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Mozambique is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, facing floods, droughts and tropical cyclones. These hazards compound existing social and economic challenges, including widespread rural poverty and limited adaptive capacity. Agriculture is particularly at risk: two-thirds of Mozambicans live in rural areas, with 99% engaged in family farming on small rainfed plots. Less than 0.5% of farmland is irrigated, while erosion and saltwater intrusion further reduce soil fertility and productivity.
Farmers and local governments face multiple barriers to adaptation, including limited financial resources, weak integration of climate priorities into local planning, low technical capacity, and inadequate rural extension services. Without stronger resilience, rural livelihoods and national development gains remain under threat.
In line with Mozambique’s Nationally Determined Contribution and National Adaptation Plan, this project’s objective is to strengthen the resilience of local communities and sub-national governments to the impacts of climate change through diversified, climate-resilient livelihoods, local adaptation planning and financing.
Under Component 1, the project will fund structural and non-structural adaptation measures from Local Adaptation Plans, strengthening rural value chains and livelihoods. Support will include training, extension services, access to finance and demonstration of climate-smart practices, implemented with the National Program for the Integration of Family Farming into Productive Value Chains (SUSTENTA).
Under Component 2, the project will use participatory methods and decision-support tools to prioritize LAP actions and maximize the effectiveness of financial resources made available for livelihoods and climate adaptation. It will engage local leaders and civil society, including female leaders and NGOs that focus on vulnerable segments of the population, including children, elderly and people with a disability.
Up to seven districts are expected to benefit, including the priority districts of Angoche (Nampula), Machanga (Sofala), Vilankulo (Inhambane), Guijá (Gaza) and Moamba (Maputo).
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Expected outcomes
Component 1. Adaptation measures included in the district level Local Adaptation Plans (LAPs) implemented to advance climate-resilient livelihoods
Component 2. Institutional and community capacity strengthened at district and provincial level for climate-risk informed sub-national planning and budgeting for resilient communities
Component 3. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Learning and Knowledge Management
Project details
Levels of intervention
- Community
- District
- National
Source of funds
- Global Environment Facility - Least Developed Countries Fund
Key implementers
- Country Office
- Local Governments
- National Governments
- Non-Governmental Organizations
- Private Sector Partners
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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Project partners
- Ministry of Environment, Mozambique
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Introduction
Mozambique is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries, facing floods, droughts and tropical cyclones. These hazards compound existing social and economic challenges, including widespread rural poverty and limited adaptive capacity. Agriculture is particularly at risk: two-thirds of Mozambicans live in rural areas, with 99% engaged in family farming on small rainfed plots. Less than 0.5% of farmland is irrigated, while erosion and saltwater intrusion further reduce soil fertility and productivity.
Farmers and local governments face multiple barriers to adaptation, including limited financial resources, weak integration of climate priorities into local planning, low technical capacity, and inadequate rural extension services. Without stronger resilience, rural livelihoods and national development gains remain under threat.
In line with Mozambique’s Nationally Determined Contribution and National Adaptation Plan, this project’s objective is to strengthen the resilience of local communities and sub-national governments to the impacts of climate change through diversified, climate-resilient livelihoods, local adaptation planning and financing.
Under Component 1, the project will fund structural and non-structural adaptation measures from Local Adaptation Plans, strengthening rural value chains and livelihoods. Support will include training, extension services, access to finance and demonstration of climate-smart practices, implemented with the National Program for the Integration of Family Farming into Productive Value Chains (SUSTENTA).
Under Component 2, the project will use participatory methods and decision-support tools to prioritize LAP actions and maximize the effectiveness of financial resources made available for livelihoods and climate adaptation. It will engage local leaders and civil society, including female leaders and NGOs that focus on vulnerable segments of the population, including children, elderly and people with a disability.
Up to seven districts are expected to benefit, including the priority districts of Angoche (Nampula), Machanga (Sofala), Vilankulo (Inhambane), Guijá (Gaza) and Moamba (Maputo).
Project details
The project’s long-term solution is to increase the climate resilience of rural communities in Mozambique through more adapted and productive livelihoods. As an intermediate step towards that long-term scenario, the project’s objective is to strengthen the resilience of local communities and sub-national governments in Mozambique to the impacts of climate change through diversified, climate-resilient livelihoods, local adaptation planning and financing.
Resources from the GEF-Least Developed Countries Fund will help overcome the immediate barriers linked to the capacity at the sub-national to mainstream climate change adaptation in development planning and to implement Local Adaptation Plans (LAPs).
Local Adaptation Plans (LAPs) are the key vehicle for delivering adaptation benefits at the level of communities, in particular through diversified, climate-resilient livelihoods, local adaptation planning and financing.
The most important adaptation benefit that the project will generate is that it will bring adaptation finance to the local level by focusing on operationalizing LAPs. The project will consolidate a model that can be replicated throughout Mozambique, where a number of LAPs await to be adequately financed, and so that adaptation benefits can actually fulfil the needs of the most vulnerable communities in the country.
The project’s objective rests on the implementation of two mutually reinforcing strategies that related to climate change adaptation:
1) Supporting local solutions that reduce local communities' vulnerability and increase their resilience through innovation and technology transfer for climate change adaptation, primarily through the implementation of LAP measures that strengthen local livelihoods with a positive gender bias;
2) Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and resilience into sub-national planning systems, in particular (i) through the strengthening of institutional and human capacities for identifying, prioritizing and supporting the implementation of adaptation measures; and (ii) and through the strengthening of cross-sectoral mechanisms (improved methodologies for mainstreaming), including for accessing and/or managing climate finance at the local level.
- Community
- District
- National
- Country Office
- Local Governments
- National Governments
- Non-Governmental Organizations
- Private Sector Partners
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
More than 25,500 beneficiaries (54% women) across seven districts, including the priority districts of Angoche (Nampula province), Machanga (Sofala province), Vilankulo (Inhambane province), Guijá (Gaza province) and Moamba (Maputo province)
- Ministry of Environment, Mozambique
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
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Key results & output
Component 1. Adaptation measures included in the district level Local Adaptation Plans (LAPs) implemented to advance climate-resilient livelihoods
Outcome 1. Enhanced capacities of local communities to adapt to climate change strengthening their livelihoods
Output 1.1 Resilience strengthening LAP measures linked to local productive systems, land and water management practices are prioritized and supported in vulnerable localities within target districts through improved technologies and innovative solutions, reaching approximately 150,000 ha of mixed-use landscapes
Output 1.2 Community livelihoods are made more climate resilient in approximately 40 priority localities through investment in value-chain improvements, diversification and gender-sensitive training focusing on producer associations
Output 1.3 Access to finance in support of climate-resilient livelihoods increased through scale-up of tested mechanisms for local adaptation finance / methodologies
Component 2. Institutional and community capacity strengthened at district and provincial level for climate-risk informed sub-national planning and budgeting for resilient communities
Outcome 2. Institutional and community capacities strengthened for integrating climate change risks and adaptation options into sub-national level planning and budgeting
Output 2.1. Capacity of district and provincial officials and community representatives in up to 7 districts is enhanced through targeted training in view of integrating LAPs priorities into local development planning and budgeting process, reaching out to approx. 120 key individuals (30% female at least) among local planning teams and consultative council representatives at different levels
Output 2.2. At least 3 new district-level Local Adaptation Plans and 3 Provincial Adaptation Plans developed
Output 2.3. District-level and provincial officials, community leaders and extension workers are trained through online tools in adaptation planning processes, M&E & MRV procedures and related data handling tools according to role, in view of linking up LAP efforts with other climate policy processes, such as the NDC and NAP, reaching out to some 200 individuals (preferably 53% female)
Component 3. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Learning and Knowledge Management
Output 3.1. Project startup, planning and critical Inception Phase processes are successfully and timely completed
Output 3.2. Project monitored and evaluated to support result-based and adaptive management, knowledge generation and lessons learning
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Monitoring & evaluation
Project results, corresponding indicators and mid-term and end-of-project targets in the project results framework will be monitored annually and evaluated periodically during project implementation.
Monitoring and evaluation will be undertaken in compliance with the UNDP Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures (POPP) and the UNDP Evaluation Policy. Additional mandatory GEF-specific M&E requirements will be undertaken in accordance with the GEF Monitoring Policy, GEF Evaluation Policy and other relevant GEF policies. The UNDP Country Office will ensure full compliance with UNDP standards on monitoring, quality assurance, risk management and evaluation.
Key reporting will include an Inception Workshop and Report; annual Project Implementation Reports (PIR); an independent Mid-term Review (MTR); and an independent Terminal Evaluation (TE). Both the MTR and TE will be made publicly available in English through UNDP’s Evaluation Resource Centre.
At project closure, a final reporting package — comprising the last PIR, the terminal evaluation, and management response — will be reviewed by the Project Board. This end-of-project review will highlight lessons learned and identify opportunities for replication and scaling.
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Dorine Jn Paul, Regional Technical Specialist – Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP dorine.jn.paul@undp.org