Southwest Louisiana and Central Acadiana Resilient Future

Recipient: ByWater Institute, Tulane University
Funding Amount: $1,998,800

This project will use a multipronged approach for community-based regional planning and governance to develop a coordinated vision and sustainable, resilience-focused action plan for Louisiana’s Southwest and Central Acadiana. Activities include analyzing existing plans; characterizing climate risk; defining best practices; prioritizing potential projects; evaluating policies; and developing engineering reports to move prioritized projects toward implementation. To meet future needs, the project will set up a regional collaborative that offers continued coordination, implementation, and evaluation, as well as sustained knowledge and resource sharing. This funding supports foundational building blocks needed for long-term success, including filling in technical and data-related information gaps; helping communities identify and use appropriate data and tools; strengthening coordination between governments at all scales, including tribal; and assessing the robustness of existing resilience projects, policies, and programs.

For more information on the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, visit the Office for Coastal Management’s resilience challenge webpage.