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  • Leading Organization:
    Global Environment Facility (GEF)
    United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
    Implementing Agency:
    UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
    Summary:

    To build institutional capacity for monitoring and predicting climate change impacts and vulnerability and for improved planning for adaptation to climate change throughout the country. This will be done be increasing the capacity for early warnings, response systems and national planning. This proposed project seeks to implement Lesotho’s third and fourth priority as identified in the National Adaptation programme of Action (NAPA).

    Project Components:

    1. Climate change monitoring and prediction

    2. Climate change risk communication systems

    3. Climate change policy

    4. Training

    5. Public Awareness and Education

    6. Monitoring, Mid-Term and Final Evaluation

    7. Project Management

    Expected Outputs:

    1. Enhancement of national network and establishment of protocols for providing, coordinating and assessing climate change relevant data needed for climate monitoring, prediction and projections; Socio economic databases assessed, collated and coupled with climate change database for improved understanding of vulnerability; Development of system for climate change impact assessment for all vulnerable livelihood zones.

    2. Appropriate and effective channels for communicating climate and early warning information to end users (especially rural communities) established; Communication network for transmission of data from stations to monitoring centres and early warning information from monitoring centres to end users (especially rural communities) strengthened; A functional communication network for early warning systems and climate change is developed and established.

    3. Technical assessment and analysis of climate change data for policy use (bridging science and policy); National climate change adaptation policy frameworks developed focussing on integrating climate change issues into key national development policies.

    4. Training program developed and implemented for: a. technical personnel in maintenance and operation of hydro-meteorological and communication networks; b. technical personnel for climate change modelling and prediction; c. disaster management groups and rural communities for responses to early warning systems on optimal use of available information

    5. Targeted public awareness needs identified in support of other components of the project; Implementation of the public awareness campaign, building on awareness carried out during NAPA preparation with a special focus on rural communities Inclusion of climate change into the national education curriculum.

    Contacts:

    Project Contact Person: Geordie Colville Tel: +254-762-3257 Email: Geordie.Colville@unep.org

    Project Status:
    Council Approved
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    GEF-LDCF
    Financing Amount:
    1,645,000
    Cofinancing Total:
    1,763,000
    Total Amounts:
    3,408,000
    Resources:
    GEF
    GEF - Project Details - Lesotho
    File(s):
    Project Identification Form - Lesotho - 12 March 2009
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