Integration of Future Climate Change Scenarios in Development of Selected Population Centres or Islands to Adapt Sea Level Rise and Extreme Weather Risks Associated with Climate Change

  • Maldives
  • South Asia

ENTRY DATE: 09.03.2012 | LAST UPDATE: 09.03.2012

SCALE:

  • Countrywide

TARGET AREA:

  • Rural and Urban

BEST PRACTICE IN:

  • Capacity Building
  • Research and Development

KEY SECTOR:

  • Coastal Zone Management

FUNDING AMOUNT:

  • USD 1,000,001 - USD 5,000,000

Description of Intervention

Vulnerability assessment of islands and developing vulnerability reduction plan. Along with this, the project will strengthen human resource and institutional capacity to better cope with impacts of climate change.

Problems to be Addressed

Lack of human and institutional capacity to adapt to climate change

Aims

Ensure climate change concerns are addressed in the Development of Selected Population Centers or Islands in the Maldives

Objectives

• To undertake detailed hazard and vulnerability assessment for 7 Selected Population Centres or Islands;
• To develop a hazard mitigation and vulnerability reduction action plan;
• To develop the human resource and institutional capacity at atoll and island levels to manage coastal zones; and
• To enhance the technical capacity to design coastal modifications suitable for small coral islands.

How it fits into the EbA concept

Since the project aims at capacity Building of the existing institutions and human resource in Maldives to better respond and adapt to climate change, it fits into the CCA concept.