PDF, Fact Sheet, 702 KB, 2 pps
ID: 007
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Adaptation Partnership: USAID Supports
Climate Change Adaptation through Knowledge Exchange, Collaboration and
Implementation
November 2013
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation
Partnership, Climate Resilient Infrastructure Services (CRIS), Climate Services,
High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP), Small Grants
Description: This fact sheet
presents information on USAID’s Adaptation Partnership, a global coalition
founded in 2010 to share information and lessons learned about climate change
adaptation. USAID supported 10 regional capacity-building Adaptation
Partnership workshops in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on climate change
vulnerability and adaptation issues related to food security, climate services,
urban climate resilience, coastal and marine protected areas, and high-mountain
glacial regions. Outcomes of the workshops included: (1) communities of
practice (CoP) to facilitate communication and collaboration on climate
services, glacial retreat, and climate resilient agriculture, (2) scientific
research and technical analyses to learn more about climate change issues,
including glacial lake formation and the economic value of climate services;
and (3) small-grant programs with $25,000 to $550,000 awards.
Related Topics: Glacial events, Afghanistan/Pakistan,
Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture, coastal, water
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PDF, Technical Report, 2.5 MB, 50 pps | Assessing Climate Service Needs in Kaffrine, Senegal: Livelihoods, Identity, and Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change
September 2015
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, Climate Services
Description: For those whose livelihoods revolve around rain-fed agriculture, climate services have the potential to reduce precipitation- and temperature-related risks to agricultural production, boost agricultural yields by enabling appropriate crop and variety selections, and build resilience in rural populations by enhancing the food and income base of their livelihoods. To achieve these lofty potentials, climate services must deliver information that is salient, legitimate, and credible to those for whom these services are designed and to whom they are targeted.Further, we must understand if and how new information is of value to these users. Information that is not actionable, which does not speak to farmer needs, or which lacks credibility relative to other sources of weather and climate information does not add value to their decision-making, and may even result in confusion around decision-making that reduces the efficacy of existing livelihoods strategies. In short, it is becoming clear that weather and climate information is not inherently valuable to those in rural agrarian contexts, but must be tailored to the specific needs of the users if it is to have a productive impact on their lives and livelihoods.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, disaster response, adaptation research, extreme weather events, precipitation changes, temperature changes, Africa, agriculture
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PDF, Technical Report, 5.4 MB, 178 pps
ID: 025
PDF, Technical Report, 12.2 MB, 184 pps
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Assessing Mali's “Direction Nationale de
la Météorologie Agrometeorological” Advisory Program: Preliminary Report on the
Climate Science and Farmer Use of Advisories
May 2014
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, Climate Services
Description: This report, the first of two,
presents an assessment of Mali's “Direction Nationale de la Météorologie”
agrometeorological advisory program, called Meteo Mali. Mali initially
established Meteo Mali, which provides advisories for communities, households,
and individuals, as an emergency measure to address food insecurity; Mali
reported that its program led to yield increases of 20 to 60%, depending on the
part of the country in which the information was used. This report assesses the
advisories’ forecasts, science, and use at the community, household, and
individual level in southern Mali; provides recommendations to enhance Meteo
Mali's program; identifies future research needs; suggests that future climate
services build in post-hoc monitoring and evaluation documentation, from the
outset, to facilitate learning, evaluation, and evidence-based program
adjustment; and defines criteria that can inform the programming, design, and
implementation of climate services for farmers in the Global South.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, disaster response,
adaptation research, extreme weather events, precipitation changes, temperature
changes, Africa, agriculture
Assessing Mali’s L’agence Nationale De La Météorologie’s (Mali Meteo) Agrometeorological Advisory Program: Final Report on the Farmer Use of Advisories and Implications for Climate Service Design
September 2015
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, Climate Services
Description: This report marks the completion of the first detailed assessment of the function and impact of an operational climate services for development program, Mali’s L’Agence Nationale de la Météorologie’s (Mali Meteo) Agrometeorological Advisory Program. Viewed within both the climate services and development communities as highly successful, the Agrometeorological Advisory Program had never been independently assessed. In 2011, USAID’s Office of Global Climate Change commissioned this assessment to understand how the program functioned, and the degree to which the program impacted the lives and livelihoods of the farmers it was designed to benefit. A preliminary report compiled findings on the history and administrative structure of the program, assessed the scientific basis of the advisories, gauged the level of use of the advisories and, where they were being used, the impact of the advisories on livelihoods decisions and outcomes. Among the most important findings of this report were extremely low overall rates of advisory use, with women often lightly engaged with the advisories, if at all.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, disaster response, adaptation research, extreme weather events, precipitation changes, temperature changes, Africa, agriculture |
PDF, Technical Report, 2.3 MB, 43pps
ID: 049, B2 | The Caribbean Agrometeorological Initiative (CAMI): An Evaluation of Climate Services
March 2014
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services
Description:
This report presents an evaluation of the Caribbean Agrometeorological
Initiative (CAMI). For the last three years, CAMI has brought together
the meteorological and agricultural agencies of 10 Caribbean nations to
deliver climate services to farmers. Services have included developing
new agro-meteorological information, creating an effective means to
share this information with farmers, and convincing farmers across the
10 countries to change farming activities to enable increased
agricultural productivity. Although the ultimate goal of CAMI is to
raise agricultural productivity, this evaluation focuses on intermediate
measures of success related predominantly to capacity building.
However, the evaluation is limited because three years is too short a
time for CAMI partner countries to have begun delivering climate
services to farmers. This report concludes with recommendations for
near-term actions to enhance the progress accomplished by CAMI to date.
Related Topics:
Adaptive practice/behavior, extreme weather events, precipitation
changes, temperature changes, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture
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ID: 060, B2 | Climate Change Resilient Development
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, Climate Services, National Adaptation Planning and Implementation
Description:
This fact sheet provides an overview of USAID's CCRD project, as
envisioned at the beginning of the project. CCRD activities increase the
resilience of people, assets, and livelihoods to climate change impacts
by integrating adaptation strategies into the broader development
agenda and inducing donors, governments, and the private sector to
invest in cost-effective adaptive strategies. The CCRD program focuses
on three areas, providing: 1) support to USAID Bureaus and Missions
through the development and dissemination of guidance, training, and
capacity-building to strengthen the agency’s portfolio of adaptation
projects, as well as the mainstreaming of climate concerns into other
programs and projects; 2) coordination and support for activities
related to U.S. Government climate change programs, including the
Adaptation Partnership and Partnership Workshops programs; and 3)
technical leadership in emerging areas of climate vulnerability and
adaptation that need further innovation, including glaciers and
mountains, climate services, and climate-resilient long-term planning.
Related Topics:
Extreme weather events, glacial events, precipitation changes, sea
level rise, temperature changes, agriculture, coastal, health,
infrastructure, water
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PDF,
Fact Sheet, 649 KB, 2 pps
ID: 011
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The Climate Change Resilient Development Project: Integrating Climate
into the Development Decision-making Process
May 2014
CCRD Program(s): Adaptation Partnership, Climate-resilient Development
Framework, Climate Services, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP),
Small Grants
Description: USAID stresses the importance of integrating climate into the
development decision-making process. This fact sheet summarizes the purpose and
key activities of the USAID CCRD project. It also presents a diagram explaining
the five stages of the CCRD framework (i.e., Scope, Assess, Design, Implement,
and Evaluate.)
Related Topics: Extreme weather events, glacial events, Africa,
Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture
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PDF,
Fact Sheet, 793 KB, 2 pps
ID: 012
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Climate-Resilient Farming: Improving Agricultural Decision Making in
Central America and the Caribbean
August 2014
CCRD Program(s): Climate services
Description: USAID supports agricultural resilience in Central America and the
Caribbean by fostering collaborative relationships between climate services’
technical staff and the farmers who can use climate and weather information to
select seeds, schedule planting and harvesting, manage pests, and make other
decisions to reduce risks and enhance productivity. This factsheet describes
climate-resilient farming programs in Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Guatemala, and Jamaica. It also displays a diagram explaining the process for
providing climate services to farmers.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, disaster response,
extreme weather events, precipitation changes, temperature changes, Latin
America/Caribbean, agriculture
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PDF,
Fact Sheet, 1.1 MB, 2 pps
ID: 001
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Climate Services: Better Information for Climate-resilient Decision
Making
November 2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services, Small Grants
Description: This factsheet describes CCRD projects that foster development and
promote effective use of climate services:
USAID participation in the Climate Services Partnership (CSP); support
of SERVIR, a global satellite network for climate information; cooperation on
drought forecasting in Jamaica; evaluations of climate services programs; and an
evaluation of a model climate services program in Mali. Climate services deliver
timely, tailored, decision-relevant information so that people in developing
countries can manage current climate variability, build resilience to future
climate change, and reduce impacts on agriculture, infrastructure, health, and
other sectors.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, disaster response,
research, extreme weather events, temperature changes, precipitation changes,
Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture
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Website, URL
ID: 045
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Climate Services Partnership Website
CCRD Program(s): Climate
Services
Description:
The Climate Services Partnership (CSP) website offers a
platform for knowledge-sharing and collaboration that advances resilience and
climate-service capabilities worldwide. The CSP is an informal,
interdisciplinary network of climate information users, providers, donors, and
researchers who share an interest in climate services and are actively involved
in the climate services community. The CSP website presents information on how
to participate in the partnership and the activities of associated collaborations,
working groups, and communities of practice. The site also provides access to a
collection of relevant resources, including general information on climate
services; materials from events and conferences concerning climate services;
past newsletters; and an interactive map of global climate services projects.
Related Topics: Adaptation
research, extreme weather events, precipitation changes, temperature changes,
wildfires, Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, agriculture, infrastructure,
water
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PDF,
Fact Sheet, 804 KB, 2 pps
ID: 014 |
Index Insurance: Building Agricultural Resilience to Climate Variability
and Change
February 2014
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services
Description: This fact sheet describes index insurance, an affordable alternative to
conventional insurance that pays out benefits based on conditions exceeding
pre-determined thresholds (e.g., rainfall amounts) instead of damage assessment
to individuals’ property. USAID partners with the private sector, universities,
and local organizations to test and evaluate crop and livestock insurance
tailored for farmers and herders in developing countries. The fact sheet
summarizes index-insurance programs in the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, and
Senegal and describes how index insurance can complement proactive resource
management efforts (such as water storage) that increase production.
Related Topics: Adaptive technology, adaptive practice/behavior,
disaster response, extreme weather events, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean,
agriculture, natural resources management
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PDF, Workshop Report, 903 KB, 47pps
ID: 052, B2
| Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia: Proposal Writing and Planning, Cross-Regional Approaches
June 2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services
Description:
CCRD convened four proposal writing workshops in June and July 2013 in
Kenya, Senegal, and Nepal to help participants apply for competitive
grants to implement project ideas developed during a December 2012
workshop, "Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South
Asia." This workshop report presents the findings from the workshop held
in Nairobi, Kenya. The report articulates participants’ vision for
reducing climate vulnerabilities and improving the resilience of
smallholder farmers. Participants envisioned providing climate and
weather services by scaling up a set of integrated and sustainable
approaches; this would enable 1.5 million farmers to increase their
livelihood security. The report also describes participants’ vision for
inter-regional capacity-building initiatives: to enhance the
livelihoods of smallholder farmers by improving their understanding and
application of climate information, services, and advisories. The report
also describes workshop participants’ grant application for a project
that would establish regional networks to link African and South Asian
farmers to enhance their knowledge sharing concerning climate services
and products.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, extreme weather events, precipitation changes, Africa, Asia, agriculture
| PDF, Workshop Report, 1 MB, 39pps
ID: 053, B2
| Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia: Proposal Writing and Planning Workshop, South Asia
July 2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services
Description:
CCRD convened four proposal writing workshops in June and July 2013 in
Kenya, Senegal, and Nepal to help participants apply for competitive
grants to implement project ideas developed during a December 2012
workshop, "Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South
Asia." This workshop report presents the findings from the workshops
held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The report discusses participants’ vision for
generating and disseminating farmer-friendly climate services for
smallholders in South Asia: to increase the livelihood security of 1.5
million farmers through their use of effective climate information and
services. Participants also articulated a vision for inter-regional
capacity-building initiatives for improved climate services for farmers:
to encourage growth in national and regional food security and enhance
the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by supporting knowledge-based
climate risk management. The report also describes the participants’
grant application for a project that would strengthen the generation and
dissemination of climate-based agro-advisories for smallholder farmers
in South Asia.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, extreme weather events, precipitation changes, Africa, Asia, agriculture
| PDF, Workshop Report, 601 KB, 35pps
ID: 051, B2 | Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia: Proposal Writing and Planning Workshops, West Africa
July 2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services
Description:
CCRD convened four proposal writing workshops in June and July 2013 in
Kenya, Senegal, and Nepal to help participants apply for competitive
grants to implement project ideas developed during a December 2012
workshop, "Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South
Asia." This workshop report presents the findings from the workshops
held in Dakar, Senegal. Participants at the proposal writing and
planning workshop articulated a vision for their efforts: to ensure
that by 2020, more than 50% of smallholder farmers in West Africa will
have access to and make better use of climate information and products
to enhance on-farm decision making. Participants filled out a grant
application for a project that would be a first step towards this
vision.
Related Topics: Adaptive practice/behavior, extreme weather events, precipitation changes, Africa, Asia, agriculture
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PDF,
Technical Report, 950 KB, 54 pps
ID: 028 | The Value of Climate Services Across Economic and Public Sectors: A
Review of Relevant Literature
October 2013
CCRD Program(s): Climate Services
Description: This report summarizes a review of literature related to the use and
value of climate services – including information such as observational climate
data, climate system monitoring, and climate projections. The report lists the
practical applications and benefits metrics of climate services for various
economic and public sectors, including agriculture, energy, water, fisheries,
transportation, tourism, and disaster management. The report also covers the
key issues associated with the research conducted to date and describes the
factors affecting the value of climate services, the barriers, the next steps
for continued research, and the need to raise awareness of the value of climate
services.
Related Topics: Adaptation research, agriculture, coastal, infrastructure,
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