USP EU-Global Climate

Change Alliance (GCCA)

Project

Dr. Anjeela Jokhan

Pacific Centre for Environment and

Sustainable Development (PACE-SD),

University of the South Pacific (USP)

Scope of this presentation

Project: Support the EU-GCCA through Capacity Building, Community Engagement and Applied Research (15 ACP countries)

Component Zero: Project Management Unit Component (1): Capacity Building

Component (2): Community Engagement

Component (3): Applied Research

Major Climate Change Issues

in the Pacific

• Small Island States surrounded by vast quantities of

water

• Extreme flooding, coastal erosion (over 80% population

live on coastal areas)

• Salt water intrusion

• Extreme wave action and generally flooding during high

tides

• Significant increase in natural disasters

• Food security (salt water intrusion, coral bleaching,

droughts etc)

Project Overview

Component 0:

Project Management Unit

Project Management Unit

In total 27 full-time staff is to be recruited. To date we have in

place: - 5 Project Management Unit staff (TL, PA, FO, ITO M&E Officer) - 3 capacity building component staff (Prof. in CC, Lecturer,

Research Fellow) - 13 community engagement component staff (11 In-country

coordinators & 2 management positions) - 2 project assistants for the applied research component 3

5 consultants on 6-12 months contracts - Communications Consultant – tasked to develop and

implement the Project Communications Strategy - Graphics Officer – tasked to work with the In-country

coordinators and design Project Awareness & Promotional Materials

- Events Coordinator – tasked to organize Stakeholders Mtg & Mid-Term Review Mtg (December)

- IT Officer (Support) – assist the IT Officer with the Knowledge Centre and Climate Change Portal

- Social Scientist – Review the Best Practices Report

Key Project Meetings

Regional Stakeholders Meeting – July 19-20th 2012 - Discuss the progress of the project - Launching key project tools (com. Strategy; M&E protocol;

Best Practices Report etc) - Solicit feedback from stakeholders on how best to implement

activities that are falling behind in some countries - Project Mid-Term Review – December 2012 - Review the progress of activities since the July Meeting - Project Steering Committee Meeting – once every year - 2012 Meeting will be held in August on the request of

the EU Delegation Pacific Office - Project Management Committee – every quarter (Mar, June,

Sept, Dec)

Project Reporting

• Bi-Annual Report – due at the end of June

• Annual Report – due at the end of December

- Available are reports from 2011 (Year 1 of the

project).

• Year 2 Workplan and Budget

• On-line M&E – continuous reporting

Component 1:

Capacity Building

Component 1- Capacity Building

• Component 1 focuses on teaching and training activities.

• This includes formal and non-formal capacity building

• Formal teaching focuses on:

• Course development

• Scholarship attributions

• Non-Formal Training – capacity building of various stakeholders associated with climate change issues around the region.

Students are key to the capacity of the region to adapt to climate change and are at the center of the project!!!

Course Development • post-graduate diploma on disaster risk management

• bridging course to the post-graduate programs offered by PACE-SD

• A new 400-level course for the Postgraduate Diploma in Climate Change under PACE-SD. Designed to fill a gap in teaching about Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems and how they interact with climate change in the Pacific region.

Scholarships:

Component 1 – Formal Education

PGDip, 5

MSc, 12

PhD, 3

2012 Scholarship Students

PGDip, 18

MSc, 18

PhD, 4

Total Scholarship Students

• Carried out in associated with the Community Engagement Component (Component 2 of the project).

• There are 2 Regional Trainings and 6 Sub-Regional trainings included over the duration of the project.

• The first Regional Training has been successfully completed (in Fiji).

• The first 3 Sub-Regional Trainings are being organized in Tonga, Vanuatu and Marshall Islands.

Overall increased awareness of CC, its impacts and resilience

Component 1 – Non-Formal Trainings

Component 2:

Community Engagement

• The Community Engagement component will facilitate

and equip at least 40 communities within the 15 Pacific

ACP countries to adapt to climate change.

• Adaptation projects will cover all vulnerable sectors

identified in each country by the National Adaptation

Plan of Action (NAPA) and/or the National

Communication reports.

• Major activities include a comprehensive regional review

of good practices and development of community

adaptation to impacts of climate change.

Component 2 – Community Engagement

Regional Review

of Good Practices

Collate, Review &

Analysis of CCA

projects in PIC's

DONORS &

IMPLEMENTIN

G

ORGANISATIO

NS

PICs

Lessons Learnt and

Best Practice

Guidelines

FORMULATION

OF ADAPTATION

STRATEGIES

MARSHALL IS.

KIRIBATI

NIUE

NAURU

FIJI

FSM

TUVALU

VANUATU

SOLOMON IS.

TIMOR LESTE

TONGA

SAMOA

PNG

PALAU

COOK IS. SPC/SOPAC

SPREP

UNDP

WWF

ADB

WORLD BANK

IUCN

USP

PCDF

AUSAID

NZAID

LIVE & LEARN

TNC

ASSESSMENT OF

DISASTER RISK

AND

VULNERABILITY

Community Adaptation Activities

•The majority of progress has been made during the first 6 months of year 2.

• In Year 1 there staff recruitment was an issue due to lack of capacity in the region.

• The Good Practices report is “living” document and is

being revised throughout the project

• In-country progress

– site selection guidelines developed and distributed to all countries;

– NPACS formed and have selected potential sites in 11 countries

and final sites in 2;

– Community awareness workshops in 10 countries;

– Vulnerability and adaptation surveys are underway.

• Awareness rising – The Climate Zone is a televised quiz

for children. Filmed in June and will be shown July to

November on Fiji 1, Fiji National Television Station. 16

schools from throughout Fiji participated.

Component 2 – Project Progress Jan-Jun 2012

Community Engagement

• Resilient local communities, equipped with the

skills to develop, implement and sustain long-

term adaptation strategies.

• ‘Best practice’ in community adaptation projects

identified and disseminated

Component 3:

Applied Research

• The goal is to weave together scientific understanding , climate projections and local knowledge to identify appropriate adaptation strategies to increase community resilience and decrease vulnerability in the face of a changing climate.

• Student research projects (Component 1) and community activities (Component 2) are integral to Component 3.

Component 3 – Applied Research

• Climate and environmental datasets, related to student research, have been analysed and added to the project’s server (Knowledge Centre). CROP agencies have agreed that the USP Knowledge Centre is to host the Regional Climate Change Portal.

• Research staff and students trained on the use of several software tools for data modelling and analysis e.g. Matlab, DSSAT, R statistical Package, PCCCSP and NCAR (NCL) tools.

• Analysis of the climate projections published in the recent Pacific Climate Change Science Program report and their impacts are underway.

• 12 publications and 2 technical reports - which have been distributed to ICC’s.

Component 3 – Project Progress Jan-Jun 2012

Applied Research

A large, comprehensive Climate Change Knowledge

Hub countries:

• Climate data

• Modeling data and climate predictions data

• Regional Best practices information

• Vulnerability and Assessment information

• Adaptation tool kits

• Various information material for communities in local

languages

• etc

2012 2013 2014 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan

Pro

jects

Renewable biofuel from the anaerobic digestion of wild and cultured algal biomass:

Adaptation to coastal erosion through mangrove replanting and foreshore rehabilitation

Monitoring and processing of seawater temperature data for coral reefs of the Fiji Islands

Coral reef rehabilitation

Example RESEARCH PROJECTS that will feed into this Component

(Grant-funded, Marine Environment)

Thank You