1. Mainstreaming Climate Risk
Management in National
Development Processes
in the Caribbean
Natalie Boodram
GWP-Caribbean
and
Keith Nichols
Caribbean Community
Climate Change Centre

2. Under the Caribbean
WACDEP Programme, we
are mainstreaming climate
risk management through
the WACDEP work
packages, drawing upon
Partnerships and fitting
by into the existing
Regional Climate
Resilience Framework

3. GWP-C WACDEP is
executed in partnership
with Caribbean
Community Climate
Change Centre (CCCCC) –
one of the Caribbean
Community’s (CARICOM)
Technical institutions
CARICOM- Regional governing
body comprised of 15 member states
and 5 associate member states

4. Regional Framework
GWP-C WACDEP specifically
aligned with the CARICOM
Regional Framework and
Implementation Plan (IP) for
Achieving Development
Resilient to Climate Change.
Framework and IP
•Developed by the CCCCC
•Approved and adopted by
CARICOM Heads of Government
in 2009 and 2012 respectively

5. To speak to these overarching
Caribbean risk management
frameworks
Mr. Keith Nichols
Project Development Specialist
CCCCC

6. Regional Framework and
Implementation Plan
speaks to inter alia:
• Developing a risk
management ethic
in our decision-
making
• Acting regionally to
deliver nationally

7. Caribbean Climate Risk Management
Framework and Caribbean Climate online
Risk and Adaptation Tool (CCORAL)
Designed to anchor climate resilience building decisions within
Caribbean Ministries of finance and planning, regional and
national financial services organisations but also civil society
organisations, communities and development partners
Phase 1 - a web-based risk management tool to guide decision
making.
Phase 2- in-depth training for country level decision-makers.
Phase 3 will involve detailed risk assessments in selected countries.
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8. Caribbean Risk Screening
Tools CCORAL
• CCORAL - Caribbean
Climate Risk and Adaptation
TooL
• Developed by CCCCC
• Caribbean-specific
web-based platform.
• Screen policies, legislation,
plans, budgets and projects
to assess climate risks and
to identify options to enhance
climate resilience.
http://ccoral.caribbeanclimate.bz/

9. WACDEP
CCORAL- Water
• Enhancing CCORAL – the Caribbean
Climate Online Risk and Adaptation TooL
• Toolbox content enhanced
• Knowledge products
• Sourcebook for climate resilience in the
Caribbean water sector
• Information briefs
•

10. Enhancing Online
CCORAL for Water
Collated tools and case studies relevant
to climate resilience in the water sector
• Outputs from past regional initiatives,
tools + case studies
• SIDS specific water management
tools (e.g. work carried out by
SOPAC)
• International tools and guidance (e.g.
GWP Toolbox, World Bank, UNDP)
• Fit into the existing online risk
assessment framework

11. Sourcebook &
Information Briefs
• Designed for water sector planners
and decision makers, requires cross
sector stakeholder engagement
• Provides tools, examples and
signposts further resources
• Encourages a questioning mode
and risk management approach,
provides tools to help resolve
context specific issues (how, not
what)
Sourcebook foreword written by the Secretary
General of CARICOM

12. CCORAL Water
• CCORAL-Water Initiative Completed March 2014
• Promoting and utilising outputs for other WACDEP components
• Regional cooperation- coordination meetings with regional
partners and allies (Barbados April 2014)
• Capacity building: Water and climate change training events/training
manuals/online training
• National policy meetings and stakeholder consultations
• Higher level fora- High level session of Ministers responsible for Water

13. CCORAL Water Products
WACDEP Knowledge and awareness activities
Caribbean Water and
Climate online knowledge
platform! Newly launched
(Wednesday this week!)
http://www.gwp.org/en/Caribbean-Water-and-Climate-Knowledge-Platform/
Documents are available
online on the platform
but please pick up usb drives
tonight at the CP dinner

14. Risk Management approach in
all WACDEP Work Packages
• Project Preparation and Financing
• Demonstration Projects
• National Plans, Policies and Strategies
• Regional Cooperation in Water
Management
• No/Low Regret Investments in
Regional and National Development
• Focus this presentation on CCORAL
Water and our work with CCCCC

15. Thanks!