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Pacific Conservation Database

Local Early Action Planning in Micronesia

PIRT Member organisations

The Nature Conservancy (TNC)

Other partner organisations

Micronesia Conservation Trust
Yap Women’s Association
Chuuk Women’s Council
Pohnpei Women’s Council
Kosrae Women’s Association

Countries of implementation

Palau, Federated States of Micronesia

About

In Micronesia, TNC continued to help women’s groups implement adaptation strategies identified in their climate vulnerability assessments and action plans, including planting lemongrass and food crops in areas vulnerable to erosion, switching to dry litter piggeries to reduce sedimentation impacting coastal ecosystems, and protecting and restoring important coastal fisheries such as giant clams, mangrove clams and sea cucumbers. Recognizing the success we have had partnering with women’s groups, we are upscaling to work with 36 women’s groups in the FSM and ROP (with plans to expand to RMI, pending grant approval) to build their capacity to implement NbS to climate change in their communities. Due to the role women play in feeding their family most concerns from the women’s groups are centered around food security and how to diversify crops to improve resilience.

Framework Action Tracks

01 – Our people at the centre of conservation action, 05 – Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to sustain our social-ecological systems, 18 – Preventing terrestrial, freshwater and marine pollution (non-plastic)

Status

Ongoing

The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation (PIRT) is supported by the Pacific BioScapes Programme.

The Pacific BioScapes Programme is a European Union (EU) funded action, managed and implemented by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
The Programme contributes to the sustainable development of Pacific Small Island Developing States through the implementation of 30 focused activities taking place across a diversity of ecosystems in 11 countries (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu) that will address critical issues concerning coastal and marine biodiversity, and ecosystem-based responses to climate change adaptation.
For more information, please visit: www.sprep.org/bioscapes

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