Africa Adaptation Programme - Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa

Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2010-02-17 05:44
Author(s):
Africa Adaptation Programme
Year:
January 2010
Summary:

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

Community-Based Adaptation

Submitted by Ajose on Wed, 2009-09-02 01:10
Implementing Agency:
UNDP
Summary:

 It is increasingly recognized that small communities are likely to be the most severely affected by climate change impacts and yet are least equipped to cope and adapt. This pilot project is designed to implement community-based projects that seek to enhance the resiliency of communities, and/or the ecosystems on which they rely, to climate change impacts. It will essentially create small-scale/policy laboratories and generate knowledge about how to achieve adaptation at the local level.

Project Components:

Projects will be implemented in areas that are particularly vulnerable to climate change including variability, and where there is high potential to secure global environmental benefits in the context of climate change. Lessons learned from community projects will then be leveraged to promote replication of successful community practices, and integration of lessons learned into policies that promote increased community adaptive capacity. This project will assist in responding to GEF internal needs for concrete experience with local-scale climate change adaptation, as well as the growing needs of countries for ground-level experience and clear policy lessons.

Expected Outputs:

Enhanced adaptive capacity which allows communities to reduce their vulnerability to adverse impacts of future climate hazards; National policies and programmes designed that include community adaptation priorities to promote replication, up-scaling and mainstreaming of best practices derived from CBA projects; and Cooperation among member countries promoted for innovation in the design and implementation of adaptation to climate change including variability projects and policies.

Project Status:
Under Implementation
Funding Source:
GEF-LDCF
Financing Amount:
4,525,140
Cofinancing Total:
2,692,665
Total Amounts:
7,217,805
Contacts:
Resources:
About the CBA Project

Climate Check

Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2009-06-05 23:08
Summary:
Background

German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) is currently developing the tool 'Climate Check', which tackles climate change issues from two angles:

  • 'Climate Proofing' deals with the impact climate change risks can have on the sustainability of development projects.
  • 'Emission Saving' identifies contributions of the cooperation programmes to mitigating climate change and helps maximise these contributions.

Climate Check was piloted in Morocco and India in 2008. More information >