Key Progress and Challenges in Mainstreaming CCA in PRIME Project

Alebachew AdemCARE International in Ethiopia

alebachew.adem@care.org27-01-2015

• PRIME's approach to CCA• Improving Access to Climate information & Science• Enhancing Governance Systems• Piloting Climate Solutions• Achievements and Challenges

OUTLINE

How do we support CCA in PRIME

Major Activities and Interventions

Facilitating Preparedness & Adaptation Planning through PSP

Create a common platform for climate communication which respects, reviews and combines traditional & scientific info.

Promote the integration of climate-resilient livelihoods & DRM into local planning processes;

Strengthen EW institutions at community &government levels

Create demand for improved forecasts

PSP Process

Strengthening CEWS

Indicator Gender Achievement (Sep. 13-Dec.14)

4.5.2(34): No. of people implementing risk-reducing practices/actions to improve resilience to CC as a result of USG assistance

Male 8,065

Female 7,122

Total 11,667

4.8.2-26 No. of stakeholders with increased capacity  to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance

4.8.2-26a.

Implementing risk-reducing practices/actions to improve resilience to climate change

11,677

4.8.2-26b. Using climate information in their decision making

8,734

PSP Advisories Dissemination Process

PSP Advisories Dissemination Process

National/Regional level• Technical assessment of NMA’s forecasting systems• User-based assessment of NMA’s forecasts & warnings – qualitative and quantitative• MoU signed with NMA for downscaling forecasts and tailoring to satisfy user information needs

Cluster level1. East: 4 PSPs conducted in Gu season, 4 planned2. Afar: 3 PSPs for Suggum, Karma PSPs planning underway3. South: 6 PSPs planned for Hagayya

• OTHEREY DRM ACTIVITIES• Providing technical support to Regional Government EWS

– Link with PSP– Expand community EWS to feed better information to the Regions– Support key regional assessment activities

• Strengthen capacity of Regional Met Agency Bureaus to support downscaling of forecasts

• Building the capacity of local Met institutions- stations instruments, personnel, info mgt systems

OTHER KEY DRM ACTIVITIES

AIM:1. Create community understanding of how CCA and DRM are shaped by

socio-cultural, behavioral and economic factors

2. Take concrete steps to address behavioral and socio-cultural issues within a reflection-action cycle

Identified issues for SAA/BC-LA) Issues identified, ToT given, Groups are being established

SOCIAL ANALYSIS & ACTION - SAA

• To be implemented through a market-led approach in collaboration with IRs 1 & 3

• Broad intervention areas and sites identified

• In the process of CN development

LIVELIHOOD ADAPTATION

NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Theory of Change

Participatory Rangeland Management Process

Institutional Strengthening

RESOURCE ENHANCEMENT

Cluster Rangeland Systems

Total Ha of Land

New Hectares

Continuing Hectares

Work Done

AFAR Gewani-G. 249,119 249,119 Digitization and Community map validation

Awash F. 141,281 141,281

EAST Babile O. 23,188 23,188Muli 46,134 46,134 Map validation completedAfdem 65,079 65,079 Map validation under process

SOUTH Dida 340,188 340,188

Updating and finalizing community maps based on validation

Sub-Rangeland units mapping completed

Golba Dawa 258,754 258,754Golba Gen. 138,933 138,933

Dirre 728,762 728,762Gomolle 695,112 695,112Mallbe 1,316,347 1,316,347Wayama 515,457 515,457

Total 413,588 4,104,766

Update on community mapping & digitization of land under intervention

• Key achievements • Strengthening of Rangelands Management Platform

(RMP)under the Pastoral Directorate, State Ministry of Livestock (Hold 1st meeting)

• Support to the formation of the Zonal Oromia Pastoral Advisory Committee (ZPAC)

• Deve’t of an MoU• Preparations for Regional OPAC Field Visit

Update on partnership project with LAND (Improving land rights and resource productivity)

Water Rehabilitation1. Haro Bake Microdam – Yabello. Current capacity: 1.5m m3- 15000 HHs. Plan: 1.6m m3 for 20 years

2. Birkile Pond, Mulli . 7,000m3, for 1,300 HHs (15% done)

3. Fatuma Delaytu Pond, Gewane-G. . 7,000 m3, for 1000 HHs, 1,117.5m3 of silt removed

Prosopis removal using new technologiesQ7: 210 hectares cleared in AfarMechanized + communityMulti-stakeholder consultations

Update on NR rehabilitation & enhancement activities

• VSLAs, EWCs, RLCs as platforms for discussion on climate change and dissemination of info

• Crop and fodder storage

IndicatorYear 1

Progress2014 Target

2014Progress

4.5.2(2): No. of hectares under improved technologies or management practices 580,097 1,009,380

4,282,676

4.5.2(34): No. of stakeholders implementing risk-reducing practices/ actions to improve resilience to climate change

1,525 16,820 5,946

4.8.2-26 No. of stakeholders with increased capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change

20,000 21,264

4.8.1-29 No. of person hours of training in natural resources management and/or biodiversity conservation

55,000 81,263

FTF Summary Table for IR2-Q7 (April-June 2014)

IR 2 Results Framework – Indicators and Targets

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INDICATORS 2013 Target

2013 Actual

2014 Target

2015 Target

2016 Target

4.5.2(2): Number of hectares under improved technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance 137,013 580,097 1,580,097 2,083,097 2,586,097

4.5.2(5): Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance

1,750 1,937 7,500 15,026 28,276

4.5.2(34): Number of stakeholders implementing risk-reducing practices/actions to improve resilience to climate change as a result of USG assistance ( 

2,000 15,187 17,000 28,000 36,000

4.5.1(24): Numbers of Policies/Regulations/Administrative Procedures in each of the following stages of development as a result of USG assistance in each case: (CCA/NRM) 

0 1 12 10 10

4.8.1-29 Number of person hours of training in natural resources management and/or biodiversity conservation supported by USG assistance

10,000 18730 25920 17280 17280

4.8.2-26 Number of stakeholders with increased capacity  to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance

2500 9594 20,000 38,000 58,000

3. CC & Pastoralism: Divided Opinions

• The implications of climate change for pastoral livelihoods are not yet fully understood

• Two opinions prevail

1. Some see pastoral groups as the ‘canaries in the coalmine’ in the sense that that they will be the first to lose their livelihoods as rangelands and water points dry out

2. Others argue that pastoralists are the best equipped to adapt to climate change, as pastoral livelihood strategies are honed to respond to scarce and variable natural resources and cope with difficult and uncertain agro-ecological conditions.

LesLessons-Learned: Findingssons-Learned: Findings

Lessons-Learned: Findings

Recognition of the need for adaptation, and acknowledgement of barriers and constraints

Behavior is primarily reactive, response-oriented v. proactive

Mobility and traditional NRM are most prominent manifestation of adaptive capacity in the drylands

Beliefs, social norms and values can contribute to vulnerability

HHs and communities have unique, unmet info. needs that contribute to V.

Market access – both input and output – are a critical stumbling block to CCA

CCA requires as much HH-action and decision-making, as collective action

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