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Piloting climate change adaptation to protect human health in Fiji
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, World Health Organization, Ministry of HealthSummary:
Fiji Project Objective
To increase the adaptive capacity of the health sector to respond to climate sensitive risks.
Key Health Concerns and Vulnerability to Climate Change
Fiji has conducted a study looking at which afflictions have a clear link with climate change. Dengue fever, diarrhoeal diseases (food and water borne) and nutrition-related illnesses were all shown to be linked to climate and have the potential to worsen with increasing climate change and variability.
Project Components:
- Climate change and health early warning and planning systems
- Institutional and technical capacity to manage climate change health risks
- Demonstration Measures to reduce vulnerability
- Regional Cooperation to address climate change health risks
Expected Outputs:
Outcome 1: An early warning system providing reliable information on likely incidence of climate sensitive health risks.
- Climate sensitive health risks/CSD reporting system with prediction modeling.
- Institutional strengthening of health and key multisectoral partners in data management across sectors.
- Timely dissemination of data and advocacy.
- Information systems supporting integrated assessments of climate change and risks in management and long term health planning.
Outcome 2: Capacity of health sector institutions to respond to climate sensitive health risks based on early warning systems improved.
- Clarified and harmonized institutional mandates and procedures to respond to climate risks to public health.
- Health professionals in selected pilot regions have the capacity to respond to climate sensitive health risks based on early warning systems.
- Health professional in selected pilot regions have the capacity to effectively respond to HMDs and CSDs with specific attention on psychosocial intervention.
Outcome 3: Disease prevention measures piloted in areas of heightened health risk due to climate change
- Community members are aware of climate change on their community and take actions to make adaptations to minimize potential health risks.
- Community members are aware of CSDs, what to do when symptoms develop and how to take preventative measures to avoid them.
- Community members are aware of the effects of climate change on their community and take actions to make adaptation to minimize potential risks.
- Detailed Communication Plans in place (for Outcomes 1-3).
Contacts:
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya
(212) 906-6843
pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.orgCountry contact
Dr Salanieta Saketa
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Health (Chair) Jyotishma Naicker
E-mail: pccaphh.fiji@gmail.comWHO contact
Mr Steven Iddings
WPRO WHO Representative a.i.
E-mail: IddingsS@wpro.who.int
Piloting climate change adaptation to protect human health in Fiji
Submitted by joyguillemot on Mon, 2011-02-07 22:07Summary:
Fiji Project Objective
To increase the adaptive capacity of the health sector to respond to climate sensitive risks.
Key Health Concerns and Vulnerability to Climate Change
Fiji has conducted a study looking at which afflictions have a clear link with climate change. Dengue fever, diarrhoeal diseases (food and water borne) and nutrition-related illnesses were all shown to be linked to climate and have the potential to worsen with increasing climate change and variability.
Climate change (and the associated temperature rise) will impact dengue-fever by increasing the frequency of epidemics, as well as the possibility that a larger proportion of the population will be affected by each epidemic. With severe climate change there is even a chance that dengue will become endemic rather than occur in isolated epidemics. Improper water storage practices in water stricken areas have also been associated with an increase in mosquito breeding sites and the risk for related diseases.
Diarrhoeal disease may become more common if Fiji becomes warmer and wetter and if droughts and tropical cyclones occur more frequently, disrupting water supplies and sanitation systems.
Nutrition-related illnesses are most likely to be affected by increases in frequency and/or magnitude of tropical cyclone and drought events. Further, it is also likely that if climate change leads to economic and social disruption and environmental degradation, disadvantageous effects on health may be serious.
Adaptation Experience:
Expected Benefits
The greatest national health benefit of the proposed project is having a functional Health Information System that is capable of generating Early Warning Systems for Climate Sensitive Diseases. Other linked benefits include:
Results and Learning:
This project has been designed to increase the Ministry of Health’s capacity to monitor, assess and respond to hydro-meteorological disasters (HMDs) and Climate Sensitive Diseases (CSDs) and thus reduce health risks associated with climate change and variability. In order to be able to achieve this goal, several specific needs have been identified:
- Mainstreaming and planning - Climate Sensitive Diseases need to be incorporated in the Strategic Planning stages of the Ministry of Health and specifically reflected in the National Health Outcomes as well as the Disaster Preparedness Plans and the National Contingency Plans for Drought and Floods.
- Evaluation - National policies and plans have to be evaluated with specific attention to Watershed and Water Resource Management.
- Assessments - Incorporation of Environmental and Health Impact Assessment (E&HIA) as an integral part of new land and infrastructure development approval in addressing issues involving climate change adaptation to protect human health.
- Response - Intensifying surveillance and response programmes for CSDs during HMDs and other disasters and enhancing activities to rapidly and effectively respond to HMDs and CSDs with specific attention on psychosocial intervention.
| Outcome 1: An early warning system providing reliable information on likely incidence of climate sensitive health risks. |
Outcome 2: Capacity of health sector institutions to respond to climate sensitive health risks based on early warning systems improved. |
Outcome 3: Disease prevention measures piloted in areas of heightened health risk due to climate change |
| 1.1: Climate sensitive health risks/CSD reporting system with prediction modeling. | 2.1: Clarified and harmonized institutional mandates and procedures to respond to climate risks to public health. | 3.1: Community members are aware of climate change on their community and take actions to make adaptations to minimize potential health risks. |
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1.2: Institutional strengthening of health and key multisectoral partners in data management across sectors. |
2.2: Health professionals in selected pilot regions have the capacity to respond to climate sensitive health risks based on early warning systems. | 3.2: Community members are aware of CSDs, what to do when symptoms develop and how to take preventative measures to avoid them |
| 1.3: Timely dissemination of data and advocacy. | 2.3: Health professional in selected pilot regions have the capacity to effectively respond to HMDs and CSDs with specific attention on psychosocial intervention. | 3.3: Community members are aware of the effects of climate change on their community and take actions to make adaptation to minimize potential risks. |
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1.4: Information systems supporting integrated assessments of climate change and risks in management and long term health planning. |
3.4: Detailed Communication Plans in place (for Outcomes 1-3). |
Sustainability:
Not Yet Applicable
Replication:
Not Yet Applicable
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Flash Flood and Adaptive Crop Agriculture in North-Eastern Bangladesh: Peoples Centered Early Warning Systems for Erratic Flash Floods in the Haor Region
Submitted by naomi.sleeper on Fri, 2010-08-06 21:16
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The greater Haor Basin is a large flash flood zone in the northeastern part of Bangladesh. Modeling and dissemination of forecasts and warnings are weak for flash floods in Bangladesh. There is no single organization with overall responsibility for disseminating flood forecasts and warnings to potential users. This book aims to fill this gap by making extensive use of scientific and traditional knowledge to provide probability information for assessment of flash flood vulnerability.
Climate information for adaptation and development needs
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2010-06-22 17:38Year:
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WMO strategies are designed to respond to a number of challenges related to weather, climate and water issues. Climate change and its impacts, one of the most serious problems facing sustainable development globally, is of great concern to humanity and is being addressed by several global, regional and national organizations and institutions.
Integrated Climate Change Adaptation in Samoa (ICCAS)
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Project details
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Implementing Agency:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Summary:
Samoa is an LDC and a Party to the UNFCCC, which has completed and submitted its NAPA to the UNFCCC Secretariat and to the GEF on December 2005. Samoa is therefore eligible for submitting this project, entitled "Integrated Climate Change Adaptation in Samoa (ICCAS)" for NAPA implementation under the LDCF. The Samoa's NAPA identified 9 main areas where urgent and immediate adaptation interventions need to be implemented, 4 of which are not sufficiently addressed from existing initiatives.
These sectors are:
1. Health;
Project Components:
1. Health 2. Agriculture and Food Security 3. Early Warning Systems 4. Ecosystem Management
Contacts:
UNDP Samoa:
Easter Galuvao
Email: easter.galuvao@undp.orgProject Status:
Under Implementation (as of March 2011)
Improvement of Early Warning System to Reduce Impacts of Climate Change and Capacity Building to Integrate Climate Change into Development Plans
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Implementing Agency:
UNEP - United Nations Environment ProgrammeSummary:
To build institutional capacity for monitoring and predicting climate change impacts and vulnerability and for improved planning for adaptation to climate change throughout the country. This will be done be increasing the capacity for early warnings, response systems and national planning. This proposed project seeks to implement Lesotho’s third and fourth priority as identified in the National Adaptation programme of Action (NAPA).
Project Components:
1. Climate change monitoring and prediction
2. Climate change risk communication systems
3. Climate change policy
4. Training
5. Public Awareness and Education
6. Monitoring, Mid-Term and Final Evaluation
7. Project Management
Expected Outputs:
1. Enhancement of national network and establishment of protocols for providing, coordinating and assessing climate change relevant data needed for climate monitoring, prediction and projections; Socio economic databases assessed, collated and coupled with climate change database for improved understanding of vulnerability; Development of system for climate change impact assessment for all vulnerable livelihood zones.
2. Appropriate and effective channels for communicating climate and early warning information to end users (especially rural communities) established; Communication network for transmission of data from stations to monitoring centres and early warning information from monitoring centres to end users (especially rural communities) strengthened; A functional communication network for early warning systems and climate change is developed and established.
3. Technical assessment and analysis of climate change data for policy use (bridging science and policy); National climate change adaptation policy frameworks developed focussing on integrating climate change issues into key national development policies.
4. Training program developed and implemented for: a. technical personnel in maintenance and operation of hydro-meteorological and communication networks; b. technical personnel for climate change modelling and prediction; c. disaster management groups and rural communities for responses to early warning systems on optimal use of available information
5. Targeted public awareness needs identified in support of other components of the project; Implementation of the public awareness campaign, building on awareness carried out during NAPA preparation with a special focus on rural communities Inclusion of climate change into the national education curriculum.
Contacts:
Project Contact Person: Geordie Colville Tel: +254-762-3257 Email: Geordie.Colville@unep.org
Project Status:
Council Approved
GTZ Factsheet • Adaptation to Climate Risks in Nicaragua
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Implementing Agency:
GTZImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Autonomous government of the North Atlantic Region (GRAAN) and the municipalities of Waspam, Bonanza, Rosita and Santa TeresaSummary:
##### Adaptation to climate change through disaster risk management in two regions
In 2004 GTZ started a first project entitled “Adaptation
to Climate Change through Risk Management” with
selected
rural communities on the south-western Pacific
coast and in the autonomous North Atlantic Region with
the aim of improving their capacity to adapt to climate
change by means of strengthened disaster risk management.
The project also sought to integrate this capacity
into
their planning processes.Climate and disaster experts may well be aware of general
and specific risks for particulExpected Outputs:
The most important tool to date has been the carrying
out of a series of participatory risk analyses involving 550
citizens
from five Miskito communities. These were facilitated
by employees from the environmental unit of the
municipalities of Bonanza and Santa Teresa, assisted by
the local authorities. They had received special training on
this new tool, which creates anticipation in order to ensure
preparedness.In addition to several workshops in the
communities, a contest of drawing local risk-maps was
conducted and well received.The next step, which is still to be completed, is the thorough
integration of the identified risks into the local land
management plans, plus the definition of the necessary
steps to reduce them. Regional weather records are still
evaluated with the help of the local gold mining company,
which proved to have the only reliable rainfall records,
dating back to 1939.Early warning systems were improved and newly installed
in the community of Waspam in the border region next to
Honduras as well as in the pacific community of Puerto
Cabezas,
to allow for fast communication and information
among a total of 70 radio stations. The activities included
the installation of new equipment and a communication platform as well as hands-on training of about 150 persons
on how to use a radio transmitter. The early warning systems
substantially improved the preparedness and speed of evacuation
measures during the 2005 hurricanes Wilma and Beta.These pilot projects, which were discussed with the
authorities
at the national and regional level in bilateral
meetings and in workshops, have been integrated into
GTZ’s long-term Programme for Sustainable Resource
Management and Entrepreneurial Capacity Building
(MASRENACE), which started in Nicaragua during the
same period.
Bhutan - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2009-07-06 20:51
Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Executing Agency:
Implementing Agency:
Summary:
The Bhutan NAPA preparation has been a timely opportunity to look at the country’s
climate change related vulnerabilities in its unique geographical setting.
Project Components:
n/a
Expected Outputs:
Module No. 1: Establishment of NAPA Team, institutional arrangements
Activity 1.1. NAPA Process Initiation and Management
Activity 1.2. Stakeholder Consultations
Activity 1.3. Assembly of Multi-Disciplinary Teams
Module No. 2: Adaptation Assessment Methodology
Activity 2.1. Adaptation Assessment Methodology Development
Activity 2.2. Review of initial vulnerability and adaptability assessments
Activity 2.3. Prioritisation of Sectors Affected by Climate Change
Module 3: Adaptation Assessments and Plan of Actions
Activity 3.1. Detailed Adaptation Analysis of Priority Sectors
Activity 3.2. Development of Proposals for Priority Activities
Activity 3.3. Synthesis of Detailed Sectoral Adaptation Analyses
Module No. 4: Preparation of the National Adaptation Program of Action
Activity 4.1. Preparation and Presentation of the Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan
Activity 4.2. Review of Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan
Activity 4.3. NAPA Document Dissemination
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Zambia - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2009-06-23 00:40
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Summary:
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 Zambia.
Climate Related Hazards * Droughts * Floods * Extreme Heat * Shorter Rainy Season
Project Components:
* Identify the priority vulnerable sectors to climate change, in the context of sustainable development and national development needs; * Formulate priority projects for adaptation to climate change that are consistent with development goals; * Build technical and institutional capacity to design and implement adaptation programmes addressing longer-term climate change; and * Promote an interdisciplinary approach to reduce climate vulnerability in the priority sectors through active stakeholders engagement.
Expected Outputs:
OUTPUT 1: National NAPA team with a lead agency established Activity 1.1: Appointment of the NAPA team with lead agency Activity 1.2: Recruitment of the NAPA Team Activity 1.3: Organize orientation workshop on the NAPA Process and finalize workplan OUTPUT 2: Multidisciplinary assessment team established Activity 2.1: Recruitment of Experts Output 3: Report on synthesis of adverse effects of climate change Activity 3.1: Collect and synthesize data and information on vulnerability and adverse effects of climate change Activity 3.2: Identify past and current practices for adaptation Activity 3.3: Identify information and data gaps Activity 3.4:. Develop adaptation baselines Activity 3.5: Select the relevant stakeholders Activity 3.6: Prepare a preliminary synthesis report Output 4: Report on Assessment of Vulnerability to current climate variability Activity 4.1: Establish mechanisms for stakeholder consultation Activity 4.2: Undertake interviews/surveys to assess vulnerability Activity 4.3: Carry out damage surveys where applicable Output 5: Report of Key Climate Change Adaptation Measures Activity 5.1: Identify preliminary adaptation measures and evaluation criteria Activity 5.2: Derive risk profiles Activity 5.3: Report on the preliminary adaptation measures Output 6: Mechanism for Country driven criteria and plan of action for selecting priority activities to address the adverse effects of climate change established. Activity 6.1: Agree on evaluation criteria Activity 6.2: Select priority adaptation measures Output 7:Proposals for priority activities developed. Activity 7.1: The multi-disciplinary team develops the ranked adaptation measures into proposals Output 8: NAPA document Activity 8.1: Establish a NAPA Document Editorial Committee Activity 8.2: Hold NAPA editorial meetings Activity 8.3: Hold a consultative workshop with all stakeholders on the NAPA document. Activity 8.4: Conform NAPA document to UNFCCC guidelines Activity 8.5: Translate NAPA into at least six main vernacular languages and publicize NAPA on mass media Activity 8.7: Submit NAPA document to the UNFCCC and implementing agency.
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GEF Operating Focal Point: Dr. K. Nkowani Ministry of Tourism Environment and Natural Resources
Mozambique - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2009-06-23 00:11
Executing Agency:
Implementing Agency:
Summary:
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 the Mozambique.
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Climate Change Focal Point: Marília Telma António Manjate UNFCCC National Focal Point Ministry for Co-ordination of Environmental Affairs
