CREL Final Performance Report

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/ Bangladesh awarded Cooperative Agreement AID-388-A-12-00007 to implement the Bangladesh Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) Project to an experienced consortium of local and international organizations led by Winrock International on September 17, 2012. CREL was originally designed as a five year, $32M project, which was then amended to last an additional quarter, ending December 31, 2017. During the last quarter (December 2017), USAID funded a nine-month extension valued at $4.9M to modify activities focusing on biodiversity, landscape management and wildlife trafficking prevention through September 2018. This final report covers the six years of CREL’s work.