ALM UNDP

Summary:

To enhance Guinea-Bissau’s resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change risks in the agrarian and water sectors. This proposal will generate adaptation benefits by facilitating the integration of climate risks into existing poverty reduction, rural development and water resource management initiatives. By increasing capacity to make the transition to changing climatic conditions, Guinea-Bissau may need to review and revise existing policies and strategies or adopt new ones so as to secure the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At the site level, the project will attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness of specific water saving measures, the promotion of more efficient food production and storage methods, and the construction of adapted irrigation infrastructures. Climatic data and seasonal forecasts will be widely disseminated and utilized in decision making processes at the community level. Targeted capacity building of key stakeholders will be carried out, including the capacity of meteorological and extension services, and the existing early warning and water resource management systems will be designed to incorporate climate forecast information. By funding the additional costs of interventions necessary to meet the urgent and immediate adaptation needs, the proposed project aims to be catalytic in the implementation of NAPA priority profiles. Given the inter-relatedness of the profiles, it is logical to present the follow-up interventions pertaining to the agrarian and water sectors in one proposal through an integrated approach. Together with measures that address baseline development concerns and others that represent the co-financing leveraged as a result of the GEF intervention, UNDP will assist Guinea-Bissau’s agricultural and water sectors to make a transition towards a more climate resilient development.