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PACC Project implements long -term adaptation measures to increase the resilience of a number of key development sectors in Pacific Island Countries to the impacts of climate change. This objective will be achieved by focusing on long - term planned adaptation response strategies, policies and implementation strategies to bring about this result. The key focal areas are water resources management, food production and food security, and coastal zone management.

This report summarizes the installation of sea-level and climate monitoring equipment and associated activities as one component of the Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) demonstration project on Kosrae. This purpose of this component is to provide adequate baseline monitoring on Kosrae to ensure fit-for-purpose climate-related information is available to inform future climate sensitive decision-making and planning.

The PACC is an initiative / opportunity to materialize the GEF support to adaptation into actual adaptation implementation in the Pacific Region (GEF Special Climate Change Fund – SCCF). The PACC is a direct response of UNDP and SPREP to PICs’ expressed wish to implement adaptation.

The PACC Project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of human and biophysical systems through measures designed to reduce the vulnerability to the adverse effects of climate change on key priority development sectors of government (coastal, food production and food security, and water sectors). The three main building blocks or outcomes of the project – mainstreaming, demonstration and communications – are implemented at the community and country levels while supporting the systemic and institutional capacity to address adaptation across the Pacific islands region.

At the second PACC Multipartite Review Meeting in August 2011 it was agreed that Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) would be incorporated into PACC pilot demonstration projects. This report documents the planning of the PACC CBA work program, outputs and impacts to date, and next steps for the coming 12 months. The focus of the report is an evaluation of three CBA training workshops which were run between November 2011 and February 2012.