Technical Facilitation for the Establishment and Implementation of FONERWA's Climate Community Adaptation Fund (CAF)
Description
Climate change is seen as an emerging challenge that is negatively affecting social, environmental, and economic dimensions of development globally. With its topography giving it a name of “the land of a thousand hills”, economy primarily depending on rain-fed agriculture and its other development sectors strongly dependent on environment and climate, Rwanda is severely vulnerable to climate change and its impacts are felt countrywide, while the communities are the most affected.
FONERWA (http://fonerwa.org/ ) was also established as an engine to drive the process for building climate resilience and environmental safeguard as part of the Rwanda’s green growth agenda. CAF is therefore a mechanism put in place by FONERWA to support environmental and climate resilient solutions at community level and its pilot phase is implemented through “Green Gicumbi Project“.
Overview
- Status: Ongoing
- Project Timeline: January 2022- November 2022
- Project Intervention Area: Gicumbi/Rwanda
All community
cooperatives involved in nature-based value chains in project focal landscape
are identified, assessed to understand their capacity needs, mapped per
location and business type, and trained to embrace sustainability through
ARCOS’ BEST Approach.CAF is established with all operational tools produced, governance structures established, and pilot community projects funded
Beneficiary community groups are assisted to adopt sustainable practices and serve as champions of change locally and nationally, with at least 3 community-to-community exchange sessions organized and at least 80% of participating community groups considerably improved in overall group performance.
Partners
