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Mangroves Initiative - End of project in the Philippines: concrete but sometimes mixed results
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From November 2015 to June 2022, the FFEM supported the implementation of the project “Building Coastal Resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in Small Island Communities through Green-Grey Infrastructure (GGI) project,” in the municipality of Concepcion, in Iloilo province, one of the areas severely devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013. The project aimed to demonstrate the adaptive potential of natural systems to the consequences of climate change and the relevance of implementing grey infrastructures (traditional/classical engineering) and green infrastructures (ecosystem conservation) to strengthen the resilience of coastal territories and communities, particularly during typhoons.
The project, now completed, has been evaluated. This evaluation highlights the importance of strong alignment between the project’s objectives and the expectations of the local populations. The intervention had a significant and appreciated impact in strengthening knowledge about disasters and the skills to respond to them. Most of the direct expected effects of the grey infrastructures did occur (wave reduction, deposition of fine sediments sheltered by them, safety for users of the Tambaliza footbridge). However, it should be noted that these effects were very localized and that the bamboo infrastructures (sediment traps) quickly deteriorated and did not appear to show significant impacts.
All results are available in the final report. In addition, the activities carried out in each of the 5 pilot sites of the municipality of Concepcion (Bacjawan Norte, Bagongon, Loong, Polopina, Tambaliza) are described in 5 dedicated publications (below).
> The main activities in brief for each pilot site
> Project fact sheets: Bagongon (FR) and Tambaliza (FR)
> GGI stories project fact sheets (EN): GGI Experience Bacjawan Norte ; GGI Experience Bagongon ;