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The objective of this pilot project was to support communes in their efforts to identify, plan and implement climate adaptation measures that will help increase their resilience to climate change.

The objective of this pilot project was to support communes in their efforts to identify, plan and implement climate adaptation measures that will help increase their resilience to climate change.

The goal of this factsheet with additional descriptions of Vulnerability Assessments (VA) applications is to provide an overview of experiences with VAs gained in Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) projects and make these experiences available to others. It has three sections.

This study analyzes possible impacts of projected future climate change on ecosystems of the Lake Chad Basin.

This Guidebook seeks to support project managers by providing an overview of different impact evaluation methods and how they can be applied to climate change adaptation projects.

This brief shows the Poverty and Food Security Minister’s Workshop. it shows their key observations and what they can do.

This presentation was help at a SADC Poverty and Food Security Ministers' Workshop to discuss poverty and food security issues.

This report shows the purpose of the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) is to deepen regional integration in  Southern African Development Community (SADC). It provides SADC Member States with a consistent and comprehensive programme of long-term economic and social policies. It also provides the Secretariat and other SADC institutions with a clear view of SADC’s approved economic and social policies and priorities.

The purpose of this document therefore is to develop the ‘results chain’ for the Regional Agricultural Policy (RAP), i.e. to identify and define the policy targets and related indicators for the monitoring and evaluation of implementation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Regional Agricultural Policy.

Agriculture in the SADC region is the primary source of subsistence, employment and income for 61 percent of the peoples of the region. Despite a diversified natural resource base, overall agricultural growth and productivity have remained low over the past twenty years. The urgent implementation of broad-based programmes to reverse the overall decline in the productivity of the agriculture sector is a central priority in setting SADC Member States on the path of fast economic growth and poverty reduction. The diversity of the region’s farming and livelihood systems presents great challenges to policymakers in formulating sound agriculture development strategies. But, even given this diversity, many countries in the region share similar problems and opportunities. Cooperation in some of these key areas can yield significant benefits – as can greater economic integration by taking advantage of natural comparative advantages.

An important feature of SADC MAPP is the progressive simplification and integration of implementation arrangements and donor funding mechanisms. This is consistent with the Windhoek Declaration (in which SADC governments are encouraged to take strong leadership, and donors exhorted to harmonize and align their assistance through programmatic approach to enhance aid effectiveness and sustainability). This also reflects consistency with global commitment as expressed in the 2005 Paris Declaration. SADC MAPP represents a major shift from the traditional “project financing” (and the consequent fragmented and unsustainable assistance) to modalities which support programmatic approaches. It is anticipated that funding mechanisms will gradually converge towards a common basket-funding mechanism in accordance with satisfactory fiduciary and associated financial procedures and management capacities.