Integrated physical adaptation and community resilience through an EDA pilot (GCF-FP061)

Regions
  • Latin America and Caribbean
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Dominica
  • Grenada
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Green Climate Fund (GCF)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 1, 2018
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Ministries with responsibility for environment in Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and Dominica
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Climate and Environment
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 20.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 20.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 38.50 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ GCF website

Updated in EWS Jul 20, 2023

Disclosed by Bank Feb 6, 2018

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Project Description
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According to the submitted proposal to the Green Climate Fund, this project seeks to stengthen institutional capacities and increase the resilience of at least 5% of the population in the pilot countries using an Enhanced Direct Access (EDA) system. It will specifically address prevelant barriers to climate change adaptation; the barriers are: 1. adaptation that leaves no one behind, 2. financing for adaptation in public, private, and civil society sectors, and 3. high per capita losses and costs of climate recovery. 

The outputs of the project are:

  1. Enhanced capacity for climate adaptation planning, implementation, and monitoring and evalutation via direct access.
  2. Governments implement concrete adapttion measures using ecosystem-based approaches where appropriate.
  3. Community resilience to climate change impacts is enhanced through tangible adaptation benefits.
  4. Privately owned physical assets of vulnerable populations are more resilient to climate variability and change through concessional microfinancing.
People Affected By This Project
People Affected By This Project refers to the communities of people likely to be affected positively or negatively by a project.

Number of people directly affected by specific components of the project:

Revolving fund loan agreements Grant reports and grant agreements: 13,200 direct beneficiaries

Number of males and females benefiting from the adoption of diversified, climate – resilient livelihood options: 15,650 males & 15,650 females 

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

Government co-financing: US$6.0 million

Civil society organisations: US$1.5 million

Private sector (households, micro-, small, and medium enterprises): US$11.0 million

As of the time of writing, the project proposal is not clear about the exact sources of the US$18.5 million in co-financing which rely on the Green Climate Fund participating in the project.


Contact Information
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Contact:

Ms. Joan Carrott

Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health and the Environment

High Street, St. John’s, Antigua

Ms. Lia Nicholson

Project Consultant

Project Management Unit (PMU)

Department of the Environment

Factory Road St. John’s, Antigua

Email: DOE@ab.gov.ag

Diann.Black-Layne@ab.gov.ag

Lia.Nicholson@ab.gov.ag

Telephone number Tel.: +1 268 462 4625 Fax: +1 268 462 6265

Mailing address #1 Victoria Park Botanical Gardens, Factory Rd., St. John’s, Antigua W.I.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Requests for project information may be submitted using the IDP Request for Information by email to: disclosure@gcfund.org.

You can also submit an information request using this online form: https://www.greenclimate.fund/about/disclosure/form.  Additionally, if information requested is denied, an appeal can be filed to the Information Appeals Panel: iap@gcfund.org.  You can learn more about the Information Appeals Panel at: https://www.greenclimate.fund/about/disclosure/appeals.

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF GREEN CLIMATE FUND 

The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) addresses complaints by people who believe they are negatively affected or may be affected by projects or programmes funded by the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The complainant can raise issues related to any of GCF’s policies and procedures, including those relating to social and environmental issues, indigenous peoples, gender, and information disclosure, among others. If you submit a complaint to the IRM, it may seek to address the issues raised by facilitating problem solving or conducting a compliance process. You can learn more about the Independent Redress Mechanism and how to file a complaint at https://irm.greenclimate.fund/.

You can access a video about the IRM (English) at: https://youtu.be/1LanbriVhfs.

A brochure about the IRM can be accessed in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Mandarin, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, German, and Kiswahili at: https://irm.greenclimate.fund/.

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