Coastal Resilience to Climate Change

CRCC

 

Goal

The project aims to strengthen and restore the value of coastal and marine ecosystem goods and services to improve social, economic and ecological resilience to climate change.

Specific Objective

Enhance the adaptive capacities of men and women from local coastal communities, local and national authorities to work together to sustainably govern and manage their natural resource base.

Outputs/Activities

  • Community social resilience – Coastal community social systems are better able to cope with the impacts and shocks of climate change by: i) self-organizing and engaging in equitable and gender-responsive governance and management of their natural resource base; and ii) practicing active local level learning and adaptation based on experiences and new knowledge;
  • Economic resilience – Local coastal community economics are strengthened and able to minimize or reduce welfare losses due to climate change stressors, shocks and disasters through: i) improvements in and diversification of livelihoods [of women and men]; ii) increases in fisheries and agricultural efficiencies; and iii) specific, nature-based market interventions driven by value chain analyses;
  • Ecological resilience – The integrity and ecological health of coastal and marine ecosystems and habitats is improved and/or maintained to enable social-ecological systems to better absorb and withstand climate change stressors and shocks;
  • Institutional strengthening – Institutional frameworks, including policies/legislation as well as local organizational capacities, strengthened to better enable and support evidence-based decision making, adaptation action and ensure social and ecological resilience of marine and coastal systems.

Result Areas

  • Result 1: Programme management structures and mechanisms established and functioning effectively;
  • Result 2: Programme partners and stakeholders mobilized, trained and working together to effectively deliver the Programme;
  • Result 3: Community and District constituencies established to enable effective engagement in improving coastal resilience through sustainable and inclusive land and sea resource use using ecosystem and rights based approaches;
  • Result 4: Community resilience strengthening actions carried out in an inclusive and participatory manner involving men and women and resulting in tangible benefits and positive changes in governance, natural resource management and local level livelihoods;
  • Result 5: Policies, regulatory frameworks and governmental organizations at national, provincial and district level better enabling and supporting coastal community resilience action;
  • Result 6: Innovative conservation finance mechanisms established to ensure longer term investments in and sustainability of resilience and adaptation action.

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