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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$20,000,000 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $1,700,000 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $800,000 CAD
- 2014 to 2015: $1,500,000 CAD
- 2013 to 2014: $1,500,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $4,500,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $10,000,000 CAD
Targeted Regions:
Funding Period: 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013, 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Channel:
Description
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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Results/Expected Outcomes
The project has more than 35,500 beneficiaries, including 20,850 women and girls and 14,700 men and boys in 59 communities, who now have improved knowledge of disaster risk reduction and climate mitigation and adaptation measures.
Achieved results of the project include eight community-based initiatives approved and implemented in Jamaica (5), Belize (1), and the British Virgin Islands (1), and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1). Together, these initiatives have directly benefitted over 7,100 community residents and 1,000 farmers, and provided valuable findings and lessons in disaster risk management that are being shared across the Caribbean region.
Community groups now have the tools and capacities to apply climate-smart agricultural practices and reduce the effects of natural disasters, as a result of the following activities:
• Community Infrastructure: The construction earthen drains and culverts reduced flooding and enhanced the resilience to flood risks
• Sustainable Agriculture: Farmers were trained in climate-smart agriculture practices across 42 communities in Belize and Jamaica to increase productivity, diversify crops, and improve the ability to plan for and adapt to climate change. The training included the use of barrier crops to prevent soil erosion and the introduction of drought tolerant crops, as well as the use of greenhouses for planting vegetables.
• Energy Efficiency. Energy efficiency initiatives included the use of solar powered pumps for irrigation and to operate freezers at farmers’ clubs in Belize.
• Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Training: The project implemented training designed to increase climate change awareness and Disaster Risk Management knowledge and skills of farmers, fishers, and residents from 36 communities in Jamaica. This training strengthened community capacities to prepare for and respond to natural hazards, and boosted the understanding of climate change adaptation strategies.
• Early warning systems established in Belize and the British Virgin Islands provide communities with advance information on risks that can be readily translated into prevention, preparedness and response actions, and help to reduce economic losses.