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National Stakeholders’ Workshop on
Community Based Adaptation to Climate
Change 24th
-25th
February 2011
Ibrahim Ceesay
Africa Youth Initiative on ClimateChange (AYICC)
www.ayicc.net
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African Youth Initiative on Climate
Change (AYICC)• A loose youth network that was conceived in 2006 in
Nairobi Kenya, during the 2ND International Climate
Conference of Youth (COY) held just before the UNFCCC
COP 12. AYICC coordinates youths efforts on climatechange and environmental sustainability with National
Chapters in over 38 African Countries. This initiative has
continued to link, share knowledge, ideas, experiences,
skills and strategies on youth action around Africa onclimate change mitigation and adaptation. It has been
identified by most African youths to have the potential to
provide a platform for them to address their regional
challenges on climate change
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Background Information•
Climate change is considered to be one of the mostserious threats to sustainable development, with adverse
impacts expected on the environment, human health,
food security, economic activity, natural resources and
physical Infrastructure.• The impacts of climate change therefore affect our
response to other development agendas in the Gambia
like the Millennium Development Goals, country strategic
plans and vision. Climate change presents significant
threats to the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals especially those related to
eliminating poverty and hunger and promotingenvironmental sustainabilit .
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Recent IPCC findings show that by the year 2050,
developing countries will face a threat of 250, 000
million people without waters, 20 million people will be
displaced(homeless) due to water upraising from theseas, 20 – 30% of the world animal species will go into
extinction due to population explosion and desert
encroachment of the forest. The global temperature will
increase by 4.5% by the year 2050 (IPCC), Gambia has nobetter time than now to begin to plan adaptation to
climate change before this doom befall us in 2050.
Towards the end of the 21st century, projected sea-level
rise will affect low-lying coastal areas with large
populations. The cost of adaptation could amount to at
least 5-10% of GDP. Mangroves are projected to be
further degraded, with additional consequences for
fisheries and tourism
d d
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Introduction to Community Based
Adaptation to Climate Change Communities and societies in general have long been
adapting to climate changes, but these adaptations havetypically been discrete and reactive. The idea that
adaptation to climate change should be planned, proactive,
and anticipatory is relatively new and is an important
element of CBA. The focus within the UNFCCC on national-
level adaptation, for example through National Adaptation
Programmes of Action (NAPAs), tends to prioritize national-
level priorities with lesser considerations for community-based ones. The danger is that such national initiatives may
actually harm local or indigenous groups if they do not take
account of local practices.
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Community Based Adaptation to Climate
Change
Since climate change affects communities differently
according to their respective vulnerabilities and adaptivecapacities, adaptation must be locally specific and
appropriate to the context.
Top-down management approaches were simply
unsuccessful in addressing the needs of vulnerable
communities. As a result many feel it is important to adopt
a new strategy, which directly involves vulnerable peoplethemselves in planning and implementation of adaptation
measures.
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Definition of Community Based Adaptation to
Climate Change
This bottom-up approach has received wide acceptance
because communities are considered the best judges of their own vulnerability and can make the best decisions
regarding their own well-being
CBA to climate change aims to enhance the resilience of
communities and ecosystems to projected effects of
climate change. Reduce vulnerabilities and strengthen
people’s capacity to cope with climate stress. A thoroughassessment of a community’s exposure to climate hazards
and an analysis of their specific vulnerabilities and
capacities is the basis for activities, projects and programs
that can help them adapt.
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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
• Because a community is involved in the whole process,
their felt and real needs, as well as inherent resources, areconsidered.
• The best CBA projects and activities combine local
knowledge with scientific knowledge. CBA responds to
pressing local adaptation needs, draws upon localknowledge, fosters community-driven innovation, and
supplements community capacity with knowledge and
material resources. CBA allows for experimentation, helps
improve local capacity to adapt, and makes it easier to
identify and to share information about best practices. CBA
projects increase resilience by ensuring that local actors are
aware of why local conditions are changing and what they
are adapting to.
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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
• Consequently, CBA projects can inform local, regional,
national and global policy..• CBA takes a variety of forms, from ‘mainstreamed’
(integrated into existing or planned development projects)
to ‘direct’ (developing local projects aimed at addressing
discrete adaptation needs). Despite variations of form, allCBA recognizes the need for context-specific adaptation
projects that identify local vulnerabilities, draw upon local
knowledge and capacity, improve local adaptive capacity,
and directly involve local stakeholders.
• CBA is thus a promising approach to considering gender
and ensuring that both men and women are able to adapt
to a changing climate.
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Why are African Youths Key in Climate
Actions (Adaptation and Mitigation)
• Article 11 of the African Youth Charter
guarantees the right of youth participation in all
major issues on the continent.
• Africa has a youthful population and youths are
the power house of every African nation
•
The importance of engaging the next generationof decision makers those who will feel the brunt
of the negative impacts of climate change has
been widely agreed upon.
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Youths bring along potentials for
change through innovation, differed
approaches and lots of energy
through their participating in policy
making and implementation bycreating new types of practicable and
real solutions to their everyday
problems including those caused byclimate change.
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• Youth and future generations
will inherit the climate system in
whichever way governments
decide to leave it
• The fight against catastrophic
climate change can succeed only
if it forges a permanent LINKwith social-justice campaigns
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Role of Youths in Adaptation
• Engaging young people in actions to address
climate change is a critical element to any
nation's strategy and a significant contribution to
sustainable development for years to come
• Youth are an important source of creativity,
enthusiasm and drive for any actions to address
climate change
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Youth Climate Actions
• Holistic and intergenerational approaches tofight climate change seem to be one of the
viable options if we are to realize our
developmental goals, the role of youth neednot to be over-emphasized. The official
recognition of the UNFCCC Youth Constituency
YOUNGO is key in amplifying youth
participation in UNFCCC processes and
building a robust International Youth Climate
Movement
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The Youth Climate Movement In COP15 (Case Study)
• We saw the world’s largest demonstrations on climate change –
100,000 in the streets of Copenhagen on December 12th, 90,000
across Australia on the same day, and 3000 events around theworld. We saw one of the largest petitions in history – 15 million for
a fair, ambitious, and binding global treaty. We saw a spirit of
collaboration amongst NGOs unlike any seen before within the
climate movement.
• 350.org, Avaaz.org, and TckTckTck pulled off three international days
of climate action in the course of three months, with more than
10,000 total events in 181 different countries. Thursday December
17th marked a “Hunger for Survival” global fast for climate
justice where over 10,000 people worldwide gave up food in
solidarity with three people who had consumed nothing but food
and salt for 43 days to call attention to the urgency of climate
action. Despite all but 300 individuals getting kicked out of the Bella
Center for the two day Heads of State Summit, the presence of civilsociet in the ne otiations remained owerful.
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G i l d i i l li
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• Grassroots, national and international climate
advocacy and campaigns ( 350.org Global Week of
Climate Action in over 88 Countries of the World,
Billion Tree Campaign, Organizing Regional YouthSummits on Climate Change, Conference of Youths
during the UNFCCC meetings of parties, side events,
demonstrations, petitions, open letters, observing
environmental days forums and training workshops).
• Promoting mass information, education and
communication on climate change and how young
people from Africa have been contributing to
reversing the threat of climate change and the
implementation of Article 6 in Africa.
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AYICC Best Practices and Climate Actions• Awareness raising, information and using traditional
knowledge as well as strengthening youth’s
networks in mitigation and adaptation efforts (AYICC
Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Mauritania,
Mauritius, Malawi, Tanzania, and Cameroon)
• Radio and TV Programmes, Community Outreaches,Waste Management Initiatives, Social Media (Face
book and Twitter) Theatre and Music e.g. (AYICC
Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Togo, BeninRepublic, Ivory Coast and The Gambia)
• Solar Pots and Cookers Project in AYICC Niger
(reducing the burden of women and young girls
from fetchin firewood's b walkin lon distance
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M i T Pl ti C i
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Massive Tree Planting Campaigns
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The 3C Campaign; Create To Inform,
Communicate To Empower, Celebrate Our
Actions AYICC-KENYA
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ECO-GIRLS PROJECT AYICC NIGERIA
AYICC P ti i ti t Th 7TH Af i D l t F
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AYICC Participation at The 7TH African Development Forum
October 2010 Theme: Acting on Climate Change for
Sustainable Development in Africa ECA Supported 15 Youths
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Challenges Encountered by Youths• Lack of access to information that would empower youth to
understand the decision-making process and substantivelycontribute to policy formation.
• In the development of national strategies for sustainabledevelopment, young people were not included on advisorybodies or in other aspects of the decision-making process.
•Youth engagement continues to be fragmented and sporadicat best. A bit of participation here and there will not serve anyuseful purpose and can be interpreted as involving youth onlyfor the purpose of satisfying a requirement or as a symbolicact without real consequences or recognition of youth aspartners in the development of solutions.
• Youth are often incorporated in the later stages of policy anddecision-making. Often, their work takes place in “parallel events” and is not integrated into official processes.
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Challenges Encountered by Youths 2
• There persists an absence of support to projects,
networks, and national youth non-governmental
organizations to involve youth in project
identification, design, implementation andfollow-up on climate change.
• The lack of capacity and resources for youths toengage in climate change adaptation.
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Challenges encountered by youths
• Despite the fact that numerous
international youth climate events have
produced excellent recommendations for
progress, there is little evidence that
governments have obtained, acknowledged
and explained how this input from youth
will be used in the development of their
climate policies.
AYICC K U i A i i i 2011 2012
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AYICC Key Upcoming Activities 2011-2012
• African Youth Climate Summit- August 2011
• Billion Tree Campaign
• Solar Community Radio Stations- Pilot Project
• TV Documentary on Youth and Climate Change in
Africa
• Green Schools Initiative
• Youths in Disaster Risk Reduction
• Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
• FULL participation in UNFCCC meetings especially
COP 17 Durban-South Africa and other climate
chan e relate events
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Way Forward
•
Government should start developing planthat addresses an enabling environment forparticipation of women and young people atthe local, national regional and internationallevel in decision making on climate changeand activities to implement these decisions.
• Including youths as part of official delegatesto UNFCCC meetings and other climate
change related activities• Provide youths led groups with resources for
climate change adaptation and mitigationinitiatives
FOR OUR FUTURE CLIMATE
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FOR OUR FUTURE CLIMATEJUSTICE NOW!
Thank You!!!