Inception Report - CDEMA

Islands and Trinidad and Tobago. It has 501(c) (3) status in the United States and charitable status in Trinidad
and Tobago. The legal governing body is a Board of Directors. Elected Board members hold the positions of
Chair, Treasurer and Secretary.
CANARI’s mission is to promote equitable participation and effective collaboration in managing the natural
resources critical to development. CANARI seeks to achieve its mission through:
applied and action research on, and analysis, monitoring and evaluation of, innovative policies,
institutions and approaches to participation and governance in natural resource management;
sharing and dissemination of lessons learned, including capacity building; and
fostering partnerships, particularly those that build on regional assets and talents and contribute to
closer regional cooperation.
CANARI’s currently works through four thematic programmes: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction;
Civil Society and Governance; Forests and Livelihoods; and Coastal and Marine Governance and Livelihoods.
Key cross-cutting areas of work include community-based tourism, sustainable consumption and production,
gender and natural resource management, communication and communication research, and the development
and application of innovative tools for participatory natural resource management.
Under its Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Programme, CANARI has implemented the following
projects:
a) a research project on climate change and biodiversity in Caribbean islands, which sought to establish
what is already known about the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and to identify what are the
gaps, including those related to poor understanding of the issues both by policy makers and the general
public (see http://www.canari.org/ccddr1.asp for more information);
b) facilitation of a regional workshop for Commonwealth Foundation entitled Enhancing the role of civil
society in raising awareness and building capacity for adaptation to climate change, which brought
together civil society organisations, media professionals and performance artists, and subsequently
catalysed a whole range of spin-off activities at the national level in the participating countries (see
http://www.canari.org/ccddr2.asp).
c) development of climate change informational materials for different audiences in the UK Overseas
Territories for the Joint Nature Conservation committee (see http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-4374)
d) support to Christian Aid on its Caribbean Climate Change Strategy focusing on Jamaica, Haiti and
Dominican Republic (http://www.canari.org/ta_ccdr_pg2.asp).
e) a toolkit for grass roots organisations on Communicating Climate Change, produced with funding from
the Commonwealth Foundation (see http://www.canari.org/documents/
CommunicatingclimatechangeAtoolboxforlocalorgansationspdf.pdf
f) An assessment of the impacts of climate change on community-based sustainable use of forest
resources in the Caribbean under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Caribbean
Regional Unit for Technical Assistance (CARUTA) project.
4.2 Implementation of the sub-project
The consultancy under this sub-project will be implemented by a team of the three CANARI Associates who
have been the most involved in the implementation of the projects listed under 4.1 above and who will perform
the following functions:
Sarah McIntosh: Project Leader; Communication, Training and Awareness Specialist; co-author of
Module and Handbooks; facilitator of Trinidad community workshop and co-facilitator of Training of
Trainers workshop.
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