Workshop Climate Change Adaptation Screening of the Agricultural and Water

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Workshop Climate Change Adaptation Screening of
the Agricultural and Water Sanitation Sectors,
Bangladesh

• Hotel Westin Dhaka
• February 3rd, 2009

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Workshop Programme

• 1500-1515 Registration
• 1515-1530 Welcome remarks
• 1530-1600 Presentation of Preliminary Results
• Introduction and Purpose of Workshop
• Methodology and process applied in screening
  exercise
• Preliminary Agricultural Sector Programme Support
  (ASPS) findings
• Preliminary Water and Sanitation Sector Programme
  Support (WSSPS) findings
• 1600-1615 Questions and Comments
• 1615-1620 Introduction to Group Work
• 1620-1700 Group work
• 1700-1720 Feed-back from group work
• 1720-1730 Summing up and way forward

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Content of Hand-out Package

• Workshop programme
• Breefing Note
• Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action
  Plan (BCCSAP) - Executive Summary
• Terminology/definitions
• Hand-outs of presentations will be provided
  immediately after the workshop

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Purpose of Workshop

• Follow-up to October 2008 workshop
• Provide a quick overview of progress, status and
  way forward
• Presenting an overview of preliminary findings in
  screening and adaptation options
• Getting feed-back on preliminary findings and
  seeking additional suggestions on adaptation
  measures through group work/exercises
• "Warming up" for High-level conference - a
  practical and applied example of BANGLADESH ON
  THE ROAD TO COPENHAGEN

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Objectives of Climate Screening Assignment

• Through a process oriented approach to
• Propose methodology and procedures for climate
  change screening applicable for the sector and
  conduct climate change screening for ASPS II and
  WSSPS II
• Prepare climate change disaster risk reduction
  Management Plans for ASPS II and WSSPS II
• Prepare proposals for immediate short term
  interventions (adaptation measures - pilot
  projects)

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Current Status

• Screening methodology developed
• Screening workshops held with implementing
  partners of projects
• Guided self-assessments carried out by projects
• Screening field visits (Northwest, Noakhali,
  Pathuakhali and Barguna)
• Screening data collected, consolidated and
  analysed
• Preliminary adaptation options identified

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The setting...

• National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty
  Reduction 2009-2011 (PRSP II)
• National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
  2005
• Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action
  Plan (BCCSAP) - 2008
• Climate change trust - two committees established
  yesterday
• Sector policies and plans
• Institutional setting (Ministry of Environment
  and Forests/DoE/CCC, National Disaster Management
  Council, Ministry of Food and Disaster
  Management, Planning Commission/Ministry of
  Finance, development partners, Multi Trust Fund
  Programme, etc)
• A lot of activities and funding - how to
  mainstream climate change into line ministries
  and sectors? Ongoing process

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Some Challenges...

• First Danida climate change sector screening
• First climate change sector screening in
  Bangladesh
• No climate change screening toolboxes or best
  practices were available

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So...

• This exercise is piloting
• Taking departure in the activities of two
  specific Danida-supported sector programmes
• Seeking to make it useful at sectorwide level
• Hopefully an inspiration to other sectors or
  countries - COP15
• This workshop is a part of that process

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Screening Methodology and Process

• What is climate change screening about?
• What has the process been?
• The presentations later on will give preliminary
  findings.
• Detailed approach and methodology can be found in
  Inception Report (www.bangladesh-climate.org)

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Screening for Climate Change

• Definition of Climate Screening
• A systematic process of examining activities,
  outputs and programmes in order to identify their
  vulnerability to climate change, including
  assessment of the extent to which vulnerability
  is being or could be adressed.
• (teams own definition)

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Basically, screening is about asking

• Are our programme activities exposed to climate
  change risks?
• Which risks, faced where and by whom?
• How serious are the risks? (Severity and
  frequency)
• Are we dealing with the risks today? How?
• What could be improved? (Internally/externally)
• Gradually leading into adaptation options and
  suggestions for management plans

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Screening Process

• Identifying categories of risks for the two
  sectors
• Identifying different risk zones
  (agro-ecological/hydro-geological)
• Defining screening criteria and rating (frequency
  severity)
• Designing screening matrix applicable for both
  sectors
• Clustering and relating outputs and activities to
  relevant risk categories and zones
• Evaluating risks according to criteria
• Evaluation present adapation and scope for
  further future adaptation
• Filling out screening matrix - centrally, locally
  and targeted field trips
• Review and consolidation of screening matrix
  outputs
• This workshop
• Preparing screening report

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Screening levels
Workshops and desk work
Field Trips interviews
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Screening Matrix

• Risk zone
• Type of climate change hazard
• Type of impact
• Risk level (severity x frequency)
• Present adaptation level
• Further adaptation options (internal/external)

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Climate Change Risk Matrix
F REQUENCY
S E V E R I T Y
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Preliminary findings - Agricultural Sector
Programme Support
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Agricultural Sector Programme Support (ASPS II)

• Development Objective
• Improved living standards of poor marginal and
  small farmer households through enhanced,
  integrated and sustainable agricultural
  productivity
• Three Programme Components
• Component 1 Agricultural Extension Component
• Component 2 Fisheries and Livestock Development
  Component
• Component 3 Rural Roads and Market Access
  Component
• Scope Rural Development!

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Simplified Example of Screening
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Major Hazards (selected zones)
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Adaptation options (Example Water logging)
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Adaptation options (Example drought)
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Preliminary Findings - Water and Sanitation
Sector Programme Support
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WSSPS IIWater and Sanitation Sector Support
Programme, Second Phase

• Overall Objectives
• to contribute to poverty reduction through
  improved standard of public health and an
  improved, sustainable environment.
• Immediate Objectives
• To improve hygiene behaviour and practices.
• To promote community-led sanitation activities.
• To increase the coverage of safe water supply
  services for the poor.
• To strengthen the capacity of government, local
  government institutions and non-government
  stakeholders at all levels to play the roles
  required to achieve the above three immediate
  objectives.
• To promote greater devolution of administrative
  and financial authority to local government
  institutions.

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CLIMATE CHANGE in the Water Supply and Sanitation
Sector
CONSEQUENCE for WSS
IMPACT
INDICATORS of CLIMATE CHANGES
OUTCOMES
Scope for Adaptation
Increase in water demand
Economic human losses
Rise in temperatures
Increase in Evaporation
Ground water stress
Melting mountain snow
Drought (too little rain or river flow)
Afford--ability
Increasing sea levels
Degraded environment/water resources (quantity
quality)
Saline intrusion
Less rain in dry season and in dry areas
Floodings, Logging Inundation (increased volume
of water bodies/ sea waves / higher sea level)
Water Source Contamination
Arsenic Contamination
More frequent cyclones storm surges
More unpredictable weather patterns
Deteriorated Health
Diseases (water vector born)
More rain in monsoon and in coastal areas
Damage to WSS infrastructure (hardware)
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Zones and Major Hazards Observed
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Hazards and Impacts Observed
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Simplified Example of Screening of Project
Output/Activities "Hardware"
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Identification of Adaptation Options - hardware
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Identification of Adaptation Options - software
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Introduction to Group Work
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Purpose of group work

• Getting feed-back on preliminary findings on
  screening results
• Getting suggestions for further adaptation
  options
• To receive further comments or queries to
  approach and methodology

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Principles of Group Work

• One table one group
• Groups will get subjects to discuss - not
  necessarily same subject in each group
• Handouts will be provided at the tables
• Facilitation team will circulate and answer
  questions as needed

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Group Process

• Group selects a Chair and a Rapporteur
• Very quick introduction (only name and
  organisation)
• Rapporteur will take down notes
• Groups will be invited to present their group
  work in plenum
• Groups will hand over written comments/suggestions
  /conclusion etc. for later use

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Time management

• Only got 30 minutes in total for group work
• Chair is responsible for time keeping
• After group work, only 20 minutes for group
  presentations
• SOBAR JONNE SHUVO KAMONA...

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Group Presentations
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Summing Up
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The Way Forward

• The following main activities will be undertaken
  in the period from February May 2009
• Consolidation of results from the climate
  screening exercise.
• Further development of Adaptation Options, based
  on
• - Feed-back from this Workshop
• - Selected assessment criteria
• - Existing national climate strategies and
  sector policies.
• Preparation of Climate Management Plans for
  agriculture and water sanitation interventions.
• Formulation of 5-10 pilot projects.
• Development of additional information material.
• Final Workshop (late April 2009)