En una segunda etapa de la agenda Caribe de resiliencia climática entre el Archipiélago y Barbados, ahora en Providencia se encuentran tres invitados de esta isla hermana, expertos en zonas costeras, dispuestos a compartir con los locales en pro del desarrollo sostenible de la región. Este martes a las 4:00 p.m. se reunirán con los providencianos en la Casa de la Cultura de Town y a partir de este miércoles estarán en San Andrés. (English version below).
Esto se da tras la exitosa misión de representantes de Providencia a esta isla caribeña en el pasado mes de junio para intercambiar conocimientos y experiencias en buenas prácticas para la gestión de la zona costera, en particular erosión costera y erosión de playas, en marco del proyecto ‘Empoderamiento de las mujeres’ que adelanta la fundación Providence, con la subvención de Open Society Foundations (OSF), en asocio con ITACA y GITEC y el apoyo de UNESCO.
Quienes ahora visitan Providencia hasta el 22 de este mes, son Leo Brewster, director de la Unidad de Manejo Integrado de Zonas Costeras en Barbados y dos de sus cercanos colaboradores, Allison Wiggins Lester Toppin y el propósito es continuar fortaleciendo lazos entre estas Islas caribeñas para colaborar en el largo plazo promoviendo el desarrollo sostenible y la resiliencia de las comunidades ante los escenarios actuales de cambio climático.
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ITACA, Providence Foundation, and GITEC-IGIP have been implementing the projects ‘Community Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Plans’ funded by UNESCO and Open Society Foundations and ‘Empowering Women for Climate Justice’ funded by Open Society Foundations OSF, which aims to fill a gap in the current efforts to rebuild the islands of Providence and Santa Catalina after Hurricane IOTA, focusing on community-based approaches to risk and vulnerability reduction, including the development and implementation of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).
The project addresses issues related to coastal management and recognized the opportunity for cooperation and collaboration to improve processes to tackle current and long-term coastal challenges, including climate change.
The purpose of the agenda is to carry out activities between the Caribbean Islands of the San Andres Archipelago and Barbados to build back better and link Providence and Ketlina to the Caribbean climate change agenda so that it can channel critical technical support to strengthen its climate change actions.
The Caribbean Exchange Agenda is an excellent opportunity to resume mutual supporting arrangements between the governments of Colombia (Coralina and local governments) and the Government of Barbados (the Coastal Management Zone Unit -CZMU).
During the visit to Barbados in June 2023 hosted by the CZMU, the partner organizations held meetings with various representatives of the Government of Barbados. The agenda aimed at capacity building and exchange of knowledge through field visits and assessing needs for future collaboration on topics related to integrated coastal management.
The partners are now hosting the CZMU experts in the islands of San Andres and Providence, to support the strengthening of technical-scientific processes to improve the state of marine-coastal resources and mitigate the loss of exosystemic and strategic coastal resources.
Expected outcomes are to create a technical-scientific task force to identify beaches with high, medium, and low erosion in the islands and design a road map to contribute to the construction of the strategy for improving and managing these ecosystems and their ecosystem services.
