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Lessons Learned 2009 - Promoting climate resilient water management and agricultural practices in rural Cambodia
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-04-26 05:12
Summary:
The proposed project will increase adaptive capacity of key stakeholders in water resource management to address the impacts of climate change. The project has a particular focus on water resource needs of the agriculture sector. The project will identify, prioritize and drive needed policy reforms necessary to overcome constraints to the design, planning and implementation of technically and economically feasible measures on adaptation to climate change in the agricultural sector. Interventions supported by this project will focus on the needs of the poor agricultural communities that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The proposed project, which is based on the NAPA priority interventions, will build the capacity of selected local communities to adapt to changes in water and land resources resulting from climate change.
Adaptation Experience:
The proposed project is based on priority interventions outlined in the NAPA and focuses on climate change-resilient agricultural water management. The impacts of climate change on Cambodian agriculture, particularly on rice cultivation, are predicted to adversely affect food production and – security in rural areas. Various climate models depict different trends in annual precipitation, with some predicting substantial increases in total precipitation and some predicting a rise, followed by a fall.
Results and Learning:
The key stakeholders are people involved in water resource management in Cambodia and two contrasting agricultural districts: 1. Chi Kreng District in Siem Reap, which consists of 12 communes, 154 villages. The Chi Kreng District consists of 22,994 families with 127,032 people (64,807 women) of which 21,832 families are farmers. 2. The Bavel District in Battambang Province, which consists of 6 communes with a total of 18,842 families (95,847 people, of which 48,731 are women). The project objective is to enhance adaptive capacity, at the national, institutional and local levels, to climate change–induced changes in water resources availability for the agricultural sector in Cambodia. As a contribution to this objective, the project goal is to enhance food security and food production in the face of changed climate conditions. Part of this process will include improved capacity to conserve and manage fish stocks as an element of integrated rural livelihood development through integrated packages of small rural livelihood interventions. Complementing this capacity development process, which will apply at the national level, the project will also build capacity of selected local communities to adapt to changes in water and land resources resulting from climate change to promote sustainable agricultural development.
Sustainability:
The project has strong government support at both central and local levels. The current Medium Term Strategy for Agriculture and Water (2006-2010)has identified five priority programs to implement: (i) Institutional capacity building and management support program for agriculture and water sector, (ii) Food security support program, (iii) Agriculture and agri-business (value-chain) support program, (iv) Water resource, irrigation and land management program, and (v) agricultural and water resources research, education and extension program. The project will contribute to the current programme 1 and 4 of the Medium Term Strategy for Agriculture and Water in amending the proposed activities of the programmes so as to incorporate measures to address the impacts of climate change and climate variaiblity. This will effectively mainstream climate change adaptation into national polcies and programmes for agriculture and water resources, thus ensuring sustainability. The Medium Term Strategy for Agriculture and Water recognises the impacts of climate change and variability in agriculture and water resource management and suggests to design measures to mitigate adverse impacts and gain benefit from positive ones (paragraph 40). Under programme 4, the Medium Term Strategy for Agriculture and Water suggests that country take appropriate steps to respond to climate change and variability.
Replication:
Outcome 3 of the project is entirely concerned with promoting in-country learning, up-scaling and replication. The project will establish conditions to facilitate learning of climate change adaptation measures, for example, by developing learning networks in association with several national NGOs, developing and delivering training modules for the new FWUC Service Centre, and awareness raising campaigns through various forms of media. The project also incorporates international replication measures through Outcome 3, which links to the GEF-supported Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM).
Funding Source:
Capacity Building for Sustainable Land Management
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Summary:
This project aims to development the capacity of government officials to be able to carry out other projects that will help eradicate land-induced poverty especially in rural development agendas. It also aims to enhance the National Action Plan and complete medium-term National Investment Plan and its coordinated Mobilization Plan.
Contacts:
UNDP Contact:
Asenaca Ravuvu
Email: asenaca.ravuvu@undp.orgProject Status:
Under ImplementationPrimary Beneficiaries:
Cook Islands, FSM, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Palau Automated Land and Resources Information System (PALARIS)
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Summary:
The overall objective of the proposed Medium-Sized Project (MSP) is to further build capacity at the national, state, and community levels across sectors to effectively address sustainable land management and land use planning that will assist Palau in the achievement of long-term domestic and global environmental benefits and therein, MDG Goals 7.
Contacts:
UNDP Contact: Asenaca Ravuvu Email: asenaca.ravuvu@undp.org
Project Status:
Under Implementation
Enhancing Management Capacity for National Parks and Reserves
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment-Division of Environment and Conservation (MNRE-DEC), Forestry Division (F/D), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)Summary:
The current rates of forest depletion are high (and similar) on both Savaii and Upolu, which is estimated 1,500 ha per year, and therefore the accelerated deforestation is a major environmental problem. The loss of biodiversity due to forest clearing, attributed to commercial logging (20%), agriculture and other activities (80%) and the spread of introduced/invasive species raise concern.
Expected Outputs:
1. Management Plans for O Le Pupu-Pu’e National Park and Vailima National Reserve are formulated. 2. O Le Pupu-Pu'e National Park and Vailima National Reserve are properly managed based on the Management Plans. 3. Public awareness-raising activities on the importance of the conservation of National Parks and National Reserves are strengthened.
Contacts:
JICA Samoa:
Takayuki Tomihara
tomihara.takayuki@jica.go.jpProject Status:
Completed, March 2010
Environmentally Safe Aggregates for Tarawa
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)Summary:
The goal of this Kiribati EU project implemented by SOPAC is to support the community of Kiribati to combat coastal erosion on its most densely populated atoll, Tarawa. The atoll faces severe coastal erosion problems which result in the loss of land, wave overtopping and flooding of businesses and houses and critical infrastructure such as the local hospital. The project aims to protect the vulnerable beaches of South Tarawa from damage caused by aggregate mining and provide an alternative supply of material through environmentally safe lagoon dredging.
Contacts:
EU Contact:
Annick Villarosa
annick.villarosa@ec.europa.euProject Status:
Under Implementation, 2008
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2010-01-08 08:47Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Summary:
Adaptation to Climate
Change in the Pacific
Island Region is a programme designed to strengthen the capacities of Pacific member countries and regional organizations, to adapt to, and mitigate climate change. The project will more particularly work on developing and subsequently implementing national adaptation strategies and integrating climate change issues into existing land use strategies and policies in Tonga and Vanuatu and Fiji. It also assists SPC-LRD in integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation concerns in SPC-LRD strategic approaches and advisory services.
Project Components:
The overall objective of the programme is that:
“The capacities of the SPC member countries to cope with the adverse effects of climate change and to avoid deforestation are strengthened, with sustainable management of land based natural resources as a fundamental element”
Expected Outputs:
The following outcomes are expected:
- The sector programmes and working teams of SPC Land Resources Division systematically integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation concerns into its strategic approach and advisory services
Verification: LRD Strategy, advisory service offer, documentation of mainstreaming process
- At least 3 member countries access and utilize the new services and knowledge provided by SPC-LRD as a regional knowledge hub to develop and subsequently implement (at least 1 member country) efficient and effective national adaptation strategies
Verification: strategy documents in member countries, survey, documentation of pilot projects
- Existing strategies, planning documents and related processes on land use planning in Tonga and Vanuatu integrate climate change issues, with gender aspects taken into consideration, and the subsequent first steps in implementing these land use plans are carried out
Verification: Land use plans, reports on implementation of LUP, gender analysis of LUP
- Fiji signs at least one contract using international carbon market instruments on certificates for avoided deforestation
Verification: contract document (voluntary market, CDM, international fund)
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Contacts:
Project Contacts
Dr Hermann Fickinger
Chief Adviser / Team Leader
Email: Hermann.Fickinger@gtz.de
Tel: +679-3305 983
Fax: +679-3315 446
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Aleki Sasifa
Email: alekiS@spc.int
Land and Water Resource Management in Asia: Challenges for climate adaptation
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2009-12-14 04:00
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Background Paper for the Asia Regional Meeting of the Dialogue on Climate Change Adaptation for Land and Water Management, January 19-21, 2009.
This “Dialogue on Climate Change Adaptation for Land and Water Management” aims to facilitate the exchange of information, experiences and lessons learned among experts in land and water management in Africa and Asia in order to:
- Increase understanding of the implications of climate change for sustainable development;
- Promote understanding of integrated land and water management response strategies, including local coping strategies, and t
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.
