Planning for Climate Adaptation Program : final report

Abstract

This final report was prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development /Dominican Republic Cooperative Agreement Award No. AID-517-A-15-00003. The USAID/ICMA Planning for Climate Adaptation Program was aimed at improving the resilience of people living in cities of the Dominican Republic to the adverse impacts of climate change by working with municipalities to mainstream climate change adaptation (CCA) into their participatory land use planning processes. The Planning for Climate Adaptation Program used as the foundation of its implementing approach the Guia Metodológica para la Formulación de Planes Municipales de Ordenamiento Territorial (Land Use Planning Guide), or PMOT Guide, for municipalities. The program implemented the PMOT process in the National District (capital of the Dominican Republic) and three municipalities: Santiago, Las Terrenas and San Pedro de Macorís. By the end of the Program, all four jurisdictions had climate-adapted land-use plans and climate adaptation plans and three had drafted land use planning ordinances. Except for Santiago, which had developed a land-use plan of the city center, these were the first municipal land use plans in the Dominican Republic.