Project

Increased Resilience and Adaptation to Adverse Impacts of Climate Change in Guineas Vulnerable Coastal Zones

Lead country

Guinea

Participating countries

Guinea

Project status

Closure

Implementing period

From November 8, 2010 to September 27, 2020

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
  3. 14.7 Increase economic benefits of marine resources to SIDS

Project ID: 4023

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Technical team

  • Climate Change Adaptation Programme

Technical area(s)

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

Landscape(s)

  • Wetlands
  • Marine

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Mangroves
  • Coasts

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Optimising financing
  • Policy advice

Strategy

  • Food and agricultural commodities
  • Finance economy
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Climate resilience for FAC system (TP 6)
  • Fiscal planning
  • Institutional capacity building
  • New/other financial schemes/mechanism
  • Improved & diversified sustainable livelihoods (TP 5)

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

N/A

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway
  • Systems 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
  • 14.7 Increase economic benefits of marine resources to SIDS

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

  • Financial intermediaries and market facilitators

Hot topic

  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy
  • Poverty reduction

About this project

Description

To strengthen the protection of vulnerable Guinean coastal communities and areas against the adverse impacts of climate change and climate variability

Objectives

To strengthen the protection of vulnerable Guinean coastal communities and areas against the negative effects of climate change and climate variability.

USD $3,070,000

Grant amount

USD $162,965,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Least Developed Countries Fund ($3,070,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Guinea

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