About the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR)

The $1.2 billion Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding mechanism under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF)https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/, and is helping developing countries integrate climate resilience into development planning and investment. It is the world’s largest climate change adaptation fund.

The PPCR has a two phase programmatic approach:

1. It assists national governments in integrating climate resilience into development planning across sectors and stakeholder groups.
2. It provides additional funding to put these plans into action and to pilot innovative public and private sector solutions to pressing climate-related risks.

To date, $939 million (about 80% of PPCR funding) has been approved and is being utilised to implement 58 projects in a range of countries. The PPCR is working at the national level in 27 countries (including five in the Caribbean) and at the regional level in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

About the Caribbean Regional Track of the PPCR

The Caribbean Regional Track of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in the Caribbean is one of two regional tracks of the global PPCR.

 The Caribbean Regional Track is working to:

• Improve regional processes to acquire, store, analyse, access and disseminate climate relevant data, and
• Pilot and scale up innovative climate resilient initiatives in the region.

The Regional Track is coordinated by the Mona Office for Research and Innovation at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, Jamaicahttps://www.mona.uwi.edu/mori/. The Programme Management Unit is located at UWI, Mona. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)http://www.iadb.org/en/inter-american-development-bank,2837.html, as an accredited implementing entity of the CIF, is supervising the implementation of theUS$10.39 million PPCR grant between 2015 and 2020.

The Caribbean Regional Track is working with five regional organisations to implement the programme’s  components and sub-components.

Projects

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