Project

Addressing climate change vulnerabilities and risks in vulnerable coastal areas of Tunisia

Lead country

Tunisia

Participating countries

Tunisia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From December 23, 2014 to June 24, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
  2. 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning

Project ID: 4697

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Technical team

  • Climate Change Adaptation Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Climate resilient integrated water resource and coastal management
  • Mainstreaming integrated policy and planning for climate-resilient & sustainable development

Landscape(s)

  • Marine

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Coasts

Transformed sector(s)

  • Tourism

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Capacity building
  • Law regulation
  • Monitor inventory

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional capacity building
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation

Social inclusion

  • Private sector

Gender equality

  • Women farmers
  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • Sci-tech pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
  • 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises
  • Large corporations

Hot topic

  • Public-private partnership

About this project

Description

This project proposes a risk-based approach to Climate Change Adaptation by enabling flexible adaptation pathways which will build resilience to climate change and provide maximum co benefits. As tourism is a dominate source of revenue for the region, a set of economic instruments will be devised to signal the existing risks and drive future hotel and private residence development, including investments, away from vulnerable areas. With such an approach, local development plans will be made more risk-based and climate compatible. Both the public and private sectors will serve as important catalysts for adaptation interventions and in supporting coastal monitoring.

Objectives

To promote innovative adaptation strategies, technologies and financing options to address the additional risks posed by climate change on populations and key socio-economic sectors in Tunisia"s most vulnerable coastal areas.

USD $5,600,000

Grant amount

USD $74,048,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Special Climate Change Fund ($5,600,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Tunisia

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Institutional capacity to plan for and respond to increasing climate change risks in coastal areas is improved

 Indicators:

1.Amount of public funds mobilised to support coastal adaptation
2.Djerba:Percentage of coastal hotels working in cooperation with local municipalities to implement locally-sourced, naturally available soft protection measures (e.g., sea grass and sand layering)
1.Number and type of policy or legal frameworks informed by coastal dynamic modelling and adopted to account for coastal risks
2. Creation of a national ICZM inter-ministerial platform to facilitate the coastal adaptation
3.Number of risk-based spatial management plans used by the Municipalities of Houmet Essouk in Djerba and Sidi Ali Mekki in the northwest of the Gulf of Tunis
1. Number of soft adaptation measures implemented which improve coastal conditions by increasing resilience to absorb change as measured by the following:• Length of coast preserving public open space and natural ecosystems• Area of wetlands with improved ecological conditions• Length of coast with stable dune fixation • Number of kilometers of living shorelines implemented • Percentage increase in hotels and agricultural land which use recycled water
2. Establishment of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) database with qualitative and quantitative indicators of soft coastal adaptation measures which contributes to the central coastal databank (SIAD)
3.Number of tide gauges and buoys installed to support coastal risk monitoring
1. Publication of long-term financing strategies to guide APAL in how to mobilize funds for coastal adaptation
2. Percentage of APAL's budget provided to community members (including NGOs/CSOs) so that they can finance community-based coastal adaptation measures
Outcome 2:

Climate change resilience of priority coastal areas enhanced through implementation and dissemination of innovative risk reduction measures covering 22 km of coast and 670 hectares of wetland and benefiting 150,000 inhabitants
Outcome 3:

Innovative and sustainable economic instruments established to accelerate country-wide adoption and up scaling of proven coastal adaptation measures
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