An project providing technical advice, organization training, and financial help to farmers can be seen as case of “serendipitous” adaptation. Under the tutelage of ENDA-SYSPRO, farmers set up co-ops dedicated to agro-forestry. Benefits include reduced soil erosion, reduced need for irrigation, improved soil fertility, increased income opportunities (through agriculture), and improved food security (through crops).

The project development objective is to enhance regional coordination, development and sustainability of water resources management in the Niger River Basin. The expected outcomes include: (i) improved institutional coordination for regional management and development of water resources in the Niger River Basin; (ii) improved performance of rehabilitated hydroelectric plants in targeted areas; (iii) improved irrigated agriculture in targeted areas; and (iv) improved watershed management in targeted areas. There are 3 components to the project.

Recovery from weather-related disasters is a great challenge for the Nepalese Government and any future increase in these disasters from enhanced climate variability and change will certainly add to this challenge. As is the case in most developing countries, disaster insurance has not been applied in Nepal as an adaptation mechanism to reduce disaster-related vulnerability. However, community-based micro-insurance schemes in the livestock and cash crop sectors have been successfully established in some villages.

Recently, the Knowledge and Research program from CARE and the Nepal Red Cross Society together with Jaleshwar Municipality began implementing community-based low cost flood risk reduction measures through action planning.  The project enhanced the capacity of communities to cope with and manage flood disasters by building institutional capacities through establishing various committees including, Community Based Disaster Management Committee, Disaster Preparedness Subcommittees, First Aid Subcommittees, Disaster Relief Subcommittees, and Coordination Subcommittees.  These committees were pr

The objective of the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) Support Project is to generate and disseminate improved technologies in the participating countries’ top priority areas that are aligned with the region’s top priorities, as identified by Central Africa Counsel for Agricultural Research (CORAF). These include roots and tubers in Ghana; rice in Mali; and cereals in Senegal. The project has four main components. The first component is enabling conditions for regional cooperation in technology generation and dissemination.

The goal of this project, implemented by Action Aid, is to reduce people’s vulnerability to natural disasters by contributing to the implementation of the Hyogo framework. The purpose is to make schools in high-risk disaster areas safer, enabling them to act as a locus for disaster risk reduction. The project works in 7 countries in selected districts at high-risk of diverse natural disasters.

Mangroves are the most degraded forest habitats in the world and climate change threatens to make this situation worse. Rising sea level and increasing storm intensity/frequency make coastal systems extremely vulnerable. WWF is working to develop a generalizable approach to building the resilience of mangrove forests, and by extension associated coastal ecosystems and coral reefs. This project also aims to build the capacity of natural resource managers and communities to assess vulnerability to climate change and to develop management strategies to decrease vulnerability.

PASOLAC (Programa para la Agricultura Sostenible en las Laderas de América Central) offers technical, methodological, and financial support to more than 50 member organizations that work with local farmers and communities on the hillsides to implement sustainable agriculture practices, particularly Sustainable Soil and Water Management (SSWM) techniques. The program is characterized by a participatory and demand-driven approach, which aims to build capacities and cooperation among member organizations and encourage long-term adoption of SSWM practices by farmers.

This project is aimed to strengthen the community preparedness to climate change impacts. The activities covered are vulnerability and capacity assessment, coordination improvement between stakeholders, awareness raising and integration activities to exisitng Red Cross programs in other issues.  The Red Cross held two national workshops for government officials, Red Cross staff, and local community members. The Red Cross also recruited two climate change officers. In the future, the Red Cross plans to conduct a vulnerability assessment and to design awareness tools, among other things.

The overall project goal of the market-oriented smallholder development project (IDA) is to accelerate agricultural growth and poverty reduction within the Central Region of Mozambique in line with the priorities of Mozambique’s Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty 2001-2005. The immediate project development objective is to increase the income of smallholder farmers in selected districts by empowering producers and building their organizations, increasing on- and off-farm production and productivity and facilitating access to markets.