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  • Program:
    Community-Based Adaptation
    Leading Organization:
    UNDP-Global Environment Facility (GEF)
    Implementing Agency:
    UNDP
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNDP-GEF, SGP, SGA, Satoalepai Village Council, AusAid
    Summary:

    Satoalepai village, located on the northern coast of Savai'i Island, Samoa, is working to reduce its vulnerability to flooding events. The project will help the village build box culverts that will enable the free flow of water from the wetlands to the sea thereby reducing the risks that the wetlands behind the village will flood after heavy rains, destroying agriculture land and homes. This measure will also help re-establish the natural dynamic equilibrium and health of the wetlands which community members rely upon for their livelihoods and provide an escape route to move to higher ground during severe storms. Additionally, the project will plant mangroves to help strengthen the wetlands in conjunction with a climate change awareness programme. This project partners with AusAID which is co-funding project efforts.

    Project Components:

    The program seeks to achieve the following results:

    * Upgrade the village access road with the installation of box culverts to help water flow more freely during heavy flooding. This will help protect the community from increasingly devastating floods and reduce inland migration by farmers;
    * Rehabilitate fragile wetlands in the coastal swamp and replant wetland plant species in the mangrove forest to improve ecosystem resiliency;
    * Improve water flow within wetlands to help protect homes and farms from flooding and reduce salinization due to from rising sea levels;
    * Increase adaptive capacities with a focus on increasing climate change awareness, and improving local resource management practices, including biodiversity protection and adaptive land and coastal management.

    Contacts:

    Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
    Technical Advisor, BDP/EEG
    Email:pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
    Tel: +1 (212) 906 6843

    Project Status:
    Under implementation
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    Satoalepai village
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    AusAid
    GEF-SGP
    GEF-SPA
    Cofinancing Total:
    $30,000 by AusAID and $5000 community contribution
    Total Amounts:
    $65000
    Resources:
    CBA Projects in Samoa
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