Workshop 7: Building Partnerships and Alliances to Scale Up Climate-smart and Adaptation Solutions in the Caribbeanat The Caribbean-Pacific Agri-Food Forum 2015 (CPAF2015) taking place 2-6 November in Barbados with support from the Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy programme, organized in partnership with the Barbados Agricultural Society (BAS) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). http://www.cta.int/en/news/caribbean-pacific-agri-food-forum.html

1. Facilitating climate-smart
adaptation through the use
of Participatory three-
dimensional mapping
Neila Bobb-Prescott BSc. BSc.MSc.

2. Content
 What is participatory three-dimensional modelling (P3DM)?
 Brief review of its evolution in the Caribbean region
 Case study: P3DM supports the implementation of Ecosystem-based
Adaptation in Telescope, Grenada
 Impact of hurricane Ivan
 The building of the model
 The results
 Benefits of P3DM to action on climate change in the region
 Points to consider

3. What is participatory three-dimensional
modelling (P3DM)?
 P3DM consists of a community-based mapping method which
integrates local spatial knowledge with data on land elevations
and sea depth to produce stand-alone, scaled and geo-
referenced relief models.
 Its core objective is to add value to traditional knowledge and
facilitate grassroots influence in policy-making.

4.  Once the model is completed, a geo-referenced grid is
applied on the model to facilitate data extraction and/or
import, digitisation and plotting.
 The possibility of exporting to and importing data from GIS
provides a bridge between technical and community-
generated knowledge

5. Brief review of its evolution in the Caribbean
region
 Four models previous to 2012: Guyana and Haiti
 2012 CTA intervention: The model of the entire island of
Tobago
 8 other models built in the region since 2012 (5 direct
beneficiaries of the CTA 2012 intervention)
 6 models were built to advise on action for climate change

6. The island of Tobago
To make local and traditional knowledge and values more
recognized and more authoritative in decision making about
climate change adaptation in the Caribbean region

7. Union Island, SVG
To document, share, and combine traditional and other forms of
knowledge to identify the risks from climate change and extreme
climate events and to recommend the adaptation policies and
actions required.

8. Telescope, Grenada
To document, share, and combine traditional and other forms of
knowledge to identify the risks from climate change and extreme
climate events and to recommend the adaptation policies and
actions required.

9. Roxborough, Tobago
Using P3DM, to support the development of climate change
strategies and policies

10. St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Using P3DM to facilitate discussion on planning for storm
surges using 25, 50 and 100 yr projections

11. Soufriere-Scott’s Head, Gallion area,
Dominica
Spatial planning to improve resilience to climate change and
extreme events in the Soufriere-Scott’s Head, Gallion area in
Dominica

12. Case study: P3DM supports the implementation
of Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Telescope,
Grenada

13. Impact of hurricane Ivan

14. The Building of the model
 Partners:
The Grenada Fund for Conservation Inc. (GFC)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
 The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
approximately 400 persons from the communities and
key decision makers.
 The model was used to identify risk from climate change
and extreme climate events and to make
recommendations to deal with the risk
 The model’s construction built on the efforts of TNC’s At
the Water’s Edge (AWE) climate change resilience
initiative

15. Executive Director of GFC, Tyrone Buckmire, said that the
model “helped crystallize what needed to be done”

16. Results
 GFC, with the assistance of TNC, have sourced nearly
USD 200,000 to fund restoration of the entire coastline in
the Grenville area but USD 300,000,000 is still needed
Reef and mangrove restoration
 Contributions to improving regional capacity in the
practice of P3DM

17. Benefits of P3DM to action on climate change
in the region
 Allows local communities to participate in decision-making
 Helps to identify on-the-ground action as well and priority
policies
 Brings relevant knowledge – both traditional and indigenous –
into consideration when decisions are being made on climate
change

18.  Increases the capacity of community groups (e.g. increased
knowledge about climate change impacts and adaptation,
event management, access to financial resources and
training with external entities)
 Builds buy-in for plans for action on climate change
 Facilitates coordination and collaboration among sectors

19. Keys points to consider
 The practice should be facilitated by an entity with ia strong
capacity for event management, member of a network of
partners that are able to contribute to effective analysis and
planning on climate change
 The practice to be most effective must build on a process of
participatory needs analysis.

20.  The practice needs more effort exerted:
 in communication (so more can know about the benefits of its
use);
 in documentation ( so lessons learned and experiences are
recorded); and
in data extraction ( so the data is portable and available to
stakeholders external to the site).

21. Thank you….
Participation sponsored by the CTA