The Strengthening Resilient Water Useful resource Administration within the Jap Caribbean – or Water for Resilience (W4R) – undertaking is transferring forward in Grenada.
The United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Authorities of Canada, hosted an inception workshop right now for key stakeholders, authorities officers, specialists, and neighborhood leaders to collaboratively form the W4R undertaking’s implementation technique and 2024 work plan.
Funded by the Authorities of Canada with a contribution of CAD$4.85 million, the undertaking goals to boost water resilience in Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines for communities which are significantly weak to the impacts of local weather change, together with droughts, floods, and hurricanes. It can present entry to scrub water and promote water administration practices within the Caribbean to assist livelihoods, with a concentrate on women-headed households and ladies farmers.
Addressing the opening of the workshop was Mervyn Haynes, Grenada’s Director of the Division of Financial, Sustainable Improvement and Planning within the Ministry of Financial Improvement, Planning, Tourism, ICT, Inventive Financial system and Agriculture and Lands, Fisheries & Cooperatives.
“At this time’s workshop is a vital exercise for additional tailoring the Water for Resilience undertaking to the Grenada context. We wish to make sure that all stakeholders have a excessive degree of buy-in and a transparent understanding of their respective roles in contributing to the undertaking’s aims,” Mr. Haynes mentioned, including, “On this means, we will work extra effectively; avoiding duplication of efforts and rising our possession and dedication to strengthening water useful resource administration in Grenada.”
UNDP Deputy Resident Consultant, Stephanie Ziebell, underscored how the undertaking would combine native, nationwide, and regional wants, noting, “This undertaking is one other assertion of our dedication to working with our companions and governments to advertise inclusive and sustainable improvement all through the area. It has been designed in order that community-driven interventions may help inform and drive nationwide and sectoral insurance policies. As well as, its regional scope will assist us in capturing finest practices that may strengthen what is completed in every nation and that may be replicated all through the Jap Caribbean.”
“Canada is delighted that this inception workshop in Grenada is underway. Local weather change is aware of no borders. Nevertheless, small island states like Grenada are significantly weak given their measurement, location, and reliance on financial actions akin to tourism and agriculture, that are inherently delicate to climatic shifts. The W4R undertaking displays Canada’s continued dedication to handle the impacts of local weather change by supporting gender-responsive enhancements in water resilience within the Jap Caribbean. We stay up for the significant enhancements that the undertaking will convey to the lives and livelihoods of weak communities in Grenada,” shared Excessive Commissioner of Canada to Barbados and the Jap Caribbean, H.E. Lilian Chatterjee.
The Water for Resilience undertaking is a part of UNDP Barbados and the Jap Caribbean’s dedication to constructing resilient communities that may stand up to shocks and crises whereas lowering gender vulnerabilities. As local weather change results turn into extra prevalent within the area, it’s important that developmental efforts proceed to strengthen the necessity for regional resilience and bolstering livelihoods for historically weak teams.
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