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

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Capacity to plan for and respond to climate change in coastal areas improved

 Indicators:

Percentage of national budget allocated and spent on adaptation to climate change in coastal zones
Number of Guinean actors (NGOs, associations, research institutes and technical services) implementation of adaptation to climate change activities in coastal areas
Percentage of the budgets of the prefectures are allocated and spent on adaptation to climate change:
Level of awareness of the essential parties stakeholders regarding climate change and its negative impacts
Number of zoning regulations developed and / or modified to incorporate the issues of adaptation
Number of CRD with integrated issues of adaptation to climate change into their PDL and their implementation
Percentage of change in the coverage of mangroves of the targeted communities..
Percentage of rice production of coastal land resistant to projected sea-level rise
Percentage of target stakeholders implementing practices supported demonstration initiatives
Percentage of targeted having adopted and developed communities implementing the alternative of resilient livelihood income generating activities
Types of tools taken and frequently used in the same ministries
Number of contributions at the ALM
Number of national organizations and international partners in which lessons learned from the project were disseminated
Number of visits to the relevant pages of sites associated with the projec
Outcome 2:

Climate risk management measures implemented in coastal communities
Outcome 3:

Key national capacities for undertaking analytical work on the economics of climate change developed
Outcome 4:

Lessons learned from pilot demonstration activities, capacity development initiatives and policy changes are collected and widely disseminated
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Project reports and documentation

 

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