Namibia Energy & Environment: 2010 and beyond

Climate Change Adaptation: Country Pilot Programme Integrated Sustainable Land Management CCA

National Implementing Partner: Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry Directorate of Engineering and Extension Services +264 61 208 7458 2008 -2012

Key Issues: UNFCCC

Project Status: Ongoing

Location: Namibia, Omusati Region

Contact person: Sophie Kasheeta, National Project Director

Goals and objectives

1. The goal: To assist the Republic of Namibia to devise and implement adaptation strategies to cope with predicted effects of climate change in the north-central regions, thus improving livelihoods and food security among the most vulnerable communities.

2. The overall objective: is to develop and pilot a range of effective coping mechanisms that assist subsistence farmers in Namibia’s North-Central regions to better manage and cope with climate change, including variability such as droughts.

3. Description / Background

The Government of the Republic of Namibia has identified land degradation as a serious problem which demands remedial intervention. It has recognised that integrated sustainable land management strategies are needed to effectively address the underlying causes. Existing efforts on-the-ground are obstructed by a series of barriers, which undermine their efficacy. Although the government has been, and remains, fully committed to combating land degradation, insufficient capacity at systemic, institutional and individual levels, and inadequate knowledge and technology dissemmination are constraining the effectiveness of interventions and the sustainability of outcomes.

Five Ministries, namely the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Ministry of Lands and Resettlement, Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Housing and Rural Development, and the National Planning Commission - have agreed in conjunction with the GEF and its Implementing Agencies, the European Union, GTZ and NGO community to overcome these barriers through a Country Pilot Partnership for Integrated Sustainable Land Management (CPP). The CPP comprises a suite of interventions to address the underlying causes of land degradation in Namibia. The goal of the CPP is to: Combat land degradation using integrated cross-sectoral approaches which enable Namibia to reach its MDG #7: "environmental sustainability" and assure the integrity of dryland ecosystems and ecosystem services. The objectives are to build and sustain capacity at systemic, institutional and individual level, ensuring cross-sectoral and demand driven coordination and implementation of sustainable land management activities and to identify cost effective, innovative and appropriate SLM methods which integrate environmental, social and economic objectives.

Adapting to Climate Change through the Improvement of Traditional Crops and Livestock Farming (CCA) is a project that aims at enhancing the adaptive capacities of farmers, pastoralists and natural resource managers to climate change in agricultural and pastoral systems in north-central Namibia. It is a project under Namibia’s Country Pilot Partnership for Integrated Sustainable Land Management (CPP-ISLM), contributing to Objective 2; identifying and disseminating cost-effective, innovative and appropriate SLM techniques which integrate environmental and economic benefits

Table 1: Project outcomes

Table 2: Project Budget

Selected Partners

• Ministry of Environment and Tourism
• Ministry of Lands and Resettlement
• Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Housing and Rural Development
• Namibia Nature Foundation
• National Planning Commission (GRN)
• National Poverty Reduction Action Programme
• natural resource(s) management
• Oshikoto Livestock Development Programme
• MEATCO
• National Farmers Union
• Agriculture Development Centre
• Agra Co-op (Pty) Ltd, an agricultural service company
• Desert Research Foundation of Namibia
• Cooperatives and Conservancies

Funding is provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF)

www.thegef.org/gef/gef_country_prg/NA

Contact Details:

C/O The National Project Director: Director of Engineering and Extension Services

Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry Directorate of Engineering and Extension Services

Private Bag 13184

Tel. (061) 208 7458

 Website:www.mawf.gov.na

C/O The Head of Energy and Environment Programme

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

 Energy & Environment Unit

Private Bag 13329, Klein Windhoek

Tel. + 264 61 204 6111 /6231

Website: www.undp.un.na