| Project Detail |
To improve marine-coastal resilience, this project focuses on community engagement and implementation of nature-based solutions to reduce the upland drivers of degradation and conserve ecosystems and their services; raise awareness of climate risks; provide additional nature-based livelihood opportunities, and facilitate monitoring of ecosystem health to ensure sustainability.
General objective:
To restore ecosystem health of upland-coastal environments to strengthen marine-coastal climate resilience while improving sustainable livelihood opportunities of communities.
Specific objectives:
Build technical & social capacity of communities/farmers to rehabilitate upland & downstream ecosystems by implementing EbA-climate smart solutions
Strengthen existing livelihood opportunities and generate alternatives based on the implementation of EbA-climate smart interventions
Disseminate the climate smart approaches using innovative approaches within project countries and the region to promote wider interest and uptake of EbA and climate risk reduction strategies; and especially wide-spread common knowledge of vetiver grass and the Vetiver system as a nature-based EbA tool available to all
Complete stakeholder engagement, development of agreements and project coordination and logistics with partners, contractors, collaborators and community groups |
