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Promoting Climate Resilient Water management and Agricultual Practices in Rural Cambodia
Submitted by bunly meas on Tue, 2012-01-17 08:46
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Title: Understanding Climate Change
Picture 1: Climate change causes
Picture 2: Climate change impacts
Picture 3: Climate change adaptation
Produced by the Save Cambodia Wildlife
Supported by: Cambodia Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, UNDP, and GEF.
Préparation du Plan d’Action National d’Adaptation du Burundi aux changements climatiques
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UNDPImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Direction de l'Environnement et du Tourisme, Ministère de l Am nagement du Territoire, de l Environnement et du TourismeSummary:
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Completed. NAPA final report submitted to UNFCCC in February 2007.
ALM Case Study 2010 - Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2011-02-07 21:54
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Vulnerability in Bangladesh is worsened due to the high dependence of a majority of the population on climate-sensitive sectors, such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries. Compounding these vulnerabilities, Bangladesh is challenged with weak infrastructure facilities, institutional mechanisms and a lack of financial resources. Given the general lack of institutional capacity to systematically identify and address climate-driven changes in risk patterns, the Government of Bangladesh is implementing a project to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities to climate change-induced risks in 4 coastal districts. The project is based on enhancing the resilience of coastal communities and protective ecosystems through community-led adaptation interventions. Efforts are also being made to enhance national, sub-national, and local capacities of government authorities and planners to understand climate risk dynamics in coastal areas. In short, the project is focusing on reviewing and revising coastal management practices and policies to increase community resilience to climate change impacts in coastal areas. Project outcomes include developing a functional system for the collection, distribution and internalization of climate-related knowledge. Key lessons learned from the project thus far indicate the need to actively involve stakeholders from different government departments and ensure on-going cooperation and consistent support between the stakeholders and the government.
Adaptation Experience:
Coastal communities are highly resource poor and extremely vulnerable to anticipated climate induced threats. Given the general lack of institutional capacity to systematically identify and address climate-driven changes in risk patterns, the Government of Bangladesh is proposing a project to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities to climate change-induced risks in 4 coastal districts (Barguna, Patuakhali, Bhola, Noakhali, and Chittagong) under 4 coastal forest divisions.
Results and Learning:
Progress to date: In a poverty stricken coastal zone, land and farming are the limiting factors for poverty alleviation where rational use of land comes to the fore. The major contribution of Fish, Fruit and Forest (FFF) model is that it ensures livelihood security by accommodating 15 families/ha and appears as one of the pioneering rational land use model for a highly land scarce country like Bangladesh. Besides, in terms of rational income, the outcome of the model is highly rational for participating communities because it provides two to threefold added income in addition to their routine livelihood activities. FFF Model differs in that it comprises the following Early, Mid-term, Mid/long-term and Long-term resource generation options for livelihood security of coastal communities. It provides opportunity to grow large number of improved variety vegetables on the 2.7m × 86.7m long top surface of the mound. Moreover, further expansion is possible through special supporting arrangements (scaffold) on the margins of ditch to support hanging vegetables for growing country bean, cucumber, bottle, bitter and sweet gourds (cucurbitaceous vegetables) and other creeper vegetables.Key lessons learned:
- Involve stakeholders from different government departments to create appropriate adaptation measures: Identifying different needs and implementing them with multiple perspectives. Given the multitude of stakeholders, integrated communication and coordination will be key to success. The project aims to address these potential risks by coordinating closely with ongoing activities of the government and International Union for Conservation of Nature.
- Ensure that there is on-going cooperation and consistent support between the stakeholders and the government: Communication with stakeholders, project team, sponsors and people of Bangladesh. In the absence of an integrated coastal development strategy which incorporates climate risks for the Government to utilize over the coming decades, the current set of ad-hoc activities is unlikely to address emerging climate change, including variability, problems coherently. There is a need to develop strategies based on existing opportunities, understanding of the level of climatic risks, political and economic feasibility of adaptation to climate change response options.
- Involve district authorities and local communities at an early stage of project design: Involving local residents in various stages of the project has been beneficial. Awareness-raising of projected impacts and potential solutions has been conducted through local media and other appropriate channels.
- Identify risk management/ vulnerability and areas for synergies with other sectors during the initial stages of the project: Identify complementarities and establish linkages with other programmes and sectors (e.g. disaster risk management). The project will further generate adaptation benefits by facilitating the integration of climate risk into existing poverty reduction and rural development strategies, especially as they pertain to coastal regions.
Sustainability:
The recurrent income generation from continuous flow of resources will increase the adaptive capacity of the coastal people and such recurrent livelihood support might sustain the Fish, Fruit and Forest (FFF) model in any anticipated stressed conditions, induced by climate change. Additional measures necessary to ensure the sustainability of the proposed interventions, including those that focus on management and technical capacity, will be identified and incorporated into the project design. The project design will be informed by an in-depth root-cause analysis which will be guided by the principles of the UNDP APF. This approach will ensure that the implementation of the NAPA priority profiles is not undertaken in isolation but contributes to ongoing activities by government and other donors who are actively working towards coastal development.Institutional linkages will be strengthened, and community-based adaptation measures will include innovative mechanisms for sustainable livelihoods, which in turn will enhance the sustainability of project outcomes. The capacity-building components of the project will empower stakeholders at all levels—from community members to district authorities to policymakers—with a greater understanding of climate change risks, adaptation options, and enhanced adaptive capacity.
Replication:
In regards to replicability and integration, the project will further generate adaptation benefits by facilitating the integration of climate risk into existing poverty reduction and rural development strategies, especially as they pertain to coastal regions.Once the project demonstrates the viability of adaptation interventions and effectively builds national and local adaptive capacity, there will be opportunities for further up scaling and replication in other coastal sites exposed to climate-induced hazards. Learning is ensured through activities in Outcome 4, including contributions to the Adaptation Learning Mechanism, so that government ministries and other organizations will have access to new knowledge and resources developed through the project. National and international dialogue forums will provide opportunities for identifying similarly vulnerable areas within and outside of Bangladesh. The approach used will be replicated in other non-coastal areas where climate change-induced risks are very high, for example, the haors, or low-lying floodplain depressions located mostly in the north-eastern region of the country and covering about 25% of the entire region. In the northeast, flash floods have been occurring earlier in the season and with increasing intensity, causing much damage to crops and livelihoods.
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Trainer's Manual on Climate Change Adaptation and Development
Submitted by jouwertvangeene on Mon, 2010-03-29 14:25
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Wageningen-UR (Alterra and the Centre for Development Innovation) composed this training manual based on the training material developed for the first training on ‘Climate Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management’ held in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia from 15-26 June 2009.
Sudan - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by robertaannan on Wed, 2010-03-10 20:30
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The objective of the proposed NAPA project for Sudan is to develop a country-wide programme of immediate and urgent project-based adaptation activities that address the current and anticipated adverse effects of climate change, including extreme events.
This project fully reflects the priority measures identified by Sudan in its NAPA, i.e “implement an climate change adaptation”. Furthermore, the project will provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The Government has been involved in a number of programs, which are related to the LDCF project.
Adaptation Experience:
Setting of evaluation criteria for the NAPA identified projects involves a mix of a nationally/locally driven criteria such as: Participative process, Multi-disciplinary approach, Sustainable development, Gender equality, Country-driveness, Cost-effectiveness, Simplicity, and country context.
Results and Learning:
In understanding the principles of the MCA methodology the Ministry of Environment and the NAPA Task Team found that the local cultural context of the faa-Sudan consensus approach methodology builds on the same principles. The added-value of the Sudan consensus approach is that it went in line with the cultural settings, and thus was more conducive to the local environment. The process therefore became more effective in acquiring information from the community people. There was ease with which the issues were addressed in a gender-sensitive manner and it allowed for gender-based concerns on the environment and climate change to be capture.
Sustainability:
Once the NAPA document was endorsed by Cabinet, we found out from experience that the fundamental criteria that the Government – in collaboration with stakeholders and development partners - used to weigh the proposed adaptation options for immediate implementation was realistically that of ‘existing and ongoing development initiatives – that posed as potential adaptation initiatives and measures’. For example, since Sudan identified ‘water’ as its highest, most immediate and urgent adaptation action under NAPA – to be implemented, it weighed this decision (made by the communities) against those water programs that were already on ground. It found out that Sudan in early 2000 already took the initiative to address water in the rural areas, under a European Commission funded National Rural Water Sector project stemming 5 years, with more than $13 million Euros, addressing community resilience and rural accessibility to quantity supply of quality potable water. The process simply moved on to the second priority on the list. Sudan then decided to use an ‘integrated approach’ (2009) to combine its priorities identified under the NAPA to strategically plan implementation of these priorities in line with its national development strategy and policies.
Replication:
The wide range consultation process provided an adequate awareness platform for adaption to climate change issues. Furthermore, consultation with local governments and grass root institutions created adequate ownership and support to the NAPA and hence for NAPA follow up projects and programmes. For example, based on the Mali experience, it is planned to use radio as one key dissemination mechanism for the forecasting and EW information. Community radio, transmitting information in local vernacular would potentially form a very effective information dissemination mechanism.
It is appreciated that forecast information must be delivered site/area specific and should include recommendation on adaptive measures. For example, if a later onset of the rainy season is predicts, farmers should get information on which short cycle or fast growing crops, cultivars or varieties to plant, whilst the commune level service delivery institutions should be able to source the required seeding material, to make it available to the farmers.
Development of a National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) in Eritrea
Submitted by robertaannan on Wed, 2010-03-10 20:07
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The objective of the proposed NAPA project for Eritrea is to develop a country-wide programme of immediate and urgent project-based adaptation activities that address the current and anticipated adverse effects of climate change, including extreme events.
This project fully reflects the priority measures identified by Eritrea in its NAPA, i.e “implement an climate change adaptation”. Furthermore, the project will provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The Government has been involved in a number of programs, which are related to the LDCF project.
Adaptation Experience:
Setting of evaluation criteria for the NAPA identified projects involves a mix of a nationally/locally driven criteria in alignment with guiding element specified under Article 7 of the UNFCCC Decision 28/CP.7 such as: Participative process, Multi-disciplinary approach, Sustainable development, Gender equality, Country-driveness, Cost-effectiveness, Simplicity, and country context.
Results and Learning:
In understanding the principles of the MCA methodology the Ministry of Environment and the NAPA Task Team found that the local cultural context of the faa-Eritrea consensus approach methodology builds on the same principles. The added-value of the Eritrea consensus approach is that it went in line with the cultural settings, and thus was more conducive to the local environment. The process therefore became more effective in acquiring information from the community people. There was ease with which the issues were addressed in a gender-sensitive manner and it allowed for gender-based concerns on the environment and climate change to be capture.
Sustainability:
Once the NAPA document was endorsed by Cabinet, we found out from experience that the fundamental criteria that the Government – in collaboration with stakeholders and development partners - used to weigh the proposed adaptation options for immediate implementation was realistically that of ‘existing and ongoing development initiatives – that posed as potential adaptation initiatives and measures’. For example, since Eritrea identified ‘water’ as its highest, most immediate and urgent adaptation action under NAPA – to be implemented, it weighed this decision (made by the communities) against those water programs that were already on ground.
It found out that Eritrea in early 2000 already took the initiative to address water in the rural areas, under a European Commission funded National Rural Water Sector project stemming 5 years, with more than $13 million Euros, addressing community resilience and rural accessibility to quantity supply of quality potable water. The process simply moved on to the second priority on the list. Eritrea then decided to use an ‘integrated approach’ (2009) to combine its priorities identified under the NAPA to strategically plan implementation of these priorities in line with its national development strategy and policies.
Replication:
Once the NAPA document was endorsed by Cabinet, we found out from experience that the fundamental criteria that the Government – in collaboration with stakeholders and development partners - used to weigh the proposed adaptation options for immediate implementation was realistically that of ‘existing and ongoing development initiatives – that posed as potential adaptation initiatives and measures’. For example, since Eritrea identified ‘water’ as its highest, most immediate and urgent adaptation action under NAPA – to be implemented, it weighed this decision (made by the communities) against those water programs that were already on ground.
It found out that Eritrea in early 2000 already took the initiative to address water in the rural areas, under a European Commission funded National Rural Water Sector project stemming 5 years, with more than $13 million Euros, addressing community resilience and rural accessibility to quantity supply of quality potable water. The process simply moved on to the second priority on the list. Eritrea then decided to use an ‘integrated approach’ (2009) to combine its priorities identified under the NAPA to strategically plan implementation of these priorities in line with its national development strategy and policies.
Bangladesh - National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
Submitted by jbaumwoll on Fri, 2009-06-05 22:45Summary:
National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change – those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following summarizes the NAPA for Bangladesh.
