Strengthening Opportunities for Adaptive Response

Recipient: Catholic Relief Services – United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Funding Amount: $2,000,000

The goal of this project is to elevate the voices and priorities of vulnerable people in the coastal areas and remote islands of the Federated States of Micronesia and provide the technical and financial resources needed to jumpstart the priority resilience projects that will set the stage for sustained collaboration beyond the life of the project. The Strengthening Opportunities for Adaptive Response (SOAR) project aims to reach 30,000 individuals across 39 coastal communities (14 in Chuuk and 25 in Yap), where they will build a network of learning and foster coordination that leverages existing research, encourages the stewardship of natural resources, and creates the evidence needed to expand coastal resilience work in the near and long term.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the Inflation Reduction Act webpage. For more information on the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge, visit the Office for Coastal Management’s resilience challenge webpage.