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Climate change - manifesting in the form of intensified cyclones, storm surges, and sea-level rise - is accelerating saltwater intrusion into the freshwater resources of the coastal belt of Bangladesh. Climate change-induced soil and water salinity is projected to adversely impact freshwater dependent agricultural livelihoods (leading to loss of productivity or livelihoods) as well as the availability and quality of drinking water in the vulnerable coastal communities.
The Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation (GCA) Project is addressing the barriers related to low awareness of and access to climate-resilient livelihood practices, lack of technical and financial capacities, and limited adoption and scalability hindering the small-scale farmers, fishers, and agro-laborers to diversify  livelihoods and implement adaptive livelihood strategies.
The Gender-responsive Coastal Adaptation Project aims to build technical and coordination capacities of 525 officials from the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA), the Department of Public Health Engineering, and other relevant key Ministries through facilitating knowledge generation and exchange and establishing learning frameworks to sustain, replicate, and scale resilient livelihood and drinking water solutions for coastal communities. 

Wenceslao is a corn and dry corn producer in Ojojona. He was one of the farmers who participated in a project financed by the Adaptation Fund and implemented by UNDP and MiAmbiente +. Wenceslao has seen how his production improved after adopting irrigation management techniques, seeds, cultivation techniques and basic aspects of micro-finance. He went from producing 2 quintals of dry corn per manzana to 10 quintals. And from producing small-sized corn and only one annual production, he now produces 20,000 large-sized corn and up to three annual productions.

With funding from the Adaptation Fund and the support of UNDP,  vulnerable Myanmar communities are becoming more resilient to the impacts of climate change.  

For more information on the project 'Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Resources and Food Security in the Dry Zone of Myanmar', click here.

The project 'Strengthening the Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in the Dry Zone to Climate Variability and Extreme Events' (known locally as the 'Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management' Project) improves access to clean drinking water by enhancing community-managed drinking water infrastructure.  The project is implemented by the Government of Sri Lanka with technical support from UNDP and funded by the Green Climate Fund.

La educación ambiental es una de las prioridades del proyecto Mi Costa en Pinar del Río, como parte de sus acciones para la adaptación al cambio climático. 

 

The Green Climate Fund-financed project 'Coastal Resilience to Climate Change in Cuba through Ecosystem Based Adaptation (‘MI COSTA')’ responds to the coastal adaptation needs of Cuba due to climate-change related slow onset events such as sea level rise and flooding arising from extreme weather events. Impacts from these climate drivers are a matter of national security for the people of this small-island state and pose an existential threat to coastal settlements and communities.

The 'Mi Costa' project in Cuba will enhance adaptive capacity by holistically rehabilitating coastal land-seascapes, their interlinked ecosystems and hydrology. This will be achieved by rehabilitating ecosystem functions and connections within mangroves and swamp forests and reducing anthropic pressures to marine coastal ecosystems, thus enhancing the services supplied by integrated coastal ecosystems (particularly protection from saline flooding and erosion, and channelling freshwater to coastal areas and aquifers).