Community Disaster Risk Reduction Fund

Results achieved as of (March 2020) include: (1) completed eight community sub-projects in Belize the British Virgin Islands Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines; (2) these initiatives directly benefitted over 7 100 community residents (of which 4 150 women) and 1 000 farmers (of which 284 women) by improving community infrastructure and early warning systems climate-smart agriculture; (3) raised awareness and educated on climate change and disaster preparedness. Community groups now have the tools and capacities to reduce the impacts of natural disasters and climate change and in some cases benefitted from the construction of small infrastructures such as shelters irrigation systems and earthen drains and culverts to address flood risks; (4) helped to refine gender-sensitive climate resilience tools such as community vulnerability risk assessments and vulnerable livelihood profiles including tools that enable climate change adaptation at the community level; (5) developed an Enhanced Country Poverty Assessment toolkit and piloted it in Belize the British Virgin Islands Dominica Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Packaged and shared findings and lessons across the Caribbean region; and (6) provided resources to Barbuda’s rehabilitation of community administration infrastructure and disaster management planning and community-based climate adaptation planning and disaster management in Dominica following the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.