USD 13.4 million
Jeffrey Bowyer (Mr)
Senior Climate Change Specialist
Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
Climate Change, Resilience and Environment Cluster
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Trina Mari Raymundo Samia (Ms)
Associate Financing Partnerships Officer
Partner Funds Division
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Chloë Horne (Ms)
Deputy Director, Multilateral UN & IFIs
Development Cooperation and Africa Division
Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland
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The Ireland Trust Fund for Building Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Small Island Developing States (BCCDR), is a single-partner trust fund that aims to help increase the resilience of small island developing states (SIDS) to disasters caused by natural hazards, and to the impacts of climate change. This fund also aims to help increase investments in climate change mitigation and adaptation among the SIDS.
Government of Ireland
Funding Type
Monitoring and Reporting Procedures
Project implementation, supervision, and monitoring will be conducted by user departments following ADB’s standard policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Eligibility Criteria
The fund finances or cofinances projects and technical assistance, grants, direct charges, and any activities that advance the interest of the SIDS’ climate change and disaster resilience, as well as Ireland's international development priorities.
Specifically, the fund supports projects in the areas of:
- climate change adaptation
- disaster resilience
- disaster preparedness and management
- capacity building
- regulatory and legislative reforms
The fund supports developing institutional arrangements for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management, which include increasing resilience and awareness among schools, communities, and government agencies. These activities may come in forms of capacity building workshops and supporting local governments in establishing climate-ready and DRR-ready legislations and regulations.
Eligible Countries
ADB's 16 SIDS: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.