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VSO and Climate Change
Why a VSO Climate Change Strategy?
People first – VSO’s new global strategy 2010
Climate change becomes a new VSO priority
VSO and Climate Change 2011 :
Tragically, it is the poorest and most vulnerable who bear the brunt of climate change, since vulnerabilities caused by climate change compound vulnerabilities that exist already.
The main driving force is population growth.
Malawi’s population has tripled since 1966.
In 2010, it reached over 15 million and is increasing at a rate of 2.9% (GOM, 2009).
What drives environmental degradation in Malawi?
A high percentage of Malawi’s population build their livelihoods on natural resource exploitation. Agriculture, fishery, and forestry collectively contribute to more than a
third of Malawi’s GDP.
Energy sources used in MalawiSource: GOM, 2009
Our Vision for Action
Ensure poor and marginalised people are able to fulfil their fundamental human rights
to health, well-being and security despite facing hazards from climate change.
support the people most at risk to overcome their vulnerabilities; to withstand CC impacts in the short term and to adapt to increasing
hazards in the long term.
advocate for those who are most responsible for the problem to do their fair share to
mitigate future emissions and to provide resources for vulnerable groups to adapt.
VSO MALAWI CC STRATEGY:
AWARENESS AND PRACTICE
DEVELOP PRIORITY
INTERVENTIONS
STRENGTHEN THE CAPACITY AND SYSTEMS
OF THE GOVERNMENT
STRENGTHEN ADVOCACY BY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
THE WATERS PROJECT OVERVIEW
•Water Futures: Towards Equitable Resource
Strategies (WATERS)
•PROJECT OVERALL GOAL: Reducing the
vulnerability of the rural poor to climate change
impacts by linking Local Government, Civil Society
and Community to enable equitable Climate Proof
Integrated Water Management.
•PROJECT APPROACH: Ecosystem service
approach for water resources management to be
developed in consultation with villages and other
local stakeholders.
Most Vulnerable Areas
We are concentrating on the poorest districts that are the most vulnerable to climate change :
1. Chikhwawa
2. Karonga
3. Nsanje
4. Salima
VSO MALAWI CC STRATEGY:
Thank You! Zikomo!
Yewo!
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