Lead country
Burkina Faso
Participating countries
Burkina Faso
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From January 8, 2015 to January 8, 2021
SDGs addressed by this project
SDG targets
- 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
- 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
- 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management
Project ID: 4598
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Ecosystem-based adaptation
- Ecosystem-based mitigation
Landscape(s)
- Wetlands
- Forests
Transformed sector(s)
- Forestry and other land use
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Innovative approaches
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Governance
- Mitigation adaptation
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Institutional framework
- Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
- Technical capacity building
Social inclusion
N/A
Gender equality
- Women's access to and control over resources
- Women farmers
- Women's cooperatives and groups
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 13.1 Strengthen resilience, adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards
- 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
- 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Poverty reduction
About this project
Description
The project focuses its efforts on the natural resource management sectors in the Boucles du Mouhoun (BdM) Forest Corridor, which runs along the Mouhoun River in the Region of Boucle de Mouhoun, and in the Mare d'Oursi (MdO) Wetlands Basin located in the Region of Sahel. Both are landscapes of strategic importance to conserve water resources and livelihoods' systems. The main goal is to reduce vulnerability to climate change of local communities' and build their resilience through an Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EBA) approach. Burkina Faso is projected to be affected significantly by climate change, particularly by the increase of water scarcity. Impacts are already felt by highly vulnerable rural populations, on livelihoods and food production systems. The project responds to a priority of the National Action Plan for Adaptation (NAPA). It has a specific focus on strengthening natural and social assets that are vulnerable to climate change, such as the management of forests, soil, fire, natural pasture and wetlands as key social and natural assets that render essential services to people and sustain their economic activities. The project aims to achieve three Outcomes: (1) Increased knowledge and understanding of climate variability and change-induced risks in the project targeted areas generated by a customized geo-based agro-ecological and hydrological information system; (2) The climate resilience of key agro-ecological and hydrological systems and of natural resource dependent livelihoods the BdM and MdO are strengthened by focusing on vulnerable natural and social assets in target project sites; and (3) Climate adaptive management of agro-ecological and hydrological systems in the BdM Forest Corridor and the MdO Wetlands Basin are integrated into key sectoral planning and investment frameworks with focus on local and regional levels.
Objectives
To reduce local communities" vulnerability to the additional risks posed by climate change and build their resilience with focus on the natural resource management sectors in the Boucle du Mouhoun Forest Corridor and the Mare d"Oursi Wetlands Basin.
USD $7,120,000
Grant amount
USD $30,822,541
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Least Developed Countries Fund ($7,120,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Burkina Faso
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