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Displaying 351 - 360 of 6947Kommunal organisierter Schutz des Schneeleoparden bei verbesserter ländlicher Klimaresilienz
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This IKI Small Grants project addresses biodiversity conservation and climate resilience in Western and Southern Mongolia, which is home to the second largest population of snow leopards in the world. Community lands have little protection and are at high risk of biodiversity loss from poaching, mining, and large infrastructure, threatening communities that rely on this land for livelihood. The project helps to reinforce the land rights of 33 communities. It sets up and operationalises legally supported and government-accredited Community Responsible Areas (CRAs) to conserve snow leopard habitats. It assists communities in sustainably managing lands for pastoral production and biodiversity conservation. After legal recognition, the communities receive long-term assistance in diversifying their livelihoods and protecting and monitoring wildlife.
Innovative climate-smart agriculture system in degraded areas combined with traditional knowledge
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The project takes place in twelve indigenous communities in Mexico, where extensive grazing and deforestation for firewood are causing severe land degradation, water scarcity, soil loss, resulting in low agricultural productivity. This IKI Small Grants project aims to enhance the capacity of local farmers in field schools by strengthening the innovations and the traditional knowledge of Mixtec indigenous producers. The project includes ecosystem restoration, agroforestry systems, and reinforcement of territorial governance structures. Therefore, agricultural plots are created and the applied agroecological practices are monitored in cooperation with a local university. Further, organised field trips promote the exchange of experiences and make the project results accessible to various local stakeholders.
Women Empowerment of Herders Associations to Strengthen Climate-Resilience of Pastoral Communities
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Climate change and increased livestock numbers contribute to vast land degradation in Mon-golia. Still in transition towards a free market economy, herders from Khentii province have difficulties in adjusting their traditional pastoral system to the current changes and challenges in both income generating activities and climate change adaptation. Rural women have less opportunities to actively participate in community decision making processes. This project aims to empower rural women to adapt to climate change through better livestock breeding techniques and financial independence. Further, the project informs policy makers and raises their awareness for the connection of gender and climate change related risks.
Kenya Climate Change Adaptation Project( KeCCAP)
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This IKI Small Grants project addresses climate resilient water management and climate resilient agricultural practices. Thereby it supports smallholder farmers in adapting to the negative impacts of climate change and land degradation. It introduces climate-smart agriculture techniques with a focus on irrigation by installing water pans, dam liners, shade nets and water pumps. The installations are accompanied by trainings for maintenance and repair of the pumps. Through trainings and innovation, farmers are guided for two years to use climate smart agriculture. Amongst other things, they receive trainings on climate change adaptation and mitigation, solar energy, disaster risk reduction, indigenous plants, and livestock breeds. The project further works with community driven initiatives such as village loaning and saving groups as well as community managed disaster and risk reduction groups, to enhance the resilience of livelihoods and ecosystems to climatic risk.
Advancing community rights in Malaysia’s biodiversity, climate change and physical planning policies
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Although indigenous customary land rights are recognised in Malaysia, the state often limits them as a form of user rights and unilaterally determines their boundaries, without the issuance of documents. Thus, logging and land development operations often encroach upon such territories, which include forests. Meanwhile, fisher communities are threatened by unsustainable fishing practices and land reclamation, which destroy coastal and marine ecosystems. The IKI Small Grants project develops policy and legal reform proposals that integrate the protection of community rights into the protection of these ecosystems, which can counteract the violations of both community and environmental rights, in support of national biodiversity and climate change policies. The project targets ten indigenous and six fisher communities and conducts information campaigns to encourage local and national decision-makers to support these proposed reforms on community rights and natural resource management.
Conservation valuation of Sri Lanka's landscapes in relation to major taxonomic groups
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Sri Lanka has been identified as one of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots, with ad-hoc decisions in land use planning increasingly threatening the country’s biological diversity and aggravating the severe impacts of natural disasters, such as floods and landslides. The IKI Small Grants project aims to protect Sri Lanka’s important habitats and ecosystems by enabling informed, science-based decision making in land use planning. In cooperation with national experts and government agencies, the project creates an index to identify critical habitats across the country and integrates it into land use planning databases at all scales. To further improve decision-making processes, the project provides policymakers with guidelines and decision trees. It promotes the integration of conservation areas into development plans. Therefore, it contributes to minimising the detrimental impacts on the environment and to enhancing the societal benefits provided by ecosystems for human well-being.
Community-based monitoring of biodiversity and forests of Vanuatu
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Vanuatu is one of the regions most affected by climate change in the world. Effective management of Community Conservation Areas has been identified as pivotal for area-based approaches to protect key biodiversity species and for supporting sustainable livelihoods in a changing climate. The IKI Small Grants project introduces community-based monitoring in Vanuatu’s community protected areas, based on a mobile app for local rangers, thus improving national biodiversity and forest observation. The project creates added value by further developing and testing a ranger tool kit and app, introducing these tools in the protected areas and feeding the results into national monitoring systems. With the local communities as well as national government institutions and environmental NGOs involved, all relevant target groups are addressed and their participation in sustainable land use planning is supported.
Support for the Forest Climate Leaders Partnership
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At the COP 27 climate negotiations, the President of Ghana and leaders from 25 countries and the EU launched the Forests and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP). Ghana and the US will co-chair the partnership, which aims to enhance cooperation, scale ambitions, and find solutions to forest management challenges. This was in fulfilment of the landmark declaration made at COP26 in Glasgow to halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030. The FCLP will seek to provide ways to facilitate and, in some cases, enhance cooperation on the delivery of pledges made in Glasgow. The partnership will also scale ambitions and help find innovative solutions to ongoing challenges in managing forests and forest resources. The IKI contribution supports the FCLP Secretariat and therefore the efforts to coordinate and successfully implement the partnership with a focus on supporting the participating developing countries.
Adaptation to Effects of Climate Change and COVID-19 for Communities in Gedo Region of South- Central Somalia
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Prolonged exposure to climate shocks has negatively affected communities in Somalia making it difficult for already vulnerable people to cope with adverse effects of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The resilience capabilities are reduced, forcing people to rely on humanitarian assistance and environmentally damaging livelihood. Additionally, there are severe environmental challenges related to land degradation, increasing aridity, overgrazing and water scarcity. The project aims to enhance resilience of communities by increasing access to water, promoting livelihoods, food security and building capacity on disaster risk reduction and environment conservation. This will be achieved by construction of water facilities, training on income generating activities, promotion of climate smart agriculture, and training on disaster risk strategies. Through a community led approach and building local capacity all activities have potential for replication after the end of the project.
Applying the Water-Energy-Food Nexus to promote Ecosystem Based Adaptation in the Ewaso Ng’iro North Catchment
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In Kenya's Ewaso Ng'iro North Catchment Area (enNCA), climate change impacts such as increased severity and frequency of floods and droughts are being exacerbated by rapid changes in agriculture, energy systems, water and land use. This leads to increased water abstraction, land degradation and deterioration of ecosystem health, ultimately threatening water, energy and food security. The project addresses knowledge gaps on the impacts of climate change. It will facilitate the production of knowledge on the impacts of climate change on water, energy, agriculture and land use, and the benefits of ecosystem-based adaptation. This will be done in partnership with the county governments of Laikipia, Samburu, Isiolo, Meru and Nyeri, their local communities, private agribusinesses and NGOs. The project promotes cross-sectoral collaboration to support decision and policy making.