Belize and Trinidad and Tobago, like other vulnerable Small Island Developing States (SIDS), face disproportionate risks from climate change. Rising sea levels, extreme weather events, tropical cyclones, floods, heat waves and droughts increasingly threaten people’s lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and critical economic sectors. These hazards, such as coastal erosion, water insecurity, loss of agricultural productivity, damage to critical infrastructure, and heightened disaster recovery costs, exacerbate existing vulnerabilities and threaten to reverse development gains.

This project will strengthen hydrometeorological and early warning services in Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, and the broader Caribbean region by achieving three complementary outcomes. Outcomes 1 and 2 focus on building the technical and institutional foundation for effective early warning by improving governance, infrastructure, and forecasting capabilities while enhancing resilience across key sectors. Outcome 3 focuses on improving risk communication and preparedness at the community level, ensuring that timely, actionable climate and weather information reaches vulnerable populations.

Collectively, the outcomes create a catalytic pathway to support data-informed decision-making, institutional capacity-building, and locally driven climate action, enabling a paradigm shift towards more anticipatory, inclusive and resilient climate adaptation systems. The project is anticipated to have a strong impact, directly benefitting 1.2 million people (67 per cent of the two countries’ populations) and an additional 610,000 indirectly across the wider Caribbean.

The project is being advanced under a new Scaling Up Framework between the GCF Simplified Approval Process (SAP) and the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative, which aims to develop, scale up and fast-track financing modalities for EWS, firmly grounded in country ownership. The project will scale up and expand on the outcomes of Phase 1 of the 2018 CREWS Caribbean initiative.

Scaling up of Caribbean Hydrometeorological and Multi-hazard Early Warning Services (CREWS) in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago

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Gender action plan for SAP063: Scaling up of Caribbean Hydrometeorological and Multi-hazard Early Warning Services (CREWS) in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago

Project

Belize

Trinidad and Tobago

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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.

Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

Risk is the potential for adverse consequences resulting from the dynamic interplay between (climate-related) hazards, exposure, and vulnerability of affected human or ecological systems.

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

A set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.

Justice is the ethical and political framework that addresses fairness, including issues of responsibility, rights, and structural inequity.

Renewable energy means all forms of energy produced from renewable sources in a sustainable manner.

Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, fossil gas, and oil (including crude oil, and petroleum products), that can be used for electricity and heat generation. Fossil fuels are hydrocarbons formed from pressurised and heated organic material buried over millions of years.

Molecules in the atmosphere that play a key role in the greenhouse effect by trapping heat radiating from Earth’s surface.

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

In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate change and its effects, in order to moderate harm, increase resilience or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual climate change and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate change and its effects.

The management and allocation of funds, assets and investments to meet various objectives

An integrated system of hazard monitoring, forecasting and prediction, that enables individuals, communities, governments, businesses and others to take timely action to reduce disaster risks in advance of hazardous events.

Financial actors and resources that are primarily directed towards climate change mitigation, adaptation and compensation.

Dedicated pool of financial resources for climate-related projects.

Either money or something of monetary value is transferred between two or more organisations, people or countries.

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.

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

Actions and measures to adapt and increase resilience of societies and the economy to climate change.

Social inclusion is the process of improving the terms on which individuals and groups take part in society—improving the ability, opportunity, and dignity of those disadvantaged on the basis of their identity.

People with different national or cultural traditions from the dominant population

Social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced

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

woman and genders outside of the gender binary

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Activities that involve the cultivation of crops and raising of livestock for food, fibre, and other products essential for human life and industry.

the fair distribution of risks and opportunities of climate change and the transition to a regenerative economy, cognisant in particular of disproportionate impacts on vulnerable communities and the working class

Procedural justice means ensuring that decision making is safe, transparent and inclusive, emphasizing the agency and influence of vulnerable groups and those most impacted.

Gender action plan for SAP063: Scaling up of Caribbean Hydrometeorological and Multi-hazard Early Warning Services (CREWS) in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago

Target

Policy instrument

Impacted group

Just transition

Climate justice

Economic sector

Adaptation/resilience

Finance