Book Description

The objective of the Project is to facilitate the creation of an enabling environment in the small islands and coastal developing states of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) for climate change adaptation. Change of recipient and project implementing agency from CARICOM to the Caribbean Community Centre for Climate Change (CCCCC) which is strategically located in Belize. Under the restructured Project, the new implementing agency, the CCCCC, will be performing a restructured set of key activities for the Project which are derived from the activities performed by the former implementing agency and additionally will continue the execution of the existing Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with the following institutions: 1) University of West Indies at Mona; 2) University of West Indies at St Augustine; 3) Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH); 4) the Centre for Marine Sciences (CMS); and 5) Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA). These institutions are currently carrying out activities for the project as it is described in the original grant agreement. It is not expected that the scope and number of activities to be carried out by these parties in the new MOUs will change.