SargAdapt Adapting to a new reality: Managing responses to influxes of Sargassum seaweed in the Eastern Caribbean as ecosystem hazards and opportunities
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The project is aimed to reduce the impacts of and improve adaptation to sargassum influxes in the Eastern Caribbean with emphasis on converting a climate-linked ecosystem hazard into an asset that supports opportunities for socio-economic development. It is comprised by three components: 1) To develop appropriate management responses to sargassum influxes to lessen damage to coastal and marine ecosystems and human livelihoods based on enhanced knowledge and understanding of patterns and impacts of sargassum influxes. This will enhance stakeholders’ knowledge to appropriately respond and adapt to sargassum influxes with good practices. 2) To enhance the technical and institutional capacity of stakeholders to cope with, plan for, sustainably manage, and adapt to sargassum influxes. This will build networks and partnerships among science, industry and community stakeholders to promote best practices and innovation and sustain adaptation to Sargassum influxes. 3) To reinforce the ability of marine and coastal stakeholders for adaptive planning, management and ecosystem and livelihood resilience through practical applications. This will enable Sargassum-Smart Communities with reduced climate risk and tangible climate adaptation benefits.
El proyecto tiene como objetivo reducir los impactos y mejorar la adaptación a las arribazones de sargazo en el Caribe oriental, con énfasis en convertir un peligro del ecosistema vinculado al clima en un activo que respalde las oportunidades de desarrollo socioeconómico. Se compone de tres componentes: 1) Desarrollar respuestas de gestión adecuadas para reducir el daño a los ecosistemas costeros y marinos y los medios de vida humanos sobre la base de un mejor conocimiento y comprensión de los patrones e impactos de las arribazaciones de sargazo. Esto mejorará el conocimiento de las partes interesadas para responder y adaptarse adecuadamente a las afluencias de sargazo con buenas prácticas. 2) Mejorar la capacidad técnica e institucional de las partes interesadas para hacer frente, planificar, gestionar de forma sostenible y adaptarse a las afluencias de sargazo. Esto creará redes y asociaciones entre la ciencia, la industria y las partes interesadas de la comunidad para promover las mejores prácticas y la innovación y mantener la adaptación a las afluencias de Sargassum. 3) Reforzar la capacidad de las partes interesadas marinas y costeras para la planificación adaptativa, la gestión y la resiliencia de los ecosistemas y los medios de vida mediante aplicaciones prácticas. Esto permitirá a las comunidades Sargassum-Smart con un riesgo climático reducido y beneficios tangibles de adaptación al clima.
Lead Organization : CERMES
Donor: Caribbean Biodiversity Fund & International Climate Initiative (IKI)
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Geographic Scope:
Multicountry (regional)
Project Status: Ongoing
Start Date: 2020-05-01
End Date: 2023-05-01
Official Project Document: SSF_GENDER_PROJECT_ANNOUNCEMENT_FLYER_2020_01_22-1.pdf
Last Update: 19/10/2020
Start Date: 2020-05-01
End Date: 2023-05-01
Official Project Document: SSF_GENDER_PROJECT_ANNOUNCEMENT_FLYER_2020_01_22-1.pdf
Project Profile Manager: Anna Karima Degia
Contact Email: annakarima.degia@cavehill.uwi.edu
Contact Phone:
Contact Email: annakarima.degia@cavehill.uwi.edu
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Partners: st.George Univ., Unv.North Carolina Wilmington, Sir Arthur Lewis Centre (SALISES), UWI sargassum company, CANARI
Grant (USD):
$981,393.00
Total co-financing (USD):
$0.00
(Co) financing not originating from GEF:
Participating Country(s):
Barbados 
Dominica 
Grenada 
Saint Lucia 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Barbados Dominica Grenada Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)
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The CLME+ Hub is an initiative of the Secretariat of the CLME+ Interim Coordination Mechanism (ICM), in collaboration with the members of the CLME+ ICM and CLME+ Project Executive Group (PEG) and (prospective) Partner Organizations. Development of the Hub has benefited from the financial support of the UNDP/GEF Project: “Catalysing Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for the Sustainable Management of shared Living Marine Resources in the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems” (CLME+ Project, 2015-2020). The CLME+ Project is executed by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in close collaboration with a large number of global, regional and national-level partners. For more information on the CLME+ Project click here
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