Strengthening Farmers Communities Livelihoods Resilience Against Climate Changes in the Guinean Prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    UNDP, Ministry of Environment, Water and Forestry
    Summary:

    Agriculture and livestock are the main economic activities in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. However, while their importance for the economy and community livelihoods is undeniable, agriculture and livestock farming in Gaoual, Koundara and Mali remain of subsistence, dependent entirely on the natural resource potential and characterized by unsustainable environmental practices.The agriculture and livestock production are currently facing several constraints which limit their productivity and render them highly vulnerable to any external shock including climate effects.

    Project Components:

    1) Local Authorities are technically strengthened to promote climate resilient local development

    2) Climate change information systems are established to guide climate resilient agroforestry practices

    3) Climate resilient Agroforestry is promoted in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali to increase community livelihood resilience

    As detailed in the 12-7-2011 - Guinea Project Identification Form [attached].

    Expected Outputs:

    Component 1

    • Output 1.1: 300 GKM CRD councils members, Urban Districts councils members, and decentralized institution staffs are sensitized about climate change risks, trained on how to integrate climate change risks and support the implementation of agroforestry in the implementation of regional PNDA action plans through the PLDs, PAIs and BCAs.
    • Output 1.1: Community based land, forest and watershed management plans and regulation tools (custom laws and agreements) are developed and implemented for the enforcement of the agro-hydro-climatic zoning of the Prefectures of GKM developed in the framework of the output 2.1.1 in order to orient agro-sylvo-pastoral activities towards the most appropriate areas and promote the implementation of agroforestry as strategy to adapt to climate changes in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. These tools will coordinate with the strategic plan of the Guinea-Guinea Bissau trans-boundary Protected Areas developed in the framework of the AGIR project. Indeed, the AGIR project (2000 - 2005) has supported the production of a strategic plan for the management of the Guinea - Guinea Bissau trans-boundary Protected Area (the Guinean section of this trans-boundary PA is located in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Boke) and which organize the agriculture, livestock and other economic activities in the PA and its surroundings. This outcome will additionally assess and codify the experience and knowledge generated from the application of these custom laws and provided to the decision makers for an improvement of the regulatory framework.
    • Output 1.3: Local development plans (PLDs), annual and multi-years investments programmes (PAIs/MIPs) and annual community budgets (BCAs) of the 15 most vulnerable GKM Rural Development Communities (CRD) are updated to integrate climate change risks and dispositions to address the technical, financial, institutional, regulatory, organizational, and other constraints to climate resilient agroforestry scaling-up as adaptation strategies.

    Component 2

    • Output 2.1: An agro-meteorological action plan is developed and implemented in the 3 prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. The action plan will allow to: i) determine the required agro-meteorological information needed for a climate resilient agroforestry; ii) identify the needs for capacity building to obtain the necessary agro-meteorological information; iii) design and organize capacity building for key institutions; iv) organize production and dissemination of priority agro-meteorological information to the appropriate end-users;
    • Output 2.2: Local multidisciplinary group for agro-meteorological assistance (LGMAs) in each of the 15 most vulnerable CRDs are established to coordinate the gathering of climatic information as well as the production and dissemination of agro-meteorological information and advisory support. The LGMAs will be made up of local representatives from the DMN, the agricultural, livestock, environment, water resources, fauna and forestry resources ministries, of the community based organizations, local NGOs and other relevant institutions.
    • Output 2.3: An agro-hydro-climatic zoning of the prefectures of GKM (vulnerable lands, forests and watercourses, areas for types of crops, for grazing, watercourses for irrigations etc) is elaborated and submitted to local authorities and decentralized institutions to support the elaboration of climate resilient PLDs and PAIs and the promotion of resilient agroforestry strategies.

    Component 3

    • Output 3.1: Training package on climate resilient agroforestry is designed and implemented for 1,500 farmers from the 15 most vulnerable CRDs in GKM prefectures. This training programme will firstly start by a training of trainers who will replicate the training to other farmers. This output will also, with the support of the Agriculture research center of Bareng (in Guinea) and other relevant international research center, develop training modules and methodologies that other projects and programmes could use beyond the project life and scope.
    • Output 3.2: An advisory support group, made up of the trainers trained as a result of output 3.1, and selected members of the AAGs have established to provide climate resilient agroforestry advice to farmers. This output will also put at the disposal of the local authorities of a strategic document for the maintaining of this advisory group beyond the project life to ensure the sustainability of this service. This strategy will assess the feasibility of the privatization of this service through its inclusion in package of support service provided by the farmers associations to their members and the assessment of their willingness to pay such service.
    • Output 3.3: 200 community farms are supported (farmers organization, farm lay-out, acquisition of resilient seeds and tree species, farm running) to implement climate resilient agroforestry technologies in the prefectures of GKM. Additionally, this output, with the support of the research sector in Guinea, will support the assessment and the codification of the experiences and knowledge generated from these community agroforestry farms and their dissemination in Gaoual, Koundara and Mali and beyond the project areas and life.
    • Output 3.4: An operational supply chain for the production and diffusion of drought resistant agroforestry inputs (trees, crop seeds and livestock species) is established in Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. This output will support the development of nurseries of climate resilient trees and livestock species, facilitate the acquisition of resilient main staple crop seeds, and the dissemination of these inputs to the farmers of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali.
    • Output 3.5: A strategy to support the commercialization of products derived from agroforestry is implemented in the prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali. This strategy will consist in supporting the organization of agroforestry farmers, the establishment of small units for the conservation and transformation of agroforestry products related to the multifunctional platform project, the implementation of marketing actions and infrastructures, the establishment of a label proper to these agroforestry products, the development of a channel of agroforestry products linking producers to consumers.

    As detailed in the 12-7-2011 - Guinea Project Identification Form [attached].

    Contacts:

    UNDP/GEF Regional Technical Advisor (Green-LECRDS)

    Project Status:
    SOF Pipeline Entry (as of 6 February 2012)
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    Rural communities of Guinea Prefectures of Gaoual, Kaundara and Mali
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    GEF-LDCF
    Financing Amount:
    GEF Grant 3,816,364 USD (as of 6 February 2012)
    Cofinancing Total:
    50,630,000 USD (as of 6 February 2012)
    Total Amounts:
    54,446,364 USD (as of 6 February 2012)

Optimizing livestock production as a climate change adaptation strategy in Semi-arid Regions of southeast Zimbabwe

  • Project details

  • Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    Makoholi Research Station and the Department of Agriculture, technical and extension services (Agritex) are key partners in this initiative. A strong working relationship has been developed between these institutions and the participating farmers.
    Summary:

    The GoZ-UNDP/GEF: Coping with Drought and Climate Change project is working with small-holder
    farmers in Chiredzi district to demonstrate the potential of livestock production in drought risk management
    and climate change adaptation.

    For overall details refer to the [Zimbabwe - Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project](http://www.adaptationlearning.net/projects/zimbabwe-coping-drought-and-c...)

    Contacts:

    Project Manager
    GoZ- UNDP/GEF: Coping with Drought and Climate Change
    Environmental Management Agency
    Harare, Zimbabwe
    Email: cwd@ecoweb.co.zw

    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    Global Environment Facility (GEF) - Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)
    Cofinancing Total:
    For overall details refer to the Zimbabwe - Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project

Uruguay - National Communication

Summary:
Uruguay - Second National Communication - 11 May 2004

The first research activities and evaluations on vulnerability to climate change and identification of adaptation measures, covering Agriculture and Coastal Resources sectors were conducted within the framework of the Country Study made by the National Commission on Global Change through 1994-1998, with the funding of the United States Country Studies Program (USCSP).

Uruguay is currently participating in the implementation of three regional projects, with the support of the Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC) initiative:

a) Impact of global change on the coastal areas of the Río de la Plata: sea level rise and meteorological effects; b) Building capacity to assess the impact of climate change and climatic variability and to develop adaptive responses for the mixed crop and livestock production systems in the Argentinean, Brazilian and Uruguayan Pampas; c) Assessing global change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation strategies for estuarine waters of the Río de la Plata.