Project

Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP)

Lead country

Tuvalu

Participating countries

Tuvalu

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From June 14, 2017 to March 7, 2025

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 13.3 Improve learning, capacity on climate change measures
  2. 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management
  3. 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

Project ID: 5699

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Technical team

  • Climate Change Adaptation Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem-based adaptation
  • Mainstreaming integrated policy and planning for climate-resilient & sustainable development

Landscape(s)

  • Marine

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Coasts

Transformed sector(s)

N/A

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance

Strategy

  • Capacity building
  • Technology innovation
  • Law regulation

Sub-strategy

  • Education/Courses
  • Technical capacity building
  • Infrastructure building
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Laws enforcement/ Regulation

Social inclusion

  • Youth/Children
  • Women

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)

  • 13.3 Improve learning, capacity on climate change measures
  • 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management
  • 13.2 Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning.

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • SIDS

About this project

Description

The proposed GCF project will enable the Government of Tuvalu (GoT) to implement measures that are urgently required to reduce the impact of increasingly intensive wave action on key infrastructure as a result of climate change induced sea-level rise and intensifying extreme events. Financial and capacity constraints at all levels – from technical to community awareness – that have prevented a sustainable coastal protection solution will be addressed. With GCF financing, it is expected that 35% of high-value vulnerable coasts (2,780m in length) will be made more resilient to withstand the effects of increased wave intensity, compared with the baseline of 7% (570m). The targeted GCF investments will occur at locations that have high concentration of settlements. Expected direct benefits are significant with 3,100 people or 29% of the total population in Tuvalu benefiting from the mitigated impact of future wave overtopping events. The project will also strengthen institutional and community capacities for sustaining and replicating project results. Building coastal resilience is an urgent national priority. The formulation of this project has been led at the highest political level by a Technical Working Group comprising key Government departments and NGO associations, representing vulnerable communities. The proposed project leverages domestic financing (USD 2.86 million) and is a non-revenue generating public good.

Objectives

The proposed project will directly contribute to safeguarding human development progress in target islands of Tuvalu through coastal protection and thus contribute to climate-resilient sustainable development. The project approach that combines concrete investments, long-term human resource development, knowledge management, and reallocation of available domestic development budgets towards climate change adaptation will facilitate a paradigm shift that affect geographical and inter-temporal decisions that Tuvaluan will make on resilience building.

USD $36,010,000

Grant amount

USD $2,860,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Green Climate Fund Common ($36,010,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Fiji

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Strengthening of institutions, human resources, awareness and knowledge for resilient coastal management

 Indicators:

Fund-level impact: A3.0 Increased resilience of intrastructure and the built environment to climate change. Fund-level indicator: 3.2 Number of new infrastructure constructed to withstand condition from climate variability and change
Project outcome: A5.0 Strengthened institutional and regulatory systems for climate-responsive planning and development. Project outcome indicator: 5.1 Institutional systems that improve incentive for climate resilience and their effective action.
Project outcome: A7.0 Strengthened adaptive capacity and reduced exposure to climate risks. Project outcome indicator: 7.2 Number of males and females benefiting from climate risk reduction measures
Number of students that are supported at higher-level studies (tertiary level or higher) on disciplines related to coastal protection work
Number of technical officers trained on:
- Monitoring / data synthesis on dynamic coastal processes
- Designing of coastal protection (both hard and soft) measures
- Environmental social impact assessment
- Project management, V&A assessment, CBAIsland-level coastal assessment report produced
Knowledge about gender-differentiated impact of coastal protection enhanced
The length of vulnerable coastlines protected
Adaptation actions financed and implemented from island level plans (no. and type)
Women's distinct role in the context of island decision making established
Outcome 2:

Vulnerability of key coastal infrastructure including homes, schools, hospitals and other assets is reduced against wave induced damages in Funafuti, Nanumea and Nanumaga
Outcome 3:

A sustainable financing mechanism established for long-term adaptation efforts
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