The CREWS Pacific SIDS project’s objective is to scale up people-centered and end-to-end multi-hazard early warning systems across the region building on outcomes, results and lessons learnt from CREWS investments phase 1 and 2. Over the next four years, this USD 5.6 million project will strengthen resilience across 14 Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS), home to more than 2.3 million people.
People living in the 14 Pacific SIDS will benefit from early warning services, technical assistance and capacity building programs. The project will contribute to increasing access to early warnings and seasonal predictions in the region, and further avert, minimize and address loss and damage to climate shocks. The project supports the Weather Ready Pacific (WRP) programme and will benefit from joint programming with WRP at technical and steering committee levels, and joint country missions, while also contributing to aligned monitoring and evaluation efforts.
The project will leverage USD 200 million in additional funding in the region, either through direct programming support, scaling-up or by ensuring coherence and alignment with ongoing or planned investments. These include, inter-alia, relevant programs funded by the GCF, and in particular the pipeline in the region of GCF/SAP-CREWS Scaling-up projects, the EC funded CLIMSA programme, SOFF, the Australia Climate and Oceans Support Program, the ongoing CREWS EW4ALL multi-country accelerator project and the CREWS Pacific Drought project currently under preparation.
We are also very grateful for the support provided by Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Weather Ready Pacific Coordinator in the project preparation.
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