Mozambique: Environment Mainstreaming and Adaptation to Climate Change

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Ensure Environmental Sustainability

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Total Budget $7,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNIDO, WFP, FAO, UNDP, UN-Habitat, UNEP
Main Achievements
  • Climate change firmly established in national agenda and being mainstreamed in poverty reduction plans, disaster management and food security plans and strategies. Capacity of planners strengthened to gather and analyze climate change data and implement plans which integrate environment issues.
  • Significant advances in bringing climate proofing to wider audiences through seminars, training sessions and meetings. Community-based forestry management system set up, which is showing results in safeguarding resources. Installation of irrigation and rainwater harvesting systems is increasing revenues and helping vulnerable families adapt to climate change.
  • Renewable energy systems providing light, clean water, hot water and electricity in rural communities. Fish farming and beekeeping introduced, cash crop production expanded and a community-based network for improving animal health provision established.
Contact Andrew Mattick, amattick.fao@tdm.co.mz

The joint programme reduces the risks of climate change to poverty reduction efforts in areas of Mozambique at risk from climate change (arid and semi-arid areas, river basins and coastal areas) through the mainstreaming of environment in central and local level plans and programmes, and improving the adaptive capacity of the communities and other stakeholders through enhancing their coping mechanisms and diversifying their livelihoods options.

This programme involves the participation of central and local government as well as several UN Agencies within the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and of the One UN Initiative. Among these agencies, both resident and non-resident, are: FAO, UNDP, UNEP, UN-HABITAT, UNIDO and WFP. The joint programme is implemented in collaboration with local civil society organisations (CSO) and communities.

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