By Elias Ntungwe Ngalame
The Global Environment Facility Council, GEFC, has approved a grant of USD
11.3 million, to be channeled through the African Development Bank, for climate
adaptation activities in Cameroon, Djibouti and Kenya.
A press release from GEFC says the Council’s
Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)
will finance the Rural Livelihoods’ Adaptation to Climate Change Program in
Cameroon, Djibouti and Kenya. For the first phase of the program, Kenya and
Djibouti will receive grants of USD 2.5 million and USD 5.07 million,
respectively. The program will increase the resilience of pastoralists to the
effects of climate change in these region..
The SCCF will also provide a grant of USD 4.03 million for a project to
enhance the resilience of poor communities to urban flooding in Yaoundé,
Cameroon. This project will strengthen institutional capacity to improve
long-term resilience to flood risk, improve the readiness and adaptive capacity
of local communities to the risk of flooding, and help pay for flood control
technologies. Cameroon in 2011 and 2012
suffered from heavy floods in the capital city of Yaounde and the Far North
region that led to over 300 deaths according to government sources.
The GEF Council also approved financing, from the LDCF, for projects in
Angola and Madagascar the release stated.
In Angola, a USD 4.41 million grant will enable the Bank to implement a
project to integrate climate change into management of the environment and
adoption of sustainable land management practices. The project will disseminate
sustainable land management and adaptation practices in agro-forestry and land
ecology in 350 communities.
In Madagascar, a USD 6.27 million grant will support the development of
climate resilience in the agriculture sector in the country’s southwest region.
This project will strengthen the resilience of water supply infrastructure over
10,200 hectares of agricultural land in the Bas Mangoky region.
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