Water Programmes

Coastal Adaptation Programs

Health Programmes

Biodiversity Conservation Programmes

Agriculture Programmes

Social Dimensions

National Security

Coastal –KAP The South Tarawa Coastal Condition Assessment

• A GIS based system evaluating the physical condition of the coast and risk to assets

• A decision support tool to identify and prioritize sites for adaptation • Design and build better seawalls where it is really needed

•  Adaptation  measures  – National  Water  Resources  Policy  and  Implementation  Plan  – Development  of  National  Sanitation  Policy  – Groundwater  assessments  – “Master  Plan”  for  water  for  Tarawa  – Reducing  leakages  – Increasing  rainwater  harvesting  

Country Health Information Profiles, 2005-WHO

Well water often polluted

Promoting  protection  of  wells  

http://www.spc.int/lrd/highlights_atoll_agriculture.htm

Environment Act

Enforcement EIA

Conservation – Wild life protection ordinance (Christmas Island)

Centre of Excellence for Atoll Agriculture Research and Development  Gene bank

Salt tolerance plants

Phoenix Islands Protected Areas PIPA-Ordinance

http://phoenixislands.org/index.php

With an area of 410,500 km2, PIPA is the largest MPA in the world (an area the size of California)

Kiribati Adaptation

Project Phase I NAPA

•  National Consultations •  Prioritization •  Climate Change

Adaptation Strategy •  Mainstreaming into

Ministries Operational plans (NSDS- Kiribati Development Plan)

KAP II

•  Assessments •  Pilot Implementation-

Addressing coastal inundation and water resources

Other programmes

• Centre of Excellence for Atoll Agriculture

• Environment Act

• PIPA

Addressing Kiribati Adaptation Needs and Priorities

Increased resilience

Scale Up Pilots/New Programmes

 Project designs-simple and focused   Scaling up pilot programmes  Overall effort of our adaptation

programmes will be meaningless without dramatic cut in emissions from the developed world