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Dominica will be one beneficiary of a new project, focused on improving local resilience to hurricanes and climate extremes in the Eastern Caribbean.<\/p>\n
The 3-year project, being executed by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), was announced on Sunday, in recognition of International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction \u2013 2019.<\/p>\n
Titled, \u201cCivil society-led solutions for community-based and ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and resilience in the Eastern Caribbean\u201d, it will be concentrated in Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, along with Grenada.<\/p>\n
The countries were chosen because of the severe impact of hurricanes in recent times \u2013 Grenada, from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica, from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.<\/p>\n
CANARI has explained that it will work closely with six partner civil society organizations (CSOs) and community stakeholders on the ground in the countries, to strengthen their organizational and technical capacity to deliver integrated Eco-Disaster Risk Reduction (Eco-DRR) and Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) solutions.<\/p>\n
A regional dialogue will be held to gain common understanding on \u2013 and best practices for \u2013 building resilience, what this means for Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the role of CSOs.<\/p>\n
Partner-CSOs will then be supported in their efforts with small grants and mentoring sessions.<\/p>\n
Direct beneficiaries of the project will include around 4,000 persons living in six high-risk communities \u2013 half of them women \u2013 as well as National Disaster Offices and CSOs working in disaster risk management in the target countries.<\/p>\n
The project is being funded by the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and will be implemented from 2019 to 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominica will be one beneficiary of a new project, focused on improving local resilience to hurricanes and climate extremes in the Eastern Caribbean. The 3-year project, being executed by the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), was announced on Sunday, in…","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":236607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[237,77,235,9,14,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-regional","category-weather"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n