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Adaptation
Climate Resilient Pasture and Livestock Management in Zhangeldy Village
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Zhuldyz - ZhankelSummary:
Zhangely is a typical village in the South Kazakhstan Oblast, the most densely populated in the country. Climate is extremely continental and dry, with long winters and hot summers. During the Soviet era, the village specialized in cotton production, though now the village is reliant on cattle production on soils degraded from years of monocrop agricultural production. Long-term climate change projections for Kazakhstan and Central Asia include increasing temperatures, especially in winter, as well as increasing levels of evapotranspiration in summer.
Project Components:
The UNDP CBA project will pilot a new pasture management systems designed to be sustainable in the face of climate change, including pasture demarcation and rotation, and introduction of better-adapted cattle breeds. The project will also conduct assessments to determine sustainable pasture management strategies incorporating climate change factors, and build the capacity of community and local government to carry out the new practices.
Expected Outputs:
The outputs include: 1.) Division of community pastures into fenced zones and prepared for grazing rotation; 2.) Development of waterpoints and associated facilities for enclosed pastures (electricity, shelters); 3.) Determination of environmentally permissible loads for the enclosed pasture in line with the climate change projections; 4.) Piloting the new grazing strategy with the local community; 5.) Reduction of vulnerability of the local members to the climate change risks by replacing the low-productivity cattle by area-specific high-productivity breeds; 6.) Development of local communities' capacity of integrating climate-related risks into pasture management through education and training; 7.) Publication of a booklet; and 8.) dissemination of project experiences in the region for replication by other communities.
Contacts:
Mr. Charles Nyandiga, Global Project Coordinator UNDP Environmental and Energy Group (646) 781 4390 Charles.Nyandiga@undp.org
Ms. Anna Lisa Jose, CBA Programme Associate, UNDP Environmental and Energy Group (646) 781 4402 annalisa.jose@undpaffiliates.org
Ms. Katerina Yushenko,National Coordinator UNDP GEF Small Grants Programme +7 3272 582646 / 582643 Katerina.Yushenko@undp.org
Mr. Nick Remple, Senior Technical Advisor, UNDP Environmental and Energy Group,
Project Status:
Completed on September 2011Primary Beneficiaries:
Local communities of Zhangeldy Village
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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UNDP-GEF-SPA Armenia Forest Adaptation
Submitted by projectstaff_armenia on Sat, 2011-11-26 19:30
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The land-locked country Armenia is located in the southern end of the Caucasus, on the rugged slopes of the Lesser Caucasus mountain range. The country harbours exceptionally high levels of biodiversity especially within the temperate region. The forest ecosystems of Armenia have rightly been identified as a global conservation priority.
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Climate change and energy security in East Africa
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Mon, 2011-10-17 15:37Year:
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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).
Screening tools and guidelines to support the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into development assistance – a stocktaking report
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Fri, 2011-10-14 15:49Year:
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The report explores the rationale for mainstreaming, outlines the main components necessary to operationalize mainstreaming, and indicates the various relevant levels and associated entry points to consider in the mainstreaming process. The report discusses and illustrates how key climate change adaptation and mainstreaming concepts are defined and used – both in relevant literature and in practice – as well as how they relate to development.
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Building Community Resillience in the Water Sector (IWRM) through Capacity Building, Policy Research and Action, Awareness Creation and Education
Submitted by wrcclimate on Mon, 2011-09-05 20:55
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The project sought to coordinate efforts to conserve and store water, reducing the effects of flooding through flood water retention, strengthening existing adaptation strategies (e.g. dry season farming), and providing mechanisms for timely climate forecast and information for communities in times of expected floods and drought in over ten Districts. Water storage facilities of different types depending on uses such as flood storm reduction, livestock watering, dry season gardening, groundwater recharge and domestic uses, were provided in over twenty communities across the three northern regions. These were preceded by customised awareness creation and tailor made capacity building and training activities. Major parners were Alternative Initiative for Development (AID), Centre for Human and Environmental Security (CHES), and University for Development Studies.
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Results and Learning:
The project activities have shown contributions to building and strengthening the resilience of socioeconomically weakened communities with benefits trickling down to households especially those that are poor, having very limited resources with less mobility. Decision making for project activities had no gender imbalances as both gender contributed equally to approaches, the selection and siting of facilities as well as the overall management of connected small projects including expected benefit sharing. Water harvesting facilities were expected to not only serve food crop production purposes and gardening but also for livestock watering, and building and construction of houses, as well as for flood control in some cases.
Sustainability:
The factors that underline the replicability of the activities are already practical recipes for sustaining the project. Local communities are determined in their own little ways to emulate what have been achieved in other communities. However, these efforts would require some high level adoption and intervention to avoid lags in adaptation and to also ensure quality, the order of the day. Most materials developed under the project are already being used nationally especially those on flooding which are providing necessary resources for the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) hence some project activities are already enjoying an up-scaling and which must be sustained. Danida provided further support to the outcomes of this pilot so as to enhance sustainability. This takes the form of a practical climate change adaptation learning centre in Bolgatanga at the White Volta basin office to ensure sustained awareness, education and technical support through visitations made to the centre. However, this pilot phase should have been scaled up to real project status and then later years to programmes by the District Assemblies but just when the Assemblies started imbibing the concept of climate mainstreaming, the pilot phase was already concluding. A community investment support fund would in no doubt be an asset to continue with this project until such time that communities learn the appropriate way in harnessing water resources for their own water usage in the face of climate change and variability.
Replication:
The most achieved and conspicuous impact of the approaches for implementing the project was to ensure easy replicability and knowledge sharing. This includes technical and non-technical assistance from the WRC through interaction of various communities’ leadership and their offer to help neighbours. What this project has therefore nurtured as an innovation and thinking outside the box is to promote intercultural exchange of experiences with respect to the project activities involving the deliberate movement of people into new environments to assist in providing adaptation support. Awareness creation materials and information brochures are tangible resources that are being used by poor and vulnerable communities to tell their own stories and specifically what they are looking forward to doing. Such materials have enlightened several actors interested in adaptation. There were no big or small actors as equal playing field was maintained for all to do what was expected of them and in spite of being a pilot project with limited financial resources a lot more was achieved than commensurate with the level of funding. The potential to replicate therefore is very straightforward, readily available human capacity and requiring very little financial investment to undertake. For the good of sustainability most of the activities are now seen as cross-cultural in the context of adaptation to climate change rather than as livelihoods support only.
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FAO's Framework Programme on Climate Change Adaptation (FAO-Adapt)
Submitted by Claudia.Hiepe on Thu, 2011-07-21 13:41Summary:
FAO-Adapt is an organization-wide framework programme that provides general guidance and introduces principles as well as priority themes, actions and implementation support to FAO’s activities for climate change adaptation. With this cohesive, organization-wide framework, FAO-Adapt can provide a clear picture of the need for, the application and the outcome of FAO adaptation activities as it seeks support for both the short-term and long-term responses.
