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; assessing the robustness of existing resilience projects, policies, and programs; and evaluating equity impacts.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the Inflation Reduction Act webpage. For more information on the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, visit the Office for Coastal Management’s resilience challenge webpage.