Description:
This project aims to improve low carbon, climate resilent economies in rural areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe for enhanced well-being of communities, especially women, girls, and other vulnerable groups. The project will use Nature-based Solutions coupled with landscape level restoration as a solution to increasing threats to livelihoods and food security that make a key contribution to climate change adaptation. This project will contribute to restoring ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being in rural areas and increase the ability of targeted landscapes to absorb biophysical shocks and stresses caused by increased climate change.
Project activities include : (1) Gender responsive Nature-based Solutions experimentation-innovation-learning cycles completed with women, girls, and other vulnerable groups; (2) Facilitation of water efficient and nature positive agriculture; and (3) Gender-responsive awareness and advocay campaings carried out on inclusive community and landscape governance, relevant policies, and role of women in biodiversity conservation and landscape governance.
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes for this project include : (1) Enhanced adoption of gender-responsive nature-based solutions in targeted landscapes, especially by women, girls, and other vulnerable groups for improved biodiversity and climate change adaptation; (2) enhanced climate resilient livelihoods in targeted landscapes, based on the sustainable use of biodiversity, especially by women, girls, and other vulnerable groups; and (3) increased decision-making and leadership of women and other vulnerable people in community and landscape level governance systems for improved biodiversity and climate change adaptation.