Dominica has signed an agreement, along with Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada, that will pave the way for less tedious access to climate resilience funding.
There have been complaints that the support given towards project implementation especially as it pertains to climate change is insufficient to achieve noticeable impact.
The agreement, which is called a Memorandum of Cooperation on the Green Climate Fund was signed on Thursday at the Sandals Grande Resort in Antigua and Barbuda.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Climate Resilience, Disaster Management and Urban Renewal Careen Prevost represented Dominica.
She was sitting in for Joseph Issac who she says could not attend the ceremony.
Prevost said the MOC will better position Dominica and the other islands to extract funds from multilateral institutions, to recover from storms and other effects of climate change.
“The Dominica government has been in the process of establishing a new agency called the Climate Resilience Execution Agency of Dominica, (CREAD) with an aim to support the rapid implementation of climate resilience project in Dominica,” she said.
According to Prevost, “building resilience for us is going to critical in a number of areas like energy, natural resources, physical infrastructures, livelihoods and disaster preparedness.”
“Jointly with Antigua and Grenada, Dominica intends to establish the legal and institutional framework for enhancing direct access to international climate change financing,” she added.
The Eastern Caribbean, EDA project, aims to build integrated resilience of individuals and their businesses, communities and governance systems through responsive grant and loan award mechanisms, that are transparently managed through devolved decision-making, by those affected by climate change.
Meantime Antigua and Barbuda’s Health Minister Molwyn Joseph told the gathering that by signing of the agreement, Antigua and Barbuda will pursue projects on behalf of Dominica and Grenada where they can access funds with the island’s assistance and to also aid them to develop their own capacity, where they too can have access to direct funding
The three islands responded to the GCF’s request for proposals on Enhancing Direct Access with a US$20-million project titled, “Integrated physical adaptation and community resilience through an enhanced direct access pilot in the public, private, and civil society sectors, of three Eastern Caribbean small island developing states.”
The funds coming though all you cannot stop it.
Keep the funds coming
But thru getting the funds camem :wink
Hold on, something not right here. Two days ago you report Coreen Prevost promoting Carnival as P.S. In the ministry of tourism and culture but today She signing an agreement in Antigua as PS. In the ministry of Environment, climate resilience, disaster management and urban renewal. What is going on here. Is She so multi talented She can handlle
all that or perhaps she is a jack of all trade and master of none. Is she getting two salaries too?
ADMIN: She currently holds both positions, she is serving as the interim PS for the newly established Ministry of Environment, Climate Resilience, Disaster Management and Urban Renewal.
This climate resilient thing is lazy buzzwords by a lazy,myopic, incompetent DLP regime. Climate resilience for Labourites?Why everyone is not included to achieve this climate resilience? Why is almost 50% of the electorate excluded? Why is it that it’s a caretaker that is the lazy,incompetent, blinkered idiot responsible for sharing building materials in my constituency,? For votes?Well we will reject the vote scavenging fool, This Climate Resilience is just empty rhetoric. Stop the discrimination! Opposition citizens are Dominicans too.
Where the Wicked Rule, the People Mourn.This DLP is a wicked and evil party.