Country Initiatives Details
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$2,248,751 CAD
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- 2020 to 2021: $135,000 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $647,111 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $674,028 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $439,800 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $352,812 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Côte d'Ivoire
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Malawi
Uganda
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project supports social enterprises in the areas of climate-smart technologies, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and water, health and sanitation, responding to the immediate risks that these highly vulnerable populations face, while supporting environmentally sustainable economic development. This will include: (1) providing support to increase the capacity of public service institutions and small and growing businesses to innovate, adapt to changing circumstances, and incorporate gender equality and environmental sustainability; (2) assist high potential leaders in developing countries, especially women, to increase their ability to adapt and innovate; (3) improve the capacity of developing country partners to develop and deploy innovations for sustainable development results; and (4) enhance young Canadians’ awareness of and ability to engage in sustainable development efforts, particularly within the engineering sector. The program will support approximately 240 volunteer assignments to organizations directly addressing environmental sustainability issues.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Achieved results as of date include: (1) the recruitment of 249 Canadian volunteers across seven countries to work with 38 local partners, serving 1,527,305 direct beneficiaries with improved economic opportunities, water and sanitation services, access to information and participation in decision-making; (2) the placement of 47 African innovators and high-potential leaders in one-month Canadian job placements, workshops and training sessions; and (3) 2,315 events, reaching 130,157 Canadians, were held across the country on Engineers Without Borders’ and Canada’s work in international development.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$4,800,000 CAD
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- 2019 to 2020: $2,250,000 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $1,200,000 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $600,000 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $750,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The Agricultural Growth Program II project aims to increase agricultural production and productivity and better link smallholder farmers to markets, in Ethiopia. The project also aims to contribute to improved nutritional status by diversifying and improving dietary consumption. It is expected to reach 1.6 million farmers (40% women). The project contributes to addressing climate change through climate smart agriculture initiatives throughout many of its main components. In addition, the project also works under World Bank’s Environmental and Social Safeguarding framework which aims to better manage environmental and social risks of projects such as land use, sustainable natural resource management and resource efficiency, among others.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved to date include, amongst others:
• 94 climate-smart agriculture technologies were demonstrated in farmer training centers and farmers’ plots, including new technologies such as agricultural mechanization technologies, forage seeds, bio-fertilizer, vermi-composite, urea treatment, and improved wheat varieties;
• 597,845 seedlings (mango, avocado, and coffee) and 920 quintals of forage seeds have been distributed to 49,620 small holder farmers;
• Construction of 925 irrigation subprojects were completed for smallholder farmers with the capacity to irrigate 7,254 hectares and benefit 27,375 households.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$2,657,888 CAD
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- 2019 to 2020: $855,308 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $874,749 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $927,831 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Burkina Faso
Ethiopia
Guatemala
Honduras
Mali
Nicaragua
Funding Period: 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project aims to increase seed, food and economic security for small-scale farm households, enhancing the availability of diverse quality of food for women, men and youth.
In developing countries, small-scale farmers produce over 80% of food consumed. These producers often cultivate poor land, with under-supported skills and inputs, using crop seed material and practices that are detrimental to environmental sustainability and inappropriate to their local area. This affects agricultural productivity, climate resiliency and livelihoods.
The regions targeted by the project are the Dry Corridor in Central America, as well as Burkina Faso (Soum, Boulkiemde, Bazega and Boulgou Provinces), Mali (the Bamako, Douentza and Mopti regions) and Ethiopia (Amhara and Oromia regions).
Project activities include:
• training farmers (women, men, and youth), to select and utilize improved local open-pollinated seed varieties and to carry out participatory research on their own farms with technical assistance;
• establish their own community seed banks and field gene banks to preserve the biodiversity of local crop material and build community seed self-sufficiency as a basis for food security;
• providing information materials and agricultural extension support to small-scale farm households on agricultural best practices, including water and soil management, agroforestry and also supporting women and youth in leading their own sustainable small enterprises focused on high-value agricultural products;
• seed marketing support; and
• supporting government agencies, civil society organizations, and research institutions in the six developing countries by promoting the adoption of agro-ecological, participatory research and seed multiplication practices nationally, as well as regionally.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
To date, the project as achieved:
1. Partners have conducted 26 seed security assessments, supported 60 community seed banks, and more than 4,000 participants have received training in participatory varietal selection and plant breeding, resulting in strengthened smallholder farmer capacity to adapt to identified climate change risks.
2. Increased availability of nutrient-rich food in quantity and quality for 105,648 direct beneficiaries in 405 communities.
3. Overall annual household access to adequate food supplies increased by 8.1% on average from the baseline. Compared to before the project, 20% more households grow fruits and 28% grow more vegetables, and participants are growing 31% more fruit varieties and 42% more vegetable varieties. These increases have contributed to making nutritionally diverse food supplies available to poor households on a more consistent basis.
4. The project is working with 120 women’s groups to strengthen women’s participation in economic decision-making. Women made up 45% of the leadership positions in the 192 collective enterprises supported in 2017-2018, and are increasingly participating in traditionally male-dominated areas, such as seed production and community seed bank management.
5. More than 3,000 women farmers and 1,600 youth farmers have received support in accessing community land, and over 5,000 women and nearly 2,500 youth received agricultural inputs like seeds, microloans, and production supplies including tools, biofertilizers, herbicides and pest repellents.
6. The Seeds of Survival (SoS) project has collaborated with more than 150 organizations, government departments, and research institutes in scaling-up SoS practices.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$18,055,002 CAD
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- 2018 to 2019: $935 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $26,067 CAD
- 2014 to 2015: $4,328,000 CAD
- 2013 to 2014: $6,100,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $6,100,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $1,500,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013, 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
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GIZ - German Society for International Cooperation
Description
The project aims to increase agricultural productivity for smallholder farmers (women and men) in 18 districts in Ethiopia. These districts have reliable rainfall and high potential for agricultural growth but are increasingly affected by land degradation and food insecurity. The project is designed to address these issues by supporting the national Sustainable Land Management Program that works with communities and local officials to develop and implement resilience-building plans. These plans focus on reducing land degradation and improving agriculture productivity through increased use of sustainable land management approaches such as rehabilitating degraded watersheds, introducing high value crop varieties, and building terraces and water harvesting systems. Canada’s contribution aims to benefit an estimated 252,000 women and men in these 18 districts. The sustainable land management practices being introduced include tree planting, gully rehabilitation, terracing, cut-and-carry livestock feeding, and building small-scale irrigation systems.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
The project’s outcomes have contributed to increasing the use of sustainable land management practices by women and men smallholder farmers in 18 high potential districts of Ethiopia, and increased agricultural productivity in target regions. The project supports the Government of Ethiopia’s Sustainable Land Management Program.
The achieved results of the project include:
1. 89% of targeted Development Agents (DAs) are confident in their ability to apply the knowledge and skills gained through project training in sustainable land management approaches.
2. 93% of DAs reported that they have conveyed watershed development principles to farmers, another 85% indicated they have supported farmers in homestead development and income generating activities, while 78% of the DAs supported agro-processing and value chain development.
3. A total of 95,551 hectares of land are under sustainable land management practices, treated with tree planting, gully rehabilitation, terracing, and other measures to improve soil fertility and increase agricultural productivity; and
4. Agriculture productivity has increased for selected products.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$6,665,238 CAD
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- 2018 to 2019: $257,656 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $127,996 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $759,297 CAD
- 2014 to 2015: $3,941,225 CAD
- 2013 to 2014: $1,579,064 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015, 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project aims to support food security in Ethiopia, by increasing communities’ incomes and ability to grow more food, in districts traditionally dependent on food aid for several months a year. The project assists communities in working together to develop and implement community plans to address common challenges such as climate change and barriers to gender equality, which are both important factors that have consequences on families’ food security. It contributes to increased resilience to the impacts of Ethiopia’s severe drought through the use of improved farming inputs (seeds) and techniques; the development of off-farm income generating activities; and learning and practicing conservation techniques.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
To date, this project helped improve agriculture practices and enhance resilience in terms of coping with the impacts of Ethiopia’s severe drought.
Results achieved include improved agriculture practices in crop production, as well as the transfer of knowledge and technology to 26,745 farmers who are now significantly more resilient in coping with the impacts of climate change by using improved farming inputs (seeds) and techniques, developing off-farm income generating activities, and practicing conservation techniques.
The project also provided high yielding and drought resistant seeds to 45,953 (27,572 female) project beneficiaries; and trained 2,073 (780 female) government partners in the areas of environmental protection, improved agricultural practices, and gender mainstreaming. The project continues to work on strengthening links with early warning systems for disaster risk management.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$2,644,791 CAD
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- 2018 to 2019: $904,791 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $890,000 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $850,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project aims to scale up the results and innovations developed by the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) in conservation agriculture among the poorest farmers in East Africa. CFGB has previously demonstrated that conservation agriculture can result in improved food security, climate resilience and improved livelihoods for East African smallholder farmers. Traditional practices of subsistence agriculture are characterized by a low use of inputs and high vulnerability to soil deterioration and increasingly variable climactic conditions. Conservation agriculture focuses on enhancing soil fertility, improved moisture retention and reduced soil erosion and tillage through environmentally responsible agricultural practices. In so doing, it is an effective way to improve the food security and livelihoods of the poorest farmers in East Africa, as a climate change mitigation strategy to build community resilience. The project targets the families of 18,000 farmers (of which 40% are women-headed households) for a total of 90,000 beneficiaries in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved to date include, amongst others:
• The project has trained 53,917 farmers in conservation agriculture and 42,495 farmers (of which 21,450 are women) are practicing two out of three conservation agriculture principles in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania;
• 11,271 households, including 3,497 female-headed households have 12 months of adequate household food provisioning;
• Conservation agriculture smallholder farmers reported a net profit of CAD $999 per farmer from conservation agriculture crop yields in all three targeted countries;
• Three country-level conservation networks (hubs) have been created to foster collaboration, information-sharing, learning, and policy coordination;
• Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture has incorporated conservation agriculture in the national agriculture curriculum.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$7,108,013 CAD
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- 2018 to 2019: $634,595 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $2,799,635 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $3,673,783 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Benin
Bolivia
Cambodia
Côte d'Ivoire
Ethiopia
Ghana
India
Kenya
Nepal
Nigeria
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Tanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
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International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Description
This project is a collaboration between the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF). The project applies research in sustainable and gender-sensitive agricultural development and nutrition to help improve food security of poor households, in particular focusing on women subsistence farmers. The CIFSRF works in partnership with developing country-based organizations to harness Canadian expertise in agriculture and nutritional science and technology and combine it with first-hand knowledge and expertise of developing countries.
Project activities for phase II include developing farming practices that are more resilient to climate change, environmentally sustainable and gender-sensitive. The project will also help to improve crop production, aquaculture and livestock production, as well as reduce post-harvest losses through adaptable and affordable technologies.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
The project is expected to increase the knowledge and resources of developing country researchers in addressing key food security and agricultural priorities with emphasis on environmental sustainability and gender equity. The project also aims to increase application and scaling-up of environmentally sustainable food security and agriculture solutions that benefit subsistence farmers (particularly women), while promoting gender equitable decision-making. The project will also improve public policies and programming related to food security in developing countries by ensure they are more science-informed, gender responsive and environmentally sustainable.
The project has trained nine farmers in seed production and supported 64,795 households in soil and water conservation and land rehabilitation.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$437,061 CAD
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- 2017 to 2018: $111,407 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $325,654 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The main objective of the project was to build the capacity of the local farmers to operate in an environmentally sustainable manner. As such, the use of conservation and climate-resilient agriculture practices and sustainable livestock production were promoted, mountainous degraded woodland was rehabilitated, and sound environmental management practices were integrated into all development activities. The project also included promoting approaches to natural disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, including introducing drought-resistant crops, irrigation infrastructure and implementing strategic activities to enable communities to overcome climate-induced hazards. Additionally, for promoting gender equality at the household and community levels, building sustainable and improved livelihoods involved strengthening women’s economic empowerment and advancing women’s equal and active participation in decision-making.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
Over 2,000 households benefitted from access to irrigation and 3,500 households with drought resistant field crops. Project beneficiaries were able to bounce back from various environmental and livelihood shocks with the adoption of livelihood diversification. Additionally, community awareness was scaled up by forming Disaster Risk Reduction planning and monitoring committees.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,209,603 CAD
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- 2016 to 2017: $91,320 CAD
- 2013 to 2014: $2,008,283 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $1,110,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Bolivia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Mali
Funding Period: 2012 to 2013, 2013 to 2014, 2016 to 2017
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project focused on food security and nutrition as well as enterprise and economic development. It aimed to improve livelihood security and resilience of 246,216 vulnerable people, with a special emphasis on women and girls.
This project demonstrates Canada’s dedication to climate change action in developing countries. The program worked with government and local non-governmental organization partners using a variety of strategies to improve and augment the productive assets they have available to them in an environmentally sustainable way, in order to reduce their vulnerability and increase their ability to cope with inevitable set-backs and shocks.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
This program was a multi-country initiative designed to improve the livelihood security and resilience of vulnerable women, girls, men and boys in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mali. Each targeted country implemented its own project, based on the program’s outcomes and existing development plans and/or structures in the targeted regions. In Mali, the Initiative for Food and Nutrition Security in Segou (IFONS) capitalized on the already established relations with community health centres. In Ghana, the Promise project responded directly to one of the national development agenda’s strategy, which calls for promoting economic empowerment of women. In Ethiopia, the Abdishe initiative was specifically designed to provide alternative pathways towards graduation from the Government’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP). In Bolivia, Tukuy Yanapana (TY) responded to the identified needs and strategies laid out in CARE Bolivia’s Adaptation to Climate Change and Food Security program. The project is now completed and has achieved or surpassed most of its objectives for food security, nutrition and enterprise development.
Activities in the project’s three African countries emphasized building the capacities and asset-base of smallholder farmers, primarily women farmers, to mitigate climate-change related risks including rainfall variability, increased water scarcity, loss of soil fertility and pests. Through the promotion of climate resilient agriculture techniques and increasing access to productive assets in Mali, Ghana and Ethiopia, a total of 19,565 women and 15,760 men benefited directly from interventions that aimed to increase the resilience of their communities against climate change. In Bolivia, the project helped increase women’s empowerment by facilitating women’s inclusion in rural small micro-enterprises (SMEs) as official members and as part of the executive committees.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$18,462 CAD
- 2013 to 2014: $18,462 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2013 to 2014
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project aims to increase economic, social, and ecological resilience to climate variability of 12,000 resource-poor farming households in the Woreda district of Fogera in the Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia. Food and nutrition security of beneficiaries will be increased by promoting diversified and integrated crop and livestock production systems, increasing soil fertility and making better use of available water. The sustainable management of natural resources in the wider catchment area will be improved by restoring private and community-owned forests and grasslands through effective, affordable and replicable solutions. The project also aims to strengthen local stakeholders’ capacity to negotiate and jointly implement actions, in order to restore and enhance selected natural capital assets through a collaborative landscape approach.
Results/Expected Outcomes
The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include increasing the quality of crops for consumption and sale among 6000 farming households composed of women and men; engaging in diversified and sustainable economic activities leading to increased incomes for women and men; and ensuring the sustainable management of natural resources among women and men farmers and communities.
Results achieved to date include 47 farmers adopting the new technology, such as minimum tillage, to improve soil conditions. This was demonstrated to over 2,600 other farmers and government officials, supporting an increase by 67% in maize production. In addition, as part of the project, 138,208 seedlings were raised and distributed to 633 households. These seedlings were planted in the watersheds of the project area which improved the vegetation in the area, and makes it more resilient to climate change.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$1,808,871 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $1,808,871 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2012 to 2013
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Through the $23.2 million Canada Fund for African Climate Resilience, Canada provided support to activities that aimed at increasing economic, social and ecological resilience of smallholder Ethiopian farmers to climate change.
Results/Expected Outcomes
With support from Canada's contribution, this project is expected to:
increase collaboration between targeted communities, government, and civil society
at regional, zonal, district (worked) and kebele levels to support climate change
adaptation
- increase adoption of climate-resilient gender-responsive food security strategies
- increase household access to crop and livestock food products
Some key results achieved include:
- The construction of 6 small scale irrigation schemes has been completed
with the active participation of the beneficiary community
- 36 participants from 17 kebeles received training on community-level animal
health management
- 500 kg of vegetable seeds, 1000 kg of improved varieties of onion seed,
1380 kg of groundnut, 4355 kg of garlic and 1375 kg of a local variety of onion
have been purchased and distributed to cooperative members
- 264 farmers have received training on the preparation and application of
compost to their land.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$1,870,071 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $1,870,071 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2012 to 2013
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Through the $23.2 million Canada Fund for African Climate Resilience, Canada provided support to increase the food security of 4,660 households and their ability to adapt to the impacts of climate change in Ethiopia’s Bati district.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Key results achieved to date include:
- increased institutional capacity of local government in project cycle management related to climate change adaptation
- increased awareness of the impacts of and relationships between climate change adaptation, natural resource management (NRM), and food security, including risks and vulnerabilities for men and women within the target communities
- adoption of integrated crop management (climate-responsive) practices by men and women in 12 Kebeles
- promotion of plant and sustainably managed climate-resilient trees/shrubs/herbs on communal and individual land by men and women in 12 Kebeles (including agro-forestry)
- adoption of energy efficient and economically sound technologies by men and women in 12 Kebeles.in and outside Kinshasa
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$485,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $485,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2012 to 2013
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Canada provided support to the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) to support rural communities in Ethiopia with sustainable access to clean water sources through bamboo-based rainwater storage tanks, thereby improving their ability to adapt to water crises and climate change variability.
Results/Expected Outcomes
With support from Canada's contribution, new rainwater storage tanks, made from primarily local materials, have been built. The new tanks will offer an economically viable alternative to rural households that currently rely on un-filtered hand-dug wells and springs shared with livestock for their water supply.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$93,550,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $17,500,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $40,550,000 CAD
- 2009 to 2010: $35,500,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2009 to 2010, 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The Productive Safety Net Program is an initiative targeting some of the underlying causes of food insecurity in Ethiopia. Led by the Government of Ethiopia, with the support of CIDA and other donors, the goal of this program is to reduce the vulnerability of chronically food insecure people and enable them to progress towards more resilient livelihoods. The program is designed to provide predictable, multi-year transfers of either food or cash to chronically food insecure people. Food or cash resources are provided to beneficiaries in exchange for their labour on public works projects designed to create productive community assets.
These projects include activities such as: terracing and afforestation to improve soil conservation and restore degraded watersheds; water harvesting schemes; small-scale irrigation schemes and the construction of infrastructure such as rural roads, schools and health centres. Food is also provided directly to those beneficiaries who are unable to participate in public works such as orphans, pregnant and lactating women, households with only elderly residents, young children and mothers in female-headed households, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved by the end of the project (December 2012) include: (i) predictable food or cash transfers provided – either through people’s participation in public works programs or via direct transfers to those unable to work – which have helped reduce the food gap (the gap between people’s need for food and their ability to access it) by an average of 28% for about 3.9 million individuals each year, as well as reduce distress sale of assets; (ii) 3,943 schools and 453 health clinics built, rehabilitated, or repaired, which has improved access to health clinics, primary schools, and other education services for 85% of the households participating in the Productive Safety Net Program; (iii) public works programs in place which created 203,189 ponds for irrigation and livestock water supply, built 522,026 km of anti-erosion embankments to rehabilitate 463,015 hectares of degraded land by closing areas to livestock grazing, planted 1.808 billion trees, and constructed or maintained 106,031km of community roads; (iv) supporting food procurement and its related delivery and distribution. These activities have had a positive cumulative impact. A 2010 impact assessment determined that, depending on the region, irrigation works have helped between four and twelve percent of households expand their livestock holdings, and beneficiary incomes have increased by four to twenty-five percent.
These results have helped people living in chronically food-insecure areas of rural Ethiopia access sufficient, safe and nutritious food.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$1,340,000 CAD
- 2010 to 2011: $1,340,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Kenya
Sudan
Tanzania
Funding Period: 2010 to 2011
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Flooding and seasonal droughts are undermining the economies and prosperity of countries within the Greater Horn of Africa. Agriculture and water resources are among the key sectors which will be affected most by the impacts of projected climate change. To serve as practical roadmaps for future investments, National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs) need to be strengthened by economic analysis of adaptation investments, and informed by credible and impartial scientific assessment of climate change impacts. This project measured the impacts of climate change on agriculture and water resources, and recommends feasible adaptation options in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Tanzania. Support provided to the Sokoine University of Agriculture of Tanzania is part of Canada's $10 million Fast-start contribution to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to support the African Adaptation Research Centres Initiative
Results/Expected Outcomes
With support from Canada's contribution, this project is expected to improve current estimates of adaptation costs and benefits and undertake additional modelling work in specific locations and sectors within each study country. The researchers and postgraduate students involved have been trained in the use of the modelling tools and large-scale assessment methodologies, and a database for large-scale climate change impact assessment is currently being developed.
In Kenya, the team is directly involved with all matters related to climate change issues in agriculture and was involved with the development of the National Climate Change Action Plan.
In Ethiopia, the project's interim results have been presented at the annual forum of the Research Extension and Farmers Linkage Council (REFLAC), which included participation from key policy-makers.
In Sudan, the team has been invited to work as consultants in the development of a US$5.7 million project proposal on “Climate Risk Finance for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Rainfed Farming and Pastoral Systems” to be submitted to Global Environment Facility (GEF) by October 2013.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$15,000,000 CAD
- 2010 to 2011: $15,000,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2010 to 2011
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The Managing Environmental Resources to Enable Transition (MERET) program operates in 72 highly vulnerable and chronically food-insecure districts throughout Ethiopia. Each year, approximately 122,000 people in crisis-prone food-insecure communities benefit from the project. Participating households provide labour in exchange for food rations on initiatives such as a tree planting, the construction of structures designed to reduce soil erosion and increase water retention and the enclosure of these treated watersheds to prevent grazing from free-range livestock. A total of 131,987 hectares of severely degraded land was rehabilitated with previous CIDA support in 2008 and 2009. By providing new resources to expand on these impressive results, this project helps more vulnerable Ethiopians achieve long-term food security and withstand the effects of climate change. All CIDA disbursements for this project have been completed.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved as of the end of CIDA's contribution (July 2012) include: (1) improving food consumption and increasing household assets for 598,450 people (98% of those targeted) as a result of participation in food-for-work activities; (2) increasing income in 149,122 households as a result of project-supported public works that rehabilitated agricultural lands; 3) 96% of participating households created and maintained physical and biological farm and community assets, such as water sources, resulting in improved income for 145,250 households; (4) restoring degraded natural resources, including improving 63 water sources. These project activities have helped to improve the resilience of vulnerable women and men and their agricultural land to the effects of climate change.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$34,000,000 CAD
- 2010 to 2011: $34,000,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2010 to 2011
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The Productive Safety Net Program is an initiative targeting some of the underlying causes of food insecurity in Ethiopia. Led by the Government of Ethiopia, with the support of CIDA and other donors, the goal of this program is to reduce the vulnerability of chronically food insecure people and enable them to progress towards more resilient livelihoods. The program is designed to provide predictable, multi-year transfers of either food or cash to chronically food insecure people. Food or cash resources are provided to beneficiaries in exchange for their labour on public works projects designed to create productive community assets.
These projects include activities such as: terracing and afforestation to improve soil conservation and restore degraded watersheds; water harvesting schemes; small-scale irrigation schemes and the construction of infrastructure such as rural roads, schools and health centres. Food is also provided directly to those beneficiaries who are unable to participate in public works such as orphans, pregnant and lactating women, households with only elderly residents, young children and mothers in female-headed households, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved by the end of the project (December 2012) include: (i) predictable food or cash transfers provided – either through people’s participation in public works programs or via direct transfers to those unable to work – which have helped reduce the food gap (the gap between people’s need for food and their ability to access it) by an average of 28% for about 3.9 million individuals each year, as well as reduce distress sale of assets; (ii) 3,943 schools and 453 health clinics built, rehabilitated, or repaired, which has improved access to health clinics, primary schools, and other education services for 85% of the households participating in the Productive Safety Net Program; (iii) public works programs in place which created 203,189 ponds for irrigation and livestock water supply, built 522,026 km of anti-erosion embankments to rehabilitate 463,015 hectares of degraded land by closing areas to livestock grazing, planted 1.808 billion trees, and constructed or maintained 106,031km of community roads; (iv) cash transfers provided to beneficiaries; and (v) materials purchased for public works. These activities have had a positive cumulative impact. A 2010 impact assessment determined that, depending on the region, irrigation works have helped between four and twelve percent of households expand their livestock holdings, and beneficiary incomes have increased by four to twenty-five percent.
These results have helped people living in chronically food-insecure areas of rural Ethiopia access sufficient, safe and nutritious food.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,000,000 CAD
- 2009 to 2010: $3,000,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Funding Period: 2009 to 2010
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The project supports a food-for-asset-building initiative in 65 chronically food-insecure districts of Ethiopia. This World Food Programme initiative helps communities to invest in sustainable land management, while enhancing their natural resource base. With CIDA support, the project meets the immediate food needs of up to 480,000 chronically food-insecure beneficiaries each year, providing food transfers in return for labour by able-bodied adults. With this community labour, the project aims to rehabilitate up to 60,000 hectares of degraded land per year as well as to develop and maintain other community assets like rural roads and water points. Similar to Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program, households with no able-bodied adults also receive food to meet their needs. In addition, the project introduces improved farming practices and income-generating activities such as fruit production to help beneficiaries become more self-sufficient over time.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved as of the end of CIDA's contribution (July 2012) include: 134,911 households (98% of the target) increased their income by taking part in project activities such as keeping bees and selling honey. These activities reduced the number of months with food shortages by at least two months for 100,000 of these households. 98% (147,236) of households participating in food-for work activities created and maintained physical works such as soil and water conservation ditches (also known as bunds) and tree planting, on a self-help basis and continuing a four-year upward trend. In total, over 25,000 hectares of degraded agricultural land were rehabilitated and 20,000 hectares of forest were established. These measures have resulted in reduced soil erosion, increased soil fertility, increased soil moisture, and increased crop yield, all of which contribute to food security.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,568,364 CAD
- 2009 to 2010: $3,568,364 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ethiopia
Jamaica
Philippines
Funding Period: 2009 to 2010
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The goal of the Canadian Urban Institute's International Urban Partnerships Program (IUPP) is to advance sustainable economic growth and development in urban regions in developing countries, consistent with the countries' national development agendas. The program aims to improve citizens' quality of life by improving urban management and national and local policies. It contributes to reducing poverty through initiatives that address the environmental and social impacts of rapid urbanisation, while promoting the adoption of good governance practices. The program facilitates the transfer of innovative solutions for urban sustainability between developing countries, at both the institutional and peer levels, thereby strengthening professional relationships that promote learning. This transfer of innovative solutions leads to building a body of knowledge about sustainable economic growth and the development of southern urban regions. Program activities include: strengthening the skills of partners and local stakeholders in growth management, sustainable development, resource leveraging, governance, service delivery, and addressing gender equality; researching, adapting, and promoting methods and tools to address urban issues identified in local strategies and plans; providing technical advice and financial support for pilot initiatives that address priority urban issues.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved at the end of the project include the adoption of 18 new participatory mechanisms in support of long-range planning and implementation of development plans in the parishes of Manchester and St. Elizabeth, Jamaica; neighbourhood upgrading, waterfront planning and downtown revitalization in Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar, Ethiopia; and collaborative action research on the state of Tigum-Aganan watershed and use of a bio-regional approach to disaster risk reduction and management in Metro Iloilo-Guimaras, Philippines.
More than 8,500 individuals were directly involved in the project, including 923 individuals (401 female, 522 male) who benefited from coaching/mentoring and capacity building activities organized by the project. They were involved in demonstration projects related to tourism, agribusiness, micro and small enterprise development and downtown revitalization in Jamaica; urban agriculture, solid waste management, cobblestone roads and drainage systems, waterfront regeneration and downtown revitalization in Ethiopia; and ecotourism and sustainable livelihoods in the Philippines. Some of these projects have been scaled up, creating jobs and attracting investments. For example, projects in Jamaica attracted about $1.1 million in investment and created 207 jobs in the two parishes.
These results have contributed to increased influence of citizens and communities in local planning and policy making; improved practises and systems of local governments and community organizations in protecting their environment; and increased implementation of sustainable local economic development practices in a manner that enhances the lives of women, men and youth.