Lead country
Malawi
Participating countries
Malawi
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From February 18, 2015 to February 29, 2020
SDGs addressed by this project
SDG targets
- 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
- 13.3 Improve learning, capacity on climate change measures
- 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management
Project ID: 4508
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Agrobiodiversity
- Ecosystem-based adaptation
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Rural areas
- Urban areas
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Capacity building
- Enabling
- Finance economy
Sub-strategy
- Community capacity building
- Awareness raising
- Institutional capacity building
- Mainstream
- Community engagement
- Land rights and tenure security
- Nature finance
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
Gender equality
- Women's access to and control over resources
- Women decision making
- Women farmers
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Sci-tech pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
- 13.3 Improve learning, capacity on climate change measures
- 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
Inadequate management, weak technical capacity, limited knowledge and insufficient financing hampers efforts to climate proof development interventions in Malawi at the local, regional and national level. The project aims to empower communities to integrate climate risk considerations into development policies, plans, projects and actions. The project will provide knowledge, tools, capacities and methodologies for the adoption of an ecosystems and community based approach to adaptation, which is more effective in enabling climate vulnerable people to plan for and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Knowledge will be generated and used to formulate comprehensive community-based adaptation plans. Ecological and physical infrastructure measures for water management will be adopted to regulate baseflow and reduce risk of floods, while mitigating against droughts. In addition, climate smart agriculture and safe post-harvest management technologies and practices will lead to enhanced production, reduction in grain loss and thus increased food security. Replication and sustainability of these initiatives will be secured through mainstreaming climate change considerations and financing into local development programs and a capacitated extension service and district councils.
Objectives
Using ecological, physical and policy measures to reduce vulnerability to climate change driven droughts, floods and post-harvest grain losses for rural and urban communities of Machinga and Mangochi Districts of Malawi [reaching over 0.5 million people.
USD $5,468,200
Grant amount
USD $36,650,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Least Developed Countries Fund ($5,468,200)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Malawi
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