World Vision TanzaniaClimate Change & Disaster

Risk Reduction

A Briefing Presentation at Regional

Stakeholders Workshop Nairobi, Kenya

23rd – 25th June 2010

Outline of the presentation

Provide an overview of World Vision’s initial

approaches to Climate Change response

Impacts of Climate Change

WV involvement in addressing risks related to climate

change

A brief overview of DRR project (Pastoralists Project)

Challenges of the project

Overview

1. What is Climate Change?

A Working Definition

The change in the planet’s climate beyond

its natural variability.

Is Climate Change Happening?

• Twelve of the last thirteen years (1995-2007) rank among the 13

warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface

temperature (since 1850)

• The rate and duration of warming in the 20th century is greater

than in any of the previous nine centuries

• The 1990s were the warmest completed decade in the past

1,000 years

• In 2007 the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice reached a level so low that

the North-West passage opened up for the first time in history.

This is occurring again in late summer, 2008.

Impacts of Climate Change • In Africa and Asia some countries face a continued very

high risk of food shortages from declines in crop

production due to temp increase

• In some African countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture

may be reduced by 50%

• 20-30% of plant and animal species studied to date are

likely to be at increased risk of extinction.

• Water-borne diseases expected to increase due to

temperature shifts and freshwater management difficulties

Climate Change makes

Development a risky business!!

• Disasters Destroy Development

• Agriculture and Food Security a most vulnerable sector

(More than 80% TZ are employed in this sector)

• Forget about making poverty history, Climate change will

make poverty permanent

Need to do something!

WV’s Current Approach to

Climate Change Response

Mitigation Adaptation

Public Engagement

& Advocacy

MitigationThose activities which reduce Greenhouse Gas:

CONCENTRATIONS

Largely through bio-

sequestration

– Reforestation

– Avoided Deforestation

– Increased Agro-forestry

– Sustainable Agriculture

EMISSIONS

– Alternative energy

– High efficiency wood

stoves

Mitigation

Adaptation

What is climate change adaptation?

Climate change adaptation is

the increase of resilience to

the negative impacts of

climate change and reducing

Vulnerability against the

hazards of climate change.

Adaptation

Public Engagement & AdvocacyActivities which support Developing World in:

Mitigation• Rules which allow

participation in global response and markets

• Encourage ALL global citizens to engage (reduce AND offset)

• Link Climate Change and Poverty Reduction

Adaptation• Funding, know-how and

technology

• Link Climate Change and Poverty Reduction.

Public Engagement

& Advocacy

So What WV is doing to make Development

a less risky business?

• Standardise risk reduction practice into all high risk ADPs

(e.g. education, school safety, etc.) with appropriate

funding support (e.g.10% of ADP budgets)

• Ensure a proportion of all WV humanitarian funding is

allocated to “building back better “ post disaster in line with

UN / donor recommendations of 10%

• Integrating DRR into development programs

• Standardise Risk and Capacity assessment from

community to National level as a means of prioritising

scarce resources.

• Prioritise DRR and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) as

a major action research and advocacy theme for WV.

• Establish CCA and Food Security as a new unit in WVT as

from October 2010, this unit is expected to be learning

centre for WV Offices in the region

Climate Change and Disaster Risk

Reduction

Climate Change and DRR are closely linked.

Climate change results to increase of disasters,

something is to be done to make the community more

resilient to these disasters

Existing methods and tools of disaster risk reduction

provides powerful capacities for adaptation to climate

change

Magugu Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative

Project (A Pilot DRR Project)

Location:

Northern part of Tanzania, Manyara Region, Babati District in

Mbugwe Division.

Project Goal:

To strengthen livestock and non-livestock based livelihoods

of pastoralist communities in Magugu ADP

Project Activities Address the following issues

• Scarcity of water sources

• Scarcity of livestock feeds

• Animal diseases

• Low genetic potential of the indigenous livestock for meat

and milk production

• Weak extension services

• Lack of input supply shops

• Poor marketing and processing infrastructure and

• Lack of rural credit facilities or linkages to other schemes.

Improving Livestock production, health and Marketing

• Promote upgrading of their local breeds

• Rehabilitate/build water points

• Train and equip CBAWHs: CBAHWs

• Train pastoralists in disease recognition, prevention, treatment; use of EWS information; timely off-take

• Animal vaccination coverage

• Organize local markets and producers in association with marketing groups and local government:

Improving Natural resource Management

• The environment of the target area has been devastated by

the recent drought, poor management practices and

invasive species

• The project facilitate to improve local natural resource

management, cooperate in cross border natural resource

management

• Plant live fencing around water points

• Establish/strengthen and train NRM committees on water, soil and rangeland management

• Promote fuel-efficient cooking stoves

• Reclaim rangeland using prescribed burning or other form of controlling invasive species and improve fodder and forage species

• Establish conflict mitigation and peace building committee (CMPBC) to alleviate conflict over shared natural resources

Developing and supporting opportunities for

alternative source of income

• Drought and conflicts have destroyed the livestock assets

of many pastoralist households causing them to drop out of

pastoralism as an economic livelihood

• the capacity of civil society organizations in local

communities to develop viable alternatives is weak

• Training and access to financing for both micro-enterprise development;

Developing and supporting opportunities for

alternative source of income

• Value-added activities to livestock- marketing animal milk, food and leather products

• Expanding non-livestock sources of income through the cultivation of appropriate commodities such as finger millet, sorghum, water melons, beads and basket making, bee keeping;

• Vegetable and other garden farming

• Support for water harvesting, conservation agriculture techniques, and other technologies for improved on-farm water management;

Strengthening Civil governance and Conflict Mitigation

• Co-ordinate Cross-border implementation plans, especially

as they relate to rangeland management, water

management, and conflict mitigation

• Cross-border peace and/or civil society groups will be

organized and/or engaged to receive training and work on

issues relevant to the local communities

Project Challenges

• The attitude of many livestock keepers to keep a large

number of herds lead to poor management of animals

hence contribute to often conflicts between farmers and

livestock keepers over natural resources.

• The project brought some tension in some of the villages

fighting for water which was meant for livestock (Do No

Harm)

• Allocated area for grazing purpose in some villages have

been re allocated for other activities such as farming. This

also brings conflict sometimes between farmers and

livestock keepers.

• Traditional beliefs that disasters are spiritually linked

Thank you