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Mauritania
UNDP Community Water Initiative - Fostering Water Security and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Submitted by andrea on Sun, 2011-02-27 23:35Year:
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The UNDP Community Water Initiative has funded successful projects in some of the most vulnerable communities in Africa, South Asia, and Central America. Using a broad range of innovative approaches, these projects have helped increase the capacities of local people to participate in developing their own solutions to local water resource problems. By providing modest funds, CWI has helped generate large rewards for the communities in terms of water security, natural resources management, and social well being.
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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
Global - Technical Assistance to Francophone LDCs to Implement the UNFCCC8/CP8 Decision
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UNDPImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNITARSummary:
Project Rationale and Objectives _(as outlined in the Project Document of 25 July 2003)_ The Least Developed Countries (LDCs) represent the poorest and weakest segment of the international community. The economic and social development of these countries represents a major challenge because of a series of vulnerabilities and constraints, such as limited human, institutions and productive LDCs themselves, as well as for their development partners.
Project Components:
To train Francophone NAPA teams to produce NAPAs of good quality.
Expected Outputs:
21 Country teams are adequately trained to carry out their NAPA work. The three key outcomes are: * Informed representatives of the Francophone LDCs delegations and increased awareness about the application of the NAPA guidelines from a substantive point of view; * Increased participatory discussion among the various players involved and their proactive commitment to the NAPA creation process. * Increased understanding of Francophone LDCs UNFCCC Focal Points about successful GEF NAPA projects implementation/process.
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Implementing Agency contact person: Mr. Richard Hosier Principal Technical Adviser GEF/UNDP, N.Y. Tel: +1 212 906 6591 Fax: +1 212 906 6690 Email: richard.hosier@undp.org
Project Status:
CEO Approved.
Adaptation to Climate Change - Responding to Shoreline Change in its Human Dimensions in West Africa through Integrated Coastal Area Management (ACCC)
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, UNESCO/IOC, National Environmental Agency (NEA)Summary:
Funded by the Strategic Priority on Adaptation, this pilot project focuses on implementing measures to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities to the impacts of climate change on coastal resources. A multi-agency Project Team will implement this pilot project in Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Cape Verde over a duration of 4 years. The experience of UNDP, in close collaboration with UNESCO/IOC, will guide the implementation of this project through a set of nationally and regionally executed activities.
Project Components:
- Component 1: Implemented pilot activities to increase the adaptive capacity of coastal communities in the participating countries.
- Component 2: Mainstreaming of adaptation into policies and programmes.
- Component 3. Building to increase the ability to plan for and respond to climate and coastal change.
Expected Outputs:
- Number of newly constructed, rehabilitated coastal protective (soft and hard) systems. This includes for example, new number of developments with new materials/methods, set-back of new developments.
- Length of coast protected, reduction in erosion rates, sediment loads, number of channels constructed, plant coverage in pilot sites (in HA), reduction in forest clearance in pilot sites, number and extent of fire belts, increase in forest cover.
- Perceptions of efficacy and relevance of project outcomes, increases in household income, number and area extent of community conservation projects, number of households using new sources, wood consumption, number of stakeholder exchanges on climate change and coastal management.
- At least 25 information nodes (climate change and coastal management task force members, project staff, community members)
- Area coverage of coastal management systems, river and basin management schemes, number of plans addressing sea level rise (and climate change), number of policies & programmes amended to address adaptation, and number of bilateral and multilateral adaptation relevant agreements
- Number of new sand mining sites per year (before and after project)
- Participation of governmental and private sector participants in workshops, number trained community members in management of coastal resources in the context of climate change and anthropogenic impacts
- Awareness of results of monitoring (number of media announcements on climate change and impacts on coastal regions and sea level rise)
Contacts:
UNDP Program Officer
- Mr Almamy Camara
- Programme Analyst
Project Status:
Under Implementation
