Sectoral Recovery Capacity Assessment Report for Guyana’s Agriculture Sector

Guyana is one of the most exposed countries to natural hazards and the impacts of sea level rise in the Latin America and Caribbean region due to its low-lying terrain. The rise in sea level and intensified storm surges expose 100 percent of the country’s coastal agriculture and 66.4 percent of the coastal urban areas with potential losses of coastal gross domestic product (GDP) projected to exceed 46.4 percent.

Guyana has been coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and a devastating flooding event that has caused major damages to and losses of homes, farming land, infrastructure, and livelihoods nationwide in June 2021. With more frequent and intense extreme weather events expected owing to climate change in the coming decades, there is an urgent need to prepare for timely, effective and efficient disaster recovery, while building resilience at all levels and sectors of government and society. This involves strengthening the capacity of key national sectors to implement climate resilient recovery project portfolios that are gender responsive and disability inclusive.

This report presents the results of the Sectoral Recovery Capacity Assessment (SRCA) undertaken in Guyana to assess the capacity of the country’s agriculture sector to plan, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate climate resilient, gender responsive and disability inclusive recovery projects.