{"id":1275,"date":"2023-11-16T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T09:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/?page_id=1275"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:07:13","slug":"improving-adaptive-capacity-of-vulnerable-and-food-insecure-populations-in-lesotho-iacov","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/improving-adaptive-capacity-of-vulnerable-and-food-insecure-populations-in-lesotho-iacov\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving adaptive capacity of vulnerable and food-insecure populations in Lesotho (IACOV)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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To address the increase of incidences of climate-related shocks such as drought and flooding, the Government of Lesotho (GoL), in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), seeks to strengthen the resilience of poor and vulnerable rural, food insecure communities and
households in the low-lying areas of Lesotho. The targeted area for concrete interventions lies within
the three southern districts of Mafeteng, Mohale\u2019s Hoek and Quthing, which have poor socioeconomic status and high risk of climate impacts. The vulnerable and drought-prone southern districts of the country would benefit from enhanced predictability of drought and dry spells, and from an early warning and response system that triggers a timely and effective response. The targeted population in the three southern districts is identified as chronically vulnerable and most at risk to the adverse impacts of climate change. This includes the poor and very poor socio-economic groups comprising of smallholder subsistence farmers, the elderly, the disabled as well as female and child-headed households, the unemployed youth and people living with HIV and AIDS.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Project Objectives<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The main goal of the project is to enhance the adaptive capacity and build the resilience of vulnerable and food insecure households and communities to the impacts of climate change on food security.
The project will achieve this by pursuing the following three objectives:<\/p>

  1. Strengthening government capacities to generate climate information and promote its use
    to forecast risks of climate shocks, mobilise early action, and co-develop tailored and locally
    relevant climate services for communities;<\/li>
  2. Raising awareness of communities, women, youth, people living with HIV, and other
    vulnerable groups on the impacts of climate change, the importance of adaptation, and the
    use of climate information for seasonal planning and climate risk management; and<\/li>
  3. Designing and implementing, through a community-based planning process, local resilience
    and adaptation plans focusing on robust asset creation schemes, income diversification and
    market linkages, for increased adaptive capacity and household resilience.<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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    Component<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/td>

    Outcomes<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/td>

    Expected Outputs.<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    1. Institutional capacity and systems building to support national and<\/span><\/li><\/ol>

      Community adaptation and management of<\/span><\/p>

      climate change impacts.<\/span><\/p><\/td>

    1. Increased knowledge and technical capacity at national and district levels to forecast,<\/span><\/p>

    plan, and anticipate responses to climate change impacts.<\/span><\/p><\/td>

    1.1 Strengthened sub-seasonal to<\/span><\/p>

    seasonal precipitation and temperature<\/span><\/p>

    forecasting to feed into National Early Warning<\/span><\/p>

    System to trigger early action through<\/span><\/p>

    government and other safety net programmes.<\/span><\/p>

    1.1.2 Capacities strengthened<\/span><\/p>

    through development of standard operating<\/span><\/p>

    procedures in response to climate change related drought shocks<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    \u00a0<\/td>

    1.2 Strengthened<\/span><\/p>

    access to tailored climate<\/span><\/p>

    information by vulnerable<\/span><\/p>

    communities to improve<\/span><\/p>

    decision making for food<\/span><\/p>

    security and livelihoods<\/span><\/p><\/td>

    1.2.1 Enhanced understanding of local<\/span><\/p>

    knowledge and beliefs on climate change and<\/span><\/p>

    acceptability of climate services.<\/span><\/p>

    1.2.2: Strengthened access to tailored seasonal forecasts that meet the needs of vulnerable communities.<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    1. Awareness raising of vulnerable\u00a0 <\/span>communities on climate change impacts and adaptation.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/td>

    2.1: Strengthened awareness of climate change impact on food<\/span><\/p>

    security amongst vulnerable<\/span><\/p>

    communities and youth and<\/span><\/p>

    knowledge of adaptation<\/span><\/p>

    actions<\/span><\/p><\/td>

    2.1.1: Coherent and institutionalised multi-level programme on awareness raising on climate change designed and operationalized.<\/span><\/p>

    2.1.2: Enhanced capacity of media<\/span><\/p>

    houses and reporters to effectively write and<\/span><\/p>

    publish climate change stories<\/span><\/p>

    2.1.3: Communities understand and use climate information and are aware of climate change threats and impacts on food security.<\/span><\/p>

    2.1.4: Raised awareness of scholars through integration of climate change into school curricula and training of teachers on climate change impacts.<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    1. Strengthening resilience at community level through community-based concrete adaptation and resilience measures for improved food systems.<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/td>

    3.1: Increased adaptive capacity of communities and households to respond to droughts and water-related hazards.<\/span><\/p><\/td>

    3.1.1: Community resilience and adaptation plans developed through<\/span><\/p>

    community-based participatory approaches.<\/span><\/p>

    3.1.2: Community nutrition-sensitive productive assets and other livelihood resources developed to support climate risk reduction and adaptation measures.<\/span><\/p>

    3.1.3: Established market linkages for<\/span><\/p>

    sustained income generation activities<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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      Learn About Improving adaptive capacity of vulnerable and food-insecure populations in Lesotho (IACOV) Introduction To address the increase of incidences of climate-related shocks such as drought and flooding, the Government of Lesotho (GoL), in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), seeks to strengthen the resilience of poor and vulnerable rural, food insecure communities andhouseholds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatechangelesotho.gov.ls\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}