By ZEYNAB WANDATI
In Summary
- The cash pay out was proposed by the World Meteorological Organisation at a meeting in Bonn, Germany this week, to help build agricultural resilience to climate change in the Horn of Africa.
- It is part of the UN climate Adaptation Fund, and targets vulnerable groups such as smallholder farmers, agro-pastoralists and pastoralists.
Kenya and Ethiopia, as well as Uganda are among countries
that will benefit from a $6.8 million fund to build agricultural
resilience against climate change in the Horn of Africa.
The cash pay out was approved by the United Nations climate Adaptation Fund Board at a meeting in Bonn, Germany this week.
It becomes the first proposal of its kind to be approved by the board under the Fund's pilot programme for regional projects.
The World Meteorological Organisation proposed that the funds be
handed to the three countries which have become extremely vulnerable to
climate change over the past 30 – 60 years.
WMO presented a project titled Agricultural Climate Resilience Enhancement Initiative, that
seeks to develop strategies that will help vulnerable groups such as
smallholder farmers, agro-pastoralists and pastoralists in the Horn of
Africa cope with the changing climate. This will be done in partnership
with the Inter Governmental Agency on Development (IGAD) Drought
Disaster and Sustainability Initiative, in line with each country’s plan
of action.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation and Igad will execute the
project, working alongside each country’s meteorological department.
The Adaptation Fund was established under the Kyoto Protocol of
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with the sole
purpose of financing projects and programmes that help vulnerable
communities to build resilience and adapt to climate change. Between
2010 and today, the fund has financed projects worth $357.5 million in
63 countries.
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