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SPA Project Highlights
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As a small island developing state in the Caribbean, Jamaica faces significant climate change impacts, including:
- Increasingly intense hurricanes
- Sea-level rise, coastal erosion
- Saline intrusion into soils and aquifers
- Declining average precipitation
- Increasingly erratic and intense rainfallThese impacts pose serious risks to community livelihoods, key socio-economic sectors, and ecosystems.
Community-Based Adaptation activities in Jamaica supports adaptation both in coastal regions and in the agricultural sector, focusing on improved natural resource management practices to maintain coastal and agricultural land resources and protect... -
Implementing Agency: World Bank
GEF SPA Financing: $1,800,000From 2006, the Kiribati Adaptation Program, Phase II (KAP II) has helped identify and pilot adaptation measures to improve coastal protection, freshwater supply, and sustainability for the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, one of the most isolated countries in the world, and one of the most vulnerable to climate change and sea level rise. Climate risk considerations have been integrated in key Ministry plans, and the project has helped develop and apply best practices in water resource management and...
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Implementing Agency: UNDP - Global Program
GEF SPA Financing: $5,510,516In Namibia, the Community-Based Adaptation project “Approaching community adaptation to climate change holistically by using multiple coping strategies” is implemented through the partnership with the local NGO through a participatory process involving different sectors of the communities. As global climate change impacts become more eminent, one of the worst affected areas is Namibia...
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Implementing Agency: UNDP
GEF SPA Financing: $5,510,516In Northern Kazakhstan, the Community-Based Adaptation project "Adaptation of farmers' agricultural practices in response to intensified climate aridity in Akmola Oblast" is located in the Arnasay settlement, which is 50 kilometers away from the country’s capital, Astana. The project site is the nation’s agricultural center, but its steppe ecosystem is fragile and subject to harsh weather conditions...