Country or Region Benefited: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, the Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago.
Donor: USAID
Duration:
25 April 2023 – 23 April 2027
Total Funding:
$9,800,000.00 USD
Overview
ESC countries are uniquely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, such as tropical storms, hurricanes, droughts, rising sea levels, eroding coastlines, recurring floods, ocean acidification, all with implications for critical economic sectors such as water resources management, food production and health.
As small island developing States, their small populations, land size, scarce natural resources, and limited human capital, mean the impact of these events on many ESC countries can be catastrophic. For climate change impacts to be sustainably addressed within the region, it requires a cohesive approach that can produce climate change data and information, incorporate this data into decision-making at various levels, and design and implement innovative adaptation sub-activities while accessing international climate finance to support scaling up of activities.
This Activity implemented by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) supports the acceleration of climate action programming and access to finance by strengthening regional institutional capacity. This will be done through the provision of climate data, data management and modeling tools, and technical assistance to public and private sector organizations involved in the development and execution of climate projects. This activity is expected to directly benefit 500,000 people and indirectly benefit 3,000,000 people regionally through a pipeline of over $300,000,000 in Green Climate Fund (GCF) projects.
Program Goal
This program builds on ongoing the outputs and outcomes of USAID-CCAP and contributes to efforts by the CCCCC: (1) to provide research/evidence-based policy guidance to stakeholders of the region; (2) to support the climate change agenda and engagement with the UNFCCC processes; and (3) to assist in the development and implementation of transformative climate change adaptation and mitigation projects/program in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean.
This program will deliver the following: .
- An updated Central climate data and information management systems.
- Web-based Climate Change Knowledge and Information Portals.
- Storm Surge and Climate Change Risk Atlas for management of climate change and disaster risks.
- Pipeline of projects/programmes developed and submitted primarily to the Green Climate Fund but also to other climate finance mechanisms for countries in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean.
- Innovative climate financing instruments.
- State and non-state stakeholders partnering and engaged in capacity building and knowledge sharing events.
- Increased private sector engagement in climate action.
- Public Education, awareness and outreach initiatives on climate change implemented.
These will enable Countries in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean:
- To generate, manage and use climate and climate change data and information for decision-making.
- To unlock access to climate finance through strengthened Institutional capacities to facilitate the development of inclusive, impactful, effective, efficient, and sustainable projects/programmes.
- To increase knowledge and capacity of state and non-state stakeholders, including the private sector, to support climate change negotiations and investment in climate action.
Outputs & Deliverables
The result of USAID PACCA interventions will be the scaling up of the region’s climate change adaptation response while ensuring a system is in place that will be sustained over the long term. To reach this goal, USAID PACCA designed several tasks and interventions under three major technical Component areas, summarized as follows:
Component 1: Enhancing the generation, management and use of climate and climate change data and information.
This activity will enhance access to data and information while strengthening the systematic capture and use of climate data and information from LIDAR or other instrumentation. This is critical to ensuring that high-frequency data and country-specific information is available to: (1) support the climate case, (2) inform responses to various climate and climate change hazards, (3) provide information to strengthen early warning systems, and (4) provide the evidence-based need for decision making, and to serve as the justification for leveraging funding from entities such as the GCF and AF for Readiness Support and Full funding projects/programs.
Component 2: Increasing climate finance flows to the Caribbean for climate-resilient development.
This aims to strengthen institutional capacities for developing innovative financing approaches and facilitate the development of inclusive, impactful, effective, efficient and sustainable instruments for unlocking access to climate finance. Through strategic partnership and engagement, this output intends to advance the pipeline of projects and programs for ESC countries. It is expected to increase the pipeline from US$300 million and contribute to developing at least six (6) concept notes and three (3) full funding proposals.
Component 3: Increase awareness and involvement of state and non-state actors in Climate Action
This component aims to increase awareness and involvement of state and non-state actors including the private sector and civil society organizations in climate change negotiations, advocacy, planning and programming. The aim here is to engage a wide cross-section of the public including vulnerable groups, students, experts and non-experts in several disciplines including climate data, information and modelling, project development and management, and climate financing.
