The Complex Emergencies and Political Stability in Asia (CEPSA) team contributes to our three-year, $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Initiative, conducted in partnership with the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security & Law at UT-Austin. The team tracks and analyzes foreign assistance for their relevance to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and management in South and Southeast Asia, with a specific focus on Bangladesh as our first critical case study. In 2015-2016, the team analyzed over 300 projects in Bangladesh, funded and/or implemented by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.K.’s Department for International Development (DfID), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The team also conducted semi-structured interviews with over 20 representatives from donors, government ministries, and practitioners (e.g., from non-governmental organizations) in Bangladesh on how climate change adaptation and disaster risk management are integrated into planning processes, existing capacities to implement and lead such work, and future challenges.