Environment Mainstreaming and Adaptation to Climate Change - Mozambique

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  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNDP
    Summary:

    The joint programme will reduce the risks of climate change to poverty reduction efforts in areas of Mozambique at risk from climate change (arid and semi-arid areas, river basins and coastal areas) through the mainstreaming of environment in central and local level plans and programmes, and improving the adaptive capacity of the communities and other stakeholders through enhancing their coping mechanisms and diversifying their livelihoods options.

    Contacts:

    Regina Gallego Piñero
    Programme Analyst
    MDG Achievement Fund
    Email: regina.gallego@undp.org

    Project Status:
    Under Implementation
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    Spain MDG Achievment Fund
    Financing Amount:
    7,000,000
    Cofinancing Total:
    554,200
    Total Amounts:
    7,554,200

Climate Change: Learning from Grassroots Coping Strategies

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-12-11 03:49
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Author(s):
Huraera Jabeen, Adriana Allen and Cassidy Johnson
Year:
2009
City:
Fifth Urban Research Symposium, France
Summary:

Full Paper

Built-in resilience: learning from grassroots coping strategies Fifth Urban Research Symposium 2009

This paper attempts to establish the relations between adaptation, disaster risk reduction and coping strategies for urban areas. It summarizes some of the existing coping strategies of the urban poor in Korail area – the largest informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The paper discusses how local planning, adaptation, and governance mechanisms can support the existing coping strategies in urban areas.

Sustainable Rural Development Project for Mexico

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  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency:
    SAGARPA/FIRCO
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    World Bank, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, GEF, Local Communties
    Summary:

    ###### Background

    The objective of the Sustainable Rural Development Project for Mexico is to promote the adoption of environmentally sustainable technologies in agri-businesses. There are four components to the project.

    The first component is the investments in environmentally sustainable technologies in agribusinesses. The project will promote investments in environmentally sustainable technologies in agri-businesses operating at the various stages of the production chain of agricultural products.

    Project Components:

    * Component 1) Investments in environmentally sustainable technologies in agri-business; the project promotes investments in environmentally sustainable technologies in agri-business operating at the various stages of the production chain of agricultural products.
    * Component 2) Investment and Production Support Services; partially reimburse beneficiaries for the costs associated with business plan preparation for sub-projects, including the energy diagnostic when necessary and provide beneficiaries with technical assistance for implementation of their proposed business plan, as well as training to integrate technologies promoted through the project in their farms and/or agri-business.
    * Component 3) Institutional Strengthening; address issues related to climate change and the environmental impact of sub-projects, in particular, institutional strengthening of areas that will address the targets outlined within the National Strategy on Climate Change and the President's Special Program for Climate Change (PECC).
    * Component 4) Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.

    Expected Outputs:

    Increased number of small and medium-sized agri-business adopting environmentally sustainable technologies (renewable energy sources and/or energy efficient technologies and/or sustainable waste management and biomass conversion); Tons of Carbon dioxide equivalent avoided through project activities;Success informulating climate change mitigation and adaptation policies and/or programs in the agricultural sector and monitoring their implementation.

    Contacts:

    Stevan Jackson.

    Telephone: 202-458-5054.

    Email: sjackson@worldbank.org

    Project Status:
    Project is active
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    n/a
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    GEF
    Financing Amount:
    10,500,000
    Cofinancing Total:
    168,350,000
    Total Amounts:
    168,350,000

Participatory Tool on Climate and Disaster Risks (CliDR) - Strengthening local adaptation and mitigation capacities in community-level development projects

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-07-24 22:58
Summary:
Background

HEKS and Bread for All have created a simple, easy-to-use climate and disaster risk proofing tool. The present document constitutes the fifth version taking into account experiences made with previous versions in pilot country applications. It is largely based on the CRiSTAL tool and CARE CVCA Handbook.