Vanuatu Coastal Adaptation Project (VCAP2)

The VCAP 2 Project is worth around $12.5 million USD or about 1.5 billion Vatu in total. This project is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF) and is titled VCAP 2 or the Vanuatu Coastal Adaptation Project 2. VCAP 2 will help to strengthen government capacity to deliver services to project sites throughout Vanuatu.

VCAP 2 will differ from VCAP 1 in that much of its funding from the GEF will focus on supporting environmental resource protection and bio-diversity which is the variety of living organisms in Vanuatu. This entails the survey and establishment of terrestrial and marine protected areas, the registration of these protected areas, and implementing resource management plans with communities. Activities to protect the environment against land degradation will also be supported through the project.

Important stakeholders for VCAP 2 include the Department of Climate Change (DoCC), the Vanuatu Meteorological and Geo-hazards Department (VMGD), the Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC), the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), the Department of Forestry (DoF), the Department of Livestock (DoL), the Department of Water Resources (DoWR), Vanuatu Fisheries Department (VFD), the Department of Local Authorities (DLA), and the Public Works Department (PWD).

It is a good practice for integrated management that considers all activities from the upper watershed (ridge) to coastal marine environments (reefs). VCAP 2 implementation of output activities should be focusses on these good practices in each zone and support linkages actions with ridge to reef at selected project sites. Other points to consider while planning for VCAP 2 are:

1. Focus on linking land, water and coastal systems
2. Must incorporate traditional management
3. Inclusive co-management
4. Nature-based solutions
5. Upland management
6. Align with Government of V NSD Plan
7. Vanuatu National Environment Policy and Implementation Plan 2016–2030
8. Build upon Vanuatu Government targets – NBSAP

This project will build off of the progress attained through VCAP 1, which the Ministry of Climate Change facilitated with stakeholders from 2015 – 2019.

Project Objective: To Improve the resilience of the vulnerable areas and communities therein to the impacts of climate change through the conservation of biodiversity and natural ecosystems and the implementation of integrated approaches in order to sustain livehoods, food production and ensure biodiversity conservation and reduce land ddegradation by building on the lessons learned from the first phase project.

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