UN Environment
Strategic Plan for Grand Anse Bay, Grenada and Windward, Carriacou
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Grenada
The programme Building Capacity for Coastal Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), is a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – DEVCO Strategic Cooperation Agreement, funded by the European Commission. The overall goal is to strengthen the climate change resilience and adaptive capacity of SIDS, which have high dependence on coastal ecosystems. UNEP implemented this project in Grenada in collaboration with the Government and AAE.
Main Tasks
- asks: Undertake mapping of biophysical conditions, and determine natural resource availability, consumption rates and user groups; as well as an economic valuation of the ecosystem services around Grand Anse Bay, Grenada and Bay a L’eau, Windward, Carriac
- Undertake analysis of stakeholder needs regarding the use of the natural resource, as well as any existing governance structures determining resource use;
- Develop a GIS database and spatial maps;
- Develop a draft Local Area Management Plan;
- Obtain broader stakeholder feedback on the Local Area Management Plan using national and local media as well as consultative workshops;
- Finalize and present for government adoption a local area management plan.
Main Outputs
- Collect and analyse available spatial and other data for the pilot sites with the view of identifying the natural, economic and social assets contained therein;
- Prepare a series of GIS based spatial maps for the two Pilot Sites;
- Develop local area management plan for Grand Anse Bay, Grenada and Bay a L’eau, Windward, Carriacou Pilot Sites.
- Spatial mapping of Grand Anse Bay, Grenada and Bay a L’eau, Windward, Carriacou for improved adaptation planning.
AAE´s team included GIS and Remote Sensing experts, anthropologists with expertise in management plans and geographers.