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Regional - Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change Project (PACC)
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-12-11 09:13
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Leading Organization:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Executing Agency:
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Implementing Agency:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Summary:
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This project (PACC ) will implement long-term adaptation measures to increase the resilience of a number of key development sectors in the Pacific islands to the impacts of climate change. This objective will be achieved by focusing on adaptation response strategies, policies and measures to bring about this result.
The key development sectors this project will focus on are:
- water resources management;
- food production and food security; and
- coastal zone and associated infrastructure (roads and breakwater).
To ensure sustainability of the project, regional and national adaptation financing instruments will constitute a fourth component of the project.
Project Components:
- National adaptive capacity developed
- Community vulnerability to climate change reduced
- Technical assistance & Regional Cooperation
Expected Outputs:
- 1.1 Technical capacity of key decision makers developed
- 1.2 Institutional coordination mechanisms established
- 1.3 Tools to assess economic costs of adaptation developed and utilized
- 1.4 Legislative and policy directives prepared and adopted
Pilot adaptation project implemented in:
- 2.1 Coastal management in the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Samoa, Tokelau and Vanuatu
- 2.2 Managing climate change risks in community based agricultural practices Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Palau and Solomon Islands
- 2.3 Climate change resilient water management practices at the community level in Nauru, Niue, Tonga, Marshall Islands and Tuvalu
- 3.1 Technical guidance provided for implementation of national adaptatio
- 3.2 Best practices and lessons exchanged among countries through SPREP
- 3.3 Project website established at SPREP
Project Status:
Under Implementation
Primary Beneficiaries:
Local communities in the 14 Pacific Island Countries
Funding Source:
GEF-SCCF
Financing Amount:
13,475,000
Cofinancing Total:
44,503,799 [Cofinancing Total (CEO Endo.)]
Total Amounts:
57,978,799
Contacts:
- Mr Taito Nakalevu
- Regional Project Manager, Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
- Email: taiton@sprep.org
- Phone: +685 21 929 ext 252
- Fax: +685 20 231
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