OECD side event mainstreaming climate change in developmentcooperation, Montreal, 1st December 2005

Othmar Schwank, CGE;INFRAS, CH - 8039 Zurichwww.infras.ch

PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCES IN ADDRESSING BARRIERS FROMSDC‘S PILOT INITIATIVES

The challenge

To find appropriated methods and tools for linking Climate change knowledge, policy decisions

(international and national) and knowledge/realities/coping strategies of farming communities

SDC‘s engagement in linking Climate Change and DevelopmentIntegrating the 3 Rio conventions into development: SDC internal capacity building & portfolio of projects

› UNDP-National Communication Support Programme: Tools for mainstreaming such the “Adaptation Policy Framework“

› IUCN/IISD/SEI/InterCooperation: Development of a community based risk screening tool livelihoods and adaptation – CRYSTAL

› India: Pilot projects in Agriculture/Water sector: Enhancing coping capacity of local communities in AndraPradesh and Rajasthan through policy support and adaptation technologies; “Information sharing system” with UNEP-GEF North India and Pakistan;

› Platform for renewable energy promotion

Key issues for V&A assessments and its implementation at local level

What are appropriate methodologies?

How to deal with the scale problem? Issues and terms change while moving from a country to a province/state to a village

Prioritizing short term adaptation measures(such as ICT) to address climate variability; (while long term interventions requiring structural adaptation of the sector are being worked on…..)

Role of technologies and practices to enhance adaptive capacity

SEGMENTATION IS A KEY ISSUES FOR LINKING

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Preliminary insights from SDCpilot project Andra Pradesh India

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Need for appropriate methodologies and toolsAppropriate to the “scale” problem

› Learn how communities are exposed to climate variability/change impacts and already do adapt

› Support the process of decision-making at community and state level through optimized delivery systems

Tools/template useful for “integrated assessments” based on incomplete information

How to deal with fuzziness in analysis due to lack of appropriate time series of weather data and many other factors influencinglivelihoods?

CommunityCommunity--based Risk based Risk Screening Tool Screening Tool -- Livelihoods & Livelihoods & AdaptationAdaptationCRYSTAL CRYSTAL -- Purpose of the tool

› Enable users to assess a project’s impact on community-level adaptive capacity

› Assist users in making project adjustments to improve adaptation impact (planned, ongoing)

› Serve as component of larger toolkit, or compendium of adaptation tools

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Drought situation in India between 1980 to 2002

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Andra Pradesh mean Annual Rainfall

Rain Fall Mahaboonagar District 1952-2003

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Project Area Selection: 2 villages to test approachCommunicities at Kondurg and Midjil Mandals, Mahabubnagar District, Andhra Pradesh.

Kondurg

Midjil

Srirangapur Village

Kothur Village

Framework for situation analysis

Human / Social Natural / Environmental / Physical Economic / Political

SCENARIO 1

Policies/Structures Vulnerability Adaptability

Rural Poverty Livelihoods Diversification

Appropriate Skills Water Management

Agriculture Production Water Resources

Energy

Climate Change

Community Empowerment

Bio Diversity

Preliminary conclusions of situation analysis

› Rainfall patterns undergo shifts, some show decreasing trends in the last decade

› Agricultural strategies and local livelihood to be critically viewed in view of changing rainfall pattern

› More data needed on impacts of extreme weather events

› Need to integrate the real-time weather/crop data for better planning in delivery systems: Village Knowledge Centers (next slide)

› Prioritize best practices/technologiesenhancing adaptive capacities

National Virtual Congress of Farmers

Pudukkottai(Tamil Nadu)

Koraput(Orissa) Mahabubnagar

(Andhra Pradesh)Udaipur

(Rajasthan)Wardha / Chandrapur

(Maharashtra)

Nagapattinam(Tamil Nadu)

MSSRF(Tamil Nadu)

ICRISAT(Hyderabad)

HUB

Experts

Experts

President

Tsunami affected

area