Scaling up. This year we started to scale up with tools or solutions that can be more broadly adopted or applied to benefit other coastal cities in Mozambique. The city of Nacala, where another USAID-funded project—Climate Resilient Infrastructure Services (XXXX)—had worked on resilient infrastructure planning, requested CCAP support to help them continue their efforts to build a more climate resilient city. We conducted an assessment and will be implementing a range of activities that have proven successful in Pemba and Quelimane, among them: LGSAT, SIGIU, local adaptation plans and the development of vulnerability maps for integration with their cadaster. The most ambitious scaling up of CCAP activities, however, is the evolution of the early warning system initially designed for the cities of Pemba and Quelimane, into the national-level Integrated Disaster Information Management System (SIGIC), led and managed by Mozambique’s National Disasters Management Institute (INGC). INGC will officially launch SIGIC at a public event in early October 2015 and will test the system during their annual national simulation exercises, which is scheduled for the middle of October. While this has been a successful year in terms of accomplishment, some of the activities planned for this year experienced delays. Among them is the implementation of the Social Behavior Change Communication Strategy (SBCC) and the completion of grants to UN- Habitat to develop climate-smart household infrastructure and to the Mozambican Red Cross to strengthen their network of volunteers and provide first aid training to first responders. Other activities, namely those included in Objective 3 of the project, are scheduled to start FY2016, as per the work plan.
Scaling up. The KCA offers an excellent “best practice” pilot for building local conservation capacity throughout the region, and its success can inform the management of other areas within the SHL. The activities of this project can be scaled up to secure connectivity between KCA and the Makalu Barun National Park to the west in Nepal. The outcomes of this project will be significant in scaling up our work in other sites with relation to climate change adaptation, and will also feed into Nepal’s National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPA). Innovative ideas like community managed red panda habitat will be scaled up the initiative to a regional level (both in other sites in Nepal and India) to benefit red panda and the communities. Experience sharing visits are also anticipated to generate ideas for scaling up best practices in Sikkim and Nepal.
Scaling up. WWF aims to scale-up from the field sites in order to have an impact on forest and water resource management at the national and region level. This involves keeping careful records of project results, dissemination of lessons learned from the focal field sites, capacity building to replicate these models, policy work to mainstream innovative approaches in government practice and to promote policy change, and environmental education and awareness raising amongst key decision-makers. For instance, CARE will support local activities in Cajamarca (Peru) but also work at the regional level in the border areas between Peru and Ecuador. This proposal combines on the ground efforts with the engagement of local stakeholders, such as municipalities, community based organizations and environmental authorities in regional watershed planning processes and conservation in three discrete landscapes identified to be among the most vulnerable, and builds on existing actions that can be scaled up to adjacent areas and regionally. This will be achieved by building on previous experiences at the site, landscape and regional level that generate lessons that can be taken to the policy arena, either by helping to enforce existing regulations or by promoting that key gaps be addressed. Particular attention will be paid to opportunities for including adaptation management criteria into regulations valuing environmental goods and services, particularly those valuing standing natural forest ecosystems. The project also seeks to leverage these policy efforts at the international level if possible, through the endorsement of key social and environmental criteria, for example, by regional investors (e.g., IDB, CAF and/or BNDES) and regional government bodies or multi-lateral institutions (e.g., OTCA, and CAN) to reduce threats to the integrity of the ECR. For example, as part of this project, WWF will continue to work with the IDB on the implementation of a XXXX scheme for compensation around a road development project. WWF engages with IDB at the national level in each country and regionally through dialogue with centrally based staff. Table 2. Threat assessment and ranking for the Eastern Cordillera Real. Threat Scope Severity Urgency Total threats Massive changes in distribution of ecosystems and species 6 5 3 14 Road, waterway, port and energy infrastructure development 1 6 6 13 Inadequate, illegal over exploitation of forest resources 5 2 4 11 Extensive cattle ranching 4 4 2 10 Ex...
