By: Kemo Kanyi
The National Environmental Agency (NEA) on Tuesdayorganized a day’s consultation, focusing on designing climate resilience projects to reduce the vulnerability of local communities to the intensifying impacts of climate change.
The activity was part of Global Environment Facility-funded interventions under the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) aimed at strengthening the climate resilience of vulnerable communities and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change such as flooding, drought, and sea-level rise among others. The project also seeks to minimize the effects of climate change on the urban and peri-urban systems and populations.
The key components of the project are to strengthen the enabling environment for urban resilience and sustainable development, enhance urban resilience through sustainable land management (SLM), ecosystem-based adaption (EBA),and establishment of green-gray infrastructure, leveraging sustainable finance for scaling up investment in climate change adaption, improving knowledge management and information dissemination to communities.
Ecosystem-based adaptation task manager Artifa urged participants to utilize the knowledge gained for the successful implementation of the project.