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Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Resources and Food Security in the Dry Zone of Myanmar
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and ForestrySummary:
The objective of this project is to reduce the vulnerability of farmers in Myanmar’s Dry Zone to increasing drought and rainfall variability, and enhance the capacity of farmers to plan for and respond to future impacts of Climate Change on food security. The strategy of the project to achieve this objective is to reduce the risks and effects from recurring droughts, floods and erosion through an integrated water management, crop and livestock adaptation programme in five of the most vulnerable townships of Myanmar‟s Dry Zone.
Project Components:
1. Respond to the climate-induced reduction of freshwater supply
2. Climate-resilient food and livestock production systems established and promoted
3. Improve communal climate risk information and monitoringExpected Outputs:
1. Respond to the climate-induced reduction of freshwater supply: Rainfall capture, storage and natural water retention capacity is increased
where rainfall is declining or becoming more variable
2. Climate-resilient food and livestock production systems established and promoted: Diversified and resilient livelihoods of the most vulnerable farmers in Myanmar‟s Dry Zone
3. Improve communal climate risk information and monitoring: Capacity of farmers in the Dry Zone to respond and adapt to changes in rainfall is enhanced through use of short-term forecast information and longer-term climate scenario planningAs detailed in the Adaptation Fund Proposal - Myanmar (resubmission) - 06.11.11
Contacts:
Project Contact Person
- Gernot Laganda (Green-LECRDS)
- Tel.: +66-81-1719740
- Email: gernot.laganda@undp.org
Project Status:
SOF Pipeline Entry (as of 2 February 2012)Primary Beneficiaries:
Local communities in the Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway Regions
Enhancing Resilience of Rural Communities to Flood and Drought-Related Climate Change and Disaster Risks in the Ba Catchment Area of Fiji
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Department of Environment, Government of FijiSummary:
The overall objective of the project is to replicate successful interventions in the Ba catchment and fully integrate climate change considerations in flood/drought risk management by not only generating and producing information, but also training and dissemination. Mitigation of flood damage remains the highest priority need in the area, particularly in light of projected increase in intensification of rainfall and storm events. Fiji lacks an integrated natural resource management plan that incorporates climate change, agriculture, flood, and drought risk simultaneously.
Project Components:
Component 1: Climate early warning and information systems
Component 2: Community-based adaptation to flood and drought related risks and hazards
Component 3: Institutional strengthening to support climate- and disaster-resilient policy frameworks
Component 4: Awareness raising and knowledge managementExpected Outputs:
Component 1: Climate early warning and information systems
The project will support the development of enhanced climate and weather information products and services (monthly outlook, seasonal forecasting, longer term projections), tailored particularly for flood and drought preparedness and agriculture sector users (local government officials, farmers, communities, extension services). To ensure the timely dissemination of climate early warning and information products, effective alert and communication system will be established for communities, village councils and local disaster management committees. Capacity building and training activities will involve technical workshops on the establishment, maintenance and use of climate early warning system, including the interpretation and application of tailored climate information services, targeting meteorologist and climatologist staff at Meteorology Service, community members of the voluntary emergency services, as well as farmers. To facilitate the application of climate information amongst agriculture sector users, the programme will support the development of climate-sensitive crop suitability and cultivation guidelines and manuals, with user-friendly information packages, customized to the climate and landscapes, and different crop varieties and forest types of the Ba watershed area.Component 2: Community-based adaptation to flood and drought related risks and hazards
Activities under this output will be closely linked to the establishment of a Rural Land Use Policy. The main components of the plan will cover flood plain zoning, land use plan, water use and safety plan (pollution control, water distribution and rationing), preparedness and post flood and drought recovery processes, supported with adjusted regulations that recognize emerging climate change risks. Importantly, the plan will include a community-based monitoring system on land-use, water use, flood control measures, and conservation of related ecosystems (e.g. mangroves, forests), coupled with review and feedback mechanism to integrate experiences on an ongoing/periodic basis.Resilience of crop production will be pursued through identifying and introducing climate change resilient crop varieties and suitable crop cultivation techniques. To ensure the continuous supply of climate-resilient plant species to farmers, a research station and associated community nurseries will be established in the Ba area, with appropriate distribution systems. The introduction of post-harvest processing and food storage techniques will be based on a review and enhancement of traditional practices.
Component 3: Institutional strengthening to support climate- and disaster-resilient policy frameworks
Activities under this output will serve to review and adjust relevant sectoral policies, legal and planning frameworks, corporate and management plans at the different levels, through analysis of existing frameworks and related institutional capacities, consultative processes and systematic training of policy makers and planners. The proposed project will promote the application of modified or newly created policy frameworks and instruments in target provinces and districts, while integrating on-the-ground experience to inform the higher level policy processes.Component 4: Awareness raising and knowledge management
Outputs and proposed activities under this outcome aim at capturing, analyzing and disseminating programme experience at the national and regional levels in a systematic way, from early stages of the programme from the assessment, adaptation planning, implementation, monitoring phases, as well the throughout the policy mainstreaming processes. A range of knowledge products will be developed, tailored to different user groups and disseminated through specific channels and means, including education institutions, and supported by a project communication action plan for broader awareness raising purposes. It is expected that integrated knowledge management activities will significantly contribute to the replicability and sustainability of the project results, reaching out to broad layers of society and different generations.Contacts:
UNDP Regional Technical Advisor
- Gabor Vereczi
- Email: Gabor.vereczi@undp.org
Project Status:
SOF Pipeline Entry (as of 2 February 2012)Primary Beneficiaries:
Communities in the Ba catchment area
ALM Case Study 2011 - Zimbabwe: Coping with Drought and Climate Change
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-11-02 04:40
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Long known as the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe has for the last 30 years experienced dramatic losses in agricultural production resulting in critical food and fuel shortages. Coupled with the economic and political constraints, drought and climate change are testing the limits of agricultural production in Zimbabwe. In rural Zimbabwe, and specifically in the pilot project area Chiredzi district, drought is becoming an increasingly common occurrence. With approximately 70% of Zimbabwe’s population deriving their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and other rural activities, the most noticeable effects of these droughts are the devastating impacts on household food security and the livelihoods of the poor. In response, and as part of a set of three other regional Coping with Drought and Climate Change (CwDCC) projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mozambique, this project is supporting effective adaptation among subsistence farmers in six locations in Chiredze District.
Adaptation Experience:
The project, Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Zimbabwe, is working to enhance the capacity of agricultural and pastoral communities in Zimbabwe to adapt to climate variability and change. The primary project objective is to demonstrate and promote adoption of a range of gender-sensitive approaches for adaptation to climate change among rural communities currently engaged in agriculture in vulnerable areas of the Chiredzi.
Results and Learning:
Refer to the attached UNDP-ALM Case Study for detailed information.
Sustainability:
This project has established implementation partnerships with government departments. Sustainability of the project, and the buy in and acceptability of the project outcomes has been evidenced by their incorporation in other programmes/projects. Outcomes on improving livelihoods are largely taken up by a number of NGOs. Climate risk management is being embraced by government and NGOs. Of those NGOs that have embraced climate risk management, the focus has been on livelihoods diversification, small scale irrigation development and conservation agriculture.
Replication:
The optimized crop pilots through this initiative have the potential to benefit about 6,600 households in Chiredzi district, and many thousands more households at the national level. Replication of livestock interventions has potential to benefit more than 60% of the 12,400 households in Chiredzi District whose vulnerability to drought and climate change is exacerbated by their current lack of access to animal drawn draught power. Indirect benefits through improvement in wildlife management have the potential to benefit an additional 1000 households in the Chiredzi district.The project is encouraging replication of optimized crop production through Farmer Field schools (FFS). FFS is a group-based learning process that has been used by a number of governments, NGOs and international agencies to promote Integrated Pest Management. FFS are being used in the project as a learning platform for farmers to increase learning and improve production strategies on the ground. Exchange visits for neighboring farmers, public awareness campaigns and tours by policy makers are some of the tools planned to encourage replication of best practices.Barriers to replication of the adaptation measures include credit and input bottlenecks which results in farmers resorting to their own traditional varieties of grains despite poor performance, and the lack of supportive policies and institutions.
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UNDP-ALM Case Study 2011 - Kenya - Adaptation to Climate Change in Arid Lands (KACCAL)
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-11-02 04:30
Summary:
Kenya’s geographic location makes it inherently prone to cyclical droughts and floods. Moreover, according to the Initial National Communication (INC), such types of cyclical climate-driven events will increase in intensity and frequency due to global climate change. Livelihoods and economic activities in Kenya’s are highly vulnerable to climatic fluctuations, with the districts of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) being among the most vulnerable to recurrent droughts, and to long-term climate change. The rural poor are the most vulnerable to the impacts of Kenya’s current climate variability. In response this project is supporting poor and vulnerable communities in the Mwingi District of the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) to enhance their adaptive capacity to drought (and flood). Working in the pilot areas, this is being achieved through enhanced access to and management of water for irrigation, promotion of indigenous crops that more resilient to anticipated climate (and improved access to markets for these crops), and promoting livestock varieties that are more suited to the climate, development and promotion of alternative livelihood opportunities (such as beekeeping activities). The project is also strengthening climate risk management planning and capacity of District level planners to mainstream climate change into District-level sectoral development plans. Extension workers will be supported to improve their adaptation extension advice to farmers based on best available climate forecast information.
Adaptation Experience:
The project, “Kenya-Adaptation to Climate Change in Arid Lands” (KACCAL) project is focused on strengthening Mwingi District’s capacity to reduce the vulnerability of rural livelihoods in arid areas to climate variability and change. The project will focus on i) improving the ability of farmers to reduce the near-term vulnerability to current climate variability and trends and on ii) strengthening the capacity of District-level planners to address climate change.
Results and Learning:
Refer to the attached UNDP-ALM Case Study for detailed information.
Sustainability:
The project has a ‘mainstreaming’ component to it as well as a practical implementation/ testing component to it. The mainstreaming component is centres mainly around the capacity development of District level planners to be able assess and plan for climate risks. The project will demonstrate an approach that can be continued beyond the project grant. Secondly, the project will develop a workplan for capacity and institutional development that goes beyond the project resources, to facilitate fund-raising for continued capacity development support. Thirdly, the mainstreaming analysis will focus on how the national regulatory and fiscal frameworks and instruments inhibit or could be adjusted to promote adaptation among the private sector: mainly small and medium enterprises, thereby promoting scale-up of successful adaptation measures.
Refer to the attached UNDP-ALM Case Study for detailed information.
Replication:
180 households will benefit directly from the pilot projects (6 community groups); an additional 360 households (12 community groups) to benefit from exchange visits to pilot sites; c. 10,000 households in the pilot areas (75% of households) will benefit from dissemination of adaptation advice.The project will disseminate the lessons and methodology of the project to national policy-makers to raise awareness and understanding of the need for adaptation action, both in terms of the role of government in incentivising the private sector to allocate resources in a climate-resilient way aswell as the allocation of public financing to testing new ways of doing business.
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Farmer to Farmer Learning - Climate Change Adaptation in Ethiopia
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2011-07-20 10:09
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The Netherlands Red Cross reports on new techniques for helping farmers in Ethiopia adapt to Climate Change. Participatory video and peer-to-peer teaching has sped up the process of information transfer between populations and communities and increases the credibility of critical messages about adaptation practices.
More information: IFRC - Climate Change
Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Center
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Promoting Climate Resilient Water Management and Agricultural Practices in Rural Cambodia (NAPA Follow-up project)
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDP, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and FisheriesSummary:
The aim of the project is to make Cambodia’s agricultural sector less vulnerable to changes in the availability of water resources resulting from climate change. It will also contribute to the broader goal of enhancing adaptive capacity to prevent food insecurity in Cambodia induced by climate change. The project will work to increase awareness of climate change, demonstrate climate resilient practices in agriculture and water resource management and integrate responses into provincial and commune development plans.
Project Components:
The project goal is to “enhance food security and food production in the face of changed climate conditions”.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
- Pilot the integration of climate change responses into commune and provincial development plans in the two target districts in Kratie Province and Preah Vihear Province.
- Develop and pilot technologies that improve access to water for household use and agriculture in a changing climate.
- Develop and pilot farming methods that are suited to changing climates in the two target areas.
- Bridge the gap between gender, agriculture and climate change at province, district and commune levels.
- Promote public awareness of climate change and adaptation in relation to water resources management and agricultural practices.
- Document case studies, best practices and lessons learned and share them through the UNDP Adaptation Learning Mechanism www.adaptationlearning.net This web-based global knowledge-sharing platform designed to capture and disseminate adaptation experiences.
Expected Outputs:
Towards this end, four outcomes will be achieved:
- Outcome 1: Capacity for development planning under conditions of climate change improved
- Outcome 2: Locally appropriate adaptation options adopted to reduce exposure to climate -induced risks
- Outcome 3: Lessons learned in the pilot sites replicated in other vulnerable areas of Cambodia
- Outcome 4: Experiences generated contribute to UNDP's Adaptation Learning Mechanism (UNDP-ALM)
KEY RESULTS
- Two target communes supported in mainstreaming climate change into Commune Investment Programs (CIP) 2011. Almost 100 provincial and district facilitation teams, line department staff and NGOs attended a project orientation workshop on climate change and its impact.
- Two Farmer Water User Committees in Teuk Krahom, Preah Vihear were formed to manage future water-related conflicts.
- Around 500 farmers, of which 250 were women, and commune councils were made aware of the impact of climate change on agricultural livelihoods through project knowledge sharing activities.
- More than 100 farmers, of which approximately 50 were women, participated in 30 demonstrations of climate resilient rice varieties. Farmers expressed an interest for more trials to take place.
- 120 farmers learnt improved farming techniques through Farmers’ Field Schools and Farmers’ Field Days.
- Farmers in 13 target villages assessed their climate change vulnerability and their responses were incorporated into project activities.
Contacts:
UNDP Regional Technical Advisor
- Gernot Laganda
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Tel: +66 (0) 2288 2644
- Email: gernot.laganda@undp.org
National Communication Officer
- Bunly Meas
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Email: Bunly.Meas@undpaffiliates.org
UNDP Cambodia Project Contacts
- Kalyan Keo: Kalyan.Keo@undp.org
- Cecilia Aipira : Cecilia.Aipira@undp.org
Project Status:
Under ImplementationPrimary Beneficiaries:
Selected local communities in the Choam Khsan District (Preah Vihear Province) and Chit Borei District (Kratie Province)
Promoting Climate Resilient Water management and Agricultual Practices in Rural Cambodia
Submitted by bunly meas on Tue, 2012-01-17 08:46Summary:
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.
Review of Existing and Planned Adaptation Action
Submitted by andrea on Wed, 2011-12-07 09:00Year:
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Climate variability and climate change: implications for chronic poverty
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Tue, 2011-11-22 13:43
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The focus of the paper is on India. It looks at projections of climate change under different climate models and at how these changes will alter India’s vulnerability to the climate. In particular it notes that it is not necessarily those poorest states which are the most vulnerable to future projected changes. The paper then focuses on the current coping strategies for climate variability by the chronically poor and highlights some of the barriers to and opportunities for successful adaptation.
The winds of change: climate change, poverty and the environment in Malawi
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Tue, 2011-11-22 10:14
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This report is part of a series commissioned by Oxfam national country programmes to explore and highlight the links between climate change and poverty, and between climate change adaptation and development. At a community level, poor communities are worst affected by, and least able to cope, with climate change impacts. The report recommends that the foundation of any initiative to address climate change hinges on communities being aware of the issues, owning the process of adaptation and having the capacity to undertake and maintain adaptation.
