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CBA Priorities
Community-Based Adaptation
Climate change is global, but
impacts are regional and
local
•Impacts will affect different
communities differently based on
their specific circumstances
…so, solutions must be
locally specific
•CBA is community-driven
•CBA is the grass-roots component
of climate change adaptation
•CBA will respond to locally specific
needs, and develop lessons for
global and national stakeholders to
further adaptation practice
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The CBA is a global programme, with pilot countries selected to represent
a variety of ecosystems and climate impacts
The CBA will be implemented in 10 countries:
•Bangladesh
•Bolivia
•Guatemala
•Jamaica
•Kazakhstan
•Morocco
•Niger
•Namibia
•Samoa
•Viet Nam
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Key Characteristics
•The UNDP-GEF CBA Project is funded by the GEF
Strategic Priority on Adaptation
•Portfolio of 8-20 projects per country
•Project size: <$50,000US
–Projects will require 1:1 co-financing in cash
•CBA will be a separate portfolio of projects, nested within SGP
Jamaica
•CBA programme period will be 5 years
• 2008 through 2012
• Projects will deliver adaptation benefits, as well as global
environmental benefits in a GEF focal areas
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The SPA is focused on ecosystem resilience
•The CBA is funded by the GEF Strategic Priority on
Adaptation
•SPA funding is intended to fund the subset of adaptation
activities that also generate global environmental benefits /
make global environmental benefits resilient to climate
change.
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CBA Projects and the SPA
Community-Driven
Development Priorities
CBA Projects will be
community-driven, addressing
local development priorities
Like SGP projects, CBA
projects will be selected in
regions where community
development priorities and
global environmental objectives
overlap…
…and where communities are
vulnerable to climate change
including variability…
Climate
Change
Adaptation
Priorities
The CBA will operate where
GEB and adaptation priorities
overlap with community
priorities
CBA
GEB
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CBA Projects must address climate change risks to
ecosystems/communities
What are the current pressures on the ecosystem?
What are the climate change threats to the ecosystem?
Baseline Pressures
Climate Change Pressures
•Landlessness, insecure
•Increasing temperature (impacts on
tenure
•Soil degradation
crop phenology, water stress)
•Increasing erosion (drought/flood)
•Inequitable access to
water resources
•Cyclical drought
•Reduced water quality (drought/flood)
•Changing seasonal water distribution
•Salinization
•Cyclones
•Landslides
•Lack of early warning
•Intensifying cyclones
•Severe flood/drought
•Novel disasters
systems
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Tracking Results from CBA Projects
UNDP-GEF
Adaptation Indicators
Tracking
Qualitative: The VRA
Community perceptions of
vulnerability and adaptation to
climate change
Quantitative: the SGP IAS
Quantitative indicators on global
environmental benefits realized
through community projects
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The Vulnerability Reduction Assessment
The VRA is a question-based approach with the following aims:
–To make M&E responsive to community priorities
–To make M&E capture community ideas and local knowledge
–To capture qualitative information in a manner that records progress and
can serve as a planning tool for self-monitoring and the capture of
community priorities
–To generate qualitative information
• To guide the evolution of community-based adaptation practice
• To generate case studies highlighting CBA projects
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The Impact Assessment System
The IAS measures Global Environmental Benefits from community projects
Each project will deliver results within this indicator framework, AND ensure that results are
resilient in the face of climate change
• Examples from biodiversity and land degradation focal areas:
Biodiversity
Land Degradation
•Number of globally significant species protected by •Hectares of degraded land restored
project
•Number of innovations/new technologies
•Hectares of land sustainably managed by project
developed/applied
•Number of local policies informed in biodiversity
•Tons of soil erosion prevented
focal area
•Number of national policies informed in biodiversity •Number of innovations/new technologies
focal area
developed/applied
•Number of local policies informed in land
degradation focal area
•Number of national policies informed in land
degradation focal area
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SGP Jamaica Focus
Sectors for focus based on National Adaptation priorities:
1. Coastal Sector:Threats of increased erosion, higher storm
surges, coral bleaching, loss of ecosystems
2. Water Resources: Saline intrusion into aquifers, increased
droughts/floods
3. Agriculture: Adverse effects on crop yields due to rainfall
variations, new disease & pests (increased temps.),
increased losses due to more intense severe weather
events.
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Baseline-Additionality Reasoning
A number of non-climate, unsustainable practices will
compound the impacts of Climate Change:
•Deforestation of mangroves , sand mining, Near shore
construction
•Unsustainable practices: overuse of insecticides, pesticides,
fertilizers, slash and burn agriculture, adverse effects of mining
•Lack of conservation, over-extraction of ground water
CBA projects must address both these baseline impacts
(securing global benefits in BD, LD) and then make the benefits
resilient to climate change. Cash co-financing to fund baseline
issues, CBA funding to finance climate change stresses.
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Local Priorities and Geographic Focus
Projects likely to be sited in areas where global
environmental benefits can be secured and are also
vulnerable to climate change. Commencement with
south coast-Portland Bight
Coastal communities, farming areas, biodiversity
hotspots to be targeted. Suitably qualified
NGOs/CBOs needed for implementation.
Areas where co-financing opportunities can be
secured, also to affect location of project sites
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Potential Project Typologies
Projects to vary depending on GEF Focal area and targeted
adaptation options:
Protection of threatened coastal species-Mangrove
reforestation, in context of increased erosion and higher temps.
Introduction of saline tolerant and drought resistant plant/crop
species
Improved land Management in context of increased severe
weather events-Conserve Biodiversity habitats
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