<h1>Coastal disaster resilience financing strengthens community preparedness, infrastructure, fisheries safety, and institutional risk response capacity.</h1> The Governments of India, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry signed financing and project agreements with the World Bank to fund a Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Project aimed at increasing coastal community resilience to hydro meteorological and geophysical hazards and improving implementing entities' crisis response capacity. The project comprises five components: Vulnerability Reduction; Sustainable Fisheries; Capacity Building in Disaster Risk Management; Implementation Support; and Contingency Emergency Response. It targets about 150 coastal villages, over 17,000 families for resilient housing, and broader beneficiaries through disaster management curriculum, and is financed as a Specific Investment Loan over five years, implemented by the Governments of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.