Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) decided to tackle the effects of climate change, tropical storms and hurricanes through the application of an ecosystem-based adaptation measure (EBA): the recovery of mangrove forest.

Mangroves constitute a natural barrier against hurricanes, rising sea levels, and the advance of salinity towards aquifers and farmland; but its health is very affected due to the strong exploitation of the resource and the construction of civil works that altered its operation.

With the commitment to support the communities on the southern coast of Artemisa and Mayabeque in the implementation of EBA and the recovery of their coastal ecosystems, and with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cuba, CITMA presented a project to the Adaptation Fund, with the purpose of receiving funding for the rehabilitation of mangrove areas in a stretch of 84 km between both provinces, one of the most affected by climate change.

The project was approved by the Fund in February 2014, the agreement for its implementation between the Fund and UNDP was signed in March of that year, and officially starts on June 19, 2014, with the signature between UNDP and the Cuban Government.

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