Group photograph of attendees, including senior officials on the Ministry of Planning and Development

Inception Workshop for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Project entitled “Improving the monitoring system for climate change impacts on the agriculture sector in Trinidad and Tobago”

The Ministry of Planning and Development and the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) hosted an Inception workshop for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) project entitled “Improving the monitoring system for climate change impacts on the agriculture sector in Trinidad and Tobago”, on the 6^th February, 2020 , at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.  This project is one of Trinidad and Tobago’s two (2) Readiness GCF projects that were approved by the GCF Secretariat. This project is for the duration of 18 months for the sum of $USD260,000.00 and will focus on building climate change resilience in the agricultural sector through: 

1. Developing a framework for collection and analysis of agricultural and associated activity data that includes food import dependency, and hydrological and meteorological data that allows for visualization, and assessment of greenhouse gas emissions as well as to allow for reporting of gender sensitive climate impacts on agriculture and food systems; and
2. Building the capacity of key stakeholders to use agricultural, hydrological and meteorological data to improve resilience to climate change, including through the development of mobile phone applications. 

The project will therefore build a solid framework through the collection and analysis of agricultural and associated activity data that can then form the basis of more robust and comprehensive project proposals for funding under the GCF targeting the agriculture sector. 

The Inception workshop brought together a range of stakeholders in the agriculture sector to launch the project, share information on the proposed workplan and to raise awareness on the GCF and some of its processes. Going forward it is proposed to involve as many agriculture groups and stakeholder that can benefit from this project to further builds the country’s resilience to climate change. 

(L-R): Ms. Neila Bobb-Prescott (FAO), Ms. Beena Ramkissoon (Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries), Ms. Candace Leung Woo-Gabriel (Ministry of Planning and Development), and Ms. Martina Duncan (FAO).

Cross section of participants