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SCCF Project Highlights
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Implementing Agency: UNDP
SCCF Grant: $983,000
The project is working to enhance the capacity of agricultural and pastoral communities in Zimbabwe to adapt to climate variability and change. The primary project objective is to demonstrate and promote adoption of a range of gender-sensitive approaches for adaptation to climate change among rural communities currently engaged in agriculture in vulnerable areas of the Chiredzi. The project strategy is basically three pronged:
- Improving the climate change knowledge base to facilitate adaptation choices;
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Implementing Agency: UNDP
SCCF Grant: $960,000
The aim of the project is to reduce drought vulnerability in farming and pastoral communities by guaranteeing water supply and by training the communities to grow drought-resistant crops, like sweet potato, cassava or sorghum. The project sites, Mbala-vala, Nhanguenha, Nalazi and Chivonguene communities, belong to the semi-arid regions of the Limpopo River Basin. These are among the poorest and most drought-prone areas of the country.
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Implementing Agency: UNDP
SCCF Grant: $995,000
Ethiopia is particularly prone to drought as well as climate-driven health impacts. Projections on increases in temperature and declines in rainfall for the northern half of Ethiopia will negatively affect agricultural production, deteriorate infrastructure and worsen the livelihoods of the rural poor. As part of a set of 3 other “Coping with Drought and Climate Change” projects in Mozambique, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, this project is working to improve the livelihood strategies and resilience of farmers. The use of effective coping mechanisms for reducing the vulnerability of farmers... -
Implementing Agency: UNDP
SCCF Grant: $13 M
The Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC) Project is the first project implemented in the region that responds directly to the call for urgent action on adaptation to climate change, while supporting the systemic and institutional capacity to do so. It is regarded as one of the first programmes moving into actual implementation on the ground and as a framework to deliver adaptation actions in the Pacific. The $57 M project is partly funded be the SCCF through a grant of $13 M and is implemented by UNDP. -
Implementing Agency: World Bank
SCCF Grant: $8.08 millionWith the successful installation of the first out of eight glacier monitoring stations in the Andes region, the SCCF project “Adaptation to the Rapid Impact of Glacier Retreat in the tropical Andes” is on the track of becoming the first regional network of glacier monitoring stations in the Andes. This regional project is implemented by the World Bank in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia with funding from the GEF and the Japanese government, and it is also expected to raise 4 million Euros in co-financing from the Nordic Development Fund.
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Implementing Agency: IBRD - The World BankSCCF Grant: $5,000,000The Huang-Huai-Hai (3H) Basin is home to more than 400 million people and is China’s prime agricultural area. With a high water demand, the region is sensitive to the decreases in stream flows and ground water recharges that are projected as an impact of climate change. At the same time, rising temperatures could increase water demand in the agricultural sector even further, causing major shortages in water and, ultimately, grain which affects the livelihoods of millions of people. China has accessed the SCCF’s resource to implement adaptation...