PACC Samoa: Vital Coast

The Samoa PACC project is working with the government to implement a community-based integrated coastal protection model, to increase the resilience of its coastal communities and infrastructure to the impacts of climate change. The project is working at three sites – Tafitoala village on Upolu and Lefagaoalii and Lalomalava on Savai’i

Activities include re-vegetation of coastal areas, building protection structures, and community awareness, consultations and engagement. A water resource bylaw, linked to their coastal protection programme, has been formulated and endorsed for the village of Tafitoala, providing for enforcement of both water and coastal resource management at the community level by the community themselves.

The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) project is funded by the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and the Australian Government (AusAID), with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as its implementing agency and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) as implementing partner.