GWP was commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank to design the Green Climate Fund (GCF) ‘ Climate Resilience of the Water Sector in the Bahamas’ project.

GWP services to the project include feasibility studies, design, costing, financial and economic analysis, environmental and social assessments and preparing the Funding Proposal for submission to GCF.  The project comprises 3 components:

• support to improve water resources monitoring, assessment and decision making, including development of a decision support system
• governance and policy improvements, including legal and regulatory reforms, establishing a national water resources agency and water utility regulator, establishing a national ‘Integrated Water Resource Management’ vision and planning, coordination and implementation arrangements, and drafting a new national water policy
• a programme of climate adaptation infrastructure works to increase the resilience of the national water utility’s water source and supply assets.

Developing the climate adaptation infrastructure programme required national and regional climate analysis.  GWP looked specifically at a) multi-criteria analysis for climate vulnerability to identify 7 priority islands, and b) identification and prioritisation of infrastructure components through national and local stakeholder engagement, site visits and climate change risk assessments for more than 30 water supply systems.