Latin America and Caribbean

This project aims to improve the ability of the Caribbean region to prepare for and respond to natural disasters, such as hurricanes and floods, and reduce their impact on communities. It supports the implementation of the disaster risk management framework adopted by the member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

The project is a responsive fund that supports initiatives led by organizations such as the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency that improves coordination and disaster preparedness at local, national, and regional levels and encourages the integration of disaster risk management into policies, planning, and decision-making in the public and private sectors. The project also supports the Canada Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Fund which assists communities in adapting to the impacts of climate change and increasing their resilience to extreme weather events. The Fund provides assistance to non-governmental organizations, community groups, and government agencies undertaking small-scale projects at the community level.

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This project aims to improve resilience of the health sector across the Caribbean following any type of disaster, and minimize their socio-economic impacts. The project will enhance the technical capacity of health sector practitioners to prepare for natural disasters, while providing them with new tools and technologies, in the West Indies region. Key activities include, for example, developing information systems on disaster risk reduction for the health sector and providing targeted interventions for disaster resilient and more energy-efficient health care facilities.

This project is a component of the Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Program, which seeks to increase the capacity of regional organizations, national governments and local communities in the Caribbean to respond to and manage natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods and to reduce their impact on the people of the region.

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Canada is contributing $223.5 million to the second phase of the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in the Americas (C2F). In partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank and IDB Invest, this initiative will help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. Specifically, it is providing concessional financing to catalyze climate-friendly investments from the private sector, which would otherwise not take place. The composition of the Fund’s portfolio is expected to include projects from a diverse array of sectors, including energy and infrastructure, financial intermediaries, agribusiness, tourism and manufacturing.

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This project aims to improve the state of coastal resilience for vulnerable populations, particularly women and girls in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and coastal developing countries, where the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance’s (ORRAA) financial products and projects apply. The aim of ORRAA is to foster collaboration amongst the finance and insurance sectors, governments and environmental organizations to pioneer finance and insurance products that incentivize investment into nature-based solutions.

The project activities include: (1) delivering ORRAA Innovation Challenge workshops to identify new products and projects; (2) developing a technical analysis on the incorporation of gender considerations into ocean risk projects; and (3) presenting policy recommendations on the mitigation of ocean risks for the most vulnerable communities at international forums. This project benefits the most vulnerable communities, particularly women and girls, in coastal developing countries, SIDS, and other low-lying areas.

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This project helps to advance the development and implementation of national climate change adaptation plans, and climate change mitigation actions in nine countries of the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname. It aims to develop and implement these plans and actions in sectors of the greatest beneficial impact on women and girls including agriculture and tourism.

It focuses on strengthening governance relative to national climate change planning, and on making governance inclusive of women. The project works on building the capacity of these nine countries to prepare technically robust feasibility studies and gender-responsive project proposals to access climate finance from various organizations including the Green Climate Fund.

It builds on the work of other partners to help countries in the region strengthen, in a gender-responsive manner, their natural disaster recovery mechanisms and risk reduction, and climate change plans and adaptation responses.

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This project supports the improved access to sustainable and affordable energy needed to promote economic growth in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. This is undertaken by improving capacities for energy planning, management and regulation across countries in the region and facilitating the dissemination and implementation of corporate social responsibility best practices and principles in the energy sector.

This project demonstrates Canada’s dedication to climate change action in developing countries. Through the Latin American Energy Organization (known by its Spanish acronym, OLADE) the project is providing assistance to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to help them develop policies and programs to support climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in their energy sectors. Canada’s support has helped OLADE to develop a responsive mechanism to assist member countries in developing climate change mitigation and adaptation activities, and assisted Nicaragua and Colombia in developing climate change adaptation strategies for, respectively, their hydropower and hydrocarbon sectors.

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This project supports community resilience in the face of natural disasters by undertaking demonstration projects that help identify most effective prevention or mitigation measures. Demonstration projects will be implemented in fifteen to seventeen communities across the Caribbean, with a focus on high-risk, low-income communities. These projects will build on lessons learned from other disaster risk reduction projects and test innovative ideas to expand or improve on them, in order to produce tangible risk reduction results in pilot communities that can be disseminated across the region. The projects will also address knowledge gaps in the region by establishing a mechanism to improve the tracking of disaster risk management lessons learned, and measuring results.

The Caribbean Development Bank will also use regional specialists to train and inform government agencies, local officials, community workers and community-based organizations on the resources and approaches available for reducing natural hazard impacts at the community level.

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This initiative aims to assist countries in the Caribbean that are vulnerable to the destabilizing effects of climate change and increasingly confronted with extreme weather events. This project aims to generate, manage and share knowledge of comprehensive disaster management to inform the decision-making of governments, local communities and the private sector in the Caribbean. Canada’s support will help establish an effective and collaborative mechanism for managing and sharing knowledge on comprehensive disaster management.

This project is a component of the Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Program, which seeks to increase the capacity of national governments and local communities in the Caribbean to respond to and manage natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods and to reduce their impact on the people of the region.

The project will produce three major outcomes: a regional network that generates, manages and shares knowledge on Disaster Management; standardized training materials for regular and advanced university courses as well as courses for professionals, private sector entities and others already employed in the field; and mechanisms, including tools, courses and guidelines for mainstreaming CDM into policy development and decision-making for important economic sectors and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the region.

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