Climate Change Program
Our efforts to address climate change focus on:
- Ensuring that smallholder farmers living around the Lake zone are trained in resilience to climate change and adoption.
- Reducing the vulnerability and increasing the resilience of vulnerable, rural communities in the program target areas to the anticipated impacts of climate variability and change.
- Strengthening the adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities and the ecosystems they depend on, by promoting food security, nutrition, and using a gender-sensitive approach.
Through social accountability monitoring in REDD+, the project assisted beneficiaries to:
- Avert climate change damages
- Better cope with extreme weather conditions
During the duration of the program, the organization:
- Creates small-scale disaster-resilient structures
- Provides livelihood activities for households
- Plants 5,000,000 trees every year using agroforestry in order to conserve soil and water.
The program develops effective practices for preserving trees in the community around Lake Zone by using:
- A regeneration approaches
- A tree nursery
It also:
- Develops agricultural practices that combine technologies with the most effective agricultural practices in order to adapt to the needs of farmers.
- Provides equipment to farmers to improve their technical capabilities with regard to climate risk management.
- Empowers the beneficiaries of REDD+ to form women, youths, and men farmer accountability monitoring committees.
- Joins smallholder farmer committees with technical experts from FODEO.
- Engages indigenous knowledge from farming communities and scientific information from local government departments.
The project develops:
- A series of demonstration plots and training centers for climate resilient technologies and best practices across the Lake zone.
- These demonstration plots help improve access to climate information among farmers and encourage community and cooperative level investments in resilience.
- The program takes into consideration gender-sensitive barriers to accessing such information and encourages participation by women through the clear setting of targets and mainstreaming gender considerations where appropriate.
Climate Action Plan
To mitigate future climate impacts, we have developed a Climate Action Plan to guide the Department's programs, projects, and activities in response to a changing climate. The Plan comprises three phases, the first of which was the development of:
- Improving livelihood through climate resilience
- Standardizing the Department's climate change analysis tools
- Assessing our assets' vulnerabilities to climate change