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Adapting to Climate Change in Bangladesh
Submitted by chocho on Thu, 2011-03-03 21:19
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Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. With nearly 200 major natural disasters since 1971, the population is struggling to cope with the impact of climate change on their food security. FAO projects are helping farmers adapt to the new challenges, with improved farming systems and new technologies, and with the innovative Climate Field School project.
Africa Adaptation Programme Experiences: Gender and Climate Change: Advancing Development Through an Integrated Gender Perspective
Submitted by ryanl on Tue, 2011-03-01 12:45
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This first paper in the AAP Discussion Paper Series focuses on the links between gender and climate change adaptation. The AAP has made gender equality an important goal in each of its 20 participating countries. To promote equitable and gender-sensitive adaptation to climate change, the AAP is actively supporting countries to increase their capacities to integrate gender perspectives into both the design and implementation of climate change strategies and national development plans.
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Climate Resilience in Agriculture and Water, Cambodia
Submitted by measbunly on Thu, 2011-02-24 09:57
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Project: Promoting Climate Resilient Water Management and Agriculture Practices in Rural Cambodia (NAPA Follow-up)
Aim: Reduce the vulnerability of Cambodia's agricultural sector to climate-induced changes in water resources availability.
Who: Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (MAFF) Project Support Unit as the lead executing agency with support from UNDP.
Where: Preah Vihea province (Choam Khsan District) and Kratie province (Chit Borei District)
ALM Case Study - Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Mozambique
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2011-02-21 08:40
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The Government of Mozambique recognizes that the country is vulnerable to catastrophes and that the hazards resulting from climate change are exacerbating the persistence of absolute poverty in Mozambique. Of all of the natural hazards affecting the country, drought is the most common and the most devastating. In light of this challenge, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and its partners are implementing the Coping with Drought and Climate Change (CwDCC) project in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The projects are scheduled to run for five years with the goal of enhancing the capacity of agricultural systems in dryland areas to adapt to climate variability and change. For Mozambique, the implementation of this project will enhance food security and the capacity to adapt to climate change in agricultural and pastoral systems. More specifically, the project will reduce drought vulnerability in farming and pastoral communities by guaranteeing water supply and through training the local communities to grow drought-resistant crops, like sweet potato, cassava or sorghum. The project will also help improve the communication lines to make weather forecast and climate information available to communities. Key lessons learned from the project to date indicate that it is valuable to design a pragmatic and achievable work plan, and be aware of logistical constraints. Cooperation with similar initiatives is another important factor and critical component of ensuring project success.
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- Design a pragmatic and achievable work plan (preferably during inception stage): Projects need to remain focused and be cognizant of their logistical and practical parameters. An achievable project work plan should be decided early in the inception phase to ensure timely and effective implementation. Stakeholders at the project inception workshop, held on the 23 and 24 February 2009, agreed that the project needed to be narrowed down, and the number of activities prioritised and reduced. The project currently contains 9 outputs and 38 separate activities and an achievable project work plan is being finalised.
- Be aware of logistical constraints (e.g. staffing capacity) and respond accordingly: The UNDP CO has recruited an administrative assistant to ensure that the programme manager can concentrate into the implementation of activities. An international consultant has also been hired to assist the programme manager in developing managerial tools, prioritizing the activities in the project document and producing a baseline study to inform activities' implementation and allow for M&E in the future. This extra support is invaluable in ensuring that the activities are implemented according to schedule.
- Consider external factors when designing project timeframes: In October 2009 there were national elections in Mozambique that influenced some Government paralysis and difficulties in implementing project activities. Being cognizant of these external factors that may influence project outcomes, allows project staff to plan and operate accordingly.
- Coordinate efforts and cooperate with similar initiatives: It is imperative to coordinate efforts and cooperate with other initiatives involved in climate change in order to increase benefits and feedback for on-going activities. It was also recommended for the programme manager to align the activities plans with the Guijá District Development Plan (covering 2010 to 2012) to tap potential for synergies and to re-engage partners of the project (line Ministries, and local NGOs) already present in the field.
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The proposed project is expected to be sustainable based on a high level of government, institutional and local level community commitment, and through the involvement of local NGOs. In this regard, formal commitment letters from the implementing agencies (government institutions) guarantees project continuity beyond the end of the project. Local community commitment will be ensured by cultivating community ownership through the implementation of community-based activities, which is an important part of the project. Finally, the involvement of local NGOs as partners in the implementation phase is contributing to the sustainability of the project and has sought to establish complementary and meaningful partnerships.
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The medium and long term vision is to be able to replicate the succesful actions in other drought prone areas. Successful approaches in Guijá, a drought prone district, should have generated interest to replicate in other parts with similar problems. Replication will entail packaging information on lessons of this project for other drought prone areas. Among other districts, suggested districts by the stakeholders in workshop group discussions include, Chibuto, Chigubo, Mabalane, Chicualacuala, Massingir and Massangena in Gaza province and Funhalouro, Mabote and Panda in Inhambane province. Other districts are located in other drought prone areas such as southern Tete province, Northern and southern Manica province, southern Sofala province and parts of Nampula and Cabo Delgado province. Ideally, the experience gained in Guijá will be used by the implementing agencies to draw better strategies in those districts.
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ALM Case Study 2010 - Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Ethiopia
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2011-02-21 08:16
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Vulnerability analyses for Ethiopia suggest that environmental changes over the coming decades present a serious threat to economic and social sectors. Water is a specifically fragile resource with the frequency and intensity of drought projected to increase. Addressing long-term climate change is thus required to reduce the impacts on livelihoods and bolster major economic sectors such as agriculture, which is the mainstay of the country. In response, and as part of a set of three other Coping with Drought and Climate Change projects in Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, this project is working to improve the livelihood strategies and resilience of farmers. Through enhanced farming practices and improvement of community-based natural resource management, rural communities are adapting to water scarcity and drought. This project is also establishing the use of early warning systems to bolster resilience in the agricultural sector.
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- Introduced early maturing and high yielding new varieties of Teff, Rice, Sorghum and Chickpea as good coping mechanisms for climate change and drought compared to local varieties. The introduced drought resistant and early maturing Chickpea and Teff varieties have received farmers’ appreciation due to the demonstrated high productivity early maturity/fast growing, its tolerance to water logging and canopy/tiller formation. Participant farmers have got good lessons from each crops compare to their local varieties.
- Inter and intra (outside and inside the project pilot sites) experience sharing visits of community members on best practices are a means to knowledge sharing especially on homestead agricultural practices, water management ( geomembrane utilization techniques), high yielding and early mature crop varieties and gully crossing for irrigation, marketing approaches and spring developments.
- Farmers access to safe and dependable water as a result of the spring development. This activity benefits especially women by saving time to fetch water at least 40 mints to one hour to their homes. Furthermore, women were forced to dig sand to get water in the Borkena River. Women were also gone to river to fetch water in the night starting from 3 am by struggling with Hayna’s. As a result of the spring development and the possibility of saving time, women can cook their family meal on time early in the morning and the husbands are able go to their farm activities on time. The health of the community members are also becomes improved.
- The forage and tree plants and gully rehabilitation by gabions and sacks on the selected watershed have good performance. Pigeon pea, Acacia Policanta, Jatrofa, Sasibania and lablab are found on the selected watershed on a good performance on hill side tracing and eyebrow basin.
- The adoption trail on NERICA (rice variety) has found in a good stand and farmers appreciated the rice plant performance, water logging tolerance and early maturity. Especially farmers who have water logged lands are interested on this crop for the future agricultural season because any lands that are waterlogged were not suitable to any crop.
- Increasing irrigable lands by gully crossings, ponds and wing pumps/drips are a means to adapt climate change and drought by increasing productivity and income of vulnerable farmers and farmers appreciated it
- Sheep, goat, honey bee and forage productions are also a means to adapt climate change and drought by increasing productivity and diversified income sources of vulnerable farmers
- A regular and systematic data collection, analysis, feedback, dissemination modality at woreda and site level between office of Agriculture, Metrology and communities/DA’s are a good means to strengthen early warning information communication and decision (drought and climate change) at all levels to increase agricultural production systems.
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Incorporating Weather Index Insurance with Territorial Approaches to Climate Change (TACC) in Northern Peru
Submitted by naomi.sleeper on Tue, 2011-02-08 20:01Year:
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Extreme El Niño flooding events occur on a regular basis in northern Peru, particularly in Piura. Even with advanced warning, poor households struggle to manage a risk as large as that posed by El Niño flooding; they lose their productive assets that defined their livelihoods, and as a result endure unrecoverable economic hardship.
AfricaAdapt newsletter: November 2010
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2011-02-08 20:01Year:
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If you have any comments about the new AfricaAdapt newsletter design or content, or you'd like to share any ideas for future issues, we would love to hear from you. Just email info@africa-adapt.net
AAP News - Flyer on JICA/UNDP Collaboration
Submitted by andrea on Tue, 2011-02-08 20:01Year:
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This is a newly released flyer on collaboration between UNDP and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) under the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP). The Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) was established under the Japan-UNDP Joint Framework for Building Partnership to Address Climate Change in Africa, which was launched at the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) organized in Yokohama, Japan in May 2008.
Adaptation to climate change in Africa: Challenges and opportunities identified from Ethiopia
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Africa is widely held to be highly vulnerable to future climate change and Ethiopia is often cited as one of the most extreme examples.
Gender, Climate Change and Community-Based Adaptation
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Gender, Climate Change and Community-Based Adaptation: A Guidebook for Designing and Implementing Gender-sensitive Community-Based Adaptation Programmes and Projects
This publication is a result of the on-going collaboration between UNDP-GEF CBA and UNDP Gender Team. It aims to ensure that forthcoming CBA projects contribute to the achievement of gender equality and women's empowerment by integrating a gendered perspective into CBA programming and project design.
