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Hope Town

Inagua

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Bahamas

Bahamas, The

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The project will establish a Facility that launches pull finance transactions to drive market shifts for climate adaptation in selected Caribbean countries, piloting and demonstrating the effectiveness of pull finance as a mechanism to unlock private sector innovation and investment.

The Bahamas is highly vulnerable to climate change, with 100 per cent of the population exposed to extremely strong winds. The country has low adaptive capacity with water supply infrastructure at risk from storm surges, hurricanes and overland storm run-off flooding and is affected by sea level rise. With 83 per cent of the country’s land area below five meters above sea level, The Bahamas relies heavily on desalination plants, accounting for 81 per cent of the water produced.

This programme will strengthen climate resilience in The Bahamas’ water sector by enhancing governance and capacity building, and by deploying climate-resilient infrastructure across remote Family Islands to ensure sustainable freshwater management and protection.

Key activities include providing technical assistance to strengthen the national policy, legislation, and regulatory environment, and to improve national water resources data and information for decision-making and planning; and investments in wellfields and water supply infrastructure and operations in the six Family Islands.

By delivering a system‑wide paradigm shift in water sector resilience and financial sustainability, the project aims to shift The Bahamas away from heavy reliance on climate‑vulnerable desalination toward integrated, climate‑resilient water resource management systems.

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean are highly vulnerable to climate change, which affects crucial economic sectors such as tourism, agriculture, and fishing. Rising sea levels and changing weather patterns threaten natural habitats and increase the severity of natural disasters. Despite minimal contributions to global emissions, SIDS in the Caribbean face significant economic risks, with projected annual losses of USD 22 billion by 2050, making emissions reduction essential.

The Caribbean Net-Zero and Resilient Private Sector programme supports climate resilient investments in the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Focusing on agriculture, sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy, transport, and the blue economy, the programme aims to overcome investment barriers by providing advisory services and blended finance solutions. It also emphasises gender mainstreaming to close gender and diversity gaps in the region.  

Moreover, the programme aims to scale up private climate finance through local actors by combining advisory services with concessional financing from GCF, which will enhance the region's climate resilience and sustainable development. By mobilising 3.4 times the funding from IDB Invest and other co-financiers, it will help reduce the existing climate finance gap for SIDS in the Caribbean region.

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