West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project 2

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The development objective of the Second West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project for Ghana, Gambia, The Guinea-Bissau, Stateless is to strengthen the resilience of targeted communities and areas in coastal Western Africa. The project comprises of four components. The first component, strengthening regional integration will strengthen effective regional and national coordination of stakeholders, activities, and investments to improve climate resilience in coastal areas in West Africa by harmonizing policies, developing collaborative decision-making support tools, strengthening regional institutional collaboration, and developing new strategic partnerships to scale-up the response to coastal resilience development challenges. It consists of following sub-components: (i) regional strategies, policies, and governance; and (ii) regional technical support for coastal resilience. The second component, strengthening the policy and institutional framework will provide technical and financial support to help countries develop and operationalize the policy frameworks needed to implement integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) plans and land-use strategies, which in turn will support effective management of transboundary coastal ecosystems and marine spatial planning (MSP). The third component, strengthening national physical and social investments will support site-specific grey, green, and or hybrid physical rehabilitation and infrastructure investments in selected areas, and social subprojects at the community level to achieve measurable increases in protection from coastal erosion and flooding, pollution control, waste management, and ecosystem management and restoration. The fourth component, national coordination will strengthen participating countries day-to-day management of the project, including environmental, social, fiduciary, and technical aspects; monitoring and evaluation (M and E); communication and outreach; and the financing of training and operating costs.