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The PACC will implement long-term adaptation measures to increase the resilience of a number of key development sectors in the Pacific islands to the impacts of climate change. This objective will be achieved by focusing on long-term planned adaptation response strategies, policies and implementation measures to bring about this result. The key development sectors this project will focus on are water resources management; food production and food security; coastal zone and associated infrastructure (roads and breakwater). To ensure sustainability of the project, regional and national adaptation financing instruments will also be developed.

These Administrative Procedures are intended as a guide to assist National Co-ordinators and others responsible for the management and administration of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change project (PACC). They have been developed to assist with the effective implementation and promote on-going efficiency for the Programme. They are intended to supplement, rather than replace, established national procedures in each participating country.

Report from the PACC executive meeting

The projects major results achieved during the quarter include an increase in inter‐collaborative effort at the pilot level to carry out vulnerability and adaptation (V&A) assessments as a result of the project. The use of participatory community engagement consultations have seen an increase in number of women and children consulted in the assessment stage of the project in Tonga and Samoa. A significant number of women a real so members of national Steering Committees and Core Technical Teams of PACC spear heading work at the pilot sites. Through joint consultation with the communities, clear indications of activities and responsibilities have been mapped out.

A strategic focus for the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project in 2010 was to enhance project implementation capacity at all levels from the regional to the country level in particular delivering on the three main components1 of the project and overall project management. Such a direction was given to the SPREP Regional Project Management Unit (RPMU) and UNDP by the PACC Project Board at its August 2010 meeting.

Report from the PACC project