Transcript FANRPAN Node Training and Common Visioning Workshop 1 – 2

Natural Resources and Environment Thematic Thrust
Node Common Visioning Workshop
1-2 April Pretoria
Sithembile Ndema
[email protected]
Presentation Outline
• Natural Resources & Environment Projects
1. Africa-wide Climate Change Initiative for Dialogues (ACCID)
2. Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change in Rural Sub-Saharan
Africa: Targeting the Most Vulnerable
3. Energy Crops and Agro forestry Systems for Arid and Semi-Arid
Eco-Systems (Bio-Fuels)
4. Limpopo Basin Water Poverty Analysis, Water availability and
Access, Agricultural Water Productivity, Institution and
Intervention, Analysis and Knowledge Base Development
Limpopo Basin Focal Project (LBFP)
About ACCID
Three RECs, COMESA, EAC and SADC have developed
the African Bio-Carbon Initiative (ABC-Initiative)
ACCID established in 2008 by COMESA to ensure that
African civil society and governments collaborate in
COP14 and COP15 global platforms
The ACCID and ABC initiatives feed into the NEPAD
CAADP Pillar One
Objectives of the ACCID Project
- Mobilise space for civil society to speak with one voice
- Link adaptation and mitigation agenda to on-going
negotiations leading to COP 15
- Equip CSOs with research-based evidence to promote
national, regional and global pro-poor policy and practice in
the mitigation and adaptation to climate change
- Ensure that funds generated from carbon trade and other
financial instruments for funding climate adaptation
programmes benefit the poor and help Africa towards the
attainment of the MDGs.
Role of the Nodes in the Project
COMESA In country climate change round tables
-Zimbabwe 15-16 April- Angola, Tanzania, Swaziland & Malawi
Database on SLUM climate adaptation and mitigation projects
-Template of climate change work in the different countries
Country case studies
-Identify specific projects that we can showcase
Strategies for Adapting Climate Change in Rural SubSaharan Africa: Targeting the Most Vulnerable
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Implementing Partners:
• Supported by BMZ (Germany)
• Lead partner: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
• Other partners include:
– 1. Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central
Africa (ASARECA)
– 2. Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network
(FANRPAN)
– 3. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
– 4. Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
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About the Project
• Goal:
• Reduced vulnerability of rural households to climate
change through better-coordinated and targeted food
system adaptation strategies.
• Purpose:
• To provide regional organizations, policymakers and
farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa with tools to identify and
implement appropriate adaptation strategies.
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Expected input from the Nodes
• Provide help in creating linkages with key
scientists and analysts.
• Assist in design of regionally-relevant socioeconomic scenarios. - relevance of the
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios
for climate change adaptation research in
Southern Africa.
Expected input from the Nodes Cont.
CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT PROFILE DATABASE
Project Details
Contact Details (address, responsible, phone,
project name, website)
Project name
Project summary
Country (s) Covered
Status-- Planned/Ongoing/Completed
Name of contact person
Contact physical address
Telephone
Email
Project website link
Project site(s) description
1. Location (Physical and GIS reference where possible)
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Project 4
Project 5
Project 6
Energy Crops and Agro forestry Systems for Arid and
Semi-Arid Eco-Systems (Bio-Fuels)
The objectives of the project are
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To establish a platform for policy dialogue & capacity building
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• - To identify pathways for the sustainable provision of bioenergy
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• - To enhance the exchange of knowledge on biofuels development
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Project Set-up
WP1 - Current Land Use Patterns
WP2 –Improved Land Use
WP3 –Sustainability Analysis of
Alternative Land Use
WP4 –South-South and North-South Cooperation
WP5 –Financing of Alternative Land Use and International
Trade
WP7 –Dissemination: Concept and Set-up of a Competence
Platform
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FANRPAN’s Role in the Project
• -To coordinate policy research
• -To develop & evaluate policy initiatives for bioenergy
development in Africa
• - To develop a roadmap for policy research
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• - To provide policy recommendations on how to harness the
potential of biofuels without damaging rural livelihoods and
the ecosystem
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Outputs to Date
• -Report on National Policies on Biofuels Sector
Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
• -Report on International and Regional Policies
and Biofuels Sector Development in SubSaharan Africa
Expected Outputs for 2009
• -A concept paper on improved systems and the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)
• -A report on the performance of the national and
international policies (evaluation and review)
• -Policy recommendation paper
• -Roadmap for policy research
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Expected input from the Nodes
• -Identify biofuels policies that are in
place in the different countries
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Limpopo River Basin Focal Project (LBFP)
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Objectives of the Project
• -Identify strategic agricultural water interventions
which can reduce poverty & enhance food, health, and
environmental security in the Limpopo Basin
• -Identify gaps in knowledge about agricultural water
management options in the basin requiring further
research
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FANRPAN’s Role in the Project
• There are 6 Work Packages in the project
• FANRPAN leads:
• -WP 4 Institutional Analysis and
• -WP 5 Interventions Packages
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Outputs to Date
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Water/Agriculture policy matrix (4)
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• -Draft report on basin water availability
• -Literature review of water productivity
• -Draft report on institutional arrangements
• -Draft literature review on intervention packages
• -Project data base, wiki
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Next Steps
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- Water poverty profile
- Water availability report, maps
- Water productivity report, maps
- Policy and institutional hot spots
- Strategic interventions for vetting by
stakeholder partners
• - Web based, interactive mapping overlays
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