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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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Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Submitted by naomi.sleeper on Fri, 2010-09-03 10:11Year:
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This IFPRI publication is a review of data sources, Poverty Reduction Strategy Programs (PRSPs) and National Adaptation Plans for Agriculture (NAPAs) in ASARECA member countries (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda).
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The CC DARE Programme in Sub-Saharan Africa
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2010-08-20 05:05Summary:
The CC DARE programme provides demand-driven technical and financial assistance to sub-Saharan African countries that is targeted, flexible and rapid. The assistance is made available to improve the ability of sub-Saharan African countries to remove barriers and create opportunities for integrating climate change adaptation into national development planning and decision-making frameworks. The programme is designed to complement and strengthen ongoing and planned nationally based climate change adaptation and risk management.
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Principal Actors:
Policy Advisor Climate Change & Development Programme, UNDP United Nations Office in Nairobi: Johnson Nkem, johnson.nkem@undp.org
UNEP Focal Point: Bubu Jallow, Bubu.jallow@unep.org
UNDP Focal Point: Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
UNEP Risoe Centre Focal Point: Anne Olhoff, olho@risoe.dtu.dk
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The Cost to Developing Countries of Adaptation to Climate Change: New Methods and Estimates - The Global Report of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Study
Submitted by naomi.sleeper on Wed, 2010-08-04 20:39Summary:
Abstract: _This initial study report, which focuses on the first objective, finds that the cost between 2010 and 2050 of adapting to an approximately 2oC warmer world by 2050 is in the range of $75 billion to $100 billion a year. This range is of the same order of magnitude as the foreign aid that developed countries now give developing countries each year, but it is still a very low percentage of the wealth of countries as measured by their gross domestic product (GDP).
Changing climates, changing lives
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2010-05-20 17:55Year:
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This study examines the vulnerability of farmers and herders in agro-pastoral and pastoral areas in Ethiopia and Mali, and shows how they are adapting to climate variability and change. It focuses on peopleʼs perceptions and experience at the household level, and the role of local institutions in supporting adaptation and improving food security.
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Integrating approaches: Sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2010-05-20 17:36Year:
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Disasters and climate change are increasingly influencing the attainment of development objectives. This briefing paper provides an overview and key recommendations regarding sustainable livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation emissions
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Lars Otto Naess,
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Email: l.naess@ids.ac.uk.
Morwenna Sullivan,
Action Against Hunger
Email: m.sullivan@aahuk.org.
Linking Population, Fertility and Family Planning with Adaptation to Climate Change: Views from Ethiopia
Submitted by population on Wed, 2010-04-14 21:34
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Population Action International and Miz-Hasab Research Center in collaboration with the Joint Global Change Research Institute have conducted a qualitative study that explores how communities in Ethiopia react to and cope with climate variation, which groups are considered most vulnerable, and what resources communities need to adapt to climate changes. The study addresses people’s perceptions of the link between population pressure and climate change and the role of family planning and reproductive health in increasing resilience
to climate change impacts. The study was carried
out in 2008-2009 in peri-urban and rural
areas of two regions in Ethiopia: the Oromia
region and the Southern Nations, Nationalities
and People’s (SNNP) region.
Adaptation Experience:
Climate change will have a notable impact on Ethiopia’s temperature and precipitation: average annual temperatures nationwide could rise 3.1° C by 2060, and 5.1° C by 2090. In addition, precipitation is projected to decrease from an annual average of 2.04 mm/day (1961-1990) to 1.97 mm/day (2070-2099), for a cumulative decline in rainfall of 25.5 mm/year. A growing population has already led to increased demand for agricultural and grazing land, as well as wood for fuel and construction purposes.
Results and Learning:
In this study, women and men from two areas of Ethiopia spoke about the increasing challenges they face in adapting to climate change. They recounted how rising temperatures, more frequent droughts, increased flooding, receding grazing land and diminishing forests are making it more difficult for their families and communities ties to cope. Study participants from Oromia and SNNP reported that they:
- Acknowledge that climate change is occurring and changing their environments.
- Identify women, children and the elderly as the groups most vulnerable to and affected by climate change.
- Encourage the use of family planning by observing that large families of six or more children, while culturally desirable, are not currently sustainable.
- Believe that while climate change is inevitable and some alleviation may be up to God, the government and communities should take lead in addressing climate change.
An interviewee in Oromia stated that “Nothing seems… like in the past. On the contrary, the problems are getting worse. The temperature, shortage of food and rainfall situation is worsening.” In the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region, a rural community member remarked that “… if a family has limited children, he will have enough land for his kids and hence we can protect the forests… In earlier years, we had a lot of fallow lands, but now, as a result of population growth, we don’t have adequate fallow land. Therefore, limiting the number of children will help us to cope with the change in climate.”
Sustainability:
Ethiopia has a Climate Change National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA), which was created in 2007 to address the effects of climate change. Additionally, the National Population Policy of Ethiopia was adopted in 1993 with a primary goal of achieving harmony between the country’s rate of population growth and its capacity to utilize natural resources to best serve this growing population. Its Reproductive Health Strategy, formulated in 2006, lists a goal of increasing contraceptive prevalence from the current 15 percent to 60 percent by 2010. Nevertheless, far more must be done to address these problems. The authoring organizations of this study have the following recommendations for the government of Ethiopia, donors, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and researchers:
- Support integrated approaches to climate change adaptation that build on people’s expressed needs, and strengthen community- based adaptation strategies to include expanding access to reproductive health and family planning services.
- Give more high-level policy support to Ethiopia’s reproductive health and family planning programs to reduce the high unmet need for contraception and to improve maternal and child health.
- Researchers should include population growth, fertility and access to family planning and reproductive health services in future studies of impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change.
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Africa Adaptation Programme - Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-02-17 05:44Year:
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The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) has been designed to support the long-term efforts of targeted countries to further develop their capability to successfully identify, design and implement holistic adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes that are aligned with national development priorities. In this regard AAP is not a traditional adaptation programme per se – but a strategic initiative, aimed at creating an environment for more informed and capable adaptation decisions and practice in each country.
The brochures below (in English, French and Japanese) provide a brief outline of the Programme, as well as a snapshot of the key priorities identified by each country under AAP
The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
Submitted by MelOliveros on Thu, 2010-01-07 23:27Summary:
The World Bank is working with seven pilot countries—Bangladesh, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Samoa and Vietnam on a new study—the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change. The study is funded by the Governments of the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Switzerland and will help inform the international community’s efforts to provide new and additional resources to developing countries through a better understanding of the global costs of adapting to climate change. It will also help decision makers at the national level to better cost, prioritize, sequence and integrate robust adaptation strategies into their development plans and budgets in a context of high uncertainty, competing needs and limited financial resources.
While national governments have to protect their most vulnerable people and identify financing mechanisms to make their countries resilient to climate change, these costs of adapting to climate change are not known.
