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Transforming Social Inequalities through Inclusive Climate Action (TSITICA)
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The Agenda 2030 of the UN sets out ambitious challenges for society to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While all SDGs are important in Africa, those related to poverty (SDG 1, 8), inequality (SDG 5, 10) and climate change (SDG 13, 7) are especially relevant. Africa has some of the highest global poverty rates, levels of inequality, climate vulnerabilities, and shortfalls in energy access. Making substantial progress on all these SDGs will require action in any single SDG domain that maximises synergies and co-benefits and avoids as much as possible negative trade-offs. Aims and Objectives: Our project's overarching research question is: How do African societies design and implement climate action to improve sustainable livelihoods, and reduce both poverty and inequality? For example, all African countries need to adapt their food systems to be more resilient to climate change, but there are different routes to achieving this - such as investing in large-scale industrialised agriculture or supporting small-scale farmers to be more climate smart - which can result in very different livelihood benefits across society. Our second objective is to build a network of African-UK researchers who can bring deep disciplinary expertise to bear on this interdisciplinary problem. In particular, our project brings together two newly-established ARUA Centres of Excellence (CoE) on climate change and inequalities, with world-leading expertise from the UK, to form this network and to work at the nexus of climate change, inequality and poverty. Our Approach: To address the climate-poverty-inequality nexus in Africa we have created an interdisciplinary research team with expertise in development economics, livelihoods, poverty and inequality, climate policy and governance, energy and mitigation, and adaptation. We will answer our research questions through comparative research across three country settings - Ghana, Kenya and South Africa - that will allow us to synthesise commonalities and differences across these different contexts. Our approach is multi-scale and multi-dimensional, seeking to understand i) the political, economic and policy context within which transformative climate actions are enabled (or prevented); ii) how socio-economic and climate change policies have affected livelihood trajectories of different groups in society; iii) the potential outcomes from climate change actions, with a focus on how these outcomes vary across social groups, especially between men and women, but also social differences such as education, income, and land tenure; iv) how existing climate actions are working (or not) to build sustainable livelihood trajectories for communities; v) understanding the country-wide social and economic benefits of different climate actions, when applied at scale. Our project will involve close collaboration with leaders in policy and practice, and also with communities, so that their needs and priorities inform our research, and so that our research in turn shifts their thinking and actions. Project Outcomes: - A well-established, pan-African research network that has multiple collaborations within this project, and in new projects leveraged out of this project. - Evidence on the synergies and trade-offs between climate action, poverty and inequality. - Evidence on how specific national priority climate actions can be designed to deliver co-benefits for livelihoods and reducing poverty and inequality. - Ultimately, climate policies and associated actions to be transformative in improving livelihoods and well-being, reducing poverty and inequality, rather than business as usual at national and global political levels.
Objectives
The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) supports cutting-edge research to address challenges faced by developing countries. The fund addresses the UN sustainable development goals. It aims to maximise the impact of research and innovation to improve lives and opportunity in the developing world.
USFS Inter-agency agreement (IAA)
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The focus of this IAA with the USFS is the first sub-purpose, or "Intermediate Result", of the USAID/Brazil Environment Strategy: "Biodiversity conservation efforts strengthened in priority protected areas." USFS will provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Environment, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity (which manages national parks and other protected areas) and other GOB agencies working in biodiversity conservation. Of particular interest will be work related to land use planning, concessions planning, facilitating public use of protected areas, and economic studies including assessments of supply chains of sustainably produced or collected products. (IM# 57639; GCC-SL indirect: $2,400,000)
Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in the Magdalena River Basin
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The project supported the Colombian government in the development of a planning framework to design and implement a cost-effective, climate-resilient management plan for the Magdalena River Basin in order to reduce flood risks and provide for economic growth while sustaining a healthy river and accounting for climate changes. Around 80 % of Colombian residents are living in the Magdalena River Basin and 80% of GDP is produced there. The partnership mapped biodiversity, ecosystem services and land use, and develops watershed models for two pilot watersheds in order to better understand the hydrologic regime. The project developed proposed climate adaptation strategies to reduce climate impacts. Involvement of local stakeholders was key, in order to provide broad benefits and buy-in, and include land management options to preserve vital ecosystem services that society needs to buffer the impacts of climate change.
DFID support to MapMyRights to improve land rights information and knowledge
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This activity (DFID support to MapMyRights to improve land rights information and knowledge) is a component of Land Governance for Economic Development reported by FCDO, with a funding type of 111 - Not for profit organisation and a budget of £1,999,999.This project benefits Developing countries, unspecified.And works in the following sector(s): Agricultural land resources.
Artisanal Mining and Property Rights (AMPR)
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The Artisanal Mining and Property Rights (AMPR) activity will improve land and resource governance and promote responsible supply chains for minerals to mitigate against conflict, reduce flows into illicit financial networks, improve economic livelihoods and self-reliance for poor artisanal mining communities, support sustainable environmental practices, increase revenues from artisanal and small scale mining, and promote social cohesion, key U.S. Government goals. Among other activities, this activity will help establish and improve artisanal mining policies and laws, address alternative livelihoods and land use planning, provide training at the local and national levels, and work with artisanal and small scale mining stakeholders at all levels - from local communities to international fora. This activity will adopt a gender sensitive and multidisciplinary approach to address the development challenges associated with informal artisanal and small scale mining.
Enhancing food security and rural development outcomes through AFR100
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Verbesserung in der Nahrungsmittelsicherheit und ländlichen Entwicklung durch AFR100
Objectives
Das Vorhaben leistet einen Beitrag zum internationalen Klimaschutzprozess und verknüpft durch technische Unterstützung auf Länder- und regionaler Ebene die Schwerpunkte Klima und Ländliche Entwicklung über die Themen nachhaltiges Waldmanagement und Wiederaufforstung, Landnutzungsplanung und Förderung von Agroforstansätzen. Die AFR100 Initiative wird auf regionaler und Länderebene vertieft umgesetzt. Die unterstützten Länder fördern durch den Ansatz der Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) ländliche Entwicklung und Ernährungssicherung.
Sustainable Management of Community Lands II
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(Mexico): .The Activity, implemented by a local organization, will use FY 2021 funds to strengthen government of Mexico policies and regulations, and work with local communities, the private sector and other stakeholders in the Yucatan Peninsula (the states of Quintana Roo and Campeche) and the State of Mexico (Amanalco-Valle de Bravo) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from forestry and agriculture. The Activity, aligned with ICS Objective 4.1, will promote local production from sustainable land management to strengthen sustainable value chains and increase livelihoods for smallholder producers. It also will facilitate partnerships between rural producer organizations (farmers and forest entrepreneurs), private companies (hotels and forest products consumers), and governmental agencies, to realize sustainable use of natural resources and the development of rural communities in sustainable landscapes. The Activity will disseminate its lessons learned and experiences to influence government decision-makers to design and/or implement regulations and programs that foster rural development and the reduction of deforestation and forest degradation... .