Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project (TCAP)

Support for facilitating learning and building knowledge including for generation, dissemination and use, is envisaged in four areas of project activities. The first will target government officials from DLS, PWD and DoE who will receive trainings on synthesis and analysis of beach profile data, coastal protection feasibility assessments, basic maintenance of coastal protection infrastructure, and ecosystem-based coastal protection approaches.<br />
The second area targets students who are currently in a high school or university program so that they will obtain a higher degree in disciplines related to coastal protection such as civic/coastal engineering and oceanography. This programme will be supported only in the first 4 years of the project implementation so that, during the lifecycle of the GCF project, the students supported will have graduated and, as per the scholarship arrangement, come back to Tuvalu to work on the project to apply their knowledge and skills gained. The university partnership will also allow learning and knowledge-generation to be disseminated within and beyond Tuvalu, where academics and students will be invited to conduct research and or field-based studies. Not only will this allow young academics and experts in Tuvalu and in the region to interact with global experts in the field, but also, the knowledge and learning from Tuvalu regarding coastal resilience building can then be shared throughout the world.<br />
The third area of knowledge sharing and learning will take place in the communities targeting both the administrators (the Kaupules and the Falekaupules) and community members. The administrators will gain better understanding about the process for participatory, gender-responsive development planning, budgeting and execution while community members will enhance their awareness about the importance of independent monitoring of the performance of the administrators, judged against the ISP. Officers from the Department of Rural Development will also enhance their knowledge of facilitating community dialogue for development planning as an independent facilitator of the process. In addition, this development dialogue platform will also be used to improve learning among community members about climate risks, the notion of island formulation process and the ecosystem-based adaptation approaches, data collection for coastal monitoring, coastal design options, maintenance responsibilities, and costs.