Republic of the Marshall Islands Urban Resilience Project

The development objective of Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Urban Resilience Project for Marshall Islands is to strengthen the resilience of select urban areas in the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the impacts of natural hazards and climate change. This report has four components. 1) The first component, Risk-informed adaptation planning, will strengthen the government’s institutional and technical capacity on risk-informed adaptation planning through enhanced spatial planning, capacity building support for implementation and compliance of the building code, and development control policies or guidance that consider disaster and climate risks. 2) The second component, Coastal resilience investments, aims to finance targeted coastal resilience measures which will protect select government infrastructure and/or prioritized assets in Majuro. 3) The third component, Resilient public facilities, will finance investments that are demonstrative of resilient, inclusive, and sustainable standards that may be achieved in future public facilities in RMI. 4) The fourth component, Project management and implementation support, will help the government establish and operationalize the proposed project through a dedicated Project Implementation Unit (PIU). It intends to support the day-to-day coordination, management, and implementation of the project, while building institutional capacity to sustain investments beyond the project’s closure such as through technical training.