The Cook Islands experiences a range of natural hazards, including tropical cyclones, tsunami, floods and droughts. It is increasingly vulnerable to slow and fast-onset events resulting from natural, man-made and climate related hazards such as coastal erosion from sea level rise, ocean acidification, tropical cyclones and drought. In addition, the existing socio-economic, infrastructure and environmental pressures intensify this vulnerability. The outer islands of the Cook Islands (known as Pa Enua) has been challenged to effectively implement disaster risk management, water and food security plans due to limited national coordination frameworks, information gaps, and duplication of effort resulting in poor and/or insufficient early warning systems and coping strategies.

The objective of the programme is to build and implement an integrated approach to further increase the adaptive capacity of remote island communities and ecosystems to disaster risk and climate change impacts. The sub- objectives for the programme are:

  • Strengthening national and local capacity for monitoring and decision making to respond and to reduce risks associated with climate change;
  • Establishing climate resilient water management instruments using integrated and community based approach;
  • Raising awareness and establish a knowledge exchange platform to increase adaptive capacity to revitalise agriculture production systems.

The project consists of three components:

Component 1: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction;
Component 2: Integrated Water Security Management Planning and Implementation;
Component 3: Revitalised agricultural production systems strengthening island food sources and livelihoods in the Pa Enua.

Project Component 1: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction US$ 529,754
Project Component 2: Integrated Water Security Management Planning and Implementation US$ 735,731
Project Component 3: Revitalised agricultural production systems strengthening island food sources and livelihoods in the Pa Enua US$ 1,236,730
Project Execution Cost US$ 262,581
Total Project Cost US$ 2,764,795
Implementing Entity Oversight Costs US$ 234,330
Grant Amount (= Total Project Cost + Implementing Fee)   US$ 2,999,125

 

Project Documents

Attachment Type Size
Project document PDF 3 MB
Inception Report PDF 5 MB
PPR1 (for web) XLSX 233 KB
PPR2 (for web) XLSX 237 KB
Other project order PDF 270 KB
PPR3 (for web) XLSX 244 KB
Project completion report PDF 1 MB