Caribbean Development Bank
$22,500,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Fiscal year
- 2011-2012
- Agreement period
- March 9, 2012 – June 30, 2025
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-A035388001
Published purpose
This fund supports initiatives that seek to improve communities-based disaster risk management and climate adaptation across the Caribbean. This project assists local organizations by developing and implementing actions that build disaster resilience and enhance livelihoods at the community level. It sensitizes key stakeholders on the potential impacts of natural hazards. This fund is also used to develop and pilot tools, such as the Enhanced Country Poverty Assessments to integrate climate risks related to living conditions at the household, community, and sectoral level, into national plans and poverty assessments. The United Kingdom and the European Union also contributed £2 million and €1.6 million to this fund, respectively.
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This fund supports community-based disaster risk management and climate adaptation initiatives across the Caribbean, including developing tools to integrate climate risks into national poverty assessments.
Category: Climate Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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