Enhancing Caribbean Civil Society’s Access and Readiness for Climate Finance
Mejorando el acceso y la preparación de la sociedad civil del Caribe para el financiamiento climático
Brief Description:
This project will actively involve the main national and regional CSOs of the Caribbean Community and regional accredited Entities to develop their capacities to access climate finance and carry out climate actions, improve mechanisms for multi-stakeholder decision-making and participation at the national and regional level in the definition of investment and prioritization of climate projects. Alliances with the public and private sectors will be strengthened, including MEMEs, key to mobilize actions and channel funds at the local level. Among other products, the project is expected to develop tools to promote and strengthen national coordination mechanisms, including the monitoring and implementation of National Adaptation Plans. It will also map community-based and ecosystem-based approaches, to identify best practices, innovations, and potential for scalability. Selected leading national CSOs and CSOs will increase their capacities to implement climate change projects / programs, and work will be done to develop a Civil Society Climate Change Agenda and Action Plan for 2020-2030.
Este proyecto involucrará activamente a las principales OSC nacionales y regionales de la Comunidad del Caribe y a las Entidades acreditadas regionales para desarrollar sus capacidades para acceder al financiamiento climático y realizar acciones climáticas, mejorar los mecanismos para la toma de decisiones de múltiples partes interesadas y la participación de las OSC a nivel nacional y regional en la definición de la inversión y prioritizacion de proyectos climáticos. Se fortalecerán las alianzas con el sector público y privado, incluidas las MIPYMES, también es clave para movilizar acciones y canalizar fondos a nivel local. Entre otros productos, se espera que el proyecto desarrolle herramientas para promover y fortalecer los mecanismos de coordinación nacional, incluyendo el monitoreo y la implementación de los Planes Nacionales de Adaptación. También mapeará enfoques basados en la comunidad y en los ecosistemas, para identificar las mejores prácticas, innovaciones y el potencial de ampliación. Las OSC nacionales líderes seleccionadas y las OSC aumentarán sus capacidades para ejecutar proyectos / programas de cambio climático, y se trabajará en desarrollar una Agenda y un Plan de Acción sobre el Cambio Climático de la Sociedad Civil para 2020-2030.
Lead Organization : Climate Change Division, Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Jamaica
Antigua and BarbudaBelizeGrenadaJamaicaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSuriname
Contributions to the 10-year CLME+ Strategic Action Programme (2015-2025)
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1. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for the protection of the marine environment
1.4. Enhance the compliance and enforcement capacity of the regional, sub-regional and national governance arrangements
1.5. Establish and/or enhance the capacity of the regional,sub-regional and national governance arrangements for the involvement of civil society in the implementation of the EBM/EAF approach (IGOs,NGOs,CBOs,private sector...)
1.6. Enhance the capacity within and among arrangements to undertake and mainstream lessons learned and findings from monitoring,science and research in regional, sub-regional and national decision-making
1.9. Strengthen the capacity of the regional and sub-regional arrangements to support countries in becoming parties to relevant international and regional agreements and complying with their global and regional commitments towards the conservation of the marine environment (including the support to update and harmonize national legislation and regulations)
2. Enhance the regional governance arrangements for sustainable fisheries
3. Establish and operationalise a regional policy coordination mechanismfor ocean governance, with initial focus on shared Living Marine Resources
4. Enhance the governance arrangements for ecosystem-based management for reefs and associated ecosystems
4.2. Establish and/or enhance the cooperation between environmental, fisheries and other relevant agencies within CARICOM for implementing the EBM/EAF approach
4A. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for spiny lobster fisheries
4B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for queen conch fisheries
5. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing an ecosystem approach for pelagic fisheries
5A. Enhance the governance arrangements for implementing the ecosystem approach for flyingfish fisheries
5B. Enhance the governance arrangementsfor implementing an ecosystem approach for large pelagics fisheries
6. Implement EBM/EAF of the Guianas-Brazil continental shelf with special reference to the shrimp and groundfish fishery
Contributions to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Agenda (SDG’s)
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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.a Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Other Regional and Global Commitments
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