CCS highlights community involvement in Chuuk State proposal for Green Climate Fund

Members of the Oneisomw Resource Management Committee
at a planning session held at the L5 Hotel in 2018. 

The Chuuk Overseas Development Office (ODA), with support from a working group assigned by the honorable Governor Johnson S. Elimo, is in the process of packaging project ideas as part of an FSM wide proposal to be submitted to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Chuuk State has been invited to package community and infrastructure development projects with the aim to enhance coastal areas and build adaptive capacities to impacts of climate change in Chuuk within a 20 million dollars funding ceiling.
As a member organization in the Chuuk GCF working group, the Chuuk Conservation Society spearheaded collective efforts by a number of civil organizations with the aim to ensure grass-root involvement in the project concept development process to compliment plans primarily formulated through agency-based work and less connected to community participation. As a result of this civil society collaboration, around 14 community-based projects are being proposed for funding from GCF through the FSM and Chuuk State governments for an amount of 2 million dollars. These requests are subject to review and approval from the GCF working group and ODA office in Chuuk. The selected community projects are based on interaction between CCS and the other community groups including the following: Society for Historic Investigation and Preservation (SHIP); Nukanap Community (Sapuk, Weno); Mwan Village SOUAK (Weno Island); Sapo, Oror, Ununo (SOU) Conservation -- Fefen Island; UFO Conservation Society -- Fefen Island; Nukuno Community Organization (NCO) -- Tonoas Island; Tiun Marine Protected Area-- Parem Island; Oneisom Resource Management Committee (ORMC) -- Oneisom Island; and Epin Village Community -- Paata Island.
CCS and the Chuuk Department of Marine Resources are jointly proposing marine intervention for the Wichukuno Marine Protected Area, the Pianu Pass and associated reefs; the Northeast Pass and associated reefs; and the Kuop Atoll marine ecosystem.
The project ideas have been provided to the ODA Office with courtesy copies made to the Governor's Office, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
It is hope that these projects will be approved at State level and merit inclusion in FSM Proposal to the GCF in order to enhance community resilience against climate hardship and challenges throughout the Nation.