Gender action plan for FP234: Tonga Coastal Resilience

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Tonga Coastal Resilience

Gender assessment for FP234: Tonga Coastal Resilience

2024 Annual Performance Report for FP234: Tonga Coastal Resilience

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Tonga is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including increases in temperature and precipitation, more intense tropical cyclones, and rising sea levels. Extreme events such as Tropical Cyclones Ian in 2014, Gita in 2018, and Harold in 2020, have caused devastating flooding, destruction of physical assets, and substantial economic losses, underscoring the need for immediate and comprehensive climate action. 

To overcome these challenges, this project will drive a transformational shift in coastal adaptation in Tonga, empowering local stakeholders and communities to build a resilient and sustainable future. It will achieve this by establishing a national multi-sectoral platform to integrate climate risk information into local development planning; strengthening local capacities to collect and manage data for coastal adaptation planning; and constructing over four kilometres of sea defences in vulnerable coastal areas. Additionally, the project will address issues such as land-use planning and voluntary retreat to enhance Tonga’s long-term resilience.

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An aim to achieve a quantifiable outcome within a given time-frame, set by an institution such as a national government.

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Groups  of people who are adversely affected by climate change or the response to it

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Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

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People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

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Actions to adapt human health, healthcare systems and well-being to climate change.

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Activities that involve planning, designing and building infrastructure, residential, and commercial structures.

Conditions that enhance the feasibility of adaptation options. Enabling conditions include finance, technological innovation, strengthening policy instruments, institutional capacity, multi-level governance and changes in human behaviour and lifestyles.

Coastal zone and marine-related actions and measures to adapt and increase resilience to climate change

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Dedicated pool of financial resources for climate-related projects.

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Actions or measures to adapt freshwater, coastal and marine systems to climate change.

Zoning and spatial planning are both methods for guiding the distribution of people and activities in a space, and are regulatory restriction.

woman and genders outside of the gender binary

People whose health, both mental and physical, makes them more vulnerable to the effects of climate change

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Gender action plan for FP234: Tonga Coastal Resilience

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Policy instrument

Risk

Impacted group

Just transition

Economic sector

Adaptation/resilience

Finance