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Community-Based Adaptation |
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Small communities are often the most severely affected, yet the least equipped to cope with the impacts of climate change. In recognition of this, the UNDP-GEF Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) project pilots the community component of the GEF Strategic Priority on Adaptation, building the resilience of communities and the ecosystems upon which they rely in the face of climate change impacts.
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Key Features of the CBA Project:
- Implemented
in ten pilot countries, representing a diversity of ecosystems, socioeconomic
contexts and climate change impacts
- Each country
will support a portfolio of 8-20 projects (approximately 125 project
globally)
- Individual
projects will receive up to $50,000 in GEF support
- Projects
will be community-driven and nationally strategic - aligned with country
programme strategies on key climate change adaptation priorities
- Taking
a natural resources management approach, the CBA project will build
resilience to climate impacts into resource-based livelihoods while
generating global environmental benefits in GEF focal areas
- Projects
will be nationally strategic and globally relevant, leveraging lessons
learned from community projects to inform national policy dialogues,
while sharing best practices globally
- UNDP will
partner with the GEF Small Grants Programme on delivery of project
outcomes
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Climate change is a global challenge, but impacts, and therefore
solutions, must be local and regional |
Project Status
The CBA project has been under implementation since early 2008. See the country programmes pages for more information on ongoing activities.
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