Final Report Costa Rica Pro Blue

Overview & Synopsis

This report summarizes activities implemented in Costa Rica under the ProBlue-funded Phase 2 project, Blue Social Protection: Connecting Social Protection and the Blue Economy in a Changing Climate, which seeks to strengthen social protection and labor policies for fisheries-dependent populations while promoting sustainable livelihoods. The report highlights efforts to improve the socio-economic profiling of coastal and fishing communities through georeferencing households in the national social registry (SINIRUBE), enhancing data interoperability between social protection and disaster-related systems, and developing a dashboard that integrates socio-economic, risk, and hazard data. Findings from demographic, social, and economic analyses of coastal populations and the dashboard prototype support more effective targeting of social protection programs, strengthen resilience to climate and environmental risks, and contribute to the objectives of Costa Rica’s Social Risk Management DPL DDO by improving data integration and the efficiency of the country’s social protection system.