International Development Grant
Climate Change Action for Gender-Sensitive Resilience
Project Number: CA-3-D004678001
Status: Operational
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Regional Focus:
Maximum Contribution: $15,500,000.00
Start Date: February 27, 2019
End Date: November 30, 2025
Duration: 6.8 years
Project Description
This project contributes to advancing the development and implementation of national climate change adaptation plans and climate change mitigation actions in nine Caribbean countries. These countries are Antigua and Barbuda Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname. This project aims to develop and implement these plans and actions in sectors that greatly benefit women and girls including agriculture and tourism. This project focuses on strengthening governance related to national climate change planning and including women in governance. The project will build the capacity of the identified countries to prepare technically sound feasibility studies and gender-responsive project proposals to access climate finance from various organizations including the Green Climate Fund. This project builds on the work of other partners to help identified countries strengthen their gender-responsive disaster recovery and risk reduction mechanisms including their climate change plans and adaptation responses.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) enhanced stakeholders’ practices for the sustainable implementation of gender-responsive climate change and disaster recovery actions in nine Caribbean countries; and (2) improved governance by stakeholders for gender-responsive and inclusive climate and risk resilience planning and decision-making in nine Caribbean countries.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) developed country-specific behavioural change communications strategies and plans for Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines; (2) held a high-level regional forum on responsive data collection targeting national development and planning offices and high-level decision-makers in Antigua and Barbuda Dominica Grenada Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines; (3) supported the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) to provide technical and capacity-building support to update the National Model Recovery Frameworks of Belize Dominica Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines; (4) supported CDEMA to deliver regional and national Post Disaster Needs Assessment training workshops to Antigua and Barbuda Belize Dominica Grenada Jamaica Saint Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines; (5) provided water storage facilities for Suriname to build drought and flood affected communities’ resilience across the country. This includes 110 water storage tanks distributed across 36 communities and water storage facilities to 33 tribal and 3 Indigenous communities; (6) provided technical assistance to Jamaica in revising its National Transport Policy and completing a Transport Strategy and Action Plan; (7) provided technical services for Guyana to establish an aquaponics system and accompanying manual for training students at the Guyana School of Agriculture for a minimum of 10 years; (8) collaborated with 31 fishers in Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines for their mutual development and sustainable livelihoods; (9) supported the World Food Program to provide technical assistance on digital payments as a social protection tool for cash transfers and vouchers in times of crisis for the Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Enterprise in Belize; and (10) raised awareness by distributing water bottles pens totes and keyrings with climate change
Key Information
Executing Agency:
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
NGM Americas
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated