Nuevitas, August 10.- Specialists from the Camagüey Environmental Research Center are working on recruiting collaborators for the socialization of their experiences in a Knowledge Management platform that is implemented as part of the initiative. As a reliable example of the materialization in Nuevitas of result number three of the international Coastal Resilience project, with direct intervention in the Santa Rita community.
The Master of Science Damaris Hernández Marí, communicator of the institution from Camagüey, explained that they not only did they incorporate specialists in environmental issues such as Flora and Fauna workers, journalists, scriptwriters, and producers of communication products related to these issues, but also residents of coastal areas and farmers with important practical knowledge in terms of adaptation to climate change.
The Knowledge Management Platform will be a virtual site that will help to collect data and information about the country's progress in the execution of the project. The main objective is to strengthen and integrate disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change in the socio-economic development plans for vulnerable coastal sectors and municipalities such as Nuevitas.
After two years of implementation, the international project accumulates significant results such as the creation of the Center for Capacity Building and Knowledge Management, the rehabilitation of mangroves, the strengthening of environmental awareness, and the promotion of environmentally friendly agroecological practices.
The initiative will benefit more than 600,000 people living in the community of Santa Rita, Camagüey; as in Punta Brava, Villa Clara , Victoria Beach, Sancti Spíritus, Punta Alegre, Ciego de Ávila, and is financed by the European Union under the Global Climate Change Alliance Program (GCCA), and implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Environment Agency ( AMA), of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment (CITMA) as a national institution.
