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Ecosystem Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Seychelles
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Ministry of Home Affairs, Environment, Transport and EnergySummary:
This project, funded by the Adaptation Fund and implemented by UNDP in partnership with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Environment, Transport and Energy, seeks to address two major climate change vulnerabilities in the country: water scarcity and coastal flooding. To do so, the project intends to take ecosystem based measures of restoring or maintaining key ecosystem services in the coastal and hinterland of the main granitic islands of Seychelles.
Project Components:
Component 1: Ecosystem-based adaptation approach to enhancing freshwater security in Mahé under conditions of climate change
Component 2: Ecosystem-based adaptation approaches along the shorelines of the Granitic Islands reduce the risks of climate change induced coastal floods
Component 3: Ecosystem based adaptation mainstreamed into development planning and financing
Expected Outputs:
Component 1: Ecosystem-based adaptation approach to enhancing freshwater security in Mahé under conditions of climate change
- An ecosystem-based adaptation approach will be implemented in targeted watersheds on the island of Mahé to increase water security (reducing the climate change induced vulnerability of coastal communities to water scarcity during projected dry spells). The project will finance technology development and application to restore riparian areas, in watersheds in the Western side of the island, which are not currently utilised for the purposes of providing water to the city of Mahé. The project will engineer a paradigm shift from site based protected area management, primarily for biodiversity conservation to a landscape based management system, aimed at restoring ecosystem functionality and resilience with the specific purpose of enhancing water provisioning services during the extended dry season (this will be measured by the low flow measure). This is expected to have the added benefit of reducing flooding risk following climate changed induced intense heavy rainfall events.
- A Strategic Ecosystem Based Water Resource Adaptation Assessment will be carried out. Specific ecosystem-based adaptation measures will include restoring the natural processes of wetlands and assisting the natural rehabilitation of degraded areas. This includes: restoration of forest to enhance water-soil infiltration and water storage capacities in soils and aquifers (2,500 hectares), restoration of wetlands, through the removal of alien species and reduction in abstraction to enhance wetland functionality (550 hectares), integrated management of climate change induced wildfires to reduce the impact of fire disturbances on hydrological functions, small-scale artificial raw water facilities (barrages).
Component 2: Ecosystem-based adaptation approaches along the shorelines of the Granitic Islands reduce the risks of climate change induced coastal floods
- An ecosystem-based adaptation approach will be implemented on the shorelines of the four targeted Granitic islands aiming to reduce flood damage and shoreline avulsion in vulnerable areas arising from a combination of rising sea levels and storm surges, both climate change induced. A vulnerability assessment will be undertaken and maps produced to determine areas where additional protection and restoration activities will be needed, focusing on production lands outside protected areas. At selected sites, critical coastal ecosystems will be restored to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities to climate changed induced coastal flooding and erosion. Interventions will increase the resilience of coupled social and ecological systems in the face of climatic variability and change.
- Activities will include: (i) mangrove reforestation, restoration and active management to reduce coastal erosion, (ii) rehabilitation of sand dunes to natural state through planting of local species in order to stabilize the dunes, (iii) restoration of wetlands, through the removal of alien species and areas reclaimed by agriculture in the past, (iv) coral reef (fringing) construction, rehabilitation, restoration and protection in order to reduce wave action and reduce coastal erosion.
- Coastal communities will play a critical role in implementing the restoration activities. Local community coordinating bodies will be created for each intervention site and training provided on the specific adaptation measure that will be adopted there.
Component 3: Ecosystem based adaptation mainstreamed into development planning and financing
- This component aims at increasing institutional capacity in Seychelles to adapt to climate change with policy support to plan for and respond/adapt to climate change-related risks and damage. An emphasis will be placed on upscaling the ecosystem based adaptation technology/ management measures applied under components 1 and 2 respectively through targeting the land/water use planning and regulation process, the Environmental Impact Assessment process and creating the legal and economic environment for such processes to be effective.
- This component will also have a strong knowledge management focus. The project will act as the knowledge window for the government and resource users regarding the ecosystem based adaptation approach, bringing in appropriate international experiences to Seychelles. Awareness raising activities targeting the decision makers and coastal communities will be an integral part of knowledge management.
As detailed in the Adaptation Fund Proposal - Seychelles.
Contacts:
Project Contact Person:
- Fabiana Issler
- Tel.: + 27 12 354 8128
- Email: fabiana.issler@undp.org
Project Status:
SOF Pipeline Entry (as of 2 February 2012)Primary Beneficiaries:
Communities in the targeted watersheds on the island of Mahé
ALM Case Study 2011 - Zimbabwe: Coping with Drought and Climate Change
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-11-02 04:40
Summary:
Long known as the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe has for the last 30 years experienced dramatic losses in agricultural production resulting in critical food and fuel shortages. Coupled with the economic and political constraints, drought and climate change are testing the limits of agricultural production in Zimbabwe. In rural Zimbabwe, and specifically in the pilot project area Chiredzi district, drought is becoming an increasingly common occurrence. With approximately 70% of Zimbabwe’s population deriving their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and other rural activities, the most noticeable effects of these droughts are the devastating impacts on household food security and the livelihoods of the poor. In response, and as part of a set of three other regional Coping with Drought and Climate Change (CwDCC) projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mozambique, this project is supporting effective adaptation among subsistence farmers in six locations in Chiredze District.
Adaptation Experience:
The project, Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Zimbabwe, is working to enhance the capacity of agricultural and pastoral communities in Zimbabwe to adapt to climate variability and change. The primary project objective is to demonstrate and promote adoption of a range of gender-sensitive approaches for adaptation to climate change among rural communities currently engaged in agriculture in vulnerable areas of the Chiredzi.
Results and Learning:
Refer to the attached UNDP-ALM Case Study for detailed information.
Sustainability:
This project has established implementation partnerships with government departments. Sustainability of the project, and the buy in and acceptability of the project outcomes has been evidenced by their incorporation in other programmes/projects. Outcomes on improving livelihoods are largely taken up by a number of NGOs. Climate risk management is being embraced by government and NGOs. Of those NGOs that have embraced climate risk management, the focus has been on livelihoods diversification, small scale irrigation development and conservation agriculture.
Replication:
The optimized crop pilots through this initiative have the potential to benefit about 6,600 households in Chiredzi district, and many thousands more households at the national level. Replication of livestock interventions has potential to benefit more than 60% of the 12,400 households in Chiredzi District whose vulnerability to drought and climate change is exacerbated by their current lack of access to animal drawn draught power. Indirect benefits through improvement in wildlife management have the potential to benefit an additional 1000 households in the Chiredzi district.The project is encouraging replication of optimized crop production through Farmer Field schools (FFS). FFS is a group-based learning process that has been used by a number of governments, NGOs and international agencies to promote Integrated Pest Management. FFS are being used in the project as a learning platform for farmers to increase learning and improve production strategies on the ground. Exchange visits for neighboring farmers, public awareness campaigns and tours by policy makers are some of the tools planned to encourage replication of best practices.Barriers to replication of the adaptation measures include credit and input bottlenecks which results in farmers resorting to their own traditional varieties of grains despite poor performance, and the lack of supportive policies and institutions.
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UNDP-ALM Case Study 2011 - Kenya - Adaptation to Climate Change in Arid Lands (KACCAL)
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-11-02 04:30
Summary:
Kenya’s geographic location makes it inherently prone to cyclical droughts and floods. Moreover, according to the Initial National Communication (INC), such types of cyclical climate-driven events will increase in intensity and frequency due to global climate change. Livelihoods and economic activities in Kenya’s are highly vulnerable to climatic fluctuations, with the districts of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) being among the most vulnerable to recurrent droughts, and to long-term climate change. The rural poor are the most vulnerable to the impacts of Kenya’s current climate variability. In response this project is supporting poor and vulnerable communities in the Mwingi District of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) to enhance their adaptive capacity to drought (and flood). Working in the pilot areas, this is being achieved through enhanced access to and management of water for irrigation, promotion of indigenous crops that more resilient to anticipated climate (and improved access to markets for these crops), and promoting livestock varieties that are more suited to the climate, development and promotion of alternative livelihood opportunities (such as beekeeping activities). The project is also strengthening climate risk management planning and capacity of District level planners to mainstream climate change into District-level sectoral development plans. Extension workers will be supported to improve their adaptation extension advice to farmers based on best available climate forecast information.
Adaptation Experience:
The project, “Kenya-Adaptation to Climate Change in Arid Lands” (KACCAL) project is focused on strengthening Mwingi District’s capacity to reduce the vulnerability of rural livelihoods in arid areas to climate variability and change. The project will focus on i) improving the ability of farmers to reduce the near-term vulnerability to current climate variability and trends and on ii) strengthening the capacity of District-level planners to address climate change.
Results and Learning:
Refer to the attached UNDP-ALM Case Study for detailed information.
Sustainability:
The project has a ‘mainstreaming’ component to it as well as a practical implementation/ testing component to it. The mainstreaming component is centres mainly around the capacity development of District level planners to be able assess and plan for climate risks. The project will demonstrate an approach that can be continued beyond the project grant. Secondly, the project will develop a workplan for capacity and institutional development that goes beyond the project resources, to facilitate fund-raising for continued capacity development support. Thirdly, the mainstreaming analysis will focus on how the national regulatory and fiscal frameworks and instruments inhibit or could be adjusted to promote adaptation among the private sector: mainly small and medium enterprises, thereby promoting scale-up of successful adaptation measures.
Refer to the attached UNDP-ALM Case Study for detailed information.
Replication:
180 households will benefit directly from the pilot projects (6 community groups); an additional 360 households (12 community groups) to benefit from exchange visits to pilot sites; c. 10,000 households in the pilot areas (75% of households) will benefit from dissemination of adaptation advice.The project will disseminate the lessons and methodology of the project to national policy-makers to raise awareness and understanding of the need for adaptation action, both in terms of the role of government in incentivising the private sector to allocate resources in a climate-resilient way aswell as the allocation of public financing to testing new ways of doing business.
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Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change by Establishing Early Warning and Disaster Preparedness Systems and Support for Integrated Watershed Management in Flood Prone Areas
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Implementing Agency:
UNDP/UNEPImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Ministry of Natural Resources, Rwanda Environmental Management Authority (REMA)Summary:
The project aims to strengthen national and district capacities to deliver a functional early warning and disaster preparedness system that would allow for early warning of vulnerable populations in the Gishwati ecosystem. The project further aims to build capacities for risk responsive planning at district and local levels and to incorporate climate change risks into district development planning of four districts covering Gishwati forest area.
Project Components:
- 1. Climate Risk Assessment and Forecasting
- 2. Climate change adaptation planning and response strategies
- 3. Demonstrations of adaptation practices in the Nile-Congo crest watersheds and Gishwati ecosystem
- 4. Knowledge Management, Public Awareness and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices
- 5. Mid Term and Final Evaluation
- 6. Project Management
Expected Outputs:
- Enhanced early warning system which allows for climate change predictions. System in place to integrate climate change risk assessment and socio-economic parameters such as impacts on livelihoods and economic activities. Data coordination network is established through inter-agency coordination mechanism for hydro-meteorological information. Data is currently managed across departments without a central coordination mechanism. Disaster response plans are prepared and capacity to implement them is developed.
- Science/Policy exchange forum is established through interchange platform between hydro-climatic network and policy makers Policy briefs and analysis for planners, policy makers and field actors to guide them in making decisions on adaptation strategies. Particularly related to water management and agricultural practices.
- Land use management practices adjusted for anticipated climate change risks Capacity development program for communities formulated based a CC adaptation capacity needs assessment conducted during the PPG. Communities trained according to the capacity development program. Communities and policy makers sensitized with CC adaptation benefits to be attained through enhanced catchment management practices. Results of demonstrations distilled as experience notes for dissemination to policy makers. Adaptation policy adopted for the land use planning at the targeted area.
- Development and dissemination of lessons learned for policy makers and for communities through out the project. Training plan developed and implemented for relevant stakeholders for uptake of lessons learned and engagement in the various project components. Platform for national learning and sustainability established.
Contacts:
UNDP Regional Coordinating Unit, Pretoria
- Jessica Troni
- Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP
- Email: jessica.troni@undp.org
Project Status:
Under Implementation (as of February 2012)Primary Beneficiaries:
Rural Rwandans living in the Gishwati ecosystem.
AAP Knowledge Management Needs Survey Report
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2012-05-17 00:16
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The Africa Adaptation Programme’s knowledge management component proudly launched in Maputo, Mozambique, its Knowledge Management Needs Survey Report. The report was launched on May 8th, during the Regional Workshop on the Capitalization of Experience on Climate Change Adaptation.
The report is a broad, research-driven assessment of what the knowledge needs are of AAP countries. It has been produced in order to help these countries capture, share and capitalize on the wealth of climate- and development-related knowledge available.
Rethinking Support for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: The Role of Development Interventions
Submitted by josephinelofthouse on Tue, 2011-12-20 19:09Year:
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The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) is an alliance of five development partners: Oxfam GB, the Overseas Development Institute, Save the Children, World Vision International and Care International. It was established in 2009 with the aim of understanding how development interventions can contribute to adaptive capacity at the community and household level, and to inform the design and implementation of development planning by governments and non-governmental development partners to support adaptive capacity for climate change and other development pressures.
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The winds of change: climate change, poverty and the environment in Malawi
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Tue, 2011-11-22 10:14
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This report is part of a series commissioned by Oxfam national country programmes to explore and highlight the links between climate change and poverty, and between climate change adaptation and development. At a community level, poor communities are worst affected by, and least able to cope, with climate change impacts. The report recommends that the foundation of any initiative to address climate change hinges on communities being aware of the issues, owning the process of adaptation and having the capacity to undertake and maintain adaptation.
TACC Uganda: Territorial Approach to Climate Change in the Mbale region of Uganda
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, UNOPS, UNEP and Mbale District Local Government, Districts of Mbale, Manafwa and Budada and Ministry of Water and EnvironmentSummary:
The Down to Earth: Territorial Approach to Climate Change (TACC) is part of a partnership between the United Nations and sub-national governments for fostering climate friendly development at the sub-national level. This partnership is a collaborative effort involving UNDP, UNEP and eight associations of regions.
The TACC Uganda project will support the integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures into sustainable development planning and programming in developing countries by:
Project Components:
The Down to Earth: Territorial Approach to Climate Change (TACC) project aims to assist regional and local governments in developing countries in:
- Developing integrated climate change strategies and action plans to assess development options that are robust enough to withstand different future climatic conditions.
- Strengthening capacity of sub‐national authorities to integrate climate change into sustainable development planning and programming.
- Identifying no regrets/negative costs/low‐cost adaptation and mitigation measures that promote long‐ term sustainability and poverty reduction.
- Enhancing the capacity of regional and local government to enact regulatory measures, as well as to take advantage of new sources of environmental finance, to implement these no regrets/negative cost/low‐cost options.
Expected Outputs:
The overall objective of the project, namely supporting low-carbon and climate change-resilient local development in Uganda, will be achieved by supporting local decision-makers and planners to design integrated climate change (adaptation and mitigation) policies, strategies and formulate concrete actions and investment plans that promote long-term sustainability and poverty reduction in the context of local / regional development.
- Output 1. Partnership, coordination and participation platforms for climate change planning and programming established
- Output 2. Capacity to integrate climate change issues into regional development plans and actions built
- Output 3. Integrated Territorial Climate Plan (ITCP) formulated
- Output 4. Climate change policy and investment package developed
- Output 5. Lessons learned and best practices disseminated
Contacts:
UNDP Regional Technical Advisor
- Akiko Yamamoto
- akiko.yamamoto@undp.org
- Tel: +27 82 850 9824
Project Status:
Under Implementation. Status as of June 2011: Establishment of partnership and coordination structuresPrimary Beneficiaries:
The beneficiaries of the Down to Earth TACC project are sub‐national authorities who seek technical assistance in understanding and responding to climate change
Préparation du Plan d’Action National d’Adaptation du Burundi aux changements climatiques
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Project details
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Implementing Agency:
UNDPImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Direction de l'Environnement et du Tourisme, Ministère de l Am nagement du Territoire, de l Environnement et du TourismeSummary:
Project Status:
Completed. NAPA final report submitted to UNFCCC in February 2007.
Climate change and energy security in East Africa
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Mon, 2011-10-17 15:37Year:
Summary:
In light of the challenges facing the power sector in East Africa, there is a need to reduce the vulnerability of large scale hydropower generation to the impacts of drought (which is often thought to be climate change related).
