Progress report for
A corporate programme of the GEF implemented by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Achievement at a glance
The SIDS CBA project is on-track with a 90% grant commitment rate. To date, SIDS CBA has funded 142 community-led projects that increase the resilience of over 300 communities to the impacts of climate change and its variability. As a response to the site-specific climate change-induced threats, the core activities of the completed projects in 2016 promoted sustainable land restoration, mangrove reforestation and water resource management. As such, the effectiveness of ecosystem services have increased and resulted to agricultural and fisheries reliability, food and water security, improved nutrition and well-being as well diversified income-generation activities.Challenges faced in implementation
There were slow programming countries in the Pacific region. Namely, these countries are Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu (under the Fiji sub-region as per the SGP structure) and Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau (under the Samoa sub-region as per the SGP structure). These countries faced human resource challenges (low capacities of NGOs/CBOs) and infrastructural issues (SGP offices outside UN premises).Next Steps
The following changes occurred in 2016 aimed at improving the effectiveness of the region’s delivery: (i.) SGP offices in Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu are now hosted with the UN Joint Presence Office; (ii.) Two Regional NGOs have been recruited to fast-track the programming in each of the aforementioned sub-regions.Beneficiaries
142 NGOs/CBOs and over 300 communities in SIDS.