

  6. 06A replication decision

    Scale, redesign or conclude using recorded results.

09 · Partner decision

Fund one first cluster. Decide on replication after one complete seasonal cycle.

The partner funds verification, release and one accountable period of operation.

  1. 01Verify

    Confirm the community, operator, participant demand and technical scope.

  2. 02Release

    Approve the costed delivery plan.

  3. 03Operate

    Run the project through one complete seasonal cycle.

  4. 04Decide

    Replicate, redesign or conclude using recorded results.

The first phase converts an integrated resilience concept into an operating, costed and evidence-backed model.

Discuss the programme
Cluster conditions unresolved · Current decision

Verify one coastal cluster before releasing the first cycle.

Confirm the geography, operator roles, participant demand and baseline, then structure one accountable seasonal cycle.

Define the first-cluster brief