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+1 876 948 9014

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fisheries@nfa.gov.jm

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2C Newport East, Kingston, Jamaica

Promoting Community-Based Climate Resilience in the Fisheries Sector

Promoting Community-Based Climate Resilience in the Fisheries Sector

About the Project

The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding mechanism under the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) which is helping developing countries integrate climate resilience into development planning and investment.

The PPCR has a two phase programmatic approach:

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

PPCR funding is being used to implement 55 projects in 17 countries including Jamaica, which is receiving funding as a part of the PPCR for the Caribbean region. To date the PPCR has approved over US$846 million in funding globally.

PPCR PROJECT REPORTS
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OBJECTIVE

The Project objective is to increase the adoption of climate resilient practices among targeted fishing and fish farming communities in Jamaica.

  1. Strengthened and climate-smart fisheries and aquaculture policy and regulatory framework.
  2. Reduced vulnerability of the targeted fishing and fish farming communities to climate shocks.
  3. Diversified and strengthened livelihoods of targeted artisanal fishers and fish farmers.

COMPONENTS

The objectives will be achieved through the following project components:

  1. Strengthening the Fisheries Policy and Regulatory Framework (US$0.57million)
  2. Diversification and Fisheries-based Alternative Livelihoods (US$2.68 million)
  3. Capacity Building and Awareness Raising (US$0.97 million).

Targets

  • 1800 Targeted fishers adopt climate resilient fishing practices.
  • 6 Targeted fisher groups adopt alternative livelihoods.
  • 2 Targeted fish farming groups adopt climate resilient aquaculture practices
  • 25 Share of women among targeted fishing and fish farming groups that adopt alternative livelihoods or climate resilience practices.
  • 17 Marine protected areas under community-led sustainable fisheries management

Project Beneficiaries

The Project is designed to benefit approximately 40,000 people who are directly or indirectly employed in the fisheries sector in Jamaica.

The direct project beneficiaries will be:

  • The fisherfolk who will be supported in their transition to alternative livelihood opportunities.
  • The fisher organizations that provide support to fisher folk and their communities.
  • The institutions with responsibility for community-based fisheries management.

The Project Manager

Selena Ledgister-Kellier

Mrs. Selena Ledgister-Kellier is an Independent Project Consultant with over twenty (20) years of experience specializing in Agriculture and Fisheries Project Management, Quality Assurance and Production Management.

She has successfully led and implemented local and overseas projects, navigating company and governmental hierarchy, building rapport with local and international markets, negotiating, and implementing policy, while utilizing skills in project writing, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluating. She has worked extensively with some of the region’s leading agricultural companies notably with the largest non-profit organization in the Caribbean, to successfully implement programs in Agriculture, Greenhouse, Deep Sea Fishing and Animal Husbandry across the island and the Caribbean region. Her technical consultations with both governmental and private entities have led to the successful development of practical approaches to sustainable land management.

She is a dynamic and results-oriented professional who is well knowledgeable in Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), executive decision-making and policy implementation, which have all been forged within the context of highly respected, local, and international firms. Her passion for global climate change issues in preparing communities of its impact and having worked with  both local and international markets has provided the kinds of perspectives critical for this position.

Selena Ledgister-Kellier (MSc, BSc, ASc)

Consultant Agriculture and Fishing Project Manager

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PROJECT GALLERY

 

The PPCR provides support which helps countries move from a piecemeal, project by project method of building climate resilience to a wider, more comprehensive approach of long-term strategic investments and activities which should facilitate transformational change at the national level and across targeted sectors. To extend the PPCR’s reach beyond national and regional investment plans and to stimulate more private sector participation, concessional financing has been set aside to be awarded on a competitive basis for innovative private sector projects advancing the goals of the PPCR.

Project Funding

The PPCR receives its funding from the Climate Investment Funds, who is in turn funded through contributions from 14 donor countries which have contributed over $8 billion in support to date. The CIF channels its funds through:

  • The African Development Fund
  • The African Development Bank
  • The Asian Development Bank
  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • The Inter-American Development Bank
  • The World Bank

Project Focus

The PPCR will focus on the following areas:

  • Agriculture and Landscape Management
  • Climate Information Systems and Disaster Risk Management

The PPCR provides support which helps countries move from a piecemeal, project by project method of building climate resilience to a wider, more comprehensive approach of long-term strategic investments and activities which should facilitate transformational change at the national level and across targeted sectors.

Countries

There are several countries across the world benefiting from PPCR.

Caribbean region:

  • Dominica
  • Grenada
  • Haiti
  • Jamaica
  • St. Lucia
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines

As well as Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga in the Pacific region, in addition Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Tajikistan, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia.

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