ALM UNDP

The overall objective of the project, namely supporting low-carbon and climate change-resilient local development in Nigeria, 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

1. Integrating climate-change considerations into water policies

• a. An integrated/sustainable climate information communication system established by the Meteorological Department to facilitate access to relevant high-resolution data, climate risk management tools (e.g. -maps) and information on climate change impacts on water resources.
• b. More than 50 officers from the Water Policy Planning, Coordinating Unit (WPPCU) and the Sierra Leone Environment Protection Agency (SLEPA), Water Societies trained to generate, analyze and integrate climate risk information, including on climate induced disasters, into water policies and investments plans;
• c. Climate monitoring system established for the Guma reservoir to analyze the water system‟s vulnerability and support decisions making on adaptation strategies.
• d. Regular dialogue established between parliamentarians, local council‟s members, traditional authorities, NGOs/Community Based Organizations, and private sector (water societies) on the impacts of climate change on water supply and access in at least 3 local councils.
• e. At least 2 dialogues under the Public Private Sector Forum initiated on requisite policies and supports for promoting investment and entrepreneurship development on managing climate change risks on water provision and usage.

2. Strengthening the resilience of water supply systems to anticipated climate change risks

• a. Affordable climate-resilient community based water harvesting, storage and distribution systems designed, built and rehabilitated in Freetown, with the support of private sector, to withstand projected changes over the next 20 years in rainfall patterns and intensity (e.g. 10 communal reservoirs, 1500 rooftop catchment, 1500 rainwater storage tanks and conveyance systems)
• b. Rehabilitation and construction of at least 30 gravity fed water systems, 100 small water reservoirs that are resilient to expected climate pressures over the next 20 years that provide water for communities and their economic activities during water shortages in at least 3 rural districts in Northern, Eastern, and Southern regions.
• c. Capacity of more than 50 Water engineers (from both public and private sector), local community based management committees, youth and woman associations developed in designing and managing climate risks on small-scale water supply systems, as well as maintaining climate-resilient infrastructure;
• d. Relevant experiences/lessons from community orientated climate resilient water infrastructure and management practices (including gender differentiated issues) identified, and widely shared/disseminated to facilitate replication in other vulnerable areas
   

Component 1

• Output 1.1: 300 GKM CRD councils members, Urban Districts councils members, and decentralized institution staffs are sensitized about climate change risks, trained on how to integrate climate change risks and support the implementation of agroforestry in the implementation of regional PNDA action plans through the PLDs, PAIs and BCAs.
• Output 1.1: Community based land, forest and watershed management plans and regulation tools (custom laws and agreements) are developed and implemented for the enforcement of the agro-hydro-climatic zoning of the Prefectures of GKM developed in the framework of the output 2.1.1 in order to orient agro-sylvo-pastoral activities towards the most appropriate areas and promote the implementation of agroforestry as strategy to adapt to climate changes in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. These tools will coordinate with the strategic plan of the Guinea-Guinea Bissau trans-boundary Protected Areas developed in the framework of the AGIR project. Indeed, the AGIR project (2000 - 2005) has supported the production of a strategic plan for the management of the Guinea - Guinea Bissau trans-boundary Protected Area (the Guinean section of this trans-boundary PA is located in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Boke) and which organize the agriculture, livestock and other economic activities in the PA and its surroundings. This outcome will additionally assess and codify the experience and knowledge generated from the application of these custom laws and provided to the decision makers for an improvement of the regulatory framework.
• Output 1.3: Local development plans (PLDs), annual and multi-years investments programmes (PAIs/MIPs) and annual community budgets (BCAs) of the 15 most vulnerable GKM Rural Development Communities (CRD) are updated to integrate climate change risks and dispositions to address the technical, financial, institutional, regulatory, organizational, and other constraints to climate resilient agroforestry scaling-up as adaptation strategies.

Component 2

• Output 2.1: An agro-meteorological action plan is developed and implemented in the 3 prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. The action plan will allow to: i) determine the required agro-meteorological information needed for a climate resilient agroforestry; ii) identify the needs for capacity building to obtain the necessary agro-meteorological information; iii) design and organize capacity building for key institutions; iv) organize production and dissemination of priority agro-meteorological information to the appropriate end-users;
• Output 2.2: Local multidisciplinary group for agro-meteorological assistance (LGMAs) in each of the 15 most vulnerable CRDs are established to coordinate the gathering of climatic information as well as the production and dissemination of agro-meteorological information and advisory support. The LGMAs will be made up of local representatives from the DMN, the agricultural, livestock, environment, water resources, fauna and forestry resources ministries, of the community based organizations, local NGOs and other relevant institutions.
• Output 2.3: An agro-hydro-climatic zoning of the prefectures of GKM (vulnerable lands, forests and watercourses, areas for types of crops, for grazing, watercourses for irrigations etc) is elaborated and submitted to local authorities and decentralized institutions to support the elaboration of climate resilient PLDs and PAIs and the promotion of resilient agroforestry strategies.

Component 3

• Output 3.1: Training package on climate resilient agroforestry is designed and implemented for 1,500 farmers from the 15 most vulnerable CRDs in GKM prefectures. This training programme will firstly start by a training of trainers who will replicate the training to other farmers. This output will also, with the support of the Agriculture research center of Bareng (in Guinea) and other relevant international research center, develop training modules and methodologies that other projects and programmes could use beyond the project life and scope.
• Output 3.2: An advisory support group, made up of the trainers trained as a result of output 3.1, and selected members of the AAGs have established to provide climate resilient agroforestry advice to farmers. This output will also put at the disposal of the local authorities of a strategic document for the maintaining of this advisory group beyond the project life to ensure the sustainability of this service. This strategy will assess the feasibility of the privatization of this service through its inclusion in package of support service provided by the farmers associations to their members and the assessment of their willingness to pay such service.
• Output 3.3: 200 community farms are supported (farmers organization, farm lay-out, acquisition of resilient seeds and tree species, farm running) to implement climate resilient agroforestry technologies in the prefectures of GKM. Additionally, this output, with the support of the research sector in Guinea, will support the assessment and the codification of the experiences and knowledge generated from these community agroforestry farms and their dissemination in Gaoual, Koundara and Mali and beyond the project areas and life.
• Output 3.4: An operational supply chain for the production and diffusion of drought resistant agroforestry inputs (trees, crop seeds and livestock species) is established in Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. This output will support the development of nurseries of climate resilient trees and livestock species, facilitate the acquisition of resilient main staple crop seeds, and the dissemination of these inputs to the farmers of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali.
• Output 3.5: A strategy to support the commercialization of products derived from agroforestry is implemented in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. This strategy will consist in supporting the organization of agroforestry farmers, the establishment of small units for the conservation and transformation of agroforestry products related to the multifunctional platform project, the implementation of marketing actions and infrastructures, the establishment of a label proper to these agroforestry products, the development of a channel of agroforestry products linking producers to consumers.

As detailed in the 12-7-2011 - Guinea Project Identification Form [attached].

Capacity to plan for and respond to climate change in coastal areas improved.

• Master Plan and zoning regulations for urban coastal cities reviewed and amended to incorporate adaptation concerns.
• Local development plans of vulnerable coastal regions are revised to integrate CC risks (20 CRD and 5 prefectures).
• Key stakeholders possess the necessary training related to the risks of climate change on coastlines and adaptation options.
• System established to disseminate climate change relevant agro-meteorological advice to critical coastal stakeholders.

Climate risk management measures implemented among coastal communities.

• Appropriate coastal management systems aimed at reducing risks from rising sea-levels evaluated and developed for five vulnerable sites in the coastal area and critical rice-growing plains.
• Alternative climate resilient livelihoods activities adopted by vulnerable communities
• Early warning system to support coastal zone management established.

Key national capacities for undertaking analytical work on the economics of climate change developed.

• National budgets provide for managing climate change risks.
• CC adaptation is mainstreamed into in-vestments plans of 5 prefectures.
• Staff in key line Ministries has enhanced capacity to assess the costs and benefits of climate change, including adaptation and low carbon options.

Lessons learned from pilot demonstration activities, capacity development initiatives and policy changes are collected and widely disseminated.

• Lessons learned extracted using a syste-matic framework.
• Lessons shared with local partners and international agencies.
• Project website developed as a knowledge platform (with linkages to the Adaptation Learning Mechanism).

1.1 National health control programme staff of the malaria and Guinea worm control programmes and the national disease surveillance unit trained to anticipate and have an action plan for climate change impacts on disease burdens in Ghana.

1.2 Information and analytical systems established under the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service, which will be integrated with regional, district and sub-district systems for diagnosing climate change implications on disease burdens at sub-national level.
1.3 Sub-national level climate change health risks maps developed depicting areas vulnerable to climate change health risks.
1.4 Cost-effective strategies and measures that reduce the long-term risk of climate change impacts on diseases such as malaria developed and cost.
2.1 Gaps, opportunities and a national strategy for mainstreaming climate change risks into health sector policies identified and developed in collaboration with WHO, Ministry of  Health, Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Environment and donors in the Health and environment sector.
2.2  Inter-Ministerial Committee (led by the Ministry of Health and appropriate representatives from the National Climate Change Committee) established to coordinate responses to manage climate change induced health risks.
2.3 The Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service together with Environmental Protection Agency to review and recommend to district and parliament policy makers adjustments to existing health regulations to factor in climate change risks.
2.4 Under the guidance of National Development and Planning Commission and the Ministry of Environment  and Local Government,  the  MOH and Ghana Health Service will set up legal instruments  to clarify jurisdictions and roles between different tiers of government to manage climate change related health risks.
2.5 Collaborated efforts from the Ministry of Health’s malaria control programme and Ministry of Environment (EPA) to take into account climate change risks within the existing Roll Back Malaria programme, the Global Malaria Programme and other relevant campaigns  mount a nation-wide campaign to improve environmental sanitation.
2.6 Review and field test of participatory climate change sensitive health risk reduction interventions (including nation-wide campaigns) in additional pilot districts (to be identified during the preparatory phase).
3.1. Costing tool(s) for climate change sensitive health risk reduction measures developed for use by relevant Ministries (Agriculture, Water, Environment, Health, etc).
3.2. Best practices and ‘lessons learned’ from adaptation to climate change health risk are collected, codified and disseminated at the local, national and international level using appropriate modalities (e.g. Adaptation Learning Mechanism).