ABSTRACT
Abstract: Mozambique has one of the most exposed coastlines in the world to the potential impacts of climate change, including sea-level rise. The coast’s biophysical vulnerability, especially the low-lying deltaic areas and fragile soft coasts, exposes the coastal population, among the world’s least developed, to a long-term challenge in addition to their daily struggle to improve their quality of life. Mozambique, as a least developed country, with a recent history of conict, has present-day chronic capacity constraints to manage its coastal resources especially at a local level. Against this backdrop, the Government of Mozambique is working with the United Nations Development Programme to seek the assistance of the Least Developed Country Fund for funds to pilot community-scale, ecosystem-based adaptation in parallel with national institutional capacity-building activities. This chapter outlines the process undertaken during 2011 to develop the project submission to the Least Developed Country Fund that uses an interlinked process of rapid biophysically based adaptations options analysis with stakeholder-driven consultations. The project proposal was endorsed in late 2011 and as of late 2013 is in the process of beginning initiation.
