Initiative details

Climate Change Action for Gender-Sensitive Resilience

  • Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution: $8,000,000 CAD
    • 2020 to 2021: $3,500,000 CAD
    • 2019 to 2020: $3,000,000 CAD
    • 2018 to 2019: $1,500,000 CAD

Targeted Regions:

  • West Indies

Funding Period: 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021

Financial Instrument: Grant

Type of Support: Cross-cutting

Delivery Channel:

Description

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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Results/Expected Outcomes

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) enhanced practices of relevant actors for the sustainable implementation of gender-responsive climate change action and disaster recovery in nine Caribbean countries; and (2) improved governance by relevant actors for gender-responsive and inclusive climate and risk resilience planning and decision-making in nine Caribbean countries.