Project Objective: This grant is fully blended in the IFAD loan entitled, “Post Tsunami Coastal Restoration and Coastal Communities Resource Management Programme.” The long-term goal of the project is to rehabilitate tsunami-affected ecosystems in Sri Lanka to provide full ecosystem services including adaptation against extreme climatic events. The project development objective is to mainstream restoration and management conservation of globally important ecosystems affected by the tsunami into the reconstruction process to support sustainable livelihoods and reduce vulnerability to climate change along the East Coast of Sri Lanka.The project design is founded on overcoming three key barriers to the restoration of coastal ecosystems – that technical knowledge for low-cost restoration methods is not present on the island; that environmental issues have been given low priority during the tsunami relief and reconstruction programme; and that those processes leading
Budget
14,839,365.00 USD
Total Cost of the project
6,919,915 USD
GEF Allocation to project
Partners
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world's poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.
Contacts
Lead Environmental Specialist