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Water Supply at Risk: Wells in coastal regions and on Zanzibar
Submitted by tianyili on Thu, 2010-05-06 08:15
Summary:
The following case study is featured in the Meister Consultants Group study: *Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Around the World*.
As one of the least developed countries in the world, Tanzania is especially vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. More than half of the country lives on less than a dollar per day, and more than 80 percent depend on subsistence agriculture and therefore, on natural resources. Given its geographic conditions, the impacts of climate change in Tanzania are very diverse. Affected sectors include agriculture, water management, public health, biodiversity and energy. Tanzania has developed a national adaptation plan, but the proposed measures are not sufficient to deal with the challenge of climate change. The plan emphasizes only the most urgent short-term measures, and the implementation process is just beginning. This situation is characteristic of many developing countries.
_Source: Dr. Hans-Peter Meister, I. K., Martina Richwein, Wilson Rickerson, Chad Laurent. Additional contributors: Jeff Snell, Elisa Burchert, Florian Lux. (2009). *Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Around the World.* Boston: Meister Consultants Group. p. 20._
For more detailed information and references refer to: [Floating Houses - Full Report](http://files.mc-group.com/clst/Study%20Climate%20Change%20Adaption.pdf).
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Adaptation Experience:
The current rise in sea level has already had significant impacts on some coastal areas of Tanzania. Wells and other sources of drinking water in have been flooded, leading to contamination by salt water. The district of Bagamoyo, not far from Dar-es-Salaam, is particularly affected.
Within the framework of the NAPA project, alternative water sources are identified and new wells are built in Bagamoyo and other coastal regions. The project is directed by the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and other ministries, as well as local institutions and NGOs.
Results and Learning:
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Sustainability:
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Replication:
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Climate Change Adaptation in Rural Communities of Fiji
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Pacific Centre for Environment & Sustainable Development(PACE-SD), Institute of Applied Science(IAS) of the University of the South Pacific(USP), Government Agencies and NGOsSummary:
This project aims to enhance understanding of climate change impacts and adaptation through community level planning and capacity building, and improve resilience to impacts of climate variability and climate change.
Objectives include:
1. To improve the water resources and reduced the coastal erosion problems of selected six vulnerable rural village communities within Fiji;
2. To help them increase there resilient capacity to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change in there various communitiesC
Contacts:
PACE-SD Contact:
Professor Patrick Nunn
Tel: +6793232895
Fax: +6793232891Project Status:
Under Implementation (as of March 2011)
Community-Based Adaptation in the Protection and Conservation of Mangroves, Eco-Systems, and Coral Reefs - Vailu’u-tai
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Satoalepai Village Council, AusAidSummary:
The project will focus on Fasito’o-tai and Vailuu-tai, which are comprised of approximately 7,000 people located in the Aana Alofi III District, on the northwestern shore of Upolu island in Samoa. Fasito’otai and Vailuu-tai have the same traditional salutations (faalupega) therefore they are considered to be one village culturally, socially, and politically. These two communities depend on fisheries and agriculture for their livelihoods, with some also undertaking paid employment, or receiving remittances from overseas relatives to provide for family needs.
Project Components:
The UNDP CBA project will improve the adaptive capacity and reduce climate change vulnerabilities of Fasito’o-tai and Vailu’u-tai communities through management of mangrove and coral reef ecosystems. Strengthening the resilience of the mangroves will buffer the drinking and bathing pools, a source of drinking water, protect productive agricultural land from seawater inundation, preserve habitat for mud crabs, birds (such as the gogosina (Sterna sumatrana) and manumea (Didunculus strigirostris)) and fish, and protect coral from climate change-induced sedimentation. Without intervention, it is feared that they will lose this mangrove system, as the mouth of the lagoon will continue to widen – admitting more large waves and altering balance between salt water from the ocean and fresh water in the lagoon. Currently the mangrove forest is less dense and some of the mangrove trees are dying and other trees are being killed by salt water. In addition, reducing or eliminating non-climate stresses to coral reefs is recognized as one of the few adaptation measures that can be taken to address the risk of coral bleaching. By reducing anthropogenic stresses, corals can recover more quickly from bleaching events. Strengthening the resilience of the coral from climate change effects such as sea temperature rise and cyclones will help preserve biodiversity, secure food sources both terrestrial and marine for their families, and livelihoods of the fishermen and traditional healers.
Expected Outputs:
* 1.) Climate change considerations integrated into local policy and planning processes through the development of a Climate Change-Resilient Coastal Natural Resource Management Plan and the integration of Climate change projections and adaption practices into the village plans (such as Coastal Infrastructure Management Plans, etc) as relevant; * 2.) Local community with increased awareness of climate change through the training on and implementation of climate change and an education awareness plan; * 3.) Coral and mangrove ecosystems are better able to maintain ecosystem services in the face of climate change pressures by the re-enforcement of the river/lagoon mouth against erosion and widening that is being driven by changing wind and wave patterns (AusAID Co-financing) through the plantation in areas newly threatened due to changing coastal geomorphology and changing lagoon salinity dynamics, by establishing a Marine Protected Area (reducing non-climate stresses on coral, enabling them to more quickly recover from climate pressures such as bleaching), and constructing cement walls to protect springs from seawater inundation (AusAID co-financing) * 4.) Protection of ecosystems that buffer the community from climate change risks made more economically sustainable through the development of an eco-tourism plan, aimed at generating economic incentives for the protection of ecosystems the buffer the community from climate change impacts.
Contacts:
Mr. Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
Technical Advisor, BDP/EEG
Email:pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
Tel: +1 (212) 906 6843Project Status:
Under Implementation
Vaovai Village Coastal Adaptation Project
Submitted by robertaannan on Wed, 2009-09-02 03:00Summary:
Vaovai village is a community of approximately 600 people, situated on the southern coast of Upolu Island,
Samoa. Residents depend mainly on fishing and agriculture for their livelihoods, with some undertaking paid
employment, or receiving remittances from relatives overseas. Although some areas near Vaovai have tourism
potential, the tourism industry in the area remains underdeveloped.
The village’s land stretches from mountain ridges down to a wide and fertile coastal plain and ends at two major mangrove swamps. The mangrove wetland drains into shallow lagoons and, eventually, a coral reef. Most of the village’s population has moved inland, away from the coastal areas, settling behind the mangrove swamps and along the access roads to the beach and the main south coast road.
This inland migration is mainly a result of previous cyclones which caused major coastal erosion and flooding, and destroyed family properties and other assets.
Adaptation Experience:
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Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2009-07-07 20:45Summary:
A new publication entitled “Adapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners” is now available.
Guinea - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2009-06-22 23:43
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National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following summarizes the NAPA for Guinea.
Project Components:
Objective 1: Preparatory Activities Objective 2: Assessment and Priorities Objective 3: Priority Activity Proposals Objective 4: Public Review and finalisation of NAPA Document
Expected Outputs:
Objective 1: Establishment of a NAPA Task Force, Establishment of a Steering Committee, Establishment of a Multidisciplinary Team, Development of a National Consultative Mechanism Objective 2: Assessment of priority sector vulnerability to current climate change, to extreme meteorological phenomena and to climate change; Synthetic report on vulnerability assessment; and Adaptation measures and priority action selection criteria. Objective 3: Restricted list of priority activity proposals; and Identification and selection of priority activities. Objective 4: A preliminary draft of NAPA; Revision and finalisation of NAPA; and Adoption and diffusion of NAPA.
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Contacts:
GEF Focal Point: Mrs. Kadiatou N’Diaye Secretary General of the National Council for the Environment Ministry of Mines, Geology and the Environment Climate Change Focal Point: Mr. Mamadouba Sylla Directorate of the Environment Ministry of Mines, Geology and the Environment
Bangladesh - Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Change (LACC)
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Summary:
The project promotes climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction processes and capacities for sustainable livelihoods and food security in the rural sectors including crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry and other key factors of rural livelihoods in the drought prone and coastal regions of Bangladesh.
