Capacity Building in Shoreline Change, Monitoring & Management of Sea & River Defences, Guyana
Challenge
The objectives of this project ( for the Government of Guyana and funded by the Caribbean Development Bank) are to:
- Establish a shoreline change monitoring (SCM) programme, assessing and identifying the most feasible cost-effective methodologies and technological information-system requirements for monitoring, measuring and analysing shoreline movement at scales that are appropriate for planning and design;
- Facilitate knowledge transfer for optimising policy and operational level decision-making in respects of coastal zone management (CZM).
When the coast is the question, we are the answer…
Solution
The project is also expected to strengthen existing and planned ICZM processes, while scale-appropriately informing future policies, plans, and designs. The overall activities include: technical and financial feasibility of routine SCM; initiation and development of an SCM programme; enhanced capacity development for coastal GIS management for shoreline change monitoring; and capacity strengthening is sea and river defence administration via knowledge building in Guyana.