Local Government Engineering Department capacity building and oversight- PASA

$92.57M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	U.S. Government - Department of the Army
Country	Bangladesh
Start Date	Feb 07, 2015
End Date	May 11, 2018
Duration	1,189 days
Number of Grantees	172
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`194966-76`

Grant Description

U.S.

Agency for International Development (USAID), is funding a project to construct 100 primary school/cyclone shelters in the disaster prone areas of Bangladesh.

These shelters will provide accommodation for up to 180,000 inhabitants during an emergency and will serve as schools for approximately 18,000 students when not in use as shelters.

The shelters are equipped with a separate room with first aid facilities for pregnant women, toilets for men and women, and water supply facilities with rain water catchment reservoirs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will implement this projectt.