Transcript of Guy jobbins ccaa presentation 26 may 2011
- 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
- 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
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- Formal training and capacity strengthening for researchers,
policy makers, and at risk groups
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- Facilitating communication between different perspectives,
disseminating information, and supporting a community of
practise
- Participatory Action Research
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- 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
- 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
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.
- 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
- 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
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- Droughts, floods, heat-waves, storms
- Can synergise with other global system shocks, such as food
prices
- Resilience related to socio-economic development
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- Income & access to markets
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- Access to public services
- 18. Adaptations Water as a key entry point
- Water scarcity & agriculture water use
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- Better use of climate information in irrigation regimes
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- Reduce quantities and costs of pumped water
- 19. Adaptations Water as a key entry point
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- Inequalities of access to water
- 20. Adaptive capacity
- Importance of socio-political processes
- Enabling and empowerment of community level institutions
- Learning institutions needed at all levels
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- Use and sharing of information
- Innovation means being prepared to be wrong
- 21. Conclusions
- Depends on exchange of capacities held by a range of different
actors
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- Implies institutional development
- Anticipation of future vulnerabilities
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- Economics of adaptation return on investment options
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- Management of uncertainty in decision making
- 22.
- http://www.africa-adapt.org