Osamu SAITO Academic Programme Officer United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP) 5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-5467-1343 (direct)
Fax: +81-3-3406-7347 (office) [email protected]
Makiko NAEMURA Programme Officer Arid and Semi-Arid Farming Area Division Rural Development Department Japan International Cooperation Agency 1-6th floor, Nibancho Center Building 5-25, Niban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8012, JAPAN Tel: +81-3-5226-8440
Fax: +81-3-5226-6338 [email protected]
CECAR-Africa is a project for climate and ecosystem change adaptation and resilience
research initiated in 2009. With the financial support from the Science and Technology
Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS), which is a
collaborative program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the CECAR-Africa is starting a new
five-year Resilience Project, which involves seven leading adaptation and resilience
research institutes in Ghana and Japan.
CECAR Africa A SATREPS Project 2011-2016
Contact:
Yasuko KUSAKARI Socio-economist United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) University of Ghana Campus, Legon-Accra, GHANA Tel: +233-28955-6657 [email protected] [email protected]
Fuyuki SAGARA Senior Representative Japan International Cooperation Agency Ghana Office 2nd Floor, The Elizabeth, No.68A, Senchi Link, Airport Residential Area, Accra, GHANA Tel: +233-302-760781 Fax: +233-302-760954 [email protected]
Enhancing Resilience to Climate and
Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa:
An Integrated Approach
Printed: August 2011 Cover Photo: © Arne Hoel/The World Bank Copyright: © 2011 United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace. All Rights Reserved.
Japan
Ghana
GHANA METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY
Theme1 Forecast and assessment of climate change impact on agroecosystem
AGROECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE
To access impact on agricultural production/ecosystem To utilize local knowledge/ technology (species) To maintain diverse ecosystem services
Establishment of Integrated Strategies to Enhancing Resilience
Elaboration of an integrated approach to
enhancing resilience to climate and
ecosystem changes in Northern Ghana/
Semi-Arid Africa. To this end, the following
will be presented: Adaptation strategy options for
sustainable agricultural production and resources management (Theme 1)
Ways to enhance engineering resilience
based on extreme weather forecasting and risk assessment (Theme 2)
Locally-driven institutional and technical
capacity development methods (Theme 3)
Scientific evidence-based Climate and Ecosystem
Change Adaptation Model Contributions to Rio+20: reifying a synergy between
three treaties to demonstrate potential solutions to the pressing global issues
Contributions to MDGs: Ensure environmental
sustainability; eradicate extreme poverty etc. Capacity development:Fostering capacity of various
stakeholders (community members, local technicians, government officials, NGO workers, researchers, students)
Information dissemination: “Ghana Model” for
enhancing resilience, disseminated through various channels including Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) and UN-CECAR networks.
Theme2 Risk assessment of extreme weather hazards and development of adaptive resource management methods
ENGINEERING RESILIENCE To use existing infrastructure/ resources To educate local professionals/technical experts
Theme3 Implementing capacity development programs for local residents and professionals
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS・TECHNICAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
To strengthen governance, technical capacity To support self-help, cooperative organization, local empowerment
CECAR-Africa
As a part of global efforts to tackle
impacts of climate and ecosystem
changes, we urgently need to over-
come vulnerability of terrestrial
ecosystems in developing countries,
especially Africa.
This research program aims for three
objectives by focusing on the study
concerns the vulnerable semi-arid
region of northern Ghana where the
change impacts have been severely
felt in forms of unpredictable floods
and droughts and involves practical
research consisting of three cores:
(1) Forecast and assessment of
climate and ecosystem change
impact on agricultural production;
(2) Risk assessment of extreme
weather events and introduction
of adaptive water resource
management methods; and
(3) Planning and implementation of
capacity development programs
enabling local residents and
professionals to utilize the
assessment results derived from
(1) and (2).
The goal of this program is to combine
climate change and ecosystem
change research and to build an
integrated resilience enhancement
strategy as a “Ghana model”. This
model will be further discussed in a
wider international development and
environmental policy arena to
contribute to the global sustainable
development.
Local Knowledge,
Technology
Principal Investigator: Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi Deputy Executive Director, IR3S, University of Tokyo, Vice Rector, United Nations University
Social
Engineering
Climate
Modeling
EXPECTED OUTPUTS: EXPECTED OUTCOMES:
UNIV. OF TOKYO, UNIV. OF GHANA KYOTO UNIV., GHANA METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY
UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY, UNIV. FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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