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  • Leading Organization:
    Global Environment Facility (GEF)
    Implementing Agency:
    African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
    Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
    GEF, Government,
    Summary:

    Africa is indisputably recognized as one of the regions most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) highlights six specific areas where the continent is most likely to feel the greatest sustainable development challenges due to a changing climate: water resources, food security, natural resource productivity and loss of biological diversity, vector and water borne diseases, vulnerability of coastal zone infrastructure and exacerbated desertification due to decreased rainfall and intensified land use. This project will work to reduce vulnerability in three areas that are currently experiencing stresses due to climate variability and which are likely to continue with longer term changes. The objective of this project is to mainstream adaptation to climate change into development planning in the participating countries that are facing increasing impacts from climate change to ensure that vulnerability is reduced and maladaptation avoided.

    Project Components:

     

    • Capacity is generated for implementing adaptation measures in the field in three countries.
    • Increased capacity to generate and use information about climate change to affect change in relevant policies.
    • Knowledge is increased of the linkages between development planning and climate change, including policy process and methodologies.
    Expected Outputs:

    The objective of this project is to mainstream adaptation to climate change into development planning in the participating countries that are facing increasing impacts from climate change to ensure that vulnerability is reduced and maladaptations avoided.

    Contacts:

    Liza Leclerc
    Telephone: 254-20-62-3113
    Email: gefinfo@unep.org

    Project Status:
    Under Implementation
    Primary Beneficiaries:
    n/a
    Project Details
    Funding Source:
    GEF-Trust Fund
    Other
    Financing Amount:
    2,065,000
    Cofinancing Total:
    1,265,000
    Total Amounts:
    2,065,000
    Resources:
    Global Environment Facility - Project Details
    Global Environment Facility
    File(s):
    CEO Approval Document-Regional - Integrating Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change into Sustainable Development Policy
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