Philippine Climate Change Adaptation Project (PhilCCAP): Strengthening Climate Change Resilience Through Improved Watershed and Coastal Resource Management

Project title: Philippine Climate Change Adaptation Project (PhilCCAP): Strengthening Climate Change Resilience Through Improved Watershed and Coastal Resource Management
Origin of Funding: WB - Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
Detailed project description:
The Philippine Climate Change Adaptation Project or PhilCCAP (Component 2) provides the opportunity to reexamine and update the planning and management framework of two protected landscapes and seascapes, considering climate change challenges and their potential impacts on the human-ecological system within the protected areas (PAs). Incorporating resiliency and adaptation variables in PA planning and management will improve overall PA management performance and ultimately sustain environmental services. This project also seeks identify cost-effective strategies that will enable target communities to adapt to the potential impacts of climate variability and change; strengthen the capacity of national and local government agencies responsible for PA management; and demonstrate how to measure tangible reduction in climate related risks and increased resilience to longer-term climate changes and climate related disasters.
OIDCI as the lead firm provides overall management and supervision of the project activities.
Its Technical Assistance Team provide leadership in the development of appropriate vulnerability assessment (VA) tools and in the training of stakeholders in the application of the VA tool and on various assessments (biodiversity, ecosystems, socio-economic and livelihoods) that are to provide inputs to the updating of the PA management plans. The vulnerability assessments will be the basis for adaptation measures that will be integrated into PA management plans and will be piloted in the two sites for a period of one year.
Training and mentoring of field staff will also cover alternative financing schemes, financial management and business planning to improve the financial sustainability of these protected areas. An M and E scheme that will allow PA management to track their progress and measure tangible results in terms of reducing climate related risks will also be developed and field tested.
OIDCI is expected to provide a full documentation of the planning and piloting processes undertaken for scaling up in other PAs.