What is the project doing?  

The Africa Adaptation Programme seeks to mainstream Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) mechanisms in Mozambique’s policy, development and investment frameworks. A key challenge is that currently the institutional arrangements of the Climate Change Adaptation are not clarified, constraining the enabling environment for effective actions.

How is this being achieved?  
The focus of the project is capacity building of beneficiaries from government (especially national and provincial), development partners, including NGOs, industry, students, civil society and communities.

Capacity building is expected to enhance skills in leadership, management, planning and budgeting skills amongst the technical ministries on how to utilise/integrate recommendations in climate change (CC) research studies in their planning, budgeting and implementation strategies and develop market/fiscal/financial mechanisms that can deliver integrated CC investment plans and formulation of climate resilient polices in priority sectors.

At community level, pilot measures will develop guidelines and toolkits on how to climate proof gender dynamics, health and fisheries sectors. Adaptation benefits will include: community coping mechanisms to climate change piloted, enhanced national and provincial level CC risk and opportunity management, reduced socio-economic impacts of climate change risks to all sectors.

Why?  
In recognition of the climate change risk, the Government has adopted important policies on environment and climate change in the last few years, including the preparation of the NAPA (led by the Environment Ministry, MICOA), as well as the implementation of a dedicated CCA program that has led to the preparation of a suite of studies, including a comprehensive Climate Change (CC) risk and vulnerability assessment, which has led to the formulation of a draft national long-term adaptation programme (led by the Ministry of State Administration, INGC).

However, their conveyance into concrete action as well as their reflection into the main sectoral and local plans and budgets has not been fully realized due to lack of systematic focus on CC. Sectoral Ministries do not currently fully recognise the climate change risk to their respective sectors, do not realize the costs that might incur if adaptation is not planned for, and consequently have no contingency planning for adaptation in place. In addition decentralized plans and budgets are not yet environmentally compliant nor are they climate proofed.

There is weak inter-sectoral coordination as the importance of CCA has not been acknowledged or accepted by key senior figures in the government leaving room for duplication of efforts (see below on MICOA and Ministry of State Administration), and reduced impacts of CCA investments in the long term. In addition not all sectors understand the need and their responsibility to address CC and include CC sensitive planning and budgeting into their work hence the need for capacity building efforts particularly at ministerial level and other levels.

Who are involved?
The Africa Adaptation Programme will have two main national implementing partners: the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) and the Ministry for Coordination of Environmental Affairs (MICOA).

Other key ministries like the Ministry of Planning and Development, Ministry of Finance will also assume responsibilities in the project activities. Finally, sectoral line Ministries and specialized institutions (such as the Secretariat for Food Security – SETSAN, the Institute of Meteorology – INAM, the National Directorate for Waters, the Eduardo Mondlane University - UEM), as well as Provincial and District Governments will also play an active role in implementation.

Expected Results:  
The expected outputs of the project intervention include

1. Establishment of long term planning mechanisms that will address the most pressing CC risks in Mozambique; a suite of sector specific risk and vulnerability assessments will leverage recognition of the CC threat in sectors not yet fully aware of the potential impacts and costs;
2. Strengthened CCA leadership and institutional frameworks are in place to manage CC risks and opportunities; a key element is the agreement to the long-term CCA institutional arrangements needed to effectively coordinate CCA investments in the future;
3. An enhanced CC A policy framework will be implemented, include climate resilient polices and measures in priority sectors, incl. health, fisheries and gender; small scale pilot adaptation projects esp. on the community level will generate lessons learnt on successful adaptation in Mozambique;
4. National adaptation financing options are established, positioned a CCA capacitated Ministry of Finance as a lead institution;
5. An effective management system and dissemination of CC knowledge are effected; targeted communication and awareness actions reaching out to the community level and the public, as well as targeting high-level decision makers are implemented.

Results 2010:

• The capacity of the Government to mainstream adaption to climate change has been improved through the formulation of guidelines for mainstreaming Climate Change into Strategic District Development Plans, the improvement of database and enhanced capacity of INAM.
• The inter-institutional communication regarding mainstreaming Climate Change into different planning instruments (e.g. CFMP,PES,PEDD, PDUT) has also been enhanced.
• In addition, the awareness of communities, technical staff and decision makers on the impacts and measures of Climate Change adaption has increased. Series of demonstrations of Climate Change adaptation measures were implemented at the community level in pilot areas.

Duration:  
2 years; 2010 and 2011

Project ID  00072288

Locations: National

MDGs:  
Goal 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger  
Goal 7 - Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Donor(s):  
The total approved budget is USD 2,987,620 funded by the Government of Japan.

Budget and Expenditure 2010:     USD 886,822        USD 193,948  (expediture)

Contacts:  
Clara Landeiro
Chief Technical Specialist, MICOA/UNDP-CPR-E Unit
Email: clara.landeiro@undp.org

Carmen Munhenquete
National Coordinator, MICOA
Phone: +258 21 491 150
Email: carmen.munhenquete@gmail.com  

Related website/articles:

Africa Adaptation Programme

26 April 2010 - Combating Climate Change jointly in Chicualacuala

8 April 2010 - Mozambique launched a pilot project on adaptation to climate change