Overview of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Program and North African Research Guy Jobbins, Senior Program Officer Climate Change Adaptation in Africa International Development Research Centre Cairo
1. Overview of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa Program
and North African Research Guy Jobbins, Senior Program Officer
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa International Development
Research Centre Cairo
2. Content
Introduction to CCAA Program
Projects in North Africa
Findings & Conclusions
3. The CCAA Program
Collaboration between DFID (UK) and IDRC (Canada) for research
and capacity development on adaptation to climate change in
Africa.
Program launched in 2006, to end in March 2012
65 million CAD programming funds, including 24 million sterling
from DfID
45 research and capacity projects in 28 countries
Agriculture & rural livelihoods, human health, coastal
adaptation, water as main themes
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5. Goal of CCAA
To strengthen the capacity of African countries to adapt to
climate change in ways that benefit the most vulnerable members of
society
6. CCAA Objectives
Researchers able to identify vulnerabilities and develop
adaptation options
Policy makers, vulnerable people and researchers share
knowledge on overcoming climate vulnerability and poverty
Policy makers, vulnerable people and researchers join their
knowledge to implement effective adaptation strategies
Policy is informed by good quality science-based work on
vulnerability and adaptation, and the experiences of vulnerable
people
7. CCAA Activities
Education and Training
Formal training and capacity strengthening for researchers,
policy makers, and at risk groups
Knowledge Sharing
Facilitating communication between different perspectives,
disseminating information, and supporting a community of
practise
Participatory Action Research
Collaborative experiments testing adaptation strategies
developed through research processes that include local and/or
indigenous knowledge
8. CCAA in North Africa - PAR
7 Participatory Action Research projects in North Africa:
Adaptation in mountains and plains communities, INRA-Settat,
Maroc
Adaptation to sea level rise, ENFI, Maroc
Optimisation of small dams using EcoHealth approaches,
INRA-Agadir, Maroc
Water demand management in adapting to water scarcity, AUI,
Maroc
Management of Leishmaniasis outbreaks, NONED, Tunisia
Settler communities west of Lake Nasser, CDS, Egypt
Adaptation to sea level rise, NWRC, Egypt
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10. Project: Climate change adaptation mechanisms for rural
communities in two contrasting ecosystems, Morocco
INRA - Settat
Sites in Chichoua and Azilal
A focus on understanding risk behaviour and institutional
dimensions of adaptation in vulnerable communities
11. Project: Enabling stakeholders in Moroccan coastal
management to develop sustainable climate change adaptation
policies and plans
Ecole National Forestiere dIngenieurs, Sale
Sites in Nador and Berkane
A complex set of immediate development challenges and long term
stresses imposed by sea level rise planning today for tomorrow
12. Project: Integrated ecosystem approach for optimization of
small dams in Morocco
INRA Agadir
Sites around Ait Baha
Improved human health, improved ecosystem management, improved
capacity for adapting to change Feb 06 Feb 08
13. Project: Using demand side management to adapt to water
scarcity and climate change in the Saiss Basin, Morocco
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
Sites near Ifrane and Fez
Reaching consensus between farmers and regulatory agencies on
technology and institutions for increasing water use
efficiency
14. Project: Climate change and human health: Leishmaniasis in
Tunisia
National Observatory for New and Emerging Diseases.
Sites in Sidi Bouzid
Trying to understand the complex dynamics of interactions
between climate, ecosystems, vector-borne diseases, and human
vulnerabilities
15. New Lands - New Life: adaptation in resettled communities,
Egypt
Centre for Development Services
Lake Nasser areas
Understanding the vulnerabilities of resettled communities
through a human health perspective, including nutrition and food
security
16. Project: selection of adaptation options for the Nile
Delta, Egypt
National Water Research Institute, University of Alexandria,
Centre for Development Services
Eastern Nile Branch coast
What are the tradeoffs for different stakeholders between
different adaptation options?
17. Resilience
So far, climate change mainly experienced as increased
variability
Droughts, floods, heat-waves, storms
Can synergise with other global system shocks, such as food
prices
Resilience related to socio-economic development
Health
Income & access to markets
Livelihood diversity
Access to public services
etc
18. Adaptations Water as a key entry point
Water scarcity & agriculture water use
Better use of climate information in irrigation regimes
Reduce quantities and costs of pumped water
Water excess
Flood risk management
Improve aquifer recharge
Soil erosion
19. Adaptations Water as a key entry point
Small dams
Health impacts
Inequalities of access to water
Coastal change
Soil salinisation
Agri- to aquaculture
20. Adaptive capacity
Importance of socio-political processes
Enabling and empowerment of community level institutions
Learning institutions needed at all levels
Use and sharing of information
Innovation means being prepared to be wrong
21. Conclusions
Adaptation is local
Depends on exchange of capacities held by a range of different
actors
Implies institutional development
Anticipation of future vulnerabilities
Key areas of research:
Economics of adaptation return on investment options
