Implementing Agency: UNEP
LDCF Project Grant: 1,635,000 USD
In July 2011, with support from UNEP, Cambodia accessed LDCF resources through the project “Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Programme for Climate Change within the Coastal Zone of Cambodia Considering Livelihood Improvement and Ecosystems”, which addresses urgent and immediate needs for adaptation identified by NAPA. The coastal zone plays an important role in Cambodia’s development, and the project aims to increase the resilience of natural ecosystems (such as mangrove forests) along the coast. To reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities, the following outcomes will be delivered through the project:
- Strengthening of institutional capacity to assess climate risks and integrate them into national development policies
- Improving adaptation planning in coastal zone
- Reducing vulnerability of productive systems to floods
- Increasing resilience of coastal buffers to climate change, and improve livelihoods through concrete ecosystem based adaptation measures