With finance provided through the Climate Change Adaptation Least Developed Countries’ Fund window (LDCF), the GEF has approved a project for Liberia titled “Enhancing resilience to climate change impacts in coastal Liberia”.
At three representative sites, LDCF funds will demonstrate how low-cost, low-tech, sustainable measures to adapt to climate change can be successfully implemented in coastal areas in the Liberian context. As a result, three sites will be sustainably protected against sea levels storms and surges, and the concerned communities will be sustainably managing coastal ecosystems.
Gabion groynes and revetments will be complemented by improved planning, participatory monitoring, improved resources management and community maintenance schemes. These three sites will have served as a school of learning for national and county level experts, agencies and decision-makers. An international coastal engineer is needed to provide expert guidance on this aspect of the project.
The project seeks to increase resilience and enhance adaptive capacity to address the additional risks posed by climate change in the coastal regions in Liberia, which will be achieved through three components:
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