Green Pearls #2 - Corail (CBF project) Increased resilience of coastal communities to ecosystems’ degradation and disaster risk in the face of climate change, by restoring ecosystem services and enhancing local management of marine natural resources Part of the 4R4R Green Pearl Program in Haiti, the project JELEM, to be implemented in the Corail-Cayemites bay in 30 months, aspires to increase the resilience of coastal communities to ecosystems’ degradation and disaster risk in the face of climate change, by restoring ecosystem services and enhancing local management of marine natural resources. Aimed at mitigating storm surges and hurricanes in low-income rural areas, JELEM’s intervention will focus on coral reef and mangrove ecosystems and the fishing communities of Corail, Pestel and Cayemites communes of the Grand Anse Department living in a key biodiversity area. The projects’ approach, based on an integrated landscape restoration and management approach, encompasses seascape restoration drawing on provisioning and regulating ecosystem-services mainly related with coastal protection and fisheries maintenance. Biodiversity conservation in the face of climate change will be sustainably achieved by simultaneous integrated action with two other main dimensions of development in the Haitian context: sustainable livelihoods strengthening and disaster prevention and
preparedness. Cross-cutting elements mainstreamed into the project’s design are gender sensitivity, community participation and ownership, innovation and knowledge management. Corail, Grand'Anse department, Haiti