Dominica climate resilience and recovery plan 2020-2030

In response to the destruction of Hurricane Maria, in 2018, Dominica released a climate resilience policy framework to guide its recovery journey in the form of National Resilience Development Strategy 2030 (NRDS). The NRDS articulates the overall policy framework of the Government and outlines 43 resilience goals aimed at ensuring that development is people-centred.

The NRDS stipulates that the Climate Resilience and Recovery Plan (CRRP) should reflect three pillars of resilience, namely:

1. Climate Resilient Systems, covers a wide range of systems and processes that must have the capacity for adjusting to, and absorbing the impacts of, climate change.
2. Prudent Disaster Risk Management Systems, focuses on minimizing and managing the risks associated with climate-related disasters.
3. Effective Disaster Response and Recovery, speaks to the post-disaster phase, minimizing disaster impacts and reducing the pain and the period of recovery.

The CRRP expands these three pillars into six results areas for a climate-resilient Dominica:

1. Strong Communities;
2. Robust Economy;
3. Well-planned and Durable Infrastructure;
4. Enhanced Collective Consciousness;
5. Strengthened Institutional Systems;
6. Protected and Sustainably Leveraged Natural and Other Unique Assets.

Based on these six result areas, the Government of Dominica is committed to achieving 20 Climate Resilience Targets by 2030 (pp. ii-iii). These targets will be realised though about fifty planned and on-going initiatives that are closely aligned to the six results areas. Of these, ten critical high-impact climate resilience initiatives will be delivered as a matter of immediate priority (pp. iii-iv). The anticipated implementation period for these priority interventions is 2020 to 2030.

Dominica’s Climate Resilience and Recovery Plan (CRRP) was developed by the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, under the leadership of the Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica (CREAD), which is mandated under the Climate Resilience Act 2018.