Building Resilience to Global Risks: NAP Global Network Progress Report 2019-2020

Impacts in Brief: Four in-country support programs
Colombia pilots an early warning
system (EWS) for water
Fiji implements nature-based
solutions prioritized by the NAP
CHANGE IN KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE
Developing early warning systems is one of the activities prioritized in the water
sector adaptation plan. Through our support program for Colombia, the town of
Guatavita piloted an early warning system to help prevent heavy rains and drought
from negatively impacting household water supplies and sewage systems in order to
prepare the town for climate change.
If this EWS can be scaled up in the future, the pilot showed that it will help ensure
access to clean water and improve quality of life in the town of Guatavita and other
Colombian communities that build on this pilot.
CHANGE IN POLICY
Our in-country program provided the technical and financial support for Fiji to develop
and launch their first NAP in 2018. The Network continued to provide support as Fiji
began implementing the NAP, including developing a roadmap laying out the specific
needs for strengthening Fiji’s hydrometeorological infrastructure and services. Fiji
recently opened a new nursery for vetiver grass, which can be used as an ecosystembased
approach to protecting riverbanks.
“Fiji’s National Adaptation Plan has provided a strong mandate and policy to scale
up nature-based solutions, which protect communities from the impacts of climate
change,” says Vineil Narayan, Acting Head, Climate Change Division, Ministry of
Economy.
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