WELCOME TO PROJECT CASCADE 10th EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND ACP Secretariat ACP Caribbean & Pacific Research Programme for Sustainable Development
The ST LUCIA STAKEHOLDER PANELS At Sustainable Development and Environment Division Conference Room, Caribbean Cinemas Complex, Choc Estate, Castries On September 25, 2013
Presented by PROJECT OVERVIEW MARINA E MODESTE Project Manager, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies (SALISES) The UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, ST AUGUSTINE
Project Priority: Water and Sanitation Name of applicant: The University of the West Indies PROJECT DURATION: 24 Months Completion Date: July 31st 2014
Partners Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici S.c.a.r.l. (CMCC), Italy & Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), Regional Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Organisation, Belize
PROJECT OBJECTIVES: To Support Small Island Developing States in a Path Towards Sustainable Development SPECIFIC: To Design and Promote Multi-Stakeholder Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Small Island Developing States Location of the Action: Core Sites: St Vincent, St Lucia, Mirror Sites: Grenada (Caribbean), Mauritius (Pacific)
FINANCING MECHANISM TOTAL COST OF THE ACTION: EUR 597 753.68 CONTRIBUTION FROM CONTRACTING AUTHORITY: EUR 472 978.68 CONTRIBUTION FROM PARTNERS: EUR 124 775.00
TARGET GROUP: Community-Based Organisations Local Authorities Indigenous Peoples Non-Governmental Organisations Research Organisations Researchers Students Young People FINAL BENEFICIARIES: Stakeholders in regional Caribbean Public Policy Officials & Pacific SIDS: Coastal Communities Industries of the Water and Sanitation Sectors The Tourism Industries The Agricultural Industries
ESTIMATED RESULTS: Result I : A Toolbox for Multi-Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Result II : Community and Hazard Profiles for Climate- Related Threats to the Water and Sanitation Sector Result III : Multi-Stakeholder Adaptation Action Plans Result IV : Adaptive Capacity Building and Best Practices
MAIN ACTIVITIES: A Catalogue of Existing Caribbean, Pacific and European Projects A Review of Climate-Change Vulnerability Analyses A Review and Summary of Climate Change Impacts on Water and Sanitation in SIDS The Development of a Framework for Individual-hazard Vulnerability Assessments The Development of a Framework for Integrated, Multi-hazard Vulnerability Assessment
MAIN ACTIVITIES Cont’d: The Application of Scenario Analyses The Establishment and Description of the Core Studies in the Caribbean The Establishment and Description of the Mirror Case Study in the Caribbean and the Mirror Case Study in the Pacific The Establishment of Case Study Stakeholder Panels in the Core Case Studies The Development of Coastal Mapping in Core Case Studies
MAIN ACTIVITIES (Cont’d): Vulnerability Analysis of Individual Threats in Core Case Studies Vulnerability Analysis of Multiple Threats in Core Case Studies The Adaptation of Research Recommendations to the Caribbean and Pacific Mirror Sites The Development of Community-Based Action Plans The Recommendations for Strengthening Water Governance in SIDS
MAIN ACTIVITIES (CONT’D): The Development of Adaptation Strategies for Water Management in SIDS Dissemination to the Academic/Scientific Community Dissemination to Regional and European Stakeholders Dissemination to the General Public
THANK YOU CONTACT US: marina modeste marina.modeste@sta.uwi.edu SALISES, UWI, ST AUGUSTINE 868-662-6965 CASCADE WEBSITE: http://www2.sta.uwi.edu/cascade