Agriculture based Climate Change Adaptation Framework

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Agriculture based Climate Change Adaptation
Framework Moving from Ministerial Decisions
to Implementation - By Martin Bwalya NEPAD
Secretariat
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Outline Scope Objectives / value added of a
Climate Change Adaptation Framework for
CAADP Linkages to other CAADP and climate change
processes Components of a CCA framework Action
areas for operationalizing the CCA framework
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Scope
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AU Summit Theme Investing in Agriculture for
Economic Growth and Food Security
Sub-Theme A Climate Change Opportunities for
enhanced investments and growth of African
Agriculture
Sub-Theme D Stimulating participation of the
poor and other vulnerable groups in rural
economic activities
Sub-Theme C Investment Financing Making
African Agriculture a viable investment option
Sub-Theme B Regional Agriculture trade and
market systems Issues and challenges for
stimulating economic transformation and growth in
Africa
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Overall scope NEPAD Vision
Achieving sustainable socio-economic growth, food
security and poverty alleviation
Strategies that will identify and support
opportunities for wealth creation and
socio-economic growth based on feasible and
viable growth options and commodities including
inter-sectoral implementation systems
changes in the business model
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NEPAD Objectives, Principles and Values

• African ownership, responsibility and leadership
• Good governance and sound economic management
• Accelerated regional economic integration
• Promotion of partnerships with the private
  sector, civil society and the international
  community
• A new partnership with industrialized nations,
  multilateral institutions and all based on mutual
  respect and responsibility

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Science and Technology
Agriculture
Access to markets
Peace and Security
The NEPAD Core Action Areas
Health
Democracy and political governance
Environment
Infrastructure
Human resource
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Broad Context - Vision
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG 1 and 7)

• NEPAD Principles and
• Development Targets
• Partnerships
• African ownership
• 6 growth target
• - Capacity

• PARIS DECLARATION
• on Aid Effectiveness
• Directly supporting
• alignment and
• harmonization agenda

PRSPs

• ? NEPAD
• - CAADP
• Environment Action Plan
• ? UNCCD Land degradation and combating
  desertification

Others, e.g. UNFCC
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Agriculture, Land and Livestock Ministers
Decisions
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AU Summit Theme Investing in Agriculture for
Economic Growth and Food Security
Sub-Theme A Climate Change Opportunities for
enhanced investments and growth of African
Agriculture
Sub-Theme D Stimulating participation of the
poor and other vulnerable groups in rural
economic activities
Sub-Theme C Investment Financing Making
African Agriculture a viable investment option
Sub-Theme B Regional Agriculture trade and
market systems Issues and challenges for
stimulating economic transformation and growth in
Africa
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The African Agricultural Ministers Requests
the AUC-NEPAD to facilitate development of an
SLM-Agricultural based climate change adaptation
framework to guide operationalization and
financing the scaling up of SLM in the context of
NEPADs CAADP and EAP Environmental Action
Plan Calls upon Member States to increase
investment support to initiatives aimed at
strengthening knowledge, advancing technical
capacity development, and up-scale sustainable
land and water management practices including
conservation agriculture, agro-forestry,
watershed management
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The African Agricultural Ministers Calls upon
Governments and partners to increase financing
support for sustainable land management and
agricultural water management, irrigation and
water control systems to enhance agricultural
production in Africa and address the issue of
climate variability and related food insecurity
within the context of the CAADP agenda Urge
AUC-NEPAD and partners to ensure issues and
initiatives on combating desertification and
agricultural water management are directly
considered and integrated in the efforts to
support sustainable land management
(SLM)-agriculture based climate variability and
climate change adaptation measures
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The African Agricultural Ministers Requests
the AUC-NEPAD to facilitate development of an
SLM-Agricultural based climate change adaptation
framework to guide operationalization and
financing the scaling up of SLM in the context of
NEPADs CAADP and EAP Environmental Action Plan
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Agriculture based climate change Adaptation
framework
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Purpose of CCA Framework The purpose of the
CAADP CC Adaptation Framework is to outline a set
of principles, actions, roles and
responsibilities, and financing recommendations
to guide NEPAD-CAADP engagement in implementing
agriculturally related climate change adaptation
programmes in Africa. The framework should
guide engagement at all levels from continental
to national/local and across the levels The
framework will form a common strategy for
proactively addressing climate change through
adaptation and mitigation measures, linking
together partners at all levels, all focused on
achieving the goals and objectives of NEPAD
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• Key value elements of the Framework
• Will to provide for
• Comprehensive and systematic and coherent
  programmes
• Systematic reforms in policies
• Integrated attention to organisational and
  human capacity, institutional arrangements
• Integrated and programmatic approach across
  the sectors, disciplines, ecosystems as well as
  transboundary
• Coherent framework to guide partnerships
  including alignment of the development partners
  support to an African agenda

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Value Added of the CCA Framework To maintain a
high degree of emphasis on linkages between
climate change, sustainable land management, food
security, and poverty alleviation in Africa in
policy and development programming To highlight
roles played by different partners in addressing
climate change in African agriculture To
facilitate collaboration and coordination of
efforts in climate change policy, research and
development as it relates to agriculture, in
order to increase impact To provide a clear and
compelling investment programme for African
agriculture that delivers on the twin objectives
of meeting current food security needs whilst
building capacity of rural systems and
agricultural assets (e.g. soils) to offset or
respond to climate change effects
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Framework Outline
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• Outline for the CCA Framework (1)
• Rationale for Agriculture based Climate Change
  Adaptation Framework
• Adaptation and mitigation practices and
  techniques for agriculture
• Promoting the use of CC adaptation techniques
  in agriculture an overview of constraints and
  opportunities
• Promoting the use of CC institutional and
  policy (including programme) responses

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• Outline for the CCA Framework (2)
• 5. Enhancing the scientific capacity to improve
  adaptation responses
• 6. Financing the adaptation agenda in
  agriculture
• Moving the framework into action operational
  systems/coordination mechanism monitoring and
  evaluation
• Tools (Financing Partnerships PER
  Inclusive consultations Facilitating Policy
  dialogue

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Framework structure
Capacity Building
Scaling up best practices
Knowledge Management
Financing
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Action areas/issues
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Action areas
Action/intervention areas/issues
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Impact areas

• ? Enhanced sustainable
• Capacity
• Organisational development
• ME Peer learning Evidence
• Based analysis Policy dialogue
• Financing (Investments
• capacity development)
• ? Productivity Resilience

Investments
Coalition
Building
Knowledge
Management
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Fostering Up-scaling of Best Practices for
Climate Change Adaptation/Mitigation in
Agriculture (1) Principles/approaches Identify
concrete actions that build on existing efforts
where possible They should focus on ex ante
climate change adaptation measures that add
resilience to systems and offset predicted
climate change effects and importantly address
current food security needs They should
complement and link with other major initiatives
such as TerrAfrica, AGRA, NAPs, etc.
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Fostering Up-scaling of Best Practices for
Climate Change Adaptation/Mitigation in
Agriculture (2) Principles/approaches These
should be at significant scale and for medium
term in order to have impact Identify flexible
governance and financing mechanisms to facilitate
rather than hinder investment (e.g. could allow
earmarks for certain thematic or geographical
areas) They should encourage innovation and be
rigorously monitored for livelihood and climate
change impacts
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Framework Development process

• Development process NEPAD led consultative
  and inclusive (Governments RECs, e.g. the
  COMESA-EAC- SADC Initiative Development
  partners Knowledge and Research Institutions
  and RECs)
• Happening in-situ and integrated in African
  institutions (linked to capacity building,
  ownership, etc !!)
• Scoping exercise Team of consultants and
  multi-partner technical committee
• NEPAD CAADP and EAP providing the overall scope
  and common vision
• Linked to possible investment programmes e.g.
  2 million smallholder farmers supported in
  adopting conservation agriculture by 2012 (All
  regions)

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Operationalizing of the Framework
just as much a Post-Kyoto Strategy
AU Summit
Post- Kyoto
Expert Meetings/Studies Ministerial Meetings
Copenhagen
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Operationalizing of the Framework (1) Possible
Actions at national level . ? Facilitate /
support up-scaling of proven practices that raise
productivity and provide adaptation or mitigation
benefits in the face of climate variability and
change ? Integrate CCA interventions into PRSPs
and other development planning systems / capacity
and ability ? Strengthen communication and
capacity in CCA knowledge and skills, e.g. of
extension staff ? Identify and address
institutional or policy impediments ? Promote
synergies across projects, programmes, and
sectors use CC or SLM platforms -- e.g. on
stemming degradation and deforestation
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Operationalizing of the Framework (2) Possible
Actions at regional and sub-regional levels ?
Increase political support for SLWM/Agriculture
? Technical backstopping in best practices ?
Mobilize resources and identify mechanisms for
cross country learning (knowledge management) and
possibly for coordinated implementation ?
Provide funding mechanism which is attractive for
investors ? Provide quality assurance of
investments through vetting, oversight, ME
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Next steps

• Stakeholder workshop on implementation strategies
  and mechanisms 30th June 09
• Scoping exercise
• Advocacy Climate Change and food security
  wealth creation
• Operationalisation (by end of 2009) TerrAfrica
  SLM-Food security-CC flagship investment
  programmes
• Regional mechanisms
• Country/Community Programmes design and financing

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