Cuban central province implements international project to promote better environmental practices

CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Mar 28 (ACN) The main purpose of sharing best practices related to nature and knowledge management is to achieve greater visibility from the communication area in the implementation of the international project Coastal Resilience, in the municipality of Nuevitas, located about 70 kilometers north of this city.

With direct intervention in the northern coastal community of Santa Rita, in Nuevitas Bay, the initiative seeks to raise awareness about the benefits and contributions from the implementation of the project to facilitate, later on, its use as an experience to be replicated in different sectors or places in Cuba with similar situations, even if they are not coastal territories.

In a meeting on this program, it was recognized the need to strengthen the alliances created with entities of the territory and promote community work in Santa Rita, a site framed in the Cayos Ballenatos Fauna Refuge and mangroves of Nuevitas Bay.

Selmira Perdomo Sierra, national coordinator of communication and visibility of the Coastal Resilience project, said that with the creation of a general catalog, which includes other sites of direct intervention in Villa Clara, Sancti Spiritus and Ciego de Avila, all the natural solutions based on ecosystems and communities used will be shown.

The specialist of the Environment Agency (AMA by its Spanish acronym), pointed out that the quality of climate change resilience and the performance of communication for the development of this process are vital, in addition to access to the knowledge management platform and diffusion of communicative materials.

The Coastal Resilience action seeks to strengthen capacities for disaster risk reduction, the implementation of ecosystem and community-based climate change adaptation measures, and the incorporation of these approaches into local development planning in Nuevitas.
With the approval of funding from the European Union's Global Climate Change Alliance and implemented by the United Nations Development Program, the project's national executors include the AMA and the National Risk Assessment Group.