<span id="page3R_mcid25" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">The Liberian capital Monrovia is particularly vulnerable to climate effects, namely sea level rise </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">and the increased frequency of high</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">-</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">intensity storms. This has resulted in coastal erosion and </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">shoreline retreat, which threatens the sustainability of ecosy</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">stem services and directly impacts </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">Monrovians' fishery</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">-</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">based livelihoods of approximately 55,000 Monrovians, 46% of whom are </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">women. </span></span><span id="page3R_mcid26" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA) is the Executing Entity for the Monrovia </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">Metropolitan Climate Resilien</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">ce Project (MMCRP), financed by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Government of Liberia (GoL).</span><br role="presentation" /><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">The core aim of the Project is to build the long</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">-</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">term climate resilience of coastal communities in </span></span><span id="page19R_mcid0" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">Libe</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">ria by both addressing immediate adaptation priorities and </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">creating an enabling environment for up</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">-</span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">scaling coastal adaptation initiatives to other parts of </span><span dir="ltr" role="presentation">Monrovia and Liberia.</span></span>

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