Belize Climate Resilient Infrastructure Description Country Challenge Purpose: To enhance the resilience of road Belize is a small country (pop. 330,000) bordering Mexico infrastructure against flood risks and the impacts of and Guatemala. In recent years, poverty has increased climate change due to a stagnating economy and the impact of frequent Expected Results (include): hurricanes and tropical storms. Climate change (sea level • Rehabilitate 30 Km of roads; improve 12 bridges rise, more severe and frequent storms) are expected to and culverts. • 50% reduction in road interruption due to flooding. increase Belize’s vulnerability as more than 50% of the • 170,000 direct beneficiaries living near the road population and businesses are located on or near the long networks in the Greater Belize City area and low lying coastline. Belmopan. IBRD Financing: US$30 million Project Goals The project supports rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country’s road infrastructure to address increased flood risk. It also builds the government’s capacity to better plan land use to increase resilience to climate change (e.g., improved zoning) and to upgrade road maintenance. © World Bank For more information: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P127338/climate-resillient-infrastructure?lang=en 29