The project's development and global environment objective is to reduce land degradation and improve land productivity in selected watersheds in targeted regions in Ethiopia. The project implemented sustainable land management (SLM) and afforestation to remedy gullies and erosion damage, while also increasing capacity for adoption of climate-smart techniques.
The objective of the Environmental Land Management and Rural Livelihoods Project for Tajikistan was to enable rural people to increase their productive assets in ways that improve natural resource management and resilience to climate change in selected climate vulnerable sites. The project resulted in 44,235 hectares of land with sustainable land management (SLM).
A variety of sub-projects were financed that included coastal ecosystem restoration, which included coral reefs.
The Government of Samoa is planning to increase the resilience of coastal communities to climate variability and change. The project will develop and implement activities to: (a) assist the Government of Samoa in adapting to climate change; (b) protect people’s lives and livelihoods, coastal and inland infrastructure, and the environment; and (c) increase awareness of climate change impacts and adaptation activities in communities, civil society, and local government.
The project interventions will introduce the integrated watershed and landscape management approach, and facilitate the adoption of sustainable land and water management techniques and practices. The proposed interventions will increase the overall resilience of the communities to climate-related shocks. The project will have land-management options that enhance carbon sequestration and, concurrently, prevent erosion and land degradation.
The World Bank is supporting the Government of Burkina Faso to increase climate resilience and further improve community-based natural resource management in rural communes. Its objective is to (i) support climate change governance; (ii) improve land use planning and economic activities around forest and woodland resources, reducing drought risk; and (iii) establish guidance, best practices and a structure of knowledge management around sustainable natural resource management as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The Government of Niger recognizes the importance of holistic land and water resource management to improve local population’s resilience to drought and flood. To this end, the Community Action Project for Climate Resilience project was established with World Bank support. It aims to achieve this by mainstreaming climate resilience into development strategies at national and local levels, and by integrating climate resilience practices into agro-sylvo-pastoral systems and local populations’ social protection measures.
The Government of Kenya's efforts to make water supply and sanitation for the public and energy industry in its coastal counties Mombasa and Kwale more resilient have given rise to the World Bank-funded Coastal Region Water Security and Climate Resilience Project. The objective of the project is to sustainably increase bulk water supply to Mombasa County and Kwale County, and increase access to water and sanitation in Kwale County.
The project's objective is to improve the livelihoods of rural households and the sustainability of natural resources in the program area. The project is part of the wider landscape management program, which will aim to integrate rural households into sustainable agriculture and forest-based value chains in the provinces of Nampula and Zambezia.
The Government of Nicaragua, with support from the World Bank, is addressing the climate resilience of its coasts and inland water and land resources in the project Adaptation of Water Supplies to Climate Change. The project’s objective is to pilot water resources protection and drinking water supply systems with an integrated and participatory approach in selected climate vulnerable communities in Nicaragua.
