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Marketplace - Day One Main Complex Atrium 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Marketplace - Day Two Main Complex Atrium 3:30-5:30 p.m. Marketplace - Day Three Main Complex Atrium 9:30-10:30 a.m. Awards Ceremony Main Comple-x"Atrium ii OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Table of Contents Welcome Letter .......................................................... ,.............................................................................................. 2 The Development Marketplace................................................................................................................................ 3 2009 Global Development Marketplace: DM2009 ................................................................................................. 4 DM2009 Sponsors ................................................................................................................................................................6 DM2009 Resource Partners .................................................................................................................................................8 DM2009 Finalists ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 DM2009 Project Summaries ...................................................................................................................................... 13 Sub-Theme One: Resilience of Indigenous Peoples Communities to Climate Risks .......................................... 14 Sub-Theme Two: Climate Risk Management with Multiple Benefits .................................................................... 29 Sub-Theme Three: Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management ............................................................. 54 Index and Floor Plan .................................................................................................................................................70 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral The World Bank Washington D.C. 20433 U.S.A KATHERINE SIERRA SANJAY PRADHAN Vice President Vice President Sustainable Development World Bank Institute Welcome to the 2009 Global Development Marketplace on Climate Adaptation! This guide describes 100 Ideas to Save the Planet and its people from the effects of a changing climate. Culled from more than 1,700 entries, these proposals from 47 countries could not be more relevant-- or more urgent. The ninth annual Development Marketplace Global Competition is taking place in the midst of international debate about how to mitigate the causes and adapt to the effects of climate change. It is an integral part of the World Bank Group's work on climate change, and complements the Pilot Program on Climate Resilience, part of the Climate Investment Funds operated by the multilateral development banks. The World Development Report 2010 describes how the world's poor will suffer most from the impact of global climate change. As the planet warms, rainfall patterns shift, and extreme events such as droughts, floods, and forest fires become more frequent, the poor will bear an estimated 75 to 80 percent of the burden. Millions of people in densely populated coastal areas and in island nations will lose their homes as sea levels rise. In Africa, Asia and elsewhere, poor people face the prospect of crop failure, reduced agricultural productivity, and the tragic consequences of increasing hunger, malnutrition, and disease. Action is urgently needed. Managing risks from climate change will require not only one hundred, but thousands of ideas from com­ munities all over the world. Identifying the best of those ideas and reducing the time it takes to incubate, develop, and take them to scale will mean the difference between life and death to those people who live in the most vulner­ able areas. Another urgent need in creating a climate-smart world is to harness the knowledge that resides in local communities, particularly the unique knowledge and wisdom of indigenous peoples. Sharing this kind of knowledge and innovative solutions within and across borders will be essential to successful climate adaptation. During this four-day Marketplace event, representatives from civil society organizations and small busi­ nesses, development professionals, members of academia, government agencies, and others with a passion for development will share innovative and creative solutions to the challenges facing their communities. Finalists will also participate in a learning program deSigned to help them succeed in launching and scaling up their innovations. The Development Marketplace program has recently become part of the World Bank Institute, where it is the centerpiece of a broader program on innovation for development. Together with our partners who have so gen­ erously made these awards possible, we extend a warm welcome to these highly creative finalists and invite them to engage and share their ideas with each other and with the global development community. We would also like to thank the jury, staff, and the sector speCialists in Sustainable Development who have contrib­ uted so much of their time and expertise in making this year's Development Marketplace possible. Sincerely, Katherine Sierra Sanjay Pradhan 2 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral The Development Marketplace THE DEVELOPMENT MARKETPLACE social innovators. Applications go through rigorous, merit- based scrutiny by hundreds of development from Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grant inside and outside the World Bank who identify roughly program that identifies and funds innovative, early 100 proposals to qualify as finalists. The finalists are development projects with high potential for brought together at the Marketplace in Washington, D.C. development impact and replication. Administered to present their ideas to the public and participate in net­ by the World Bank Institute and funded by various working and knowledge sharing events. At the same time, partners, DM has awarded more than $57 million to in­ a jury comprised of development professionals and other novative projects identified through country, regional experts meets with the finalist teams and collectively de­ and global DM competitions. cides which merit DM funding. At the end of the competition, DM winners receive grants of up to $200,000 Each year, the Global Competition focuses on a specific to implement their projects over two years. theme or sector and draws applications from a range of Short proposals received Finalists Announced Marketplace Event & ------' Winners Knowledge Exchange Announced www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 3 2009 Global Development Marketplace DM2009 The 2009 Global Development Marketplace (DM2009) Finalist teams will gather at the World Bank Headquar­ is organized in collaboration with Sustainable Develop­ ters in Washington, D.C., on November 10-13, to make ment Network of the World Bank. The 100 finalists par­ their case for funding to an international jury. Together ticipating in this year's competition were chosen from a with GEF, IFAD, Denmark and other partners, the Devel­ pool of 1,755 applicants who responded to an open call opment Marketplace will award about US$ 4 million in for proposals during the spring of 2009. l\Jearly 200 sec­ grants to the winners of the 2009 Global Competition. tor specialists and development experts from inside and outside the World Bank volunteered their time to review the proposals and select the most promising as finalists. Finalist proposals for DM2009 fall into three sub­ themes: • Resilience of Indigenous Peoples Communities to Climate Risks • Climate Risk Management with Multiple Benefits • Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management 2009 Development Marketplace Team The proposed projects will be implemented in 47 different Back row (From left to right): Galina N. Voytsekhovska, Matthew Dugan countries by a variety of organizations ranging from indig­ Kane Fourth row (From left to right): Kia Rassekh, Edith R. Wilson, Douglas Jimenez Third row (From left to right): Damaris Garay, Keiko enous community groups, intemational development orga­ Nagai, Kirsten Spainhower Second row: Ekaterina Svirina Front (From nizations, small local businesses, universities and municipal left to right): Wema Jackson Kategile, Karen Majli Vega Coronel agencies working in partnership with non-profit groups. The largest number of finalists are from Latin America and the Caribbean (40 percent) followed by East Asia and the Pacific (19 percent), the Sub-Saharan Africa region (16 per­ cent), South Asia (16 percent), Eastern Europe and Central Asia (5 percent), Middle East and North Africa (1 percent), MEXKO and multi-country (3 percent). D DOMINICAN REP. BELIZE. • GUATEMAlA flQNDU RAS 0 a • El SALVADOR NlaRAGUAf) Applicant Organization Type Proportion R.B.DE of Total aCOSTA RICA VE~mJBA • NGO/Other Civil Society Organization 48% COl.OMBIA' • • Registered Indigenous Peoples' (lP) NGO 16% ECUADOR Private Business 11% Academia/Research 10% Unregistered IP Community Designatee 6% +--SAMOA a Registered IP Community 4% Development Agency/Foundation 3% Registered IP Research Center/University 2% Government 0% DM2009 Finalists by Organization Type: Non-governmental organiza­ • CHilE tions (NGOs) are by far the largest source of finalists, with 48 percent of the proposals. a ARllEIUlNA: 4 KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE JURY During the Marketplace, finalists have the opportunity to A distinguished jury composed of 40 senior level develop­ take part in the Knowledge Exchange, a series of semi­ ment experts will convene at World Bank Headquarters in nars, discussions and workshops, which will enable them Washington, D.C. to select the winners of this year's com­ to interact with and learn from other finalists and devel­ petition. The jury is typically composed of senior experts opment specialists from within and outside the World from within and outside the World Bank Group. Jurors are Bank. Specifically, these sessions will facilitate: exchange grouped in teams of two members each. After meeting of best practices on key project implementation topics; with the finalists, the jury teams will rank their top projects discussions of issues and challenges for climate adapta­ and discuss them at the jury plenary session. Winners will tion; and networking among the participants, including be selected based on consensus. past DM winners, and potential providers of technical assistance and advisory services. For a complete list of members of the jury visit: www.developmentmarketplace.org Winners from previous global DM competitions will participate in the DM2009 as members of the jury and as speakers at the Knowledge Exchange sessions to share the lessons learned from their project implementation. I ., • PHILIPPINES f.5. Of MICRONESIA • GHANA • MALDIVES • INDONESIA 8VANUATU-+ The map indicates the nUMber of finalist proposals by country of implementation. Please note that three of the finalist proposals are ,.,ulti-country 5 DM2009 Sponsors The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Denmark The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a global Climate change and development have been a central partnership among 178 countries, international institu­ of Denmark's development assistance program tions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the for many years. Both multilateral and bilateral chan­ private sector to address global environmental issues nels are used for Danish climate change mitigation and while supporting national sustainable development rlrl,nt",t.n,n activities. Denmark channels most of its initiatives. It grants for projects related to six contribution ($24 million) to the World Bank's Climate focal areas: biodiversity, climate change, international Investment Funds towards adaptation. Recent work waters, land the ozone layer, and persis­ includes establishment of two funding tent organic pollutants. The GEF is the largest funder ",t+,-,n'Y'C the $5 million World Bank Trust Fund for of projects to the global environment. Since Climate Adaptation of Agriculture and Water Resourc­ 1991, GEF has achieved a strong track record with es; and UNDP's "Climate Change and Development developing countries and countries with economies in Adapting by Reducing Vulnerability" (CC The transition, providing $8.6 billion In grants and leverag­ of the Trust Fund is to adapt current natural ing $36.1 billion in co-financing for over 2,400 projects resource management programs to respond to climate in more than 165 countries. in East and West Africa. CC Dare is an $8 mil­ lion program targeting 15 developing countries The GEF supports Adaptation to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will offer technical and financial through the GEF Trust Fund (under the Strategic Pilot assistance to nationally defined needs and on Adaptation) and two new climate change funds: the related to climate change adaptation and vulnerability. Least Developed Countries Fund and the Special Cli­ mate Change Fund. The projects supported by these As part of awareness raising for adaptation, Denmark funds emphasize agriculture and food security, health, also initiated a dialogue on adaptation focusing on water resources, and disaster prevention. The GEF land and water management for climate change. This Trust Fund supports adaptation that also generates process was concluded in Nairobi with the ratification global benefits, such as adaptation of vulnerable eco­ of Five Guiding Principles to be used by stakeholders systems on which human life and livelihoods depend. in the negotiation process leading towards the interna­ www.thegef.org tional negotiations in Copenhagen in December known as COP15, and in the long-term as an integrated International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) of development planning and implementation. The International Fund for Agricultural Development www.um.dk/en/ (lFAD) works with poor rural people to enable them to grow and sell more food, increase their incomes, and de­ World Bank Group termine the direction of their own lives. Since 1978, IFAD The World Bank (www.worldbank.org) is a vital source of has invested over US$ll billion in grants and low-interest financial and technical assistance to developing coun­ loans to developing countries, empowering some 340 tries around the world. It is not a bank in the common million people to break out of poverty. IFAD is an inter­ sense. It is made up of two unique development institu­ national financial institution and a specialized UN agency tions owned by 186 member countries-the Interna­ based in Rome the UN's food and agricultural hub. It is tional Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) a unique partnership of 165 members from the Organiza­ (www.worldbank.org/ibrd) and the International Devel­ tion of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), other Association (IDA) (www.worldbank.org/ida). developing countries and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). www.ifad.org 6 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Each institution plays a different but collaborative role Adaptation is thus not a standalone issue, The Bank to advance the vision of an inclusive and sustainable is working with client countries to integrate adapta­ globalization. The IBRD focuses on middle income and tion throughout national, sectoral, regional, and local creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the planning processes, as well as at the project level. The poorest countries in the world. Together we provide World Bank is helping countries adapt in many ways, low-interest loans, interest-free credits and grants to including: improving weather data collection and developing countries for a wide array of purposes forecasts (for farmers and insurers), providing technical that include investments in education, health, public assistance (such as extension services on new crop vari­ administration, infrastructure, financial and private sec­ eties, help for health systems addressing new diseases); tor development, agriculture, and environmental and prioritizing investment through better understanding of natural resource management options and costs and helping develop drought- and saline-resrstant crops, The Sustainable Development Network (www,world­ bank,org/sustainabledevelopment) in the World Bank The World Bank has been a sponsor of the Development is helping developing countries and their people find Marketplace (www.developmentmarketplace,org) since ways to adapt to climate change that has already be­ 1998, which is now housed in the World Bank Institute's In­ gun, Traditional development activities often enhance novation Practices Group (http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbil), adaptive capacity, but some can worsen problems. www,DeveiopmentMarketplace.org 7 DM2009 Resource Partners We are pleased to share with the DM2009 finalists and Lemelson-MIT Program attendees the following information about some of the The Lemelson-MIT Program outstanding leading organizations focused on building the capacity inventors, encourages sustainable new solutions to real­ of social entrepreneurs. Their resources and knowl­ world and enables and inspires young people edge can make a critical difference in the success of to pursue creative lives and careers through invention. the DM2009 projects. You can visit with representatives The $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability of these organizations at their booths in the Atrium. honors inventors whose products or processes impact We are very pleased to have their participation in this issues of global relevance such as meeting basic health global competition. needs, and building sustainable livelihoods for the world's poorest populations. Jerome H. Lemelson, one Ashoka: Innovators for the Public of U.S. history's most prolific inventors, and his wife Dor­ Ashoka is the largest association of social entrepreneurs othy founded the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Mas­ in the world and includes men and women with system sachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. The Lemel­ changing solutions for the world's most urgent social son Foundation, which funds the program, is a private problems. Since it was founded 28 years ago, Ashoka philanthropy that celebrates and supports inventors and has provided start-up financing, professional support entrepreneurs to strengthen social and economic life. services, and connections to a global network of more http://web.mit.edu/invent/ than 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs elected as Ashoka Fellows in 70 countries. Ashoka now serves as Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation a professional home for all entrepreneurial individuals, The Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation is a 501 c3 affiliate providing a platform for the growing global network of of Lex Mundi, the world's leading association of inde­ people dedicated to changing the world. Ashoka envi­ pendent law firms. Utilizing the talents and resources of sions a world in which everyone is a Changemaker™ Lex Mundi's powerful network of 160 top tier business http://www.ashoka.org/about law firms in over 100 countries (with over 500 offices and 22,000 lawyerst the Foundation finds experienced Consultative Group on International Agricultural lawyers to provide first class legal advice to select social Research (CGIAR) entrepreneurs/innovators on a pro bono basis. The The CGIAR is a strategic partnership dedicated to mobiliz­ Foundation identifies highly effective social entrepre­ ing agricultural science to reduce poverty, promote neurs/innovators through referrals by partner organiza­ cultural growth and the environment. It supports tions such as Ashoka, Acumen Fund, Schwab Founda­ 15 international agricultural research centers that conduct tion for Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Foundation, ground breaking work to nourish the future. The centers Echoing Green, Draper Richards Foundation, and others. and their partners a wealth of knowledge that The legal services provided by the Foundation offer enables rural people in developing countries to mitigate the critical support necessary to build organizational climate change and adapt to its impacts. Newly developed capacity and to enable social entrepreneurs/innovators crop varieties such as drought tolerant maize and early to achieve their missions of positive social change. In its maturing chickpeas are more resilient to extreme weather, first three and a half years, the Foundation has provided water harvesting and irrigation techniques allow for "more pro bono legal services to over 250 social entrepreneurs crop per drop", and mapping areas of vulnerability for on more than 500 separate legal engagements. crops and fisheries better target adaptation efforts. www.lexmundiprobono.org. www.cgiar.org. 8 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Santa Clara University, Global Social Benefit Incubator Stanford Social Innovation Review The signature program of Santa Clara University's The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) is an award­ Center for Science, Technology, and Society is the winning quarterly magazine that presents the best ideas Globa Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) This capac­ in social change to nonprofit, business, and government ity building program provides an intensive two-week leaders. Published by the Center for Social Innovation at residential program at Santa Clara University that sup­ the Stanford Graduate School of Business, SSIR builds ports successful innovators to scale their endeavors and bridges between academics and practitioners, execu­ achieve sustainability. Participants develop know-how tives and activists, and the private and public sectors. in marketing, finance, business planning, and organiza­ Itself a social enterprise, SSIR especially focuses on tional capacity building. The GSBI combines classroom cross-sector approaches to solving social and environ­ instruction, case studies, and best practices with care­ mental problems without breaking the bank. fully matched mentorship from Silicon Valley on specific http://www.ssireview.org/ scaling and sustainability challenges of participating organizations. Selected Development Marketplace participants receive full scholarships to participate. www.scu.edu/sts/gsbi/ www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 9 DM2009 Finalists This section briefly describes the finalist proposals selected for the 2009 Global Competition. The projects are pre­ sented by sub-theme according to the project number assigned upon receipt during the call for proposals. Summa­ ries were provided by the finalist teams as part of the full proposal. SUBTHEME 1 RESILIENCE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES (IP) COMMUNITIES TO CLIMATE RISKS Booth Project Number Number Name 1041 Adaptive Natural Resources Management Will Bolster Cabecar Communities, Costa Rica 2 1170 The "Family EarthBox" Saves Nukuoro Crops from Sea's Intrusion, Federated States of Micronesia 3 1189 High-Value Crops May Have the Medicine to Communities on Their Land, Ecuador 4 1281 Bioculture to Enhance the Value of Ancient Creole Maize in Chihuahua, Mexico 5 1335 Drought-Hardy "Food Forests" to Help Miskito Children Weather the Storm, Nicaragua 6 1358 Adapting Native Andean Crops for Food Security to Indigenous Peoples, Peru 7 1363 Ancient Andean Communities Time-Honored Methods for Crop Security, Argentina 8 1391 Age-Old Weather Diviners' Secrets May Ward Off Climate Catastrophes, Peru 9 1396 Reindeer Herders Adapt for the Viability of Their Animals and Livelihoods, Russia 10 1401 Helping the O'eqchi Maya Thrive with Sustainable Forest Management, Belize 11 1434 Clearing Timber Blockages from Rivers Would Help Communities Progress, Colombia 12 1495 Recovering Ancestral Memories and Techniques to Confront Cold Spells, Peru 13 1503 Empowering Guatemala's Indigenous Communities to Cope with Climate Change, Guatemala 14 1532 Climate Change Education Is Best Hope for Siberian Grassroots Communities, Russia 15 1549 Mapuche Forest Model Aims to Cut Greenhouse Gases and Avoid Deforestation, Chile 16 1557 Communities Seek Salvation in the Rare Art of Listening to Mother Nature, EI Salvador 17 1617 Empowering Indigenous Communities to Build Resilience Against Climate Change, Peru 18 1630 Indigenous Wisdom and Biomathematics: Amazonians Tackle Climate Change, Peru 19 1641 Samoans Turn to Traditional Housing as Sanctuary from Climate Risks, Samoa 20 1661 Traditional Knowledge Is the Prescription for Environmental Land Management, Colombia 21 1763 Traditional Tools for Adapting to Shrinking Food Security in Mayan Villages, Belize 22 1767 Amazonian Communities Teach Youth Traditional Knowledge to Meet Carbon Colombia 23 1768 Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Management of Communal Reserve, Peru 24 1772 Ouechua Knowledge, Technology, and Organization to Respond to Climate Change, Peru 25 1780 Climatic Vulnerability Spurs Adaptation of Indigenous Mosonte People, Nicaragua 26 1803 Training to Face Natural Disasters, with a Focus on Mayan Worldview, Guatemala 27 1815 Ancestral Climate Indicators Underpin Strategy for Food Security, Bolivia 28 1828 Helping Indigenous Amazonians Help Themselves Cope with Climate Change, Ecuador 10 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral SUBTHEME 2 CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT WITH MULTIPLE BENEFITS Booth Project Project Number Number Name 29 3033 Pastoralists Weather Climate Change Challenges Through Rainwater Harvesting, Kenya 30 3053 Rice Farmers Look to Fish Farming to Cushion the Impact of Climate Change, Philippines 31 3171 Solar Desalination Offers Hope Against Risk of Aquifer Pollution by Seawater, Djibouti 32 3333 Fishing Communities Seek Security in Aquaculture and Mangrove Restoration, Philippines 33 3436 Hope Sprouts in Reforestation for Resilience of Humla and Jumla Communities, Nepal 34 3457 Flood Threat Launches Self-Sustaining Green-Concept Floating Village, Cambodia 35 3502 Mobilizing Community Journalists for Participatory Disaster Risk Management, Mongolia 36 3525 Maca-Root Crops Need Ichu Grass to Protect Against Frost, Hail, and Drought, Peru 37 3616 Floating Gardens and Granaries Seen as Solution for Flood-Prone Communities, Laos 38 3629 Cooperative We Can l Communities Mobilize for Dry-Land Development, Pakistan 39 3648 Innovative Gardening and Education to Adapt to Climate Change in Maldives, Maldives 40 3712 Floating Power Charger: Providing Light in the Darkness of Climate Change, Philippines 41 3737 Poor Coastal Farmers Seek Salvation in Saline, Storm-Resistant Agriculture, Vietnam 42 3817 Climate Adaptation Kits to Help Madagascar Weather Future Shocks, Madagascar 43 3842 Solar Houses and Fog Collectors to Mitigate Food, Water, and Energy Crises, Kenya 44 3863 Conserving the Andean Paramo Ecosystem with Native Blueberry Cultivation, Ecuador 45 3881 Reducing Microfinance Risks for Poor Farmers in Drought-Prone Honduras, Honduras 46 3959 Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds to the Needs of Women Farmers, Ethiopia 47 4051 Carbon Credits to Help Smallholder Farmers Improve Income and Sustainability, Uganda 48 4209 Organic, Diversified Crop and Fish Farming for Food Security, Philippines 49 4229 Medicinal Tree Farms to Reduce Malnutrition and Malaria Infection in Cambodia, Cambodia 50 4230 Mangrove Rehab Scheme to Provide Biofuel and Poverty Relief in Philippines, Philippines 51 4270 Recuperation of Water Systems on Vulnerable Pre-Hispanic Andean Terraces, Peru 52 4291 Fishers of the Future: Interactive Radio Drama for Climate Change Adaptation, Tanzania 53 4307 Daphnia Grazing to Stem Global Warming-Linked Bacterial Toxins in Fish Ponds, Serbia 54 4461 Community Cereal Bank to Limit Food Shortages for Aid-Dependent Pastoralists, Kenya 55 4471 Index-Based Rainfall Insurance to Help Plant More Productive Harvests, Indonesia 56 4535 High-Value, Temperate Fruit Trees and Erosion Controls for Highland Farmers, Rwanda 57 4556 African Pastoralists to Play Out Climate Drama on the Airwaves, Nigeria 58 4561 Portable Solar/Wind Greenhouse to Grow Fodder for Sustainable Dairy Farms, India 59 4608 Helping Threatened Mountain People Farm More Sustainably, Nepal 60 4657 Gulay 4 Salambao: Contained Vegetable Farming for Fisherfolk's Survival, Philippines 61 4742 Strengthening Upstream-Downstream Linkages for Climate Change Adaptation, Nepal 62 4773 Plant Clinics to Strengthen Response to Climate-Induced Risks to Crop Health, Kenya 63 4864 Habitat Expedition: Harnessing Local Experience to Raise Climate Awareness, Venezuela 64 4865 Women and Youth Use Reality-Show Format to Tell of Climate Options, India 65 4898 Early-Warning Tool to Help Pastoralists Adapt and Access Contingency Funds, Kenya 66 4997 Radio and Schools to Herald Climate Predictions for Better Farm Planning, Bolivia 67 5045 A New Curriculum: Forming Habits in Water Conservation and Climate Awareness, Bolivia 68 5096 Pro-Millet: As Peanuts Wilt, Africa Diversifies for Sustainability, Multi-country 69 5108 Reducing Risks for Biodiversity Conservation Using Adaptive Fire Management, Bolivia 70 5192 Interactive Tools to Manage Climate Risk for Future Farmers of the Altiplano, Peru www.OevelopmentMarketplace.org 11 SUBTHEME 3 CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT Booth Project Project Number Number Name 71 3191 Bell and Bottle: Low-Cost Warning System for Flood/Slide-Prone Communities, Philippines 72 3339 Promoting Low-Cost, Flood-Resilient Shelters for Vulnerable Rural Villages, India 73 3349 Healthy Wells and Latrines Keep Water Drinkable for Vulnerable Communities, EI Salvador 74 3356 Innovative Climate Information System to Warn Farmers of Climate Changes, Nepal 75 3561 Community-Owned Seed Bank Offers In-Kind Credit to Foster Crop Diversity, Mozambique 76 3583 Solar-Powered Desalinator Would Serve as Model for Small Coastal Communities, Vanuatu 77 3635 Emergency Shelter and Income Opportunity for Tidal Refugees, Bangladesh 78 3768 Global Voices: The Vulnerable Make Videos to Speak Out on Climate Adaptation, Multi-country 79 3906 Strengthening Disaster Preparedness of Southern Leyte with SMS Technology, Philippines 80 3958 Organic Rice Farm and Resilience Fund as Sustainability Model, Cambodia 81 4097 Wanted: 420 Women to Design and Grow a Sustainable Farming Model, India 82 4162 Integrated Climate Change Spatial Planning to Build Adaptive Capacity, Indonesia 83 4165 Biofuel Generator for Water, Energy, and Farming in Aralian Region, Uzbekistan 84 4296 Low-Cost, Integrated Conservation Tools for Community Self-Sustainment, Bolivia 85 4311 Saving Glaciers: Artisanallndustry Aims to Stop the Melt and Save Water, Peru 86 4616 Low-Cost Water Filter Designed to Stem Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh, Bangladesh 87 4646 Elevated Bamboo Houses Designed to Lift Communities Above Flood Ecuador 88 4722 Floating Hydroponic Gardens over Fish Pens in Waterlogged Wetland Areas, Bangladesh 89 4886 Rate-and-Shame Project Would Raise Media Pressure on Public Officials, Ukraine 90 4917 Development of Insurance Fund to Protect Jatropha Farmers from Climate Risks, Multi-country 91 4949 Wave Energy Converter to Mitigate Ocean-Wave Damage and Beach Erosion, Dominican Republic 92 5016 Rainwater Irrigation Using Biofueled Motor with Commercial Prospects, Uganda 93 5057 Earth-Roofed Housing: Cheap, Sustainable Shelter to Face Desertification, Burkina Faso 94 5075 Clay-Pot Microirrigation for Food Security in a Dry Highland Village, Ethiopia 95 5111 Media Access and Education for Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Reduction, Bangladesh 96 5136 Smallholder-Led Micro-Insurance for Climate Adaptation and Risk Reduction, Ghana 97 5150 Solar Walls Aim to Raise Housing Efficiency of High-Altitude Quechua People, Peru 98 5194 Floating Flood Shelters and Lanterns that Send Cell-Phone Warnings of Bangladesh 12 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral DM2009 Project Summaries DM2009 Project Summaries Project Number: 1041 Booth Number: 1 Project Number: 1170 Booth Number: 2 Adaptive Natural Resources Management Will Bol­ The "Family EarthBox" Saves Nukuoro Crops from ster Cabecar Communities Sea's Intrusion COUNTRY: Costa Rica COUNTRY: Federated States of Micronesia ORGANIZATIOI\J: Asociacion IXACAVAA de Desarrollo ORGANIZATION: Nukuoro Residents Association e Informacion Indigena FUNDING REQUEST: $162,875 FUNDING REQUEST: $195,000 OBJECTIVE: To utilize local management, teamwork, OBJECTIVE: To help inhabitants of Bajo Chirripo to in­ community participation, and Development Mar­ crease their capacity to adapt to climate through ketplace- funded materials to install 16 ft. by 16 ft. the adaptive management of natural resources and the concrete crop enclosures for each family on Nukuoro. reduction of vulnerability to external events, based on the The "Family EarthBox" will grow fresh fruits and combination of ancient knowledge and modern technol­ vegetables in a contained environment impervious to ogy. Expectations are that (1) more than 50 of saltwater intrusion and flooding. Farmers will conserve will participate in the ancient knowledge rescue select local plant stocks and be supplied with highly process, (2) at least three products or services will be nutritious, new seed stock, cultivated in a central nurs­ made suitable for their integration into the market, and ery, and taro from nearby Pohnpei to stock their Fam­ (3) zones at high risk of flooding will be identified and ily EarthBoxes. Additional crop-adaptation measures mapped in 50 percent of the indigenous territory. will include salt-loving, edible crops grown from seed in salt-laden taro patches. RATIONALE: The Cabecar indigenous territory commu­ nities of Bajo Chirripo are settled in an area of difficult RATIONALE: Traditional crops that sustain indig­ access, low productivity, and high flood risk that is also enous populations on low-lying islands are dying highly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. This off from saltwater intrusion, increasing incidences of area is stricken by an average of over 10 tropical storms storm swells washing over islands, and unpredictable every year, affecting its production based on droughts. Recognizing the threat of these combined subsistence agriculture, its infrastructure, and its human climatological factors and the risk of being forced population. Climate change is to increase to abandon their homes if that threat is left unchal­ the frequency and intensity of floods, greater lenged, the of Nukuoro must take proactive vulnerability in the area. The project seeks to rescue an­ steps to adapt to the changing environment. cient knowledge and combine it with new technologies to adaptive production systems with less vulner­ INNOVATION: Innovations include the introduction of ability to storms and flooding and potential to EarthBox on an enlarged scale to dramati­ contribute to local development. cally increase productivity of relocated crops. Family EarthBoxes will be connected to existing rain gutters to INNOVATION: A combination of the ancient indigenous be self watering and thus more productive and sustain­ knowledge with modern, non-indigenous technology able. Soil enhancement with bioactivate charcoal, soil (technological syncretism) is proposed in order to create conditioning, and composting are further innovative rHl,;.,rlll\lp production systems that are of address­ features. Finally, the use of halophytes, or salt-loving ing the negative effects of climate and to improve plants, to restore production to salted taro the socioeconomic conditions of the indigenous popula­ patches is another major innovation in fighting the par­ who currently live only on subsistence systems. ticular set of climate risks threatening food security. CONTACT: Augusto Otarola CONTACT: Benjamin Ludwig otarolat44@yahoo.com ewh@pacinternational.org 14 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 1189 Booth Number: 3 Project Number: 1281 Booth Number: 4 High-Value Crops May Have the Medicine to Keep Bioculture to Enhance the Value of Communities on Their Land Ancient Creole Maize in Chihuahua COUNTRY: Ecuador COUNTRY: Mexico ORGANIZATION: Kuyay Kawsay ORGANIZATION: Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) FUNDING REQUEST: 5196,500 OBJECTIVE: To improve the quality of life for the families of the San Francisco de Chibuleo indigenous OBJECTIVE: To help people from Tutuaca, Otachique, community by implementing profitable alternatives and Conoachi communities in Chihuahua, through a that respect biodiversity and increase their resilience biocultural rescue program, to maintain the genetic to climate change. In addition, strengthen their diversity of native maize in the face of climate change, technical capacity to manage and conserve biodiver­ including validation and verification mechanisms to pre­ sity through the sustainable management of natural serve their diverse maize races. resources. The project will benefit 1,000 families, increasing their income by an average of10 percent. RATIONALE: Tutuaca, Otachique, and Conoachi harbor important maize varieties that are threatened by and RATIONALE: Erosion and drought in some com­ may disappear because of the introduction of transgenic munities in the highlands of Ecuador have led to maize. Through this project, it will be possible to preserve an increase in the rates of poverty and malnutrition corn biodiversity and cultural traditions, adapt ancient among their inhabitants. This has caused the majority agricultural techniques to actual needs stemming from of the population to migrate to the city for high-risk climate change, and improve the local population's quality and underpaid jobs, because agricultural activities of life by achieving alimentary adequacy. currently do not provide sufficient sources of income nor ensure that their families are fed. In the communi­ INNOVATION: Our interest in the preservation of ties that have preserved their customs and traditions, "creole" maize includes maintaining biocultural tradi­ it is important to take advantage of their knowledge tions while at the same time achieving alimentary to develop adequate agricultural practices that . adequacy in the face of climate change. Creole maize meet their needs, improve their resilience to climate research and rescue has been achieved in accessible change, and add value to the products generated by areas; our project, however, will implement technology their work and effort, without hurting the environment. transference in remote, mainly indigenous communities (Tarahumara, Pima, Huarogio and MasculaisL and also INNOVATION: The cultivation of medicinal and aromat­ will include ecoregional strategic alliances with ic species capable of surviving in adverse climates is one state and municipal governments, rural communities, of the main elements of this project. Species that are and academic institutions. identified and characterized will be grown in agroeco­ logical family gardens. There, traditional and scientific CONTACT: Sonia Gabriela Ortiz Maciel knowledge will be combined to add value to the end sgom@itesm.mx products-essential oils for aromatherapy, massage oils, www.itesm.mx products for aromatic drinks, and scented candles. CONTACT: Janett Torres Tambo jtorres@corpei. 0 rg. ec www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 15 Project Number: 1335 Booth Number: 5 Project Number: 1358 Booth Number: 6 Drought-Hardy "Food Forests" to Help Miskito Adapting Native Andean Crops for Food Security to Children Weather the Storm Indigenous Peoples COUNTRY: Nicaragua COUNTRY: Peru ORGANIZATION: MASANGNI ORGANIZATION: Association AI\JDES (Association for FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 Nature and Sustainable Development) FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: To establish 120 hectares of Maya Nut "food forests" in 25 Miskito communities, with produc­ OBJECTIVE: To identify and strengthen, using tion potential of 5 million pounds of food per year, worth patory methodologies, local climate-change adaptation $3 million per year, and carbon-dioxide sequestration of strategies based on indigenous knowledge systems 125,000 metric tons over 30 years. To improve the nutri­ pertaining to diversification and adaptation of native tional status of at least 2,500 Miskito children. To restore potatoes and related local food systems to guarantee wild game populations (deer, peccaries, tapirs, and fish) buen vivir (good living) through indigenous resilience. and protect 30 miles of rivers from flooding and erosion. RATIONALE: Indigenous peoples, such as those of the RATIONALE: Miskito communities need healthy rainfor­ Potato Park, will be hit worst by climate change due to ests and rivers for food and services. Climate high dependence on biodiverSity and ecosystem ser­ change exacerbates droughts, floods, and hurricanes, de­ vices. Thus, it is necessary to strengthen resilience, which stroying forests and rivers and compromising agricultural relies on high genetic and ecosystem diversity. This proj­ production. Healthy Kids, Healthy Forests (HKHF) creates ect seeks to expand the genetic base of Andean tubers innovative socioeconomic incentives for communities to and strengthen traditional plant-breeding practices by establish Maya Nut food forests. Maya Nut is extremely building bridges between indigenous knowledge and drought resistant, producing nutritious seeds even when Western science to develop new tuber varieties adapted other crops fail. Maya Nut forests can produce 50,000 to extreme climate conditions. This is critical to safe­ pounds of food per hectare per year with no inputs guard food security in the of climate change and the burning, or tilling.. Maya Nut is a multipurpose crop for current food and economic crises. humans and a key food source for wildlife. HKHF appeals to rural communities, because Maya Nut forests generate INNOVATION: This project blends Western science and income. This ensures future program expansion. indigenous knowledge systems, know-how, approaches, and methods, thereby opening avenues for participatory INNOVATION: HKHF is a new paradigm for climate­ plant breeding (PPB) for climate change while strength­ change adaptation that motivates rural communities to ening ecosystem diversity for preparedness, response, reforest with a native, nutritious, drought-resistant rain­ and mitigation of climate change and the climate-related forest tree food. HKHF empowers women, restores eco­ food crisis in participatory, and sustainable system functions, and stimulates local economies while ways. Additionally, this project preserves local culture, ensuring long-term regional food security. By targeting which is at the core of indigenous resilience. The results schools as the market, HKHF ensures a consistent and of this project contribute to buen vivir, based on a cre­ reliable local market for Maya Nut products. Once Maya ative economy and a space for indigenous voices in the Nut are established and human resources are climate-change policy debate. developed by the end of 2011, communities will be able to finance and implement HKHF without outside aid. CONTACT: Alejandro Agumedo ipbn@web.net CONTACT: Ramirez info@theequilibriumfund.org www.masangni.org 16 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project I'lumber: 1363 Booth Number: 7 Project Number: 1391 Booth Number: 8 Ancient Andean Communities Tap Time-Honored Age-Old Weather Diviners' Secrets May Ward Off Methods for Crop Security Climate Catastrophes COUNTRY: Argentina COUNTRY: Peru ORGANIZATION: Kolla Indigenous ORGANIZATION: Centro de Investigaci6n, Educaci6n Community-Finca Tumbaya y Desarrollo (Research, Education, and Development FUNDiNG REQUEST: $150,600 Center, ClED) FUNDING REQUEST: $199,810 OBJECTIVE: To strengthen food security through the recovery and appreciation of local culture and ancient OBJECTIVE: To verify, validate, and communicate knowledge and survival practices during food produc­ indigenous knowledge that is potentially helpful to im­ tion and consumption cycles. To consolidate a com­ prove resilience, prediction, and adaptation to climate munity production system of adapted crop and pasture variabilitY,and change, and for development based on recovering 10 hectares of ancient cultivation an early warning system. terraces (andenerias) in Raya Raya. The system will allow for a regular and diverse provision of seeds to cultivate RATiONALE: The specific challenge is identifying how to in the farms of 200 families, whose production is mainly help indigenous communities use traditional knowledge, directed at covering their family's dietary needs (1,100 already verified and validated, in order to manage early people in the community's households). The project will prevention systems for climate change and variability integrate local production, health, and educational sys­ and to adapt and plan appropriate farming methods tems to deal with the inhabitants' diet and nutrition and with fewer risks. the development of the indigenous community. The studies we have carried out on indigenous peas­ RATIONALE: The project's aim is to strengthen food ants' knowledge of climate change between 1983 and security in the Kolla Indigenous Community Finca Tum­ 2003 in various communities in Puno have been helpful in baya, settled on the valley of Quebrada de Humahuaca, predicting climate variability. In addition, what helps solve in the province of Jujuy. The community is composed this problem is the fact that the peasants themselves, as of descendents of ancient local settlers and its history well as local and regional authorities, are interested in this includes more than 2,000 years of adaptation, dur­ project, because it is based on traditional knowledge. ing which time its people learned to domesticate the rV;Olt::1 make the paramo, or high altitude grasslands, a Conservation efforts often do not work because sponge. The warming of the Ecuadoran highlands address native people's livelihoods. Likewise, commercially and expansion of the agriculture frontier to higher eleva­ oriented projects often are environmentally destructive. tions are expected to affect one of the main sources Very rarely are both issues confronted in the same of water for the entire country, the paramo. Currently, many of the peasant families in the Ecuadoran highlands are be­ CONTACT: Andrew Reitz ing asked to choose between conserving the paramo andrewrreitz@gmail.com www.ccd.org.ec 38 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 3881 Booth Number: 45 Project Number: 3959 Booth Number: 46 Reducing Microfinance Risks for Poor Farmers in Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds to the Drought-Prone Honduras Needs of Women Farmers COUNTRY: Honduras COUNTRY: Ethiopia ORGANIZATION: Fundacion Futuros Rurales (FFR) ORGANIZATION: Bioversity International FUf\IDING REQUEST: $193,500 FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: To provide microfinance institutes (MFls) OBJECTIVE: To develop an innovative, low-cost strat­ with data that will enable them to offer insurance con­ egy for managing risks to agricultural systems posed by tracts that will liberate lending from drought risk. In this the adverse effects of climate change through the use way, these MFls will be able to provide resource-poor of locally adapted crop varieties in order to protect the farmers with access to affordable credits for investments. lives and livelihoods of at least 200 vulnerable women Besides MFls, other key players in this scheme will be farmers at two target sites. The project seeks to impact suppliers of fertilizer and other farm inputs. development by ensuring vulnerable farmers access to better-adapted varieties of vital food crops to mitigate RATIONALE: Poor farmers in drought-prone areas climate-change risks to food security. cannot access microfinance because microfinanciers consider them too risky-a drought may leave them with RATIONALE: Women farmers in Ethiopia are the an unserviceable debt. Consequently they cannot make primary seed custodians who must confront significant basic investments in fertilizer, seed, or water infrastruc­ climate uncertainty every year and who regularly face ture. This traps them in a cycle of low investment, low food shortages as crops fail. Farmers employ locally productivity, and low income. Insurance, which has long available and indigenous varieties to hedge their bets. protected millions of farmers in the developed world, is While this constitutes a valid adaptive strategy to a proven way of protecting against climate risk. Novel, confront climate variability, locally available varieties low-cost, index-based insurance products are being may no longer be sufficient. Communities need to look tested, but their reach is severely constrained by the lack further than their neighbors' fields for the best-adapted of climate data. This is the problem we aim to address. seeds. Climate change is generating the need to redistribute crop varieties, achievable through the re­ INNOVATION: The project aims to generate the follow­ release of materials from the I\lational Genebank and ing innovations: (1) a new insurance calculation method an evaluation system that has local women selecting that includes more precise knowledge of climate varia­ the best available seeds. This process will contribute to tion. This delivers the benefits of the best scientific knowl­ short- and long-term adaptation systems to confront edge of climate variability to farmers, in the form of better climate change in Ethiopia's marginal areas and prevent insurance; (2) using insurance to support change in land women farmers from falling deeper into poverty. management; and (3) providing an online information management system, including a short message service INNOVATION: This project provides a unique frame­ (SMS, used on cell phones) interface to publish insurance work for combining an improved understanding of cli­ products and their premiums and payouts in order to mate change scenarios in Ethiopia and available crop­ ensure transparency and foster trust. diversity information from a range of sources (including genebanks) with farmers' own experience, indigenous CONTACT: Norbert Niederhauser knowledge, and traditional adaptation strategies. norbert.n@gmx.at CONTACT: Mohammad Ehsan Dulloo e.dulloo@cgiar.org www.bioversityinternational.org www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 39 Project Number: 4051 Booth Number: 47 Project Number: 4209 Booth Number: 48 Carbon Credits to Help Smallholder Farmers Improve Organic, Diversified Crop and Fish Income and Sustainability Farming for Food Security COUNTRY: Uganda COUNTRY: Philippines ORGANIZATION: AELBI Louis Bolk ORGANIZATION: Pipuli Foundation, Inc. Institute-Eastern Africa Office FUNDING REQUEST: $199,993 FUNDING REQUEST: $199,300 OBJECTIVE: To offset the impact of climate change OBJECTIVE: To test the voluntary carbon credit on food security, agriculture, and human health by en­ mechanism as an incentive for smallholder farmers in suring a year-round production of safe and/or organic developing countries to improve the sustainability of and diversified food crops in the uplands. This goal their farming system while increasing their income, The will be reached through proper management of land project will deliver five results: (1) five hundred farm­ and freshwater sources by adopting agroforestry and ers receive support for improved farm practices; (2) a inland fishing; enhancing and protecting the adjacent payment mechanism for prefinancing carbon credits is watershed, rivers, and springs; building community developed, benefiting farm families with $40 in carbon awareness of climate change; and conducting training credits; (3) inspection and certification system for farm about sustainable agriculture. practices is developed; (4) climate impact of improved practices is evaluated; and (5) fifty tons of organic prod­ RATIONALE: Upland farmers, who are more impover­ uct are marketed as "climate neutral," ished than other farmers in the region, have been lured into conventional farming practices that damage the RATIONALE: Agriculture in Africa is characterized by land and erode the diversity of food crops. Land degra­ land degradation and deforestation. Farmers experi­ dation and soil erosion is widespread. Hybrid chemical ence the effects of climate change: droughts. Projects input-dependent varieties of crops are also promoted that reduce emissions or sequester carbon can sell aggressively. As crop yields continue to decrease, up­ "carbon credits," Promising farm practices that manage land farmers neglect the importance of water manage­ climate risk and have multiple benefits are (a) seques­ ment for agricultural production and to diversify their tering carbon in soil and vegetation, (b) increasing crop livelihood. The sooner this is the better; an productivity, and (c) making farming systems adapted intensified climate change will worsen the situation. to climate change. Adoption has been constrained by Lower-income individuals suffer the most, as evidenced the time gap between costs and benefits. by the recent food crisis, when farmers were badly hit. INNOVATION: This is innovative in four as­ INNOVATION: This project's innovation comes from pects: (1) It bridges the gap between costs and benefits upland farmers' full utilization of upland water for year­ by prefinancing carbon credits, based on the adoption round and diverse agricultural production and freshwa­ of improved farm practices. (2) It enables consumers to ter fishing. Fish ponds will serve as water catchments to finance the climate-adaptation practices of smallhold­ be reused for farm irrigation. This water conservation ers through their purchase of "climate neutral" organic method will be reinforced with agroforestry technology, products. (3) It couples the existing organic inspection components of which are generally known but not used and certification system with" carbon" inspection and commonly enough by farmers. certification. (4) It develops guidelines for the evalua­ tion of climate of improved farm practices. CONTACT: Estrellita G. Bulatete pipulifdn@host.com CONTACT: Alistair Taylor a.taylor@louisbolk.org 40 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4229 Booth Number: 49 Medicinal Tree Farms to Reduce Malnutrition and Malaria Infection in Cambodia COUNTRY: Cambodia ORGANIZATION: Green Earth Concepts FUNDING REQUEST: $199,480 OBJECTIVE: To raise Moringa trees on 10 hectares of nutrition and associated tuberculosis prevalence, par­ land in order to harvest the leaves and and pro­ ticularly among lower-income communities. Moringa cess them as pharmaceutical capsules and pouches leaves have 25 times more iron content than spinach (that is, powder packs). We will hold three clinical trials and high levels of beta-carotene. These nutrients help to demonstrate how Moringa can decrease flood­ increase hemoglobin levels in the blood and strength­ induced acute infections, micronutrient deficiencies, en the immune system. Moringas have micronutrients, and malnutrition. We will enhance 223,000 patients' which help control malnutrition. Thus, Moringa trees drug regimens for malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV Also, significantly protect against disease. seeds will be used for pre-treating water in combina­ tion with clay filters, which will be able to supply safe INNOVATION: The introduction of Moringa trees to water to 3,500 households. The results of our studies enhance humans' immune systems and protect against will validate Moringa trees' application for humans' acute and chronic diseases is innovative. Also, the immune systems and overall human realth. concept of using seeds' properties for water purifica­ tion and safe water production is novel. Clean water is RATIONALE: A sharp rise in malarial infections ras critical, and this project responds to remote villagers' resulted from flooding in Cambodia; the vector-borne needs in a region affected by climate change. disease is contracted when villagers use contaminated water. Also, flooding and droughts affect crop yields. CONTACT: Seang Peou Tris reduced food output is a primary cause of mal- Yvan@mekonggreenpower.com www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 41 Project Number: 4230 Booth Number: 50 Mangrove Rehab Scheme to Provide Biofuel and Poverty Relief in Philippines COUNTRY: Philippines ORGANIZATION: Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau FUNDING REQUEST: $164,740 OBJECTIVE: To produce bioenergy and fishery prod­ ductivity and biodiversity requires promotion of mangrove­ ucts from the rehabilitated abandoned fishponds and friendly livelihood systems that harmonize the planting of denuded coastal areas. This will not only restore the mangrove (Nypa fruticans) for bioethanol produc­ protective function of mangroves but also provide tion with aquaculture and agricultural crop production. sustainable and value-added livelihoods to the poor coastal population. The renewed mangroves would INNOVATION: Mangroves in the Philippines are never serve as a carbon sink and source of bioethanol fuel utilized for bioenergy and for mangrove-friendly aqua­ from nipa plants to reduce carbon dioxide emission culture and crop production. At present, there is no and good income to alleviate poverty and mangrove-friendly agroforestry system with bioethanol mitigate climate change. More than 500,000 individuals production from nipa plants. This innovation is the best would benefit, including many in the transport sector. compromise between coastal communities and the gov­ ernment to rehabilitate abandoned fishponds, creating RATIONALE: The escalating and inelastic demand for en­ livelihood-producing bioethanol, fish, and vegetables ergy to fuel economic activities exerts pressures on its lim­ to alleviate poverty; enhancing biodiversity through ited supply. The skyrocketing prices of petroleum products nipa plantation establishment; and mitigating climate results in the depletion of nonrenewable energy sources The rehabilitated mangrove also serve as a and the continued exploration and use of renewable and defense from storm surges and tsunamis. non conventional sources. At the same time, mangroves are threatened for economic gains. Due to population CONTACT: Santiago Baconguis increase, mangroves have been cleared for fishponds, baconguis@yahoo.com causing 95 percent of the destruction. To bring back pro- www.erdb.denr.gov.ph 42 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4270 Booth Number: 51 Project Number: 4291 Booth Number: 52 Recuperation of Water Systems on Fishers of the Future: Interactive Radio Drama for Vulnerable Pre-Hispanic Andean Terraces Climate Change Adaptation COUNTRY: Peru COUNTRY: Tanzania ORGANIZATION: The Cusichaca Trust (CT) ORGANIZATION: Sand County FUNDING REQUEST: $198,800 Foundation Tanzania FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: To strengthen and improve the capacity of local authorities and farmers in the Chicha-Soras Valley OBJECTIVE: To strengthen the resilience of coastal (2,350 families) to respond to climate change-specifi­ ecosystems and communities in Tanzania, using new cally reduction of water available for irrigation during communication tools to build community knowledge the annual dry season (April to November). Farmers will and capacity for livelihood development and sustainable benefit from increases in crop yields (30 percent) and management of coastal resources in the of environ­ family incomes (20 percent). mental perturbations brought about by global climate changes. The project aims for a minimum 40 percent in­ RATIONALE: The International Panel on Climate crease in coastal communities' understanding of climate Change OPCC) recognizes Peru as the world's third change issues and adaptive livelihood strategies. most vulnerable country to climate change. Mountain top glaciers have shrunk by over 30 percent. Current RATIONALE: More than 8 million people depend on water-management techniques are inadequate. Pre­ the ecosystem services of Tanzania's coastal region. This dicted reductions in water available for farming could be area was highly impacted by the climate change-induced damaging for highland communities and devastating for coral bleaching event of 1998. Coral reef decline, rising coastal populations, which rely upon water from the An­ sea levels, and increased storm frequency are observed des to survive. Patterns of development and expansion results of climate change, with alarming consequences for of coastal and highland civilizations in the Central Andes coastal peoples dependent on marine resources for food, have fluctuated over 5,000 years, mainly in response to coastal protection, building materials, and income from climate changes. Highland pre-Hispanic cultures man­ tourism. Knowledge and its communication are essential aged agricultural systems perfectly designed for drier to build capacity at both individual and community levels, including amunas (integrated water manage­ to enable people to seek alternative livelihoods, engage ment systems) and andenes (agricultural terraces). The positively in national marine management policy process­ project will work with farmers in the highland regions es, to be well informed about weather events and disaster of Ayacucho and Apurimac to rehabilitate terraces, to mitigation, and to provide strength, self-determination, restore water management practices, and to instigate and resilience to deal with environmental change. commercial activities to stimulate the highland economy. An important component is to promote these practices INNOVATION: The potential to use new and emerging widely using the Chicha-Soras Valley as a working model. communications processes in this context of the coastal impacts of climate change has global application. INNOVATION: The project will recover and adapt This project aims to test and demonstrate the means proven strategies of late pre-Hispanic cultures to con­ by which improved knowledge and communication serve water in order to manage the predicted effects approaches using combined radio and mobile phone of current climate Locally available materials technology can be applied to deliver effective and long­ and labor will reduce costs, increase social capital, and lasting social, economic, and ecosystem benefits. encourage maintenance. CONTACT: Lorna Slade CONTACT: Elizabeth Ann Kendall lorna_slade@yahoo.com eannkendall@hotmail.com www.cusichaca.org www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 43 Project Number: 4307 Booth Number: 53 Project Number: 4461 Booth Number: 54 Daphnia Grazing to Stem Global Warming-Linked Community Cereal Bank to Limit Food Shortages for Bacterial Toxins in Fish Ponds Aid-Dependent Pastoralists COUNTRY: Serbia COUNTRY: Kenya ORGANIZATION: SZTR Sunce ORGANIZATION: Mparakuo Community Network FUNDING REQUEST: $199,000 FUNDING REQUEST: $191,516 OBJECTIVE: Our goal is to mitigate and diminish the OBJECTIVE: To aid more than 30,000 pastoralists in negative impacts of cyanobacterial toxins on the quality effectively managing the drought cycle on a sustainable of commercial fish meat. By introducing small-scale, basis by diversifying their livelihoods and food base. cost-effective methods of biomanipulation into the fish­ The result will be food sufficiency and independence farming process, toxin-producing cyanobacterial strains from frequent food relief provided by development can be controlled and maintained at levels that will not ",...."...,,..·,QC The project seeks to provide four fair price ce­ result in blooming and toxin production. real shops, create a cereal bank with 1,200 tons of cere­ als (maize and beans), and sustain a supply of cereals by RATIONALE: Global warming and climate change have planting 200 acres under a drip-irrigation scheme. Close Significantly increased the occurrence of toxic nl~,n(")h"I-_ to 300,000 will be planted within 24 months, terial blooms, especially in fishponds. Cyanobacterial in order to mitigate the harshness of the weather. The toxins in commercial fishponds greatly impact the quality Kenyan government has promised to boost cereal pro­ of fish produced, and even impose restrictions due duction by irrigating 40,000 hectares of arable land. legislation on food safety. RATIONALE: The seeks to reduce the negative INNOVATION: In the area of climate adaptation, our impacts of climate change on more than 30,000 pas­ new approach is related to controlling cyanobacterial toralists living in the target area, through provision of toxic blooms triggered by global warming in fishponds. food security. The climate change effects that the proj­ Introducing Daphnia (a small, planktonic crustaceans) to ect will address include hunger, destruction of property control the release of cyanotoxins and their accumula­ by surface run off, malnutrition, and inconsistent rain tion in fish and the food chain is the main innovation of fall. The food handouts from the government year in, this project. Monitoring cyanobacterial growth rate and year out, are not sustainable, leading to malnutrition in introducing daphnia precisely in the exponential growth children five years and younger, and in some cases to phase are novel aspects of this project. The idea behind death from food-related diseases. our can mitigate climate-change problems arising globally, and thus is not limited or restricted to the area INNOVATION: The will champion the creation we propose here. It can be a widely applicable and useful of a pioneer, community- owned cereal bank that will method in any region where water quality an ensure a sustainable supply of cereals at fair-price obstacle to fish farming. shops to the target population. Water runoffs will be used to manage the drought cycle; surface runoff CONTACT: Pavle Zeli<;: often leads to property damage and sometimes death. izlecenje@yahoo.com The project will transform the pastoralists into with diversified livelihood bases. The introduction of a drip- irrigation system will save water. Farmers will grow certain vegetables-a good source of nutrients neces­ sary in fighting malnutrition. CONTACT: David William Lengala lengala_dlw@yahoo.com 44 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4471 Booth Number: 55 Project Number: 4535 Booth Number: 56 Index-Based Rainfall Insurance to Help Plant More High-Value, Temperate Fruit Trees and Erosion Productive Harvests Controls for Highland Farmers COUNTRY: Indonesia COUNTRY: Rwanda ORGANIZATION: Centre for Climate Risk & Opportunity ORGANIZATION: Wakala East Africa Consultancy Management in South East Asia and Pacific Services Ltd (WEACS) FUNDING REQUEST: $199,485 FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: The project will build the framework for OBJECTIVE: To reduce the vulnerability of the Gishwati index insurance programs for 900 subsistence farmers ecosystem-and the people who derive their livelihoods across three. districts in Indonesia-lndramayu/West from it-to climate change, by promoting high-value Java, Pacitan/East Java, and Kupang/East Nusa Teng­ temperate fruit trees and forage to control soil erosion, gara. The project will help farmer groups and relevant flooding, and water quality, and by improving the incomes government, insurance, and lending institutions to of farmers in the flood-prone area of the Gishwati plateau. understand the potential of weather .index insurance, and enhance partnerships between these stakeholders RATIONALE: Unplanned settlement after the 1994 to develop and implement weather index insurance for war, along with cultivation of fragile margins on improved livelihoods. slopes (with a grade of more than 20-23 percent greatly contributed to massive deforestation, land degrada­ RATIONALE: When rainfall in the southern Pacific is tion, landslides, soil erosion, and water quality. There­ substantially below average, typically during the EI Nino fore, solving these problems is necessary to reduce phase of the EI Nino Southern Oscillation (EN SO), farm­ their direct impact on land degradation, poverty, ers in countries such as Indonesia face severe production displacement, and land conflicts.The project will ensure losses. Worse, even in good years, farmers often forgo environmental sustainability (MDG7) by promoting the purchase of inputs like fertilizer that would ensure a innovations in natural resource management that will productive harvest if they consider their risk of default reverse land degradation and create sustainable broad­ to be too high. Index-based rainfall insurance policies, based partnerships for development (MDG8). which have been tested in other regions and contexts, can help protect impoverished households from full INNOVATION: Deep-rooted temperate fruit trees will exposure to extreme climate events and help unlock the be planted on the soil erosion-control contour. The fruit productivity-increasing potential of the credit market. trees will provide effective protection against soil ero­ sion, while their canopy will reduce runoff by impeding INNOVATION: In addition to introducing index insur­ the flow of rainwater down the slopes. Shallow-rooted ance to Indonesia, this project will innovate approaches temperate fruit and forage will absorb large quantities to index insurance for irrigated paddy agriculture of the rainwater in their. dense mat of undergrowth, and larger amounts of rainfall, whereas most projects trapping any eroded, fertile topsoils. The uniqueness of to date have focused on rain-fed grains in semiarid the project is its use of temperate fruits to mitigate the areas. The project will also explicitly integrate climate negative impact of environmental and socioeconomic forecasts, which have relatively high rate of accuracy problems caused by the climate-change phenomenon, in Indonesia, with insurance policies. It will develop while in many countries they have been introduced a new generation of bottom-up design and analysis primarily for commercial purposes. approaches to produce simple, transparent, validated contracts with wide applicability and scalability. CONTACT: Martin Shem wakalarwanda@gmail.com CONTACT: Rizaldi Boer rizaldiboer@gmail.com www. 0evelopment Market pi ace.org 45 Project Number: 4556 Booth Number: 57 Project Number: 4561 Booth Number: 58 African Pastoralists to Play Out Climate Drama on Portable SolarlWind Greenhouse to Grow Fodder the Airwaves for Sustainable Dairy Farms COUNTRY: Nigeria COUNTRY: India ORGANIZATION: The Smallholders ORGANIZATION: Greenfield Hydroponic Systems, Inc. Foundation FUNDING REQUEST: $199,556 FUNDING REQUEST: $135,198 OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the technology for year­ OBJECTIVE: Smallholders in southeastern Nigeria can round production of 2,000 kilograms of green fodder, prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate using two greenhouses to feed 100 dairy animals. In rn;,nr,o only when they understand it and recognize addition, the project, Hydro Fodder Farm, will orga­ its impacts. The objective of this project is to empower nize and empower beneficiaries to manage fodder smallholders to produce and broadcast a 20-episode production and distribution on a sustainable basis. climate-change radio drama featuring a series of climate The beneficiaries will also be involved in evaluating the risk management strategies with multiple benefits in the implemented project's impacts. The project anticipates local Igbo language. This will be aired on five statewide a 20 percent increase in peak and total milk yield dur­ radio stations over a one-year period, reaching more than ing a lactation period, a 25 increase in the birth 15 million listeners. of newborn calves, and a 20 percent increase in beneficiaries' overall income. RATIONALE: The most serious constraint to climate- mitigation and adaptation facing more than 10 RATIONALE: The severe lack of green fodder is a million smallholders in the five Igbo language-speaking major constraint in improving the productivity of states of southeastern Nigeria is the limited access to India's livestock. Little area is under fodder cultiva­ information. These small farmers know little about the tion. Seasonal rainfall, and degradation of grazing risks associated with climate or Its Impact on land and common property resources are all limiting their agricultural productivity and income. Ironically they factors to green fodder availability. Over 70 percent are presently facing visible in weather patterns. of the milk is produced by small to medium-size farms These include late rainfalls in an area where food and cash worked by marginal farmers and agroculturallabor­ crops are dependent on rainfall, heat waves that destroy ers? The drastic drop in milk production during sum­ valuable crops, storms that increase in frequency and in- mer months adversely impacts the livelihoods of large which washes off topsoil, losing acres of farmland number of poor populations. Hydro Fodder Farm, to unchecked soil erosion. 300 square feet of wasteland innovative green­ houses (employing hydroponics) will b dedicated to II\II\IOVATION: For the first time, small farmers at the fodder production and will serve as a viable alterna­ base of the pyramid will be transformed from mere re­ tive in areas with land and water shortages ceivers to participants and managers of an information The project prides itself on an effective two­ INNOVATION: The project adopts a new approach way feedback system in which is generated to green fodder production, using solar- and wind­ immediately after radio broadcasts by smallholder lis­ powered greenhouses with new technology, enables teners' clubs, using solar-powered radios and Advance­ year-round availability of nutrient-, mineral-, and ment through Interactive Radio (AIR) devices. These are enzyme-rich green fodder of consistent quality and solar-powered, user-recorded voice inputs that asyn­ quantity, produced with the most efficient use of water chronously forward voice feedback to the radio station and other natural resources. via an ad hoc, delay-tolerant network. CONTACT: Kashyap Bhatt CONTACT: I\Inaemeka Chidiebere Ikegwuonu k.bhatt@greenfield-hydroponics.com smallholders_found@yahoo.com www.greenfield-hydroponics.com 46 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4608 Booth Number: 59 Project Number: 4657 Booth Number: 60 Helping Threatened Mountain People Farm Gulay 4 Salambao: Contained Vegetable Farming More Sustainably for Fisherfolk's Survival COUNTRY: Nepal COUNTRY: Philippines ORGANIZATION: ForestAction Nepal ORGANIZATION: International Resources Group-Phil­ FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 ippines FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: To support mountain people in adapting climate-resilient practices to enhance rural livelihoods OBJECTIVE: To provide access to fresh vegetables for in the mountain ecosystem through technological and at least 50 percent of the 241 households of Salambao institutional innovations and support. through organic container farming. The project aims H H to implement a closed-loop solution to Salambao's RATIONALE: The Himalayas are getting warmer at a problem of lack of food by introducing container farm­ much higher rate than the global average, with a tem­ ing, establishing a vermicomposting center for kitchen increase of 0.6_C per decade in Nepal. This wastes that will produce organic fertilizer for has led to serious changes in weather events; including farming, and partnering with existing neighborhood reduced snowfall. Climate change hits poor and vulner­ stores to sell surplus produce, thus providing additional able people the hardest. Building their resilience is the income to the households. most sustainable response, which is about increasing the ability of social, economic, and ecological systems RATIONALE: The poor fishing village of Salambao is a to withstand shocks and surprises and to revitalize them long, narrow island bordered by two rivers that open if damaged or dysfunctional. There is a severe gap in up to the sea. Its geography makes it very vulnerable the resources, technology and knowledge to overcome to the effects of climate change, especially the rising the implications of the impact of climate change and its seawater level, which they are already experiencing. opportunities and hazards Floods, caused by the rising tide and unusually strong typhoons, have become part of daily life for the 1,160 INNOVATION: Addressing the issue of climate change people living there. With an average weekly income of and its consequences in the livelihoods of the moun­ $6, families barely have enough for food. Fishing in the tain people in the Himalayan region is new area of rivers had become nearly impossible because of wors­ intervention. Introduction of climate-resilient practices ening pollution. Fishermen must go out to the open in this region to cope with the precipitation pattern by sea, but very few have the large boats required for improving traditional water management through drip open-sea fishing. They are in dire need of a sustainable irrigation, waste water management, water harvesting, source of food and an additional source of livelihood. biodiversity conservation, shifting to high value agrofor­ estry, waterproofing of traditional canals, and water­ INNOVATION: The Gulay 4 Salambao project pres­ proofing of traditional flat mud roofs without damaging ents four innovations: introducing vegetable farm­ the structure is an original idea in the context of climate ing to a fishing village, using container farming for adaptation. Likewise, the concept of a demonstration vegetable growing, institutionalizing project activities park as a Himalayan laboratory climate adaptation is through tie-ins with a previous DM project, and estab­ considered as an innovation. lishing localized vermicomposting centers. CONTACT: Bishwa Paudyal CONTACT: Laurie Navarro bnp@forestaction.wlink.com.np laurienavarro@gmail.com www.forestaction.org www.irg-p.com.ph www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 47 Project l\lumber: 4742 Booth Number: 61 Project Number: 4773 Booth Number: 62 Strengthening Upstream-Downstream Linkages for Plant Clinics to Strengthen Response to Climate­ ,Climate Change Adaptation Induced Risks to Crop Health COUNTRY: Nepal COUNTRY: Kenya ORGANIZATION: Practical Action ORGANIZATION: CABI Nepal Office FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 FUNDING REQUEST: $198,764 OBJECTIVE: To establish an innovative plant health OBJECTIVE: To strengthen the resilience of 1,500 most­ care partnership providing locally relevant advice to vulnerable households by improving the agriculture farmers on managing plant health risks and problems practices, diversifying the livelihood options, and reduc­ caused by climate change and other drivers. Advice ing the risk of disasters from landslides and soil erosion will be delivered through 15 mobile plant clinics, serv­ upstream and flash floods and debris flow downstream. ing about 30,000 households, located at community As an integral component, the project will demonstrate gathering points such as markets, in high-potential effective linkages between upstream and downstream rural areas of Western and Central Kenya. Clinics will communities for climate-change adaptation. be run by extensionists trained as plant doctors, and supported through linkages to local agroinput deal­ RATIONALE: Lack of alternative livelihoods in the hills has ers and to national diagnostic, research and regulatory enforced people to practice and continue slash and burn organizations. At the same time, the plant clinics will agriculture even on hill slopes steeper than 30 degrees. provide farm-level data on pest occurrence, contribut­ This exposes the soil surface and makes it highly suscep­ ing to national-surveillance, early-warning, and rapid­ tible to both soil erosion and landslides during monsoon. resporise mechanisms. In recent years, the erosion and landslides are an escalat­ ing trend, since frequent, intensive monsoon precipita­ RATIONALE: Climate change creates new and increased tion is increasing. Consequently, it is accelerating flash risks from crop pests (diseases, insects, weeds) as they floods and debris flow, destroying lands, property, and move into new areas or become more prevalent. There lives in downstream areas. With the effective linkages of is no surveillance system in Kenya for monitoring and re­ upstream-downstream communities, this problem can be sponding to these changes, or for disseminating advice minimized through livelihood diversification and appropri­ to enable farmers to cope with and adapt to the new ate agricultural practices upstream. Moreover, the up­ pest problems they are already facing. stream communities can provide early warning to down­ stream communities, to help prevent disaster, and the INNOVATION: The plant health care network is a new downstream communities, being close to the market, can type of partnership, strengthening farmers' and com­ facilitate market opportunities for upstream communities. munities' capacity to adapt to pest risks caused by cli­ mate change, whatever crops are grown, and whatever INNOVATION: This project promotes linkages between climate changes are predicted or actually occur. Clinics upstream and downstream communities; introduces a have previously been piloted as advisory services but community-based early warning system; demonstrates not linked to national early-warning systems. This novel linkages of disaster risk reduction and climate change; two-way flow of information between farmers and na­ promotes Slope Land Agriculture Technique (SALT) in tional bodies increases overall adaptation capacity. combination with participatory testing of new crops and varieties; and uses Local Resource Persons (LRPs) CONTACT: Dannie Romney and sets of trained pairs for climate change adaptation. d.romney@cabi.org www.cabi.org CONTACT: Gehendra Gurung gehendra.gurung@practicalaction.org.np www.practicalaction.org 48 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4864 Booth Number: 63 Project Number: 4865 Booth Number: 64 Habitat Expedition: Harnessing Local Experience to Women and Youth Use Reality-Show Format to Tell Raise Climate Awareness of Climate Options COUNTRY: Venezuela COUNTRY: India ORGANIZATION: Psycho Films ORGANIZATION: Society for Development Alternatives FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 FUNDING REQUEST: $197,000 OBJECTIVE: To raise awareness in adults and children OBJECTIVE: To empower rural women and youth to of communities located in climate-sensitive sectors be the" change agents" for climate-change adaptation about climate change risks and adaptation, through through rural reality shows in 100 villages of Bundelkhand. projection and discussion of audiovisual material com­ The women and youth will adopt practical adaptation posed of child-oriented tales and documentaries based measures and their efforts will be recognized and dissemi­ on local experiences, similar cases in other nations, nated through specially designed "edutainment" pro­ and general adaptation advices, in order to strength grams using a reality-show format This will be broadcast local capacity in addressing climate-related risks and using innovative local communication media like commu­ promote active citizenship. nity radio and video resource centers (VRCs). It is ex()ected that the success of the adaptation measures will influ­ RATIONALE: Venezuela is characterized by diverse ence at least 5 percent of the households in 100 villages climate-sensitive sectors that experience modifications to adopt some basic adaptation measures, and at least that might be attributable to climate change. There are 15-20 of the households to be aware of innovative significant uncertainties regarding the socioeconomic adaptation The project will lower the resistance impact that these modifications have on the most vul­ of the communities to behavioral changes required for nerable populations. Additionally, these communities adaptation to climate change and demonstrate to them a lack awareness about the causes of the variations, the path towards climate risk management "Tr;~TC)nIC";; magnitude of the environmental changes that could take place in the future, and the potential consequenc­ RATIONALE: Over the past three decades, 18 years of es to their economic activities, health, lifestyle, and recurring and progressively longer droughts, attributed by wellness; neither are they organized to take action in meteorologists to climate change, have wreaked havoc order to minimize adverse effects. on the lives of 21 million poor and marginalized people of Bundelkhand region in central India. However, vulnerable INNOVATION: Habitat Expedition is a direct-com­ communities are not yet convinced about adopting sus­ municational project that combines multidisciplinary tainable adaptation measures, because of the inappropri­ research and innovative elements in the way informa­ ate nature of the awareness efforts and cynicism towards tion is transmitted. Audiovisual material based on adaptation measures that lack immediate benefits, real local experiences and cultural elements will help establish empathy and increase interest and credibility INNOVATION: The innovation in the project is adopt­ with adults. Children's tales inspire an inclusive strategy ing contemporary media technology such as community to build a climate-resilient society. radio and Internet-based rural VRCs for communicating critical issues such as climate-change adaptation to the CONTACT: Valentina Urrutia rural communities. The format of the communication­ vug_@hotmail.com that is, using radio to broadcast rural reality shows, a dif­ ferent approach from the television-based reality shows popular with urban masses-is a very new concept. CONTACT: Soma Biswas sbiswas@devalt.org www.devalt.org www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 49 Project Number: 4898 Booth Number: 65 Early-Warning Tool to Help Pastoralists Adapt and Access Contingency Funds COUNTRY: Kenya ORGANIZATION: Action Against Hunger-USA FUI\JDING REQUEST: $199,999 OBJECTIVE: To provide pastoral communities in arid often accessed in a timely manner by pastoralist com­ northeastern Kenya with adequate time to access con­ munities. Early-warning systems are not adapted for tingency funding from the government by providing an use at a local level because they are neither accessible early-warning tool that will rapidly and reliably predict nor timely, and they are analyzed on too large a scale. the depletion of water sources, as well as provide more data and capacities for long-term water-resource moni­ INNOVATION: This project will bring together tech­ toring and management at the local level. nologies never used in the Horn of Africa (predictive models based on multiple sources of information and RATIONALE: In the Horn of Africa (including Kenya), monitoring tools) for use at the local level in water­ climate change is disrupting drought cycles, thus management decisions and early-warning systems that degrading the natural resources (for example, water are resilient to climate change. Additionally, new skills and pasture) upon which pastoralists depend for their and partnerships between community groups and au­ livelihoods. Traditional water resource management thorities will be built to effectively deliver contingency methods used by pastoralists are not as effective as funds to communities most vulnerable to climate risk. in the past, but with more information and improved tools, pastoralist communities can adapt to maximize CONTACT: Benoit Delsarte the scarce water resources that exist. Additionally, hom.ke@acf-international.org there are Kenyan governmental funds for contingency www.actionagainsthunger.org drought response and mitigation projects that are not 50 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4997 Booth Number: 66 Radio and Schools to Herald Climate Predictions for Better Farm Planning COUNTRY: Bolivia ORGANIZATION: Fundaci6n AGRECOL Andes FUNDING REQUEST: $149,560 OBJECTIVE: To reduce effects of climate risks and im­ tional and income needs, due to degradation of local prove agricultural production in high mountain commu­ resources (soils, and biodiversity). Uncertainty nities in Cochabamba by combining local knowledge and vulnerability are increasing because of climate risks and adapted technologies. Sixty indigenous commu­ and high interannual climate variability. This project nity leaders-men and women-in three municipalities seeks to improve and diversify production by risk man­ will be trained in climate prediction with natural indica­ agement that includes climate prediction for the grow­ tors and experimental production practices to improve ing season using local indicators and an early-warning production by 25 percent. Approximately 40 percent of service, and by developing innovative that the population knows about risk management and 15 combine local and external technologies to reduce vul­ percent of the families apply innovations, due to dis­ nerability and improve resilience of production semination and an early-warning climate service using local radio. Fifteen teachers and 60 students of three INNOVATION: The project promotes innovations high schools will be trained to document local experi­ combining local and external technologies, includ­ ences and local knowledge, which will be introduced ing information and communication technologies, for in the curriculum; three local governments will incorpo­ sustainable risk reducing production, documentation of rate policies for risk management. experiences, and implementation of an early-warning system disseminated by local radio. RATIONALE: In high-altitude communities of Bolivia, 98 of the people are indigenous subsistence CONTACT: Anne Piepenstock farmers with low productivity and production (potatoes, annpi@agrecolandes.org barley, and Andean crops) that does not satisfy nutri- www.agrecolandes.org www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 51 Project Number: 5045 Booth Number: 67 Project Number: 5096 Booth Number: 68 A New Curriculum: Forming Habits in Water Pro-Millet: As Peanuts Wilt, Africa Diversifies for Conservation and Climate Awareness Sustainability COUNTRY: Bolivia COUNTRY: The Gambia and Senegal ORGANIZATION: World Vision Bolivia ORGANIZATION: Njawara Agricultural Training Centre FUNDING REQUEST: $198,784 FUNDING REQUEST: $188,900 OBJECTIVE: To activate a sustainable shift toward OBJECTIVE: To advance the "millet economy" to water conservation and proper usage by implementing help reverse the economic decline from the "peanut an education program focused on primary students in economy," which is faltering from declining rainfall and target areas by water "h()rt~'(1p soil fertility. Thus the project aims to create a compre­ hensive millet development program that results in RATIONALE: Climate is an issue that has rural communities diversifying their agricultural produc­ become important during the few years. Its effects tion patterns and becoming more resilient to a chang­ have increased; and many families and thousands of ing climate. At the same time it is anticipated that this people already have been It is clearly impor­ project will contribute to increasing rural prosperity and tant for the population as a whole to adapt to these enhancing women's quality of life. climatic changes; however, this highlights the importance of having manage their risks by RATIONALE: Rural development in The Gambia forming new capabilities. World Vision believes that and Senegal faces three major environmental chal­ children are agents of which is why they are the lenges: erratic and decreasing rainfall, decreasing target beneficiaries. However, in the process the project forest cover due to fuel-wood use, and overgrazing by involves parents, teachers, and community stray livestock. A promising solution to adapt to this leaders to help establish the sustainability. deteriorating environment is to strengthen millet pro­ duction and extend its value chain. Millet is a hardy, INNOVATION: The whole innovatively pro­ drought-tolerant crop. In addition to increasing food motes activities, from training to children and adoles­ availability, the project will help beneficiaries by en­ cents, to establishing water conservation technologies, hancing millet fodder use during the lean I""1n,_,,<'''' to creating a strong awareness that will be accompa­ months. Millet stalks and husks can be used to nied by the development of appropriate materials and wood as an efficient and clean-burning fuel source for interactive learning to ensure compliance household cooking, and can be used as a substrate with the proposed for organic fertilizer production. CONTACT: Nancy Gutierrez INNOVATION: Low-cost innovation is created through nancy_gutierrez@wvi.org both the improved technologies introduced and the www.visionmundial.org.bo social development processes used for tion. Also, the project provides innovation through developing sustainable millet production and plant materials and enhanced value chains, Develop­ ing the food, fuel, and feed values millet can help to reverse the environmental degradation and poverty in project villages. CONTACT: Badarra Jobe natcfarm@yahoo.co.uk 52 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 5108 Booth Number: 69 Project Number: 5192 Booth Number: 70 Reducing Risks for Biodiversity Conservation Using Interactive Tools to Manage Climate Risk for Future Adaptive Fire Management Farmers of the Altiplano COUNTRY: Bolivia COUNTRY: Peru ORGANIZATION: Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza ORGANIZATION: Centro de Investigaci6n de Recursos FUNDING REQUEST: $198,046 Naturales y Medio Ambiente (CIRNMA) FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: To reduce current fire frequencies, forest­ fire impacts and future fire risks in 47 communities and OBJECTIVE: To empower children (future farmers) of estates around the protected areas in the Chiquitano 10 schools in the Peruvian Altiplano to manage climate region. The will promote adjustments in burning risk by adequately communicating scientific information practices in grasslands and croplands, and implement a about climate variability and its effects on mixed crop forecast system that indicates favorable weather condi­ and livestock systems. To this end, the project will de­ tions, in order to reduce risks of fire across the grassland­ velop and apply interactive tools (educational games) forest interface. Lastly burning activities will be sched­ linking biophysical simulation models (mimicking the uled for periods that offer favorable weather conditions. response of crops, animals, and the environment) to 3D representations to portray the perceived impact of RATIONALE: Recent regional climate modeling indi­ climate extremes. cates that Bolivian dry will face higher fire risks caused by increases in mean annual temperatures until RATIONALE: In the High Andean Plateau (above 3,635 the end of this century. Increased fire frequency will meters), agriculture is facing the challenge of increasing directly affect the productive potential of the forests; a climate variability and change. Thus, information about main source of income will be at because most of climate risk and its effects on farming systems is vital for the communities are involved in forestry activities. Most farmers. Previous studies have shown that local farmers of the fires are caused by human activity, as farmers fol­ use almost exclusively traditional indicators for deci­ low traditional agricultural customs. The program aims at sion making. Scientific information is not available in an coordinating and directing improved burning activities understandable form for rural people to use in cop­ to dates that offer favorable climate conditions, reducing ing with and adapting to climate change. Particularly the risk of uncontrolled fire perpetuation. important is the strengthening of human capital by the formation of future farmers who are able to efficiently INNOVATION: Bypassing certain specific weather con­ use both traditional and scientific-based knowledge. ditions through an improved spatiotemporal forecast of fire patterns that includes not only biophysical but socio­ INNOVATION: The project proposes the use of visual economic data to calibrate the probability function, and representation with future farmers of the Altiplano to improving burning could substantially reduce increase their awareness about climate risks and to em­ fire occurrence. While available systems focus exclusively power them to make decisions with increased knowl­ on fires within forests, the proposed forecast system will edge of the climate impact on their farming systems. be capable of identifying favorable weather conditions The use of virtual environments will enable improved to reduce the impact of burning practices that occur not communication of scientific information, based on only in forest areas, but on grasslands and croplands. simulation models expert systems validated for the Altiplano, at farm level with local characteristics. The CONTACT: Natalia Calderon interactive tools will be accessible on the Internet. ncalderon@fan-bo.org CONTACT: Enrique Roberto Valdivia Alatrista enrova@gmail.com www.cirnma.org www.OevelopmentMarketplace.org 53 Number: 3191 Booth Number: 71 Project Number: 3339 Booth Number: 72 Bell and Bottle: Low-Cost Warning System for Promoting Low-Cost, Flood-Resilient Shelters for Flood/Slide-Prone Communities Vulnerable Rural Villages COUNTRY: Philippines COUNTRY: India ORGANIZATION: University of the ORGANIZATION: Catholic Relief Services Philippines at Los Banos FUNDING REQUEST: $199,793 FUNDING REQUEST: $121,560 OBJECTIVE: To test flood-resilient shelter OBJECTIVE: To provide early-warning systems (EWS) models for use in Orissa. At the end of the CRS to 15-20 by installing 50 bells and hundreds of and partners will have tested flood-resilient bottle rain gauges to benefit 12,500-17,500 people in shelter models, for flood-prone areas to be remote communities. The project also aims to organize, by the state for inclusion in the state disaster risk reduc­ and train the local communities in order to tion program. rnnn'\.lc their capacity to access and use hazard-risk in­ formation and therefore enhance their early-warning sys­ RATIONALE: Loss of shelter is a major issue for families tem. The also aims to enhance other community­ living in areas affected by recurring floods. Natural based responses to landslides and floods by providing disasters are an annual occurrence in India. Rebuilding them with information and supporting community-based shelters year after year in the aftermath of floods and activities that will reduce their vulnerabilities. cyclones is a priority for families that erases any they have made. As fewer resources are available to RATIONALE: In the Philippines, many remote farming rebuild, shelters become smaller and many are incom­ communities are in landslide- and flood-prone areas. plete before the next monsoon season. Disaster-af­ With climate heavier rains are expected; thus fected families are sometimes eligible for rural housing floods and landslides will be worse. Past experience grants from the government, but unknowingly rebuild shows that severe damage occurred in these com­ using housing techniques that are not flood resilient. munities because of the absence of EWS. To minimize casualties and property destruction, this project will INNOVATION: CRS is promoting two low-cost shelter establish a and community­ models using locally available materials, one using pre­ based EWS for floods or landslides that is appropriate fabricated concrete pillars and the other, and in remote mountain communities. stabilized earth block (CSEB). Local artisans and beneficiaries can easily understand the flood-resilient INNOVATION: The Bell and Bottle EWS is innovative construction techniques demonstrated in both models because it combines high technology and creative ap­ and replicate these new techniques of cross-bracing to make the EWS appropriate in remote areas and installing pillars two feet below the ground in new where other warning systems are absent or impracti­ construction. Both CRS shelter models are environmen­ cal. It will use remote to identify landslide and tally adaptable and can withstand 4-5 feet of water or flood hot·spot areas. The people in those areas will normal monsoon conditions. use soda bottles to measure rainfall; these will serve as indicators and warn of possible landslides or floods. CONTACT: John Shumlansky The bells will be used to quickly spread the warning to jshumlansky@crsindia.org prepare for the threat or to evacuate. www.crs.org CONTACT: David Manalo davemanalo@gmail.com www.uplb.edu.ph 54 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Number: 3349 Booth Number: 73 Project Number: 3356 Booth Number: 74 Healthy Wells and Latrines Keep Water Drinkable Innovative Climate Information System to Warn for Vulnerable Communities Farmers of Climate Changes COUNTRY: EI Salvador COUNTRY: Nepal ORGANIZATION: Oxfam America ORGANIZATION: United Mission to Nepal FUNDING REQUEST: $199,567 FUNDING REQUEST: $1 OBJECTIVE: To provide safe drinking water and increase OBJECTIVE: The overall objective of the project is to community resilience to extreme climate events in 14 vul­ improve the livelihoods of around 350 small farmers in the nerable coastal communities of Zacatecoluca, EI Salvador. face of changing climatic conditions by increasing agricul­ tural productivity and incomes by at least 25 RATIONALE: Communities on EI Salvador's Pacific Coast are among those most vulnerable to climate RATIONALE: Small farmers in the Terai region of change, facing both increasing periods drought Nepal are vulnerable to a range of climate-related and the increasingly intense and frequent flooding including inundation by flood waters and as­ of local rivers. This, paired with widespread poverty sociated erosion of river banks, increasing unpredict­ levels, limits these communities' resilience and capac­ ability in rainfall patterns, temperatures and ity to adapt to extreme climate events. When flooding associated increase in pests and diseases, and a lack occurs, the water supply becomes extremely contami­ of adequate sunshine during the winter as a result of nated because of the overfl?w from semi-functioning increasing periods of foggy weather. The vulnerability latrines and other contaminants washing into traditional of farmers to these hazards is exacerbated by a lack hand-dug wells and underground aquifers. When water of information about medium- to long-term weather supplies are contaminated, populations cannot resume patterns, a lack of social safety nets to diffuse climate­ livelihood activities in a timely manner and therefore related disaster risks, and a lack of knowledge about risk greater economic decline and food insecurity. improved agricultural techniques and crop varieties If communities return to using contaminated water for changing climatic conditions, The proposed proj­ sources, the likelihood of illness is immense, leading to ect will reduce the vulnerability of small farmers in the missed workdays and lost wages, and a deepening of Kapilbastu District to climatic variability by enabling the cycle of These factors an enormous them to use climatic information to better plan their burden primarily on women, children, and the elderly. agricultural activities, pool the risk associated with climate-related and adopt better agricul­ INNOVATION: This proposes a comprehensive, tural practices to improve livelihoods. low-cost approach to maintain healthy drinking water supplies during climate events through the provision INNOVATION: Within Nepal. all components of the of 14 healthy wells and 32 sealed composting latrines, project are innovative in their own right. Currently, This inhastructure, combined with community education there are no medium- to long-term weather informa­ and public sector engagement, will help mitigate the tion services or financial mechanisms for diffusing effects of increasing climate events, The proj­ climate change risks for small farmers in Nepal. There ect wiH increase awareness and knowledge of drinking are also no projects that adaptive agricultural water management, hygiene, and the potential effects practices with technological and financial mechanisms of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of the that directly reduce the vulnerability of small farmers to selected communities, cI im ate-related disasters. CONTACT: Carolina Castrillo CONTACT: Suresh Bhattarai Ccastrillo@oxfamamerica,org suresh.bhattarai@umn.org.np www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 55 Project l\Jumber: 3561 Booth Number: 75 Project Number: 3583 Booth Number: 76 Community-Owned Seed Bank Offers In-Kind Credit Solar-Powered Desalinator Would Serve as Model to Foster Crop Diversity for Small Coastal Communities COUNTRY: Mozambique COUNTRY: Vanuatu ORGANIZATION: Helvetas, Swiss Association for ORGANIZATION: Vanuatu Renewable Energy and International Cooperation Power Association (VAI\IREPA) FUNDII\JG REQUEST: $200,000 FUNDING REQUEST: $166,057 OBJECTIVE: To strengthen the capacities of more OBJECTIVE: To provide a sustainable solution to the than 50 communities in rain-fed farming areas of Cabo shortage of drinking water, helping the population of Rah Delgado province to prevent and resist food and seed island (48 households) and, indirectly, all the inhabitants shortages by using reliable indigenous low-cost stor­ of coastal areas in developing countries, better adapt age facilities to create and run community-owned seed to climate variability. On Rah, the project is expected to banks that function with an "in kind" credit system, deliver 750 liters (200 gallons) per day of safe water while distribute quality seeds of improved crop varieties, and providing power for the desalinator (4.2 watt-hours per li­ serve as a social safety net to benefit more than 10,000 ter, or 16 watt-hours per gallon) and for two LED lights per community members-focusing particularly on the household per day, assuming a usage of 3.5-4 hours daily. most resource-poor and vulnerable groups. If successful, the project may be replicated in 100 project sites, affecting nearly 5,000 households within five years. RATIONALE: Mozambique is a country vulnerable to protracted drought, with an estimated 500,000 people RATIONALE: Despite the abundance of seawater, 15 living in chronic food insecurity. In the districts proposed percent of Vanuatu's population depends on rainwater for implementation, 22 percent of subsistence-farming for drinking. In droughts and when volcanoes make families run out of stocks during the "hunger period" rainwater very acidic, drinking water becomes a scarce (October to January) because of poor storage, and are resource. Smaller, remote islands like Rah-the project forced to apply survival strategies such as reducing the beneficiary-are those most affected by water short­ number of meals per day, lowering the diet quality, and ages. To tackle this problem, a seawater desalination selling production assets. Without access to quality technology, based on reverse osmosis and found in the seeds, they continue recycling seed that has been ex­ "watermakers" of yachts could be applied on a village hausted after generations of cultivation, producing poor scale in coastal areas, utilizing solar power. yields and getting trapped in a cycle of poverty INNOVATION: The innovation consists of scaling down INNOVATION: The core innovation is an improved post­ to rural populations' level of competence the applica­ harvest silo for seed storage, invented and developed by tion of reverse osmosis for the desalination of seawater. a native farmer relying entirely on traditional knowledge Water from rain harvesting and desalination will be and available, low-cost material. Giving rural communi­ integrated into one water-supply system. Furthermore, ties access to this innovation enables them to effectively the solar system installed will provide power for village break the poverty cycle at three levels simultaneously: (1) lighting through a community-managed battery-recharg­ reducing post-harvest losses to less than 5 percent, (2) ing facility. A carefully designed tariff system for water increasing seed availability by multiplying certified seeds and battery recharging, relying on Rah's strong commu­ of high-yielding crop varieties, and (3) improving seed nity organization and income-generation strategies, will accessibility by operating self-sustaining seed banks. guarantee project sustainability. CONTACT: Casimiro Alves Alberto CONTACT: David Stein casimiro.alves@helvetas.org solarsolutions@vanuatu.com.vu www.helvetas.org.mz www.vanrepa.org 56 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 3635 Booth Number: 77 Project Number: 3768 Booth Number: 78 Emergency Shelter and Income Opportunity for Global Voices: The Vulnerable Make Videos to Tidal Refugees Speak Out on Climate Adaptation COUNTRY: Bangladesh COUNTRY: Bangladesh, Colombia, and Sri Lanka ORGANIZATION: SEBA ORGANIZATION: Institute of Development Studies FUNDING REQUEST: $198,600 FUNDING REQUEST: $198,050 OBJECTIVE: To resettle 2,000 climate refugee families OBJECTIVE: To deliver and learn, using participatory in Khulna City or in areas through safety-net video (PV) training, building for people-cen­ service delivery in the form of emergency shelter with tered advocacy and to establish opportunities for dia­ income opportunity in an urban setting, and to institu­ logue between decision makers and eight communities tionalize a safety-net and micro-insurance program to be from three climate-risk countries. Beneficiaries will be independently by a climate refugee '-''''''''''7::1 supported to use PV techniques to conduct research tion, with the potential of scaling up to all coastal areas, in their own communities to identify local risks related to a changing climate, determine community-level RATIONALE: Sea-level rise is causing tidal floods twice responses and priorities for adaptation, and, through a day, damaging crops, and properties, and directing and producing their own videos, advocate for eroding land, while tidal water is limited during low tide, adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) support Twelve island unions (lowest local government units) that meets their needs. The self-directed videos will have been lost to tidal waters. Half of the 350,000 amplify participants' voices at the local, national, and have fled the area. Our observations in Khulna City alone international level to influence funding and program­ suggest that approximately 50,000 people have fled ming for climate-change adaptation (CCA) and DRR. the worst-hit areas. These climate refugees undergo enormous suffering while transporting their household RATIONALE: The impacts of climate change are felt effects, finding acquiring urban livelihood skills, most acutely by the world's poorest people, particularly and finding access to funds for generating productive vulnerable groups such as children and older people. assets, Necessary support and the establish­ Their concerns are rarely heard or addressed in policy ment of an organization by and for refugees would pave making. Children and older people have the knowl­ the way for refugee resettlement. edge to assess their own vulnerabilities and adapta­ tion/DRR needs, but are constrained by lack of capacity INNOVATION: Use of existing 1,000 climate refugee to advocate and limited means to share their knowl­ families as hosts for another 1,000 newly arrived families edge in relevant policy and programming spaces. reduces the per-family cost of resettlement service deliv­ ery. The proposed nets would free refugees from INNOVATION: The community-led PV approach puts the mental anxiety and financial hardship associated marginalized groups at the heart of awareness-raising with working the hours needed to develop their and advocacy processes, building their capacity through own financial support system. An organization for and diverse roles as researchers, as video directors, and ulti­ by refugees, and the refugees' contribution toward the mately as advocates for appropriate adaptation and DRR micro-insurance program, would translate into a quicker programming and funding for those groups most vulnera­ sense of organizational and financial sustainability. ble to climate risk. Provided with training in PV techniques, individuals and marginalized groups are empowered to CONTACT: Mohammad Abu Musa bring their own voices to the climate change agenda. coastbangla@gmail.com CONTACT: Frances Seballos frannagew@yahoo.co.uk www.ids.ac.uk www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 57 Project Number: 3906 Booth Number: 79 Project Number: 3958 Booth Number: 80 Strengthening Disaster Preparedness of Southern Organic Rice Farm and Resilience Fund as Leyte with SMS Technology Sustainability Model COUNTRY: Philippines COUNTRY: Cambodia ORGANIZATION: Philippine Business for Social Progress ORGANIZATION: Green Earth Concept FUNDING REQUEST: $199,966 FUNDING REQUEST: $199,985 OBJECTIVE: To increase the capacity of households to pre­ OBJECTIVE: To invest in a cooperative, sustainable pare and respond to disasters through promoting aware­ 160-hectare rice farm. A biofertilizer will be applied to ness on the link between climate change and disasters, paddy farming to increase crop yield up to 7 tons per and to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Southem hectare, The 215 farming families enrolled as coopera­ Disaster Risk Management (DRM) structures through tive members will replicate this technique. Each mem­ training and improved communication systems. ber is entitled to 3 tons per while 80 percent of excess production is contributed to a resilience RATIONALE: Southem Leyte remains vulnerable to several investment fund and paid equally among the farm­ natural calamities due to its location, terrain, changing ers. The fund develOps nets, microfinance, and pattems of rainfall, and rising sea levels. Reducing the vul­ investments, addressing an estimated 2 million people nerability of communities requires increasing their capacity who suffer from flooding and drought Promotion of for disaster preparedness and response. Equally impor­ financial tools contributes to spread climate change tant is the capacity to develop and undertake adaptation awareness and prevention, measures as coping mechanisms for any dislocations that disasters may have on the communities' livelihood and RATIONALE: Widespread poverty and the significant general well-being. An effective public communication vulnerability of Cambodian farmers to small-scale climate is essential in reaching a broader audience to cre­ change events are principally related to water availability, ate awareness about climate change as it relates to natural Droughts and floods are serious threats to this popula­ disasters. In times of disasters, an information and com­ tion, Farmers now live with uncertain crop yields because munications technology-aided system is useful in enabling of the irregular rainy and dry seasons, The Mekong River disaster-response teams to act and mitigate the risks. basin is currently undergoing rapid social and economic changes. The proposed fund adopts climate-change and INNOVATION: The project will apply mobile phone poverty-reduction solutions in rural communities, through SMS technology to improve the communication system access to financial resources for new home and new busi­ among DRM organizations at various levels of the DRM nesses, and to finance education and growth based on command chain in the province. To complement the cli­ reliable green-oriented utilities. mate change awareness campaign, the InfoBoard will be developed using local content and provides announce­ INNOVATION: The climate resilience fund provides ments and info-on-demand that residents may need financing, bolstered by contributions from excess agricul­ anytime, The application of SMS technology is expected ture yields, for social investments, while technology re­ to allow for faster, accurate information gathering and duces the usage of chemicals, Cooperative members join dissemination on climate change, multiple hazards, con­ to develop their own solutions to fight climate change. tingency plans, and responses. In the Philippines, this is Groundbreaking project models utilize resilient soil, water, a pioneering initiative that will utilize SMS as a low-cost, and agriculture techniques under "eco-friendly" farming, customized solution to communication needs that will Higher crop yields are produced on the same farmed area strengthen Southern Leyte's disaster prepa redness, in order to "green" the agricultural production chain. CONTACT: Jazmin Guitierrez CONTACT: Yvan Perrin Jagutierrez@pbsp.org.ph Yvan@mekonggreenpower.com www.pbsp.org.ph 58 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4097 Booth Number: 81 Project Number: 4162 Booth Number: 82 Wanted: 420 Women to Design and Grow a Integrated Climate Change Spatial Sustainable Farming Model Planning to Build Adaptive Capacity COUNTRY: India COUNTRY: Indonesia ORGANIZATION: VOICE Trust ORGANIZATION: planningAliiance FUNDING REQUEST: $195,915 FUNDING REQUEST: $191,948 OBJECTIVE: To enable 420 women to design and OBJECTIVE: To build the capacity of the local government adopt techniques to grow multiple crops on 420 acres and the community, and reduce vulnerability to climate­ of rain-fed lands spread across 42 villages. Further­ change impact for the 5,605 people living in the village of more, it is our aim to create a learning environment Kohod (and potentially one or two other villages). Using an for alternative-crop systems, and to demonstrate how integrated climate change spatial plan (ICCSP), the project to add value to these models. We want to encourage will provide a community climate change adaptation plan women to engage in organic-manure production, to (CCCAP) that assesses adaptive capacity and identifies sell products such as vermicompost and botanical pest prioritized responses to climate change for a 100-year repellents, and to raise livestock. We will develop a planning horizon, empowering community members with communications plan with a graduated series of strate­ information that will assist in decision making (for exam­ gies. This plan will promote alternative-crop growth ple, investments in appropriate crops and infrastructure, and highlight its successes to other farmers. Finally, we and the location of planting, building, and emergency will establish sustainable agri-silvi pastures for crop and infrastructure and future growth areas). livestock integration. RATIONALE: Kohod village, a densely populated, low­ RATIONALE: The proposed project villages are semi­ lying coastal community in Banten province, has been arid, with one season of cotton and without intercrops. identified by the Indonesian government as a high-risk This has become unsustainable because of erratic area and a priority for local climate-change adaptation rainfall due to climate change. Village men migrate efforts because of its exposure to sea-level tidal for alternative employment. Women cultivate cotton, flooding, and tsunami and earthquake risks. Although it which is labor intensive. They have no other choice, as has recognized Kohod as a priority, the government has they lack knowledge of alternative, sustainable crop limited capacity and resources to address this issue. models, despite their desire to grow such crops. INNOVATION: Using an approach developed by Envi­ INNOVATION: Adopting an alternative crop system to ronment Canada and the University of Toronto, the team suit climate changes is a local innovation. Women ini­ will demonstrate an innovative and efficient method of tiating decisions regarding crop diversity is another, as rapidly assessing climate projections and impacts, with this is traditionally a male dominated industry. Agricul­ a higher degree of accuracy than methods currently in tural integration of silvi pastures, and raising livestock The will include training workshops to en­ as producers of dung instead of milk, are other innova­ sure transfer of technology and knowledge for this fast, tions, as is constructing compost pits on farms. highly transferable analysis tool. In addition, the ICCSP will incorporate local tsunami, earthquake, flooding, CONTACT: Jasintha Amirtham sea-level rise modeling and climate-change projections, voicetrust.try@gmail.com providing community stakeholders with a decision-mak­ www.voicetrust.org.in ing tool, and exploring methods of increasing adaptive capacity of the community in situ. CONTACT: John Van Nostrand jvannostrand@planningalliance.ca www.planningalliance.ca www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 59 Project Number: 4165 Booth Number: 83 Project Number: 4296 Booth Number: 84 Biofuel Generator for Water, Energy, Low-Cost, Integrated Conservation Tools for and Farming in Aralian Region Community Self-Sustainment COUNTRY: Uzbekistan COUNTRY: Bolivia ORGANIZATION: Enviromation, Inc. ORGANIZATION: Fundacion Pro-Habitat Cochabamba FUNDING REQUEST: $199,784 FUNDING REQUEST: $155,168 OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate a sustainable, low-cost, OBJECTIVE: To enable low-income families in two peri­ closed-cycle electricity infrastructure providing elec­ urban communities to deal with future water-related risk tricity to pump water for irrigation. The result will be associated with climate change through a multidimen­ sustainable since the use of animal wastes as biofuel sional project that (1 )prepares families for shortages of eliminates fuel costs, increasing farmer income and water (health), (2) prevents soil erosion that would threat­ enhancing community production capability. The project en communities (safety and environment), and (3) creates will demonstrate a practical adaptation to new climate two microbusinesses run by women that offer services realities, using local resources that will catalyze a switch linked to the above (economic and social needs). to sustainable agricultural practices. RATIONALE: In Cochabamba, the future will bring RATIONALE: The Aralian region of central Asia is among both shortages of domestic water supply and increas­ the world areas most impacted by climate change. ing episodes of very heavy rainfall in the wet season. Desertification has steadily expanded since 1960 as a Many low-income periurban communities are built result of wind-borne salt and dust. Only 50 percent of on sparsely vegetated hillsides prone to soil erosion. the region's inhabitants have access to centrally supplied These communities are therefore especially at risk from water, further marginalizing rural disadvantaged peoples. the water-related problems linked to climate change; A sustainable, cost-effective energy source that enables women, who manage the use of water in the house­ local peoples to pump water for irrigation and personal hold, will be most affected, together with others who use will improve lives and ameliorate marginalization. spend much of their day at home: children, the elderly, and disabled people. Families lack the appropriate INNOVATION: The project implements an innovative technical information and communities lack the organi­ biogas-fueled Stirling engine technology to create a new zational capacity required to confront these problems. infrastructure that is resilient to the effects of climate This project is designed to deliver appropriate systems change. This project will spur adoption of agricultural and technological solutions that can be constructed practices that are more adaptive to climate change and maintained by people within the communities. by turning animal waste into an asset that helps make potable water and electricity available, benefiting the INNOVATION: The project is innovative because it affected area. The simplicity, ease of use, and ease of links optimizing the use of water, recycling water, and maintenance make the two technologies chosen-Stir­ ecological sanitation with tree planting that is watered ling engines and biogas digesters-ideal. The site was and fertilized with the recycled water and the compost chosen because successful implementation and repli­ from the toilets. This creates an integrated approach of cation of the project will reap the additional benefit of low-cost technologies in order to adapt to the water­ enhancing protection of sensitive ecological areas by related risks linked to climate change. reducing demand for firewood and animal poaching. CONTACT: Antonia Terrazas CONTACT: Robert Bennett fph.cochabamba@pro-habitat,org.bo Enviromat@aol.com www.EnergyAndEnvironmentlnc.com 60 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4311 Booth Number: 85 Project Number: 4616 Booth Number: 86 Saving Glaciers: Artisanal Industry Aims to Stop the Low-Cost Water Filter Designed to Stem Arsenic Melt and Save Water Poisoning in Bangladesh COUNTRY: Peru COUNTRY: Bangladesh ORGANIZATION: Glaciares Peru ORGANIZATION: Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 (LHCB) FUNDING REQUEST: $197,354 OBJECTIVE: To create jobs in impoverished areas by establishing a sustainable artisanal industry aimed at OBJECTIVE: To educate communities about arsenic, slowing glacial melting as a proactive adaptation to its hazards, and arsenic-borne diseases, mot'ivating climate change. The approach, if successful, will not them to use these filters and get less arsenic exposure; only save tropical glaciers from extinction, but may also to modernize communities' knowledge about arsenic­ be able to regrow glacial mass, the most important borne diseases and provide arsenic mitigation filters form of freshwater storage in the high Andes (and the to approximately 10,000 households; and to foster world) If this approach decreases local (microclimate) community trust by sharing field/laboratory tests results temperatures sufficiently to regrow glaciers, local water regarding its effectiveness. supplies will be enhanced and socioeconomic benefits will follow. (Note that when freshwater stored as glacial RATIONALE: In Bangladesh, arsenic in drinking water mass melts, it constitutes the majority of available dry­ makes millions sick and causes about 3,000 deaths an­ season flow in the region.) nually. Sixty percent of affected people are identified by sores on their chests and blackened knotty palms. Long RATIONALE: Increases in global temperatures due arsenic exposure causes various cancers, leads to social to climate change are creating large environmental isolation because of the added burden of poor health; changes. One of the most serious is the melting of the women and children are vulnerable to this. LHCB was in­ world's largest freshwater reservoirs-glaciers. Tropical stalling deep tube-wells, which are expensive, to mitigate glaciers are the most at risk, as they are located at lati­ arsenic. Therefore, we innovated a low-cost, environmen­ tudes where small temperature changes can have large tally friendly technology to reduce arsenic exposure. impacts, such as the loss of the only current source of reliable water supply. INNOVATION: Generally, people use a non-hygienic, three-pot filter, which only cleans iron. Our innovative INNOVATION: The project proposes to build a produc­ four-layer filter mitigates both arsenic and iron, and lasts tion facility to create a paintable white cover material. longer, with a low maintenance cost. It requires a 24-inch­ The cover material will then be applied to exposed rock high plastic drum containing 4 inches of stone at the surrounding the glacier, or within recently glaciated bottom, 9 inches of red sand above and 4 inches areas, in order to increase surface reflectance (albedo). of normal sand at the top. In addition, a plastiC pot with This, in turn, will decrease microclimate temperatures a 4-inch stone and a tiny hole at its bottom is set on the enough to stop glacial melting and may even allow drum. The top pot holds contaminated water that passes for the regrowth of glacial mass. The project also will slowly through the hole into its bottom drum. This process attempt to have the change in albedo over a "unit" removes iron and arsenic, and the outlet produces an surface area equated with carbon credits in order to acceptable standard of drinking water. It is typical to miti­ generate a sustainable source of revenue generation arsenic using expensive technology, but our modern for future project applications. and low-cost alternative will be acceptable. CONTACT: Eduardo Gold CONTACT: Benedict Bijoy Baroi egold@glaciaresperu.org nripen.baidya@yahoo.com www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 61 Project Number: 4646 Booth Number: 87 Project Number: 4722 Booth Number: 88 Elevated Bamboo Houses Designed to Lift Floating Hydroponic Gardens over Fish Pens in Communities Above Flood Zones Waterlogged Wetland Areas COUNTRY: Ecuador COUNTRY: Bangladesh ORGANIZATION: International Network for Bamboo ORGANIZATION: Shushilan and Rattan FUNDING REQUEST: $199,993 FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: To pilot climate-change adaptation through OBJECTIVE: To increase the use of flood-resistant, ele­ promotion of soilless agriculture in waterlogged and vated bamboo houses in the coastal regions of Ecuador, wetland areas, thereby reducing the vulnerability of poor thereby providing local communities with an innovative, farmers in target areas. The project will develop the asset low-cost, sustainable, environmentally friendly infrastruc­ base of 450 deprived households, ture resistant to climate-related floods. This OM project will benefit at least 500 households, who will be living RATIONALE: Although waterlogging, wetland flood­ in improved, flood-resistant, elevated bamboo homes ing, and growth of invasive plants may seem to be a by the end of the project period. In addition, this OM curse or disaster, indigenous soilless agriculture is able project will link at least 1,000 farmers and 500 local build­ to turn these risks into resources. Organo-hydroponics ers in an existing bamboo housing supply chain, thereby has been found to be the best practice, as well as a providing farmers and builders with a new source of win-win farming system, providing high agricultural income from bamboo, yield without chemical fertilizer and pesticide applica­ tion, and improving degraded wetlands and lands. The RATIONALE: Climate change has increased the number project addresses the following challenges: of floods and landslides in the coastal regions of Ecuador • the changing trend in the seasonal calendar and crop and their frequency and severity is projected to intensify in pattern the future. At present, Ecuadorans have limited opportu­ • seedling/vegetable cultivation not hampered by late nities to adapt to climate-related flood and disaster risk or excessive rainfall management, thereby making them extremely vulner­ • higher productivity than terrestrial agriculture and able to future disasters. Investments in infrastructure are greater food security desperately needed to reduce the vulnerability of local • higher employment generation, particularly for women communities to climate-related floods, This OM project • organo-hydroponics as a sustainable livelihoods tools, will introduce an innovative technology to build flood­ going beyond food production and conserving wetlands resistant, elevated bamboo structures aimed at reducing • open-water fisheries promoted as breeding grounds the vulnerability of populations living along the coast. for indigenous fish species production • aquatic weeds used as compost materials, helping to INNOVATION: The OM project will employ a new enrich organic soil nutrients in the dry season technology to improve the design and quality of locally built bamboo homes and create stronger, safer, flood­ INNOVATION: The primary goal is standardization of in­ resistant, elevated bamboo homes and other struc­ digenous soilless agriculture through creative application tures. These structures will have a number of flood­ in different agroeco zones, through vertical integration of resistant features, including raised elevation, increased organo-hydroponics with fisheries. Floating agriculture durability, flood-resistant window fabric, and rooftop and pen-culture in waterlogged and wetland areas is access "escape hatches" or attic windows, a unique example of "reduCing, reusing, and recycling resources" in the climate-change hot spot of Bangladesh. CONTACT: Alvaro Santiago Cabrera Paredes acabrera@inbar.int CONTACT: Rezaul Haq www. inbar,int wetlandbd@gmail.com www.shushilan.org 62 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 4886 Booth Number: 89 Project Number: 4917 Booth Number: 90 Rate-and-Shame Project Would Raise Media Development of Insurance Fund to Protect Jatropha Pressure on Public Officials Farmers from Climate Risks COUNTRY: Ukraine COUNTRY: Mali and Indonesia ORGANIZATION: Resource and Analysis Center ORGANIZATION: PlaNet Finance "Society and Environment" FUNDING REQUEST: $199,990 FUNDING REQUEST: $133,800 OBJECTIVE: To analyze the feasibility and develop a OBJECTIVE: To stimulate local authorities to take guarantee and insurance fund to mitigate the climate climate-change adaptation measures by assessing their risks affecting jatropha production and test the model performance on adaptation to climate change, making on 700 existing jatropha farmers in Mali and Indonesia. this information publicly available, and putting public Over the longer term, the guarantee fund aims at be­ and media pressure on local authorities to improve ing extended to other farmers and countries their performance. RATIONALE: As a new crop, jatropha could be an inter­ RATIONALE: In Ukraine, local communities are directly esting opportunity but presents potential risks for farm­ affected by climate-change impacts, and local authori­ ers and financial partners. The project aims to develop ties have enormous potential to address these impacts. a guarantee and insurance fund that will foster financial However, they rely mostly on the central government partners to support the investment and extend jatropha to take adaptation steps. In the absence of a national farmers' plantations. climate-adaptation policy and other national-level ini­ tiatives, climate-change risks remain unaddressed and INNOVATION: Jatropha is still an experimental and leave local communities with no local response. innovative crop. Climate-change risks can affect its development and make producers vulnerable. As a INNOVATION: Rating environmental performance of permanent culture jatropha needs time to reach full enterprises and disclosing publicly the rating results has production and return on investment. The developments proved to be a promising complement to conventional of innovative mechanisms to limit the financial vulner­ regulation. The PRIDE initiative in the Lviv region of ability of producers and to increase their resilience to Ukraine ~ates firms' environmental performance from climate change are the most significant challenges fac­ best to worst, according to specially designed ing jatropha development and sustainability. This project using color labels (for example, green, blue, yellow, red, will provide an adaptation approach to climate change and black) After being verified with the enterprises, the and includes an incentive mechanism to promote the ratings are disseminated to the public through the mass adoption of this new crop. media. The rating is periodically reviewed and updated, which allows enterprises to be recategorized. Under the CONTACT: Pascale Geslain Vandenberg a climate change adaptation rating scheme will pgeslain@planetfinance.org be developed to assess the performance of 50 local au­ thorities in adapting to climate change, rating them and disclosing this information to local communities. CONTACT: Andriy Andrusevych office@rac.org.ua www.rac.org.ua www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 63 Project Number: 4949 Booth Number: 91 Project Number: 5016 Booth Number: 92 Wave Energy Converter to Mitigate Ocean-Wave Rainwater Irrigation Using Biofueled Damage and Beach Erosion Motor with Commercial Prospects COUNTRY: Dominican Republic COUNTRY: Uganda ORGANIZATION: Universidad Nacional Pedro Hen­ ORGANIZATION: Makerere University rique Urena (UNPHU) FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 FUNDING REQUEST: $198,215 OBJECTIVE: To disseminate community-based climate­ OBJECTIVE: To utilize an innovative wave energy con­ change adaptation and mitigation strategies through verter (WEC) technology in a selected coastal commu­ water availability, agricultural diversification, and nity beach or infrastructure at risk of being hit by waves intensification, and development of nonfarm income during storms, in order to determine its effectiveness in sources. The project will have three components: (1) lowering the power of waves reaching the coast. developing a community water-harvesting system of runoff water from roadways and other suitable surfaces RATIONALE: Island countries in the Caribbean and into underground ferro-cement tanks; (2) developing an other tropical regions have many small communities efficient and sustainable irrigation system driven by an and key infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, and engine modified to run on a biodiesel produced from ports, that are positioned close to or on the beach or jatropha grown on lands otherwise unsuitable for crop waterfront, and are thus very exposed to storm surges production. The irrigation will support growing alterna­ and high waves. The Municipality of Paraiso in Bara­ tive crops for income and food diversity (for example, hona province has many of such communities. fruits and vegetables) that would otherwise be limited by intermittent and inadequate rain; and (3) modifying INNOVATION: The innovative dimensions of the the diesel engine to enable coupling of other function­ project include promoting and introducing new al elements, such as agroprocessing units for added wave energy conversion technologies to mitigate the value, and power-generation units for lighting, battery impacts of waves on communities, beaches, and key charging, and welding, which can lead to development infrastructure caused by rising seas and stronger and of non-farm sources of income. more frequent storms and hurricanes, and introducing the generation and distribution of electric power based RATIONALE: Climate change accentuates the socio­ on ocean-renewable resources. economic vulnerabilities and inequalities for people in eastern Uganda, and also makes the area a hot spot for CONTACT: Moises Alvarez increasing adaptive capacity and mitigating impact of moisesal.c21@gmail.com climate change in Uganda. INNOVATION: This proposal shows an approach to disseminate best technologies to increase the adaptive capacity and mitigation of climate change impacts, pro­ viding an integrated source of energy and real avenues for alleviating household poverty. CONTACT: Herbert Talwana haltalwana@gmail.com www.mak.ac.ug 64 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 5057 Booth Number: 93 Project Number: 5075 Booth Number: 94 Earth-Roofed Housing: Cheap, Sustainable Shelter Clay-Pot Microirrigation System for Food Security in to Face Desertification a Dry Highland Village COUNTRY: Burkina Faso COUNTRY: Ethiopia ORGANIZATION: Association la Voute Nubienne (AVN) ORGANIZATION: The Institute of Arctic and Alpine FUNDING REQUEST: $101,000 Research (lNSTAAR), University of Colorado-Boulder FUNDING REQUEST: $199,730 OBJECTIVE: To test an innovative strategy for scaling up and accelerating the recruitment and on-the-job OBJECTIVE: To protect rural communities from food training of Nubian Vault (NV) apprentices and the insecurity and famine related to climate change. The growth of a self-sustaining market in NV houses. Since project will enable subsistence farmers to increase the its foundation in 2000, AVN has trained about 200 diversity and quantity of their household food production. masons in the NV technique, who in turn have built They will produce marketable produce such as spices and more than 900 vaults in Burkina Faso and neighboring fruits, as well as vegetables for their families. About 200 countries, successfully validating the technique. subsistence farmers who will participate in the will increase their income by 30 percent. RATIONALE: Climate change, deforestation, and in­ creasing population growth in the Sahel region of West RATIONALE: Climate change will worsen the problem of Africa make it unfeasible to adopt traditional building food security in many developing countries. Adaptation methods using bush timber: around two-thirds of the to climate change includes infrastructure improvements, estimated 150 million population in this region live in introduction of efficient and inexpensive technologies, houses or shacks with roofs of imported corrugated iron and the delivery of weather analysis. Water harvesting and sawn timber. Buildings with such roofs have no ther­ combined with conservation through subsurface irrigation mal or sound-insulation properties, and are unhealthy using clay pots is an effective, affordable, and environmen­ and uncomfortable. The need for cash to purchase the tally sustainable way to help local farmers combat climate­ imported materials forces many families into a vicious induced food insecurity. circle of poverty. AVN provides an affordable, ecologi­ cally sustainable alternative through its program "Earth INNOVATION: Subsurface clay-pot irrigation overcomes roofs in the Sahel," training farmers and masons to build water and steep-terrain limitations that otherwise pre­ vaulted earth-brick roofs, using locally available materi­ clude irrigating crops in many dry highlands. Subsurface als, and creating a growing construction market for irrigation is also more efficient than other forms of irriga­ homes with a low carbon footprint. tion. For example, compared to conventional surface methods, it saves 70 percent of the water required to INNOVATION: Through proactive collaboration with grow tomatoes, cabbages, and onions. Its efficiency, local village communities, over a 24-month period in inexpensiveness, local availability, usefulness in diverse a selected pilot zone in the region of Boromo, Burkina terrains, and acceptance among local farmers make the Faso, the Pilot Zone Development Program will de­ process an innovation. The easy availability of clay pots velop, test, and evaluate a phased-implementation in the local market will help readily spread the innovation program of apprentice training and construction. to neighboring villages. CONTACT: Thomas Granier CONTACT: Wolde-Georgis thomas.granier@lavoutenubienne.org tsegay@colorado.edu www.lavoutenubienne.org ccb.colorado.edu www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 6S Project Number: 5111 Booth Number: 95 Project Number: 5136 Booth Number: 96 Media Access and Education for Climate Change Smallholder-Led Micro-Insurance for Adaptation and Risk Reduction Climate Adaptation and Risk Reduction COUNTRY: Bangladesh COUNTRY: Ghana ORGANIZATION: Relief International-Schools Online ORGANIZATION: Concern Universal (RI-SOL) FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 FUNDING REQUEST: $140,000 OBJECTIVE: To enhance the capacity of vulnerable OBJECTIVE: To provide access to information on households and communities to adapt to the effects climate change to vulnerable populations in coastal of climate change and variability through adoption of districts of Bangladesh as a means of reducing risks improved production technologies. The scheme focuses and promoting mitigating actions. The ultimate objec­ on selected cereals and targets smallholder farmers in tive is to empower populations at risk from climate the Upper West Region. change to not only understand the process but also act to improve their situation. RATIONALE: Increasing incidence and frequencies of climate shocks such as droughts are contributing to RATIONALE: The coastal districts of Bangladesh have deteriorating livelihoods of food-crop farmers in the Up­ been prone to flooding and are extremely vulnerable per West Region of Ghana. This has made the need for to climate change. The local population faces chronic adopting early-maturing, higher-yielding, and drought­ poverty and insecurity of livelihoods related to environ­ tolerant cereal varieties most imperative. However, these mental factors while being poorly (if at all) educated vulnerable farmers cannot afford these technologies about the perils of climate change. They lack oppor­ and the input package (especially fertilizer) that goes tunities for learning and access to information about with them. They are also unable to attract production critical issues associated with climate change and its credit, which could otherwise facilitate adoption of these possible impacts and about the steps they can take to climate-adaptation packages, since they cannot provide protect themselves when catastrophes strike. the needed collateral. We propose a microcredit scheme with built-in micro-insurance as a solution. INNOVATION: The proposed program builds the ca­ pacity of local media to analyze and report on the issue INNOVATION: A microcredit scheme with a built-in and educates youth, teachers, and civil organiza­ micro-insurance covers crop and/or yield loss due to tions (CSOs), who can carry relevant messages to their drought, in an adaptation mix that also includes climate­ communities and the general public. Involving journal­ change education using local peoples' climate witness ists and youth as a means of informing the public is a stories (CWS) The model makes it possible for poor farm­ new approach likely to grab the attention of community ers who otherwise cannot afford an insurance premium members. A technology-based approach ensures that to pay it from the credit received. The sum insured covers the content created through the project and co-devel­ the total loan amount and the interest payable. Micro-in­ oped by beneficiaries is available widely to the general surance is a new concept in Ghana, and crop insurance is public in Bangladesh and elsewhere in South Asia and an untested idea in the insurance industry in the country. around the world. The proposed online portal and SMS alert system have to be used for climate adaptation. CONTACT: MacDuff Phiri macduff.phir;@concern-universal.org CONTACT: M. Nazrullslam www.concern-universal.org nazrul@ri.org www.ri.org 66 OM2009 is Carbon Neutral Project Number: 5150 Booth Number: 97 Project Number: 5194 Booth Number: 98 Solar Walls Aim to Raise Housing Efficiency of High­ Floating Flood Shelters and Lanterns that Send Cell­ Altitude Quechua People Phone Warnings of Floods COUNTRY: Peru COUNTRY: Bangladesh ORGANIZATION: Catholic Relief Services ORGANIZATION: Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 FUNDING REQUEST: $200,000 OBJECTIVE: To assist 200 Ouechua families (1,000 total OBJECTIVE: To introduce SuryaHurricane lanterns beneficiaries) in six high-altitude Andean communities in flood-prone areas, so that people can get reliable in the district of Pampachiri (Aprfumac region) to cope light to increase family incomes and save money for with the long-term, harmful effects of climate change. disasters. The will also develop floating Cli­ mateShelters to accommodate climate refugees and RATIONALE: Ouechua communities living in the high­ provide emergency relief during floods; and to altitude Andean zones of Peru are extremely vulnerable an innovative device to warn people about upcoming to the effects of climate change. Their physical expo­ floods. The project will prove to the people that it is sure is partly due to the structural nature of their hous­ possible to live on water. which is built with mud, straw, and corrugated tin and provides limited protection freezing tem- RATIONALE: One-third of Bangladesh is flooded every The only sources of heat for these families year. Climate change has increased the flooding. Over are indoor fires that consume vast amounts of wood, the next 40 years, 17 percent of the land will be lost to trap smoke in the home, and result in frequent respira­ the sea, resulting in 20 million climate refugees. Now, tory illnesses. These communities have limited knowl­ pressure on the land is so overwhelming that the nf'\,--'rA·~t about construction techniques and technologies people have little choice but to move to and settle in to improve the health and safety conditions of their remote, inaccessible riverside areas. There, many homes. This vulnerability is exacerbated by the limited have no land to support themselves and no access to of community leaders and local authorities to information, education, training, communication, or manage the myriad current and future risks associated electricity. only harvest one crop a year and main­ with climate change. tain their livelihoods with fishing. INNOVATION: This project will introduce local commu­ INNOVATION: SuryaHurricane is an innovative, low-cost nities to the Trombe wall, which is a panel permanently solar lantern made from recycled of the conven­ affixed to one side of a home to absorb solar radiation tional and much-used kerosene hurricane lantern. The and increase the indoor temperature. The project will flood-warning system includes data collection devices also introduce ecological kitchen stoves, which limit fire­ at the water entry points on the rivers. If the wa­ wood consumption and reduce black carbon emissions. ter reaches the flood level, the device will start sending These two easily replicable technologies are constructed SMS and use a siren to alert residents. The ClimateShel­ from locally available materials and directly complement ter boats are especially designed by Shidhulai Swanirvar each other to adapt and the effects of climate Sangstha, using local labor, materials, and expertise. including freezing temperatures, increased firewood use, and high carbon emissions. CONTACT: Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan rezwan@shidhulai.org CONTACT: Romina Sanchez www.shidhulai.org/ rsanchez@crspe.org.pe www.crs.org www.DevelopmentMarketplace.org 67 ACT NOW climate problem req action on both and mitigation-delay will I development impose huge costs ACT TOGETHER in tackl"ng climate res lective action and high-incmne cou Ie lead the way ACT DIFFERENTLY ng needed emission will require a both of a of the way we manage agriculture, land use, a forests ","iO.""' ,.".ti.' (11 agncuUUlQ Table ofContents Overview Changing the climate for development I I I Chapter 1 Understanding the links between III I I climate change and development Chapter 2 Reducing human vulnerability: helping people help thef!lselves 100 BO Chapter 3 Managing land and water to feed billion people and protect natural systems Chapter 4 Energizing development without 2,;0 compromising the climate Chapter 5 Integrating development into the global climate regime Chapter 6 Generating the funding needed mitigation and adaptation Chapter 7 Accelerating innovation and technology diffusion Chapter 8 Overcoming behavioral and institutional inertia Climate change threatens all countries, with developing countries the most vulnerable. The greatest challenge lies with changing behaviors of individuals and policies of institutions. A is our if we act now, 28 percent of the wetlands that currently buffer act act 0 ifferently in the coastal cities from storms and sustain fisheries. World Development Report 2010 main un What does climate change mean for development? less greenhouse What does development mean for climate change? physical impacts What does all this mean for policy? foods, a droughts costs and reaten human health, i re, With a one-meter rise in sea level-now considered security, a natural resources. To uce possible within our lifetimes-Egypt, already vulnerabil to these irr all countries struggling with rising food prices, could lose 13 will to adapt Ily to chang percent of its agricultural land. 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E-mail us at books@worldbank.org WORLD BANK Publications I The reference of choice on development Index AFRICA INDONESIA 82 mTI'nrrlTP,n Climate Change Spatial Planning BURKINA FASO to Adaptive Capacity (4162) 59 93 Earth-Roofed Housing: Sustainable 55 Index-Based Rainfall Insurance to Help Shelter to Face Desertification (5057) ...... 65 Plant More Productive Harvests (4471) .45 ETHIOPIA LAOS 46 Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds 37 Gardens and Granaries Seen as to the Needs of Women Farmers (3959) ... ......... 39 Solution for Flood Prone Communities (3616) ........ 33 94 Clay-Pot Microirrigatlon for Food Security in a Dry (5075) .... 65 MICRONESIA 2 The "Family EarthBox" Saves Nukuoro Crops GHANA from Sea's Intrusion (1170) ................... . ... 14 96 Smallholder-Led Micro-Insurance for Climate Adaptation and Risk Reduction (5136) ........................... 66 MONGOLIA 35 Mobilizing Community Joumalists for KENYA Disaster Risk Management (3502) 32 Pastoralists Weather Climate 29 Through Rainwater Harvesting ......... 29 PHILIPPINES 43 Solar Houses and Fog Collectors to 30 Rice Farmers Look to Fish Farming to Cushion Food, Water, and Energy Crises (3842) .. .. ..... ...... .37 the Impact of Climate Change (3053) ..... .. .. 30 54 Community Cereal Bank to Limit Food Shortages 71 Bell and Bottle: Low-Cost Warning System for Aid-Dependent Pastoralists (4461) .44 for Flood/Slide-Prone Communities (3191) ............... .. .. 54 62 Plant Clinics to Response to 32 Communities Seek Security in Climate-Induced to Crop Health (4773) . . .... 48 and Mangrove Restoration (3333) .... 31 65 Early-Warning Tool to Help Pastoralists Adapt 40 Power Charger: Providing Light and Access Contingency Funds (4898) . .... .. ......... ........... 50 of Climate Change (3712) . ...35 79 Disaster Preparedness of MADAGASCAR with SMS Technology (3906) ............... 58 42 Climate Adaptation Kits to 48 Diversified Crop and Fish Weather Future Shocks (3817) .. 36 for Food Security (4209) ................................... 40 75 Community-Owned Seed Bank Offers In-Kind 50 Ivl~nnm\,'p Rehab Scheme to Provide Biofuel Credit to Foster (3561) ................................... 56 Reief in Philippines (4230) ..... ... 42 60 4 Salambao: Contained Vegetable NIGERIA for Fisherfolk's Survival (4657) .47 57 African Pastoralists to Drama on the Airwaves ... .46 SAMOA 19 Samoans Turn to Traditional Housing as RWANDA Sanctuary from Climate Risksttt (1641) ..... 24 56 High-Value, Temperate Fruit Trees and Erosion Controls for Farmers (4535) ....................... 45 VANUATU 76 Solar-Powered Desalinator Would Serve as TANZANIA Model for Small Coastal Communities (3583) ........ 56 52 Fishers of the Future: Interactive Radio Drama for Climate Change (4291) ............ . ...... .43 VIETNAM 41 Poor Coastal Farmers Seek Salvation in Saline, UGANDA Storm-Resistant Agriculture (3737) ... ........ 35 47 Carbon Credits to Help Smallholder Farmers Improve Income and Sustainability (4051) ...... . .40 EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA 92 Rainwater Irrigation Using Biofueled Motor with Commercial Prospects (5016) .... 64 RUSSIA 9 Reindeer Herders for the Viability EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC of Their Animals and Livelihoods (1396) ............................... 18 14 Climate Education Is Best Hope for CAMBODIA Siberian Grassroots Communities (1532) ..... 21 34 Flood Threat Launches Green-Concept Floating .32 SERBIA 80 Organic Rice Farm and Resilience Fund as 53 Daphnia to Stem Global Warming-Linked Sustainability Model (3958) .................................................... 58 Bacterial Toxins in Fish Ponds (4307) .. . ............... 44 49 Medicinal Tree Farms to Reduce Malnutrition and Malaria Infection in Cambodia (4229) ..... 41 70 DM2009 is Carbon Neutral UKRAINE ELSALVADOR 89 Rate-and-Shame Project Would Raise Media 16 Communities Seek Salvation in the Rare Pressure on Public Officials (4886) . ...... ,,63 Art of Listening to Mother Nature (1557) "'" "."."."",, "".22 73 Healthy Wells and Latrines Keep Water UZBEKISTAN Drinkable for Vulnerable Communities (3349) . "".55 83 Biofuel Generator for Water, and Farming in Aralian (4165) , . "".,,60 GUATEMALA 13 Empowering Guatemala's Indigenous Communities LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN to Cope with Climate Change ( 1 5 0 3 ) , 21 26 Training to Face Natural Disasters, with ARGENTINA a Focus on Mayan Worldview (1803) """.27 7 Ancient Andean Communities Time-Honored HONDURAS Methods for Crop Security (1 ,,' 17 45 Reducing Microfinance Risks for Poor Farmers in Drought-Prone Honduras (3881) 39 BELIZE 10 Helping the Q'eqchi Maya Thrive with MEXICO Sustainable Forest Management (1401) ,,19 4 Bioculture to Enhance the Value of 21 Traditional Tools for Adapting to Shrinking Ancient Creole Maize in Chihuahua (1281) ,15 Food Security in Mayan Villages (1763) , ".,,,,.25 NICARAGUA BOLIVIA 5 Drought-Hardy "Food Forests" to 27 Ancestral Climate Indicators Underpin Miskito Children Weather the Storm " ..... 16 Strategy for Food Security (1815) .,,28 25 Climatic Vulnerability Spurs Adaptation 84 Low-Cost, Integrated Conservation Tools of Indigenous Mosonte People (1780) .. , , 27 for Community Self-Sustainment (4296) """",,,.,,..,60 66 Radio and Schools to Herald Climate Predictions PERU for Better Farm Planning (4997) , . ,51 6 Adapting Native Andean Crops for Food 67 A New Curriculum: Forming Habits in Water to Indigenous Peoples (1358) . ... ,.. ,.. 16 Conservation and Climate Awareness (5045) .,," 52 8 Age-Old Weather Diviners' Secrets 69 Reducing Risks for Biodiversity Conservation Ward Off Climate Catastrophes (1391) "."", .. " .. ,.. ,, , .. ", ... , 17 Using Adaptive Fire Management (5108) "." .. 53 12 Recovering Ancestral Memories and Techniques to Confront Cold Spells (1495) . 20 CHILE 17 Empowering Indigenous Communities to 15 Mapuche Forest Model Aims to Cut Greenhouse Build Resilience Against Climate Change ( 1 6 1 7 ) , .. 23 Gases and Avoid Deforestation (1549) """""""." 22 18 Indigenous Wisdom and Biomathematics: Amazonians Tackle Climate Change (1630) .23 COLOMBIA 23 Innovative Strategies for Sustainable ; 1 Clearng Timber Blockages from Rivers Management of Communal Reserve (1768) "."."......... ,,26 Would Help Communities Progress (1434) .. .... ".20 24 Quechua Knowledge, Technology, and Organization 20 Traditonal Knowledge Is the Prescription to Respond to Climate Change (1772) ." .. ".,," 26 for Erwironmental Land Management (1661) .,." .... 24 36 Maca-Root Crops Need Ichu Grass to Protect 22 Amazonian Communities Teach Youth Traditional Against Frost, Hail, and Drought (3525) .. .." 33 Knowledge to Meet Carbon Goals (1767) .... 25 51 Recuperation of Water Systems on Vulnerable Pre-Hispanic Andean Terraces (4270) , """ ..... "." ... "" .. ,43 COSTA RICA 85 Saving Glaciers: Artisanal Industry Aims to Adaptive Natural Resources Management Stop the Melt and Save Water (4311) ,.61 Will Bolster Cabecar Communities (1041) " .".,,""" 14 97 Solar Walls Aim to Raise Housing Efficiency of High-Altitude Quechua People (5150) 67 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 70 Interactive Tools to Manage Climate Risk for 91 Wave Converter to Mitigate Ocean-Wave Future Farmers of the Altiplano (5192) , '''" ... ,,'' 53 Damage Beach Erosion (4949) 64 VENEZUELA ECUADOR 63 Habitat Expedition: Harnessing Local 3 High-Value Crops May Have the Medicine Experience to Raise Climate Awareness (4864) .. 49 to Keep Communities on Their Land (1189) ... 15 28 Helping Indigenous Amazonians Help Themselves Cope with Climate Change (1828) . ... 28 44 Conserving the Andean Paramo Ecosystem with Native Blueberry Cultivation (3863) ... ".38 87 Elevated Bamboo Houses Designed to Lift Communities Above Flood Zones (4646) .. 62 www,DevelopmentMarketplace.org 71 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA INDIA 72 Low-Cost, Flood-Resilient DJIBOUTI Shelters Vulnerable Rural Villages (3339) ....... 54 81 Wanted: 420 Women to Design and Grow 31 Solar Desalination Offers Hope Against Risk a Sustainable Farming Model (4097) ......... 59 of Aquifer Pollution by Seawater (3171) . ......... 30 58 Portable SolarlWind Greenhouse to Grow Fodder for Sustainable Dairy Farms (4561) ... ... .46 MULTI-COUNTRY 64 Women and Youth Use Reality-Show Format to Tell of Climate Options (4865) .49 MULTI-COUNTRY 78 Global Voices: The Vulnerable Make Videos MALDIVES to Speak Out on Climate Adaptation (3768) .... 57 39 Innovative Gardening and Education to 90 Development of Insurance Fund to Protect Adapt to Climate Change in Maldives (3648) .... ...... 34 Jatropha Farmers from Climate Risks (4917) ...63 68 Pro-Millet: As Peanuts Wilt, Africa NEPAL Diversifies for Sustainability (5096) .... 52 74 Innovative Climate Information System to Warn Farmers of Climate Changes (3356) .. 55 SOUTH ASIA 33 Hope Sprouts in Reforestation for Resilience of Humla and Jumla Communities (3436) ... .31 BANGLADESH 59 Helping Threatened Mountain 77 Emergency Shelter and Income Farm More Sustainably (4608) .. " ............ . ........ .47 Opportunity for Tidal Refugees (3635) ............. 57 61 Strengthening Upstream-Downstream 86 Low-Cost Water Filter Designed to Stem for Climate Change Adaptation (4742) . .48 Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh (4616) . .... 61 88 Floating Hydroponic Gardens over Fish PAKISTAN Pens in Waterlogged Wetland Areas (4722) .............. 62 38 Cooperative We Can! Communities Mobilize 95 Media Access and Education for Climate for Dry-Land Development (3629) . """"""""" .34 Adaptation and Risk Reduction (5111) . ..66 98 Flood Shelters and Lanterns that Send Cell-Phone Warnings of Floods (5194) .. 67 a printer for the production of this piece that IS 100% wind <>n,,,,r,cri carbon neutral, uses a waterless printing and is an Green Power Partner and EPA Climate Leader. was printed on FSC certified paper using vegetable-based inks. ~ ~~ (~ GREEN , POWER PARTNER .,. 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