Yap Media's Island Chat interviews FSM Govt's DEPT of ECCEM Adaptation Fund Aired March 25 2019 скачать в хорошем качестве

Yap Media's Island Chat interviews FSM Govt's DEPT of ECCEM Adaptation Fund Aired March 25 2019

This is an interview between Martina Reichardt and the AF team, which was led by DECEM Secretary Andrew R. Yatilman and staffed by AF Project Manager Richard Moufa, AF-R2R Communications Officer Kikuo H. Apis and Yap Operations and Finance Officer Noel Yagisemal. The AF project thanks Yap Media's Island Chat and Miss Reichardt. "The active participation of the community will be needed for the success of the project" "The FSM government will do its part. " -The Honorable DECEM Secretary Andrew R. Yatilman Following is an overview of the project. FSM’s Adaptation Fund project – creating resilience: The “Enhancing the Climate Change Resilience of Vulnerable Island Communities in the Federated States of Micronesia” project is funded by the Adaptation Fund (AF) at USD 9 million over a period of four years from 2019 to 2023 and executed by the FSM Department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management (DECEM) in partnership with state governments. The activities of the project will be implemented in Pohnpei on Kapingamarangi and Nukuoro, in Yap on Woleai and Eauripik, in Chuuk on Satawan and Lukunor, and in Kosrae in Malem and Utwe municipalities. One focus of the project is to develop a legislation draft and policy paper to strengthen the concerted effort to manage coastal and water resources as a whole of country response to climate change. Additionally, the project will focus on encaging the target community population in actively involve community members in the orientation on climate change, sea level rise, vulnerable and adaptive capacity measures involving water, health, sanitation and environment on the islands. This includes hands on training on repairing of existing household rainwater harvesting systems and establishing maintenance support plans and educating all members of the community will assist in expanding and maintaining good supply of drinking water that will prove useful during drought periods. Saving water and promoting health and sanitation habits is an adaptation strategy that the project will apply at the individual and household level that is very much required and will become useful when impacts of climate change are at its worse. The project will target the younger generation to build this habit and impact behavioural change. As such, the installation of self-composting toilets aims to promote water conservation, improve health and sanitation, as well as improve the island environment, through a significant reduction in pollution of the water ways and reefs. It will demonstrate the construction of self-composting toilets at schools and other community infrastructure such as community halls or church buildings. The repair and construction of the water tanks and self-composting toilets will be carried out by community members (man, woman and youth) and supervised by experts and community leaders. This will provide the sense of ownership by the community and encouraged the traditional way of single economic unit or working together to meet their other needs. Systemically, the project will invest in climate resilient municipality development plans that will address sustainability in responding to climate change during and beyond the life of the project. The project will ensure linkages of these community development plans to state plans relative to water and or coastal and marine management. Additionally, the plans will link to the national climate change policy. It will set realistic goals that are achievable with support of development partners and secure political will and commitment of local municipality, state and national governments.