UNDP pumps $9.3 million into climate change adaptation
06 Jan 2010, 6:26 PM
Mazin Rafeeq
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has begun recruiting staff for a $9.3 million climate change adaption project in conjunction with the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Transport.
The UNDP’s “vision” was to have “a community enabled deal which addresses climate change impact,” said Mohamed Inaz, the UNDP’s assistant resident representative of environment and energy.
“Currently the ministry is in the process of recruiting. They need project staff who can address and implement the different issues,” he said.
The four year project, which was signed early in December and will run until March 2014, is intended to “integrate climate change risks into resilient island planning in the Maldives”. The project is the result was the result of a national adaptation program of action (NAPA) study completed in 2008, which attempted to identify activities that would assist a country to adapt to climate change.
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