Summary
The Canada Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Fund is a part of the Canadian International Development Agency’s (CIDA’s) regional Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Program (CDRMP).
The Canada Caribbean Disaster Risk Management (CCDRM) Fund provides grant assistance to non-governmental, community, and voluntary organizations and government agencies based in CARICOM member states.
Grant assistance is provided for small-scale, local disaster risk reduction projects. To be eligible for funding a project must be able to bring about a measurable reduction in the disaster risk faced by a community by the time the project is completed.
For the purposes of the CCDRM Fund a “community” may be a group of people living in a particular area or a group of people with a similar livelihoods interest, such as farmers or fishers.
Priority will be given to projects that:
- reduce disaster risk in low-income and rural communities.
- address the needs of all of the members of a community (women, women, children, the elderly, the challenged) in the project’s planning, implementation, and benefits
- are gender sensitive,
- protect or improve the environment, and
- make maximum use of locally available resources
- fall within the CAD $25,000 to CAD $75,000 range.
Applicants are invited to submit written project proposals on two occasions during the year, in April and November. In each case the call for proposals is open for two-and-a-half months.
At the end of each call for proposals the applications are screened to ensure that they are eligible to enter the competition for grant support. At this stage of the appraisal process the opportunity is taken to provide applicants with guidance and suggestions for strengthening their respective project proposals. This process is referred to as “coaching”.
Eligible applications are submitted to the CCDRM Fund’s Project Steering Committee for appraisal. The Project Steering Committee uses a standardized scoring process to rank project proposals. The proposals with the highest score are recommended to be the first to be considered for grant support.
The recommendations from the Project Steering Committee are reviewed by a CIDA appraisal team which reviews the each application to ensure compliance with CIDA’s due diligence and policy requirements.
Grant support is approved through CIDA’s Bridgetown office.



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