CompletedRegionalSoft
"The Maldives: Leveraging Public Budgets for Coastal Adaptation Projects that include Land Reclamation"
🇲🇻Maldives$3,900,000
Sea Level RiseTropical CycloneErosionFlood
The Maldives case demonstrates how public budgets and land-value creation (through reclamation and urban development) are leveraged to finance coastal adaptation, integrating climate resilience into national budgeting and planning while strengthening institutional capacity to manage long-term adaptation needs.
OngoingCityHybrid
$3M Shorefront Park Living Shoreline Project (Village of Patchogue)
🇺🇸United States (New York)2023$3,000,000
FloodTropical CycloneErosionSea Level Rise
State-supported living shoreline project designed as a replicable nature-based coastal resilience model.
CompletedProvinceHybrid
A small Grants Facility for enabling local-level responses to climate change
🇿🇦South Africa (Limpopo)2015–2021$2,442,682
FloodDroughtTropical Cyclone
This project implemented a small grants facility to empower rural farmers and vulnerable communities in South Africa to identify and implement local-level adaptation responses to climate change. It focused on two pilot districts, Mopani and Namakwa, which are vulnerable to increasing temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, water scarcity, droughts, and storm-related disasters. The facility aimed to increase climate resilience, reduce vulnerability, and protect livelihoods and ecosystems. Key components included providing small grants, building institutional capacity, and sharing lessons learned.
CompletedProvinceHybrid
Aceh Post-Tsunami Integrated Coastal Spatial Planning and Disaster Risk Reduction – Indonesia
🇮🇩Indonesia (Aceh)2005–2012
TsunamiTropical CycloneFloodSea Level Rise
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated Aceh, killing 170,000+. Reconstruction was guided by the principle of 'build back better', with coastal spatial planning integrating hazard zones, development restrictions, and community disaster preparedness. The coastal forest was designated a protected green belt. The reconstruction is considered a landmark global model for post-disaster DRR integration into planning. Source: PreventionWeb / World Bank.
CompletedNationalHybrid
Adapt Between the Flags: Enhancing the capacity of Surf Life Saving Australia to cope with climate change
🇦🇺Australia (New South Wales)2012–2013$525,000
ErosionFloodSea Level RiseTropical Cyclone
This project, titled "Adapt Between the Flags," was a national research and capacity-building initiative designed to help Surf Life Saving Australia manage the risks of sea-level rise and extreme weather. By engaging stakeholders at several pilot sites (Cudgen Headland, Ulverstone, and North Kirra), the project used Systems Thinking and Bayesian modeling to identify whether clubs should defend their current locations, retreat inland, or modify their equipment to maintain rescue services.
CompletedProvinceHybrid
Adaptation in Coastal Zones of Mozambique (LDCF/UNDP)
🇲🇿Mozambique (Sofala)2012–2017$3,700,000
Tropical CycloneFloodSea Level Rise
More than 60% of Mozambique's population lives in coastal areas exposed to destructive maritime hazards, sea level rise, and tropical cyclones. The LDCF project (2012–2017) aimed to break down barriers to inter-sectoral policy coordination, build institutional capacity for coastal adaptation, and establish climate-resilient livelihoods. Protective ecosystems including mangrove swamps, dune systems and coral reefs were identified as critical coastal climate buffers. The Quelimane Coastal City Adaptation Project also restored a protective mangrove layer from 2015. Source: UNDP Evaluation / LDCF.
OngoingProvinceHybrid
Adaptation in the Nile Delta (ECCADP)
🇪🇬Egypt (Kafr El Sheikh)2018–2025$31,300,000
Sea Level RiseErosion
Yes
CompletedCityHybrid
Adaptation Initiative for Climate Vulnerable Offshore Small Islands and Riverine Charland – Bangladesh
🇧🇩Bangladesh (Khulna)2018–2024$25,000,000
Tropical CycloneFloodSea Level Rise
In coastal Bangladesh, women and young volunteers are leading early warning efforts and community response to build lasting climate resilience on climate-vulnerable offshore islands and riverine charland communities. The UNDP project integrates ecosystem-based adaptation, women-led early warning systems, and community DRR planning for the most exposed Bangladesh coastal communities. Source: UNDP Adaptation Portal.
CompletedCityHybrid
Adaptation Measures To Reduce Vulnerability Of Livelihood and Economy Of Coastal Communities In Tanzania
🇹🇿United Republic of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam)2012–2019$5,008,564
FloodSea Level Rise
The project addresses the vulnerability of Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, a coastal metropolis prone to flooding. Sections of the 2.6-km sea wall protecting the commercial, administrative, and industrial center are degraded. Inadequate drainage systems worsen urban flooding and create health hazards. Climate change is expected to exacerbate these threats. The project aims to reduce the negative impacts of sea level rise and changes in precipitation in the Ilala and Temeke Districts. It focuses on protecting coastal infrastructure and settlements, rehabilitating coastal ecosystems, conducting vulnerability and economic assessments, establishing a climate change observatory, building administrative capacity, and developing an Ecosystem-based Integrated Coastal Area Management Plan.
CompletedProvinceHybrid
Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts on the Coastal Wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico
🇲🇽Mexico (Quintana Roo)2009–2015$4,500,000
Sea Level RiseFlood
This project was Mexico's pioneering effort to address the climate-driven threats facing the Gulf of Mexico’s wetlands. These areas are critical to Mexico's economy and environmental health but are increasingly threatened by sea-level rise and salinity changes. The project implemented on-the-ground pilot measures across three high-priority sites — Veracruz, Tabasco, and Quintana Roo — to test nature-based solutions like mangrove reforestation and hydrological restoration. The results provided the technical and economic evidence needed for Mexico to incorporate coastal adaptation into its national development programs and water resource strategies, ensuring that the "natural infrastructure" of the Gulf remains intact as a buffer against a changing climate.
