The United States government’s US Agency for International Development has launched a series of climate change projects in the Pacific.
USAID has been preparing projects on the ground in twelve countries over the last year, with the aim of complementing existing aid programmes backed by Australia, New Zealand and others.
USAID’s mission director for the Pacific Islands, Gloria Steele, said as part of the Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP), USAID will work with coastal communities ina range of areas.
“To help identify mostly small infrastructure that would need assistance to make them more climate resilient, and working in disaster preparation, prevention and response,” she told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat.
“Finally working with the policy-makers, who make sure that policies incorporate measures that will make communities be more climate-resistant.”
Ms Steele said all of the projects will be done in partnership with the communities, NGOs and the private sector.
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