Ficha do projecto para 00072288

Título do Projecto / Programa

Africa Adaption Programme

Breve Descrição

The project, through joint efforts of the UNDP, the MICOA, and the INGC, aims to achieve the following outputs: 1. Dynamic, long-term planning mechanisms to cope with the inherent uncertainties of climate change in Mozambique strengthened 2. Leadership and institutional frameworks to manage climate change risks and opportunities harmonized, coordinated and strengthened 3. Climate-resilient policies and measures implemented in priority sectors and through demonstration projects 4. Financing options to meet national adaptation costs expanded at the provincial and national level, and integrated into sectors 5. Knowledge on adjusting national development processes to fully incorporate climate change risks and opportunities generated and shared, including through an advocacy strategy

Doador

PNUD

Agência Doadora / Agência ONU

UNDP

Código da Instituçao Beneficiária dos Fundos (UGB)

Mapa

Informações sobre o Projecto

Situação do projecto

Concluído

Código Moçambicano do Projecto

Código da Fonte de Recursos (FR)

23-UNDP

Início - Conclusão Real

2008-01-01 / 2012-12-31

Início - Conclusão Planificado

2008-01-01 / 2012-12-31

Data da Assinatura do MdE/contrato de financiamento

n/a

Implementação Nacional/Regional

Nacional 

Tipo de Implementação

Multilateral 

Informação de contacto

Carmen Munhequete | +258 21 481 400 | carmen.munhequete@undp.org  

Ligação do projecto a Internet

 

Comentários

As part of the growing awareness and knowledge of the interconnected nature of economic, social and environmental issues, the international community has recognized the importance of healthy ecosystems and healthy environments and the need to address unsustainable management approaches to ensuring more tangible progress for present and future generations. This heightened recognition has translated into a number of international agreements and commitments made by many countries to adopt more equitable and sustainable development paths, integrating them in their national development agendas. Some of these commitments in particular have mobilized the international community, including many developing nations, in an unprecedented effort to effect change – the Millennium Development Declaration and other Internationally Agreed Development Goals (setting a demanding agenda for change, with concrete Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, to be achieve in 2015) and the three Rio Conventions are some of the most powerful examples. Many developing countries, including Mozambique, are now part of the effort to operationalize the implementation of ‘greener’ human development agendas, as they are increasingly confronted with the high costs of unsustainable management practices and resource use patterns, which keep hampering their nations’ efforts to improve environmental quality and to alleviate poverty. Increased awareness of the fact that the impact of climate change, if not addressed with decisiveness, will increase the severity of the current problems (in addition to posing new challenges on its own), has created a sense of urgency, and is leading countries to seize the opportunity (in no lesser measure due to the incentives of Environment and Climate Financing available to developing countries) to transition to more sustainable development paths. Mozambique, in spite of its steady positive growth rates during the last decade, is still a country where income inequalities are evident, and where widespread poverty (54.7% population) persists, especially in rural areas. With a large portion of the population living in rural areas (over 70%) and heavily dependent on the environment for their daily livelihoods (with over 80% of the population is dependent on agriculture, almost all subsistence agriculture), the impact of unsustainable management practices and the increasingly felt impacts of natural disasters and the effects of climate variability and climate change, are having profound consequences in communities’ ability to provide for themselves, hampering the nation’s efforts on poverty reduction. Mozambique is amongst the most disaster prone countries in the world, and one of the most exposed countries to the cumulative effects of climate variability and climate change, where changes in rainfall patterns are already evident, and where it is expected to be an increase in frequency and magnitude of extreme weather-related events (e.g. more unpredictable and intense floods, and more frequent and persistent droughts), desertification, saline intrusion and sea level rise. Even in the most conservative scenarios, the impact of climate change alone on GDP is considerable (averaging 3.5%), but its impact on the most vulnerable groups of the population is manifold. Widespread environmental degradation is decreasing the social and economic benefits derived by the poor from land and other natural resources, and is thus increasingly worsening environment, social and economic conditions in rural, as well as in urban areas (which have been receiving a continued flow of population fleeing the rural hinterland, first due to war and now to the lack of economic opportunities). Many of the environmental problems Mozambique faces today, including erosion and soil degradation, uncontrolled fires, deforestation and degradation of its biological resources, informal settlements, and pollution, have a direct impact on communities’ well being and their capacity to adapt to new climate and resource base conditions (e.g. soil erosion leading to losses in agriculture productivity, deforestation increasing vulnerability to flooding, evolving climate conditions leading to an increase in waterborne diseases, depletion of natural resources resulting in greater difficulties for women and children to access them, they all result in cumulative negative impacts that leave communities even less equipped to adapt to new environment and climate challenges). The likely cost of environmental degradation to the national economy is significant (over 6% of GDP), and here again the impact on the most vulnerable groups is magnified. Recognizing that the country’s persistent environmental management and climate change issues need to be addressed urgently if the nation is to make progress in its efforts to create wealth and alleviate poverty, and also recognizing the opportunity offered through the international environment and climate financing available, Mozambique has set its MDGs and has ratified a number of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) , and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Mozambique has already key pieces of legislation in place that reflect the country’s engagement and commitment to address issues related to sustainable management of natural resources in a comprehensive manner, having issued in 1997 its National Environmental Law and Land Law, and subsequently the Tourism, Energy and Forest Laws. Key strategic direction has also been set in a number of documents, including the National Environmental Policy (1995), the Environment Strategy for Sustainable Development 2007-2017 (2007), the Strategic Plan for the Environment Sector 2005-2015, the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) and National Gender and Climate Change Strategy. More recently, Climate Change and Environment concerns have also been included in high-level strategic documents such as the current Five Year Plan, the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PARP 2011-2014), and there is now a steady effort to mainstream those issues into development planning at all levels. Similarly, UNDAF establishes as one of its main outcomes for 2012-2015 the sustainable and effective management of natural resources and disaster risk reduction, to the benefit of all people of Mozambique, particularly the most vulnerable. It further sets as main priorities, the institutional strengthening through the provision of strategic policy, legal and regulatory frameworks, the establishment/enhancement of information systems, and the engagement of communities to address natural resources management and climate change issues, areas which the project proposed in this concept note will be targeting. In line with government priorities to address environment and climate change issues, looking at initiatives or approaches that can have a significant impact in poverty reduction, UNDP and other agencies have been instrumental in strengthening capacities of the government at the national, provincial and district levels to design, plan for and budget activities that can provide a coordinated response to these challenges. For example, UN Habitat advises the government on their building codes and urban planning to ensure that the settlements are built taking into account risk reduction measurements and climate change adaptation, while UNDP will ensure that this work will be maximized and part of comprehensive low-carbon resilient urban development strategies at the municipal level. On the other hand, FAO advises the government in agricultural issues to ensure food security, and WFP assists government and communities with vulnerability mapping, while UNDP focuses on ensuring mechanisms to integrate this information into national and decentralized planning and budgeting processes. UN has also advocated for the need to be more inclusive in the way these response actions are designed and implemented, so that all relevant stakeholders (institutions as well as non-government entities) are part of the solution. There are a number of UN initiatives underway that already provide comprehensive support, targeting in particular the development of institutional capacity of key institutions (namely in the areas of policy and planning, information and knowledge management, and access to environmental and climate financing) and support to community action on natural resources management and vulnerability reduction. The UN Joint Program on Adaptation to Climate Change, the African Adaptation Project (UNDP and Government of Japan), and the Poverty and Environment Initiative (UNEP/UNDP) have been particularly instrumental in working with key sectors to integrate environment and climate change into their planning and management processes. For example, the latter has generated already a number of background studies (e.g. economic analysis of natural resources use focusing on poverty and environment linkages at local level; study of institutional linkages between MICOA and other sectors; and an analysis of environmental mainstreaming in PES and sector policies). PEI has also supported MICOA in the 2010 – 2012 MTFF process and in the preparation of the Environmental Sector Report and Cross Cutting Issue (CCI) report for PARP 2011-2014. PEI, together with AAP, also collaborates with the Ministry of Planning and Development in efforts for the sectors at the national and provincial level to mainstream the CCI (including environment and climate change) in the yearly plans (PES) and in the PARP. This initiative is also supporting a number of projects at the community level, namely in Cabo Delgado, Zambezia and Gaza provinces, to reduced vulnerability of communities and to poverty reduction. UNDP will continue to assist GoM working with its different projects and with other UN agencies in the same complementary way as described above, ensuring through coordinated planning and implementation that results achieved are maximized.  

Informação de Financiamento

Modalidade de Ajuda

Cooperação Técnica

Moeda Utilizada

USD

Tipo de Financiamento

Donativo

Inscrito no OE/Fora do OE

No Orçamento do Estado

No/Fora da CUT

Fora da CUT

Totais de financiamento

Desembolsos

0 EUR

Compromissos

875.106.560 EUR

Fundos não desembolsos

875.106.560 EUR

Financiamento Histórico

Desembolsos

0 EUR

Compromissos

0 EUR

Financiamento 2012

Desembolsos

0 EUR

Compromissos

829.048.320 EUR

Desembolosos 1º Trimestre

0 EUR

Desembolosos 2º Trimestre

0 EUR

Desembolosos 3º Trimestre

0 EUR

Desembolosos 4º Trimestre

0 EUR

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UNEP: 0 EUR

Classificação

Canal de Entrega

• INAM
• INGC
• MICOA

Sector DAC

100.0%

41000 Protecção Ambiental, Geral
41010 Política Ambiental E Gestão Administrativa

ODM

• Ambiente

Provincías Focais

Nacional