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Sub-Regional Workshop
for GEF Focal Points:
Western and Central Africa
Mainstreaming Climate Change Risks in
Development
by Abdoulaye Ndiaye, UNDP
21-23 May 2006
Dakar, Senegal
© 2006 UNDP. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
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Defining Adaptation
“Changing existing policies and practices and/or adopting new
policies and practices so as to secure MDGs in the face of
climate change and its associated impacts” (UNDP 2006)
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Supporting Adaptation
Through adaptation interventions we move from reactive and ad
hoc toward anticipatory & deliberative adaptation
anticipatory
Adaptation
projects
ad hoc
deliberative
Disaster
response
Historical
experience
reactive
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UNDP’s Core Principles
1. Safeguard achievement of MDGs by developing adaptive capacity
2. Integrate climate risks into development policies and national
investment decisions
3. Build on disaster risk-management activities and extensive UNDP
experience and mandate
4. Leverage existing UN and UNDP programmes, including UNDP/GEFsupported National Communications and NAPAs
5. Build partnerships to ensure appropriate expertise reaches countries
in line with UNDP’s development role in the UN System
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Moving ‘up’ from national projects to UNDP programming
Progress
1. Mainstreaming climate change
into UN country programming
• UNDAF
mainstreaming
• Guidance in
development…
2. Mainstreaming climate change
into national development plans
3. Piloting innovative national
adaptation projects to feed
lessons into 1 and 2
Tools
• Strategic
Environmental
Assessment
• Guidance in
development…
• Enabling activities
NCs, NAPAs
• Pilot projects
M&E, lessons learned
• Adaptation Policy
Frameworks (APF)
• Programming website
• Country Database
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NEPAD
Adaptation aux Changements Climatiques
et Côtiers en Afrique de l'Ouest.
Adaptation to Coastal and Climate
Change in West Africa
Photo: R.Arthurton
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK
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Participating Countries
NEPAD
Mauritanie
Cap Vert
Gambie
Guinée Bissau
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West Africa SPA Project- An Example
Baseline: Reactive and ad hoc response to sea level rise,
continued erosion mitigation measures that are quickly
overcome by sea-level rise (SLR)
- Coastal degradation (sand extraction, mangroves…)
combined with an increase in extreme climate events
(erosion, storms, etc.) result in a degradation of natural
and human coastal habitats
Additionality: Increased adaptive capacity to manage
adverse effects of climate change by integrating climate
risks into livelihood options, policy, and institutional
mechanisms
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West Africa SPA Project- An Example
Project Preparation phase
Objective:
Identify sensitive areas and hot spots (including pilot sites for
adaptation testing for the actual project).
Other objectives:
Assess:
- Possible causes (natural/anthropogenic? )
- Socioeconomic impacts (tourism, fisheries, agriculture…)
- Environmental impacts (biodiversity,…)
- Projected trends (short/medium/long term)
- Current obstacles to integrating coastal zone management
(legislation, acceptance among population groups, …)
- Lessons learnt from past initiatives
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West Africa SPA Project- An Example
Project Implementation phase
Goal:
Reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to the adverse effects of
climate change in the biodiversity focal area”
Objective:
Develop and pilot a range of effective coping mechanisms for reducing the
impact of climate change induced coastal erosion in vulnerable regions in five
countries in West Africa.
Method:
• Participatory approach
• National Action Plan for Adaptation (NAPA) under way
• Second National Communication (to COP)
Priorities in the area of climate change :
Fight against coastal erosion affecting:
- The environment
- Mangroves (degradation)
- Biodiversity (losses)
- Tourism
- Beaches (degradation/losses)
- Coastal infrastructure (destruction)
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West Africa SPA Project- An Example
Adaptation Measures to be undertaken:
OUTCOME 1: Pilot activities to increase the adaptive capacity and
resilience of coastline ecosystems in regions vulnerable to climate
change impacts implemented
OUTCOME 2: Climate change and adaptation issues and coastal
area management policies and programmes integrated
OUTCOME 3. Monitoring of coastal erosion and capacity building
in coastal management and planning enhanced
OUTCOME 4: Learning, evaluation, and adaptive management
increased
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