This project will: (1) enhance the capacity of the District of Bogota to identify and monitor risks by upgrading hydrologic, seismic, and volcanic detection and forecasting systems, as well as conducting vulnerability assessments that will help it better target its investments and identify potential calamities before they occur; (2) continue the city government’s existing risk reduction efforts to ensure the functioning of critical facilities and lifeline infrastructure in the event of adverse natural or technological catastrophes; (3) strengthen the District Administration’s effectiveness

This women-led project will address drought in Pintadas, Brazil by improving agricultural productivity and income generation through the use of water pumping.  SouthSouthNorth and local partners are installing a number of different hydroponic solar powered installations to see their effectiveness as a mitigation and adaptation strategy and to improve rural economic development. Link to Source

The City of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Secretariat of Social Development created the Community Reforestation Project in 1986.  The project, also referred to as the Paid Self-Help Reforestation Project and the Mutirão Project, aims to control erosion and reduce the associated land slide and flood risks through the reforestation of erosion-prone areas of the city, particularly where favelas (squatter settlements) are located.  Furthermore, the project aims to employ local residents and reintroduce native tree species (the best for erosion control) to the hillsides.  The individual reforestat

The Aymaran indigenous people of Bolivia have adopted traditional practices to collect water in the mountains and pampas by constructing small dams called qhuthañas.  In Bolivia, droughts affect—at varying levels—at least 40% of its territory.  Qhuthañas help prevent and mitigate disasters caused by droughts by collecting and storing rainwater from various places such as mountains and pampas.  Water stored in qhuthañas represents a valuable resource for both people and domestic and wild animals, because it allows them to drink water during periods of drought.  In addition, qhuthaña

Due to the pressures from increased demand for bamboo resources (over-harvesting) and decreasing stock (as a result of climatic changes), bamboo resources in Eastern Bhutan are declining steadily.  Consequently, local people have taken measures to reduce pressures on this important resource, which is used for house construction, agriculture tools, mats, baskets, water/wine/milk/butter containers, and other household items.  Some species such as Dendrocalamus hamiltonii are planted in the fields to provide bamboo shoots for household consumption as vegetables.  In order to enhance the regene

Bamboo stem is used to store and provide water for mandarin and areca nut plants during the dry season of the year.

Caritas set up groups of community members and provided them with saplings. Reforestation addresses the threat of local climate change by reducing erosion (thereby providing a defense against floods), retaining moisture in soil (thereby helping crops, which in turn helps reduce vulnerability), creating a harvestable forest resource that can be sold of used for fuel, and creating a stock of standing biomass that can be used in the event of a calamity.

This project, implemented by the Ministry of Environment and Forest, consisted of the establishment of a plant to harness biogas from poultry waste for electricity generation. This biogas was used the heat the poultry plant, thus eliminating the need for other sources of energy (a mitigation benefit). If biogas is also used, in the future, to provide electricity to homes and businesses, it can result in improvements to income and quality of life, making communities more resilient to climate change.

As part of disaster preparedness, Oxfam has built cluster villages in flood-prone areas – small settlements raised more than two meters above the water level in high-risk areas. Elsewhere in the country, land has been set aside for flood shelter so that, when the waters come, hundreds of households can relocate and take their livestock and possessions with them. Rescue boats and lifesaving equipment has been funded. Within small communities, disaster preparedness committees have been given support and training. Individual homesteads have been raised above water level.

The Grameen Bank provides small loans, issued without formal collateral, which enable the poor to set up small income-generating businesses and climb out of poverty in flood-prone regions of Bangladesh.  The Grameen Bank has developed two standard house designs for which it will provide loans.  In many cases the family add their own savings to the loan and are spending up to USD 800-USD 1,000 on their home and its furnishings.  The houses vary in appearance throughout the country but have the same basic structural components.  There are four reinforced concrete pillars on brick foundations