Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable (GCF)

Full project title:

 

Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agricultural Livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe

 

Brief description: 
 

The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), in partnership with UNDP, is implementing a seven-year project, Building the climate resilience for vulnerable agricultural livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe. The objective of the project is to strengthen the resilience of agricultural livelihoods of vulnerable communities, particularly women, in southern Zimbabwe in the face of increasing climate risks and impacts. Green Climate Fund (GFC) resources will leverage GoZ co-financing to overcome technical, financial, institutional, and capacity barriers to enable smallholder farmers, especially women, to: 

 

  1. access sufficient, reliable water sources to enhance agricultural production's climate resilience. 
  2. adopt climate-resilient agricultural practices and cropping systems; and 
  3. access and utilize climate information to manage climate risk more effectively in rain-fed and irrigated agricultural production.

The project contributes towards GoZ’s achievement of priorities outlined in its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), climate change plans, and strategies which include the Gender and Climate Change Action Plan.

 

The project outcome will strengthen the adaptive capacities of vulnerable smallholder farmers, especially women, to climate change-induced impacts on their Agro-ecosystems and livelihoods. Implemented through the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development (MoLAFWRD), the project intervention builds the climate resilience of vulnerable agriculture livelihoods in 15 districts across three provinces of Manicaland, Masvingo and Matabeleland South. The project is targeting 2,302,120 people i.e. 543,620 direct beneficiaries and 1,758,500 indirect beneficiaries.

Achievements

4 494

Smallholder farmers received advisories
through the Participatory Integrated
Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA)
activities.

40,541

Farmers supported with climate-smart crop varieties consisting of cereal, fodder and nutritious crops.

230

Farmer Field Schools
established for farmers' peer to
peer learning.

17 596 ha

controlled by
40 541, farmers put under
water harvesting
and climate-resilient
water management
measures.

Installations

12 Automatic Weather Stations
9 automatic rain gauges
5 hydro (gauging) stations
to contribute to Climate Information Services for
smallholder agriculture.

Supported farmers
demonstrated high
productivity, achieving
yields higher than the
national average by:

24% white sorghum , 74% pearl millet

SDGs Addressed

1

NO POVERTY

2

ZERO HUNGER

6

CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION

13

CLIMATE ACTION