Lead country
Guinea
Participating countries
Guinea
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From June 15, 2016 to June 15, 2023
SDGs addressed by this project
SDG targets
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
- 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing
Project ID: 5176
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Ecosystem-based adaptation
- Agrobiodiversity
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
- FreshWaters
- Conserved areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Rural areas
- Rivers and river basins
- Productive landscapes/Seascapes
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Forestry and other land use
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Direct support / Service Delivery
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Capacity building
- Mitigation adaptation
- Management operation
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Private sector
Gender equality
- Women's access to and control over resources
- Women decision making
- Livelihoods for women
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
- Reduce exposure
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
- 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Structural/system transformation
- Poverty reduction
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
In the Upper Niger River Basin, where poverty is prevalent, and the economy is based on agriculture, ecosystem services sustain the livelihoods of more than half a million people. Ecosystems provide these local communities with food, shelter, fiber, firewood and medicinal plants. Climate change affecting the Upper Niger Basin will result in higher temperatures, increased evapo-transpiration and changes in the rainfall regime. These conditions will threaten the continued stream of benefits from ecosystem services, particularly with respect to water security. It will also increase the risk of bushfire. Communities, whose livelihoods depend on ecosystems services and who live close to fire-prone areas, are the most vulnerable. In the baseline scenario, investments in watershed management are limited and generally not climate-proof. Also, under the current level of threat linked to prevailing land use practices ecosystems that had maintained resilience in function and structure, are gradually degrading. Although there is a strong baseline investment in rural development programmes, if climate change adaptation is not part of development efforts, this global-level threat will constitute an overriding stressor that will push ecosystems beyond their tipping point. This project addresses the additional risk posed by climate change to vulnerable communities in the Upper Niger River Basin through an ecosystem-based approach. It enhances ecosystems resilience across the landscape, as a climate change adaptation measure and with a clear additionality vis-a-vis the baseline. It focuses on watershed management and land-use practices on the ground. The project also builds the capacity of relevant stakeholders to change land use practices and adapt to a climatically challenging future. In this manner, target communities, who depend on ecosystem services for their livelihoods, will become more resilient to climate change. Since there is no development plan at the regional and departmental level in Guinea, the project will mainly focus on introducing adaptation priorities into local planning and budgeting processes.
Objectives
To reduce the vulnerability of local communities in the Upper Niger River Basin to the additional risks posed by climate change and build their general resilience through an ecosystem-based approach that focuses on watersheds, land-use practices and adaptive capacity.
USD $8,200,000
Grant amount
USD $114,180,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Least Developed Countries Fund ($8,200,000)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Guinea
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