Community-Based Adaptation: Niger
Niger is a semi-arid to arid country, and faces significant land degradation stemming from baseline pressures. Climate change threatens to exacerbate these issues, in the process worsening food insecurity and making poverty reduction increasingly challenging. Impacts of climate change are expected to include:
- Higher temperatures/increasing aridity
- More erratic rainfall, leading to greater risk of drought and flood
- Increased erosion risks
- Declining resilience of forest resources
- Reduced crop and livestock productivity
The Community-Based Adaptation project portfolio in Niger consists of seven (7) projects:
1. Intensified Goat Breeding to Help Vulnerable Women Adapt to Climate Change Effects
2. Adapting to Climate Change in the Community of Tamalolo
3. Intensified Agroforestry Practices for Adaptation in Tânout
4. Hut Livestock to Reduce Household Vulnerability in Houtchi and Dan Djaoudi, Roumbou
5. Developing Sustainable Agriculture Techniques for Adaptation in Roumbou Municipality, Dakoro
6. Improving Agro-Forestry and Providing Better Seeds to the Community of Maigochi Saboua, Roumbou
7. Adapting Pastoral and Agricultural Practices to the Realities of Climate Change
CBA projects work with communities in Niger's Sahel to build resilience to climate change within agro-pastoral ecosystems, supporting rural livelihoods, and particularly focusing on the needs of women. Activities will be guided by the Niger CBA Country Programme Strategy (English Abstract).
All CBA projects involve non-governmental organizations (NGO) at the local and national levels. The UN Volunteers is a project partner in seven (7) out of the ten (10) CBA countries: Bolivia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Morocco, Niger, Namibia, and Samoa. In addition to the Adaptation & Volunteerism Specialist overseeing the seven (7) countries, an International UNV officer in Niger is fully dedicated to the CBA projects at the local level. The partnership began in June 2009.
The Government of Japan co-finances the UNDP/GEF CBA projects in Niger and Namibia. This partnership began in early 2009.
* Niger is one of ten (10) countries implementing projects as part of UNDP's "Community-Based Adaptation" project. *