Impact of climate change in our programs
Global warming does far more damage to poor countries
and will increase the number of natural disasters.
Level of human
vulnerability in
developing world
Why the poor are more vulnerable to climate change
Highest burden on women
due to their responsibilities
Effects on agriculture, water
resources and ecosystems
Poor health care to face
disease spread (e.g., malaria)
Natural disasters impact on
poor (e.g., flood, drought)
Potential for
~200M
environmental
refugees
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CARE International Climate Change Strategy
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CI Climate Change Strategy - Thematic Goals
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Global advocacy: CARE is effectively advocating for a fair, ambitious and
binding international agreement that places poor women and other highly
vulnerable people at the very centre of a worldwide response to climate
change.
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Adaptation: CARE is effectively helping the world’s most vulnerable people
adapt to the impacts of climate change, and we are contributing to global
learning processes about adaptation – especially with regards to the
importance and practice of empowering poor women
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Carbon finance: CARE is advancing a pro-poor approach to carbon finance
programming that reduces poverty, secures rights, enhancing gender equality
and supports adaptation to climate change while ensuring real greenhouse
gas reductions.
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Organisational change: CARE aspires to be a change agent by modelling
“climate smart” policies, plans and practices throughout our confederation.
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Accomplishments - Adaptation
• Funding has been secured for the Africa Adaptation Learning Programme
(ALP). CARE UK and Denmark have secured nearly US$13 million from
DfID, DANIDA and FINIDA to support Community-Based Adaptation in
Ghana, Niger, Kenya and Mozambique.
• Implementation of the "Adapting to the Impacts of Rapid Glacier Retreat in
the Andes" Project (PRAA) is now underway in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
• CARE's Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) Handbook has
been adopted by peer organizations like WWF and has received input from
many donor organizations like the World Bank and USAID.
• CARE's Toolkit for Integrating Adaptation into Projects and Toolkit for
Designing Community-Based Adaptation Projects have been developed and
will be launched in June.
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Accomplishments – Carbon finance
• CARE and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance
(CCBA) have developed social and environmental quality
standards for national/sub-national Reduced Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) and other forest
carbon programs.
• Funding has been secured for a large-scale reduced
deforestation project in Indonesia. CARE Indonesia and Australia
are responsible for community-level interventions and processes.
• Funding has been secured by CARE Tanzania for a nearly US$5
million project to pilot community based forest management and
REDD on the island of Zanzibar.
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Accomplishments – Advocacy
• CARE in Alliance with the Southern Voices program have trained staff and jointly
managed to include language in UNFCC documents that allows for the
protection of poor and vulnerable people’s rights and needs as regard to
Adaptation and REDD in the Climate Agreement.
• CARE commissioned a series of studies on Adaptation and REDD to back our
positions:
• Pro-poor Governance of International Adaptation funding;
• Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change (“Hotspots Report”);
• In Search of Shelter (“Migration Study”);
• Climate Change, Food Security and Hunger report (IASC Publication);
• Policy Brief on vulnerability among pastoralist communities in Ethiopia;
• Climate Change Impacts on Livelihoods of Poor and Vulnerable
Communities and Biodiversity;
• Conservation: A Case Study in Banke, Bardia, Dhading and Rasuwa
Districts of Nepal.
• In the U.S. CARE and its allies played an important role in securing language in
the Waxman-Markey bill to advocate for the protection of poor and vulnerable
people’s rights and needs with regards to Adaptation and REDD.
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Accomplishments – CARE-WWF Alliance
• Vision and Principles in place
• Successful joint implementation of the first phase of the
Primeiras and Segundas (P&S) project in Mozambique (still
on-going)
• Two core programs designed and in implementation: Coastal
Program (P&S as foundation) and “Rural Futures”
• Agreed Alliance structure
• Joint Climate Change Advocacy activities
• Twelve other examples of joint work between CARE and WWF
underway or under discussion across the world.
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CARE-WWF Alliance Next steps
• Implement the agreed Alliance structure.
• Consolidate all non-programmatic aspects of the relationship
with WWF, i.e. joint advocacy, marketing and communication
and fundraising.
• Implement second phase of Primeiras and Segundas, as part
of Coastal East Africa program.
• Implement Rural Futures program, which focuses on the
integration of climate, development and environment.
• Finally, support the development of innovative collaborative
interventions across the world. Learn from a variety of
interventions that adhere to our principles and vision, with the
goal of refining the Alliance’s approaches based on continuous
learning.
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The Future
• CI Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network
(PECCN) proposed to become first CI Center of Expertise
(CoE) under CARE Denmark leadership.
• CARE International consolidates its position as a leader on
issues of poverty caused by climate change.
• CARE USA support to new CoE, via direct investment in
PECCN and by investing in its own capacity to support global
work on climate change is seen as a key assumption for CoE
success.
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CARE USA Focus and Contributions to CI Strategy
• The link between Climate Change and Food Security, with a focus on
Women’s Empowerment
– 1 billion people in the world, the majority female, are already
experiencing chronic food insecurity. This situation will be exacerbated by
climate change.
• Programmatically this link means a focus on:
– Women’s empowerment
– Climate-smart agriculture that can increase productivity, enhance
climate resilience and mitigate green house gases
– Integrated water resource management
– Improved land used planning and management at landscape level
– Expanded adaptation and carbon finance interventions.
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CARE USA Focus and Contributions to CI Strategy
• In 2010 and beyond, CARE will more deliberately make the
link for policymakers between:
- Climate Change
- Women’s Empowerment
- Global Hunger
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Justification for CARE USA focus on the nexus of food
security, climate change and women empowerment
• Strong brand and organizational program focus on women
empowerment
• Strong support for climate change from COs.
• The largest number of long-term programs across COs, 25 in total,
under implementation or development, are dealing with food security,
climate change, and natural resource management.
• CARE has a long standing reputation and tradition of working on
food security and a growing position of leadership on climate change
adaptation and carbon finance interventions .
• The CARE-WWF Alliance offers important opportunities to leverage
resources, policies and technical skills
• The donor environment, both private and institutional, for climate
change and food security is very favorable and continuing to
improve, e.g. Feed The Future
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Next steps
• To consolidate CARE USA’s investment in climate change and food
security:
–Invest up to $600,000 over the next 2 FYs to support the core
coordinating team for the CARE-WWF Alliance and maintain
current momentum;
– Identify fundraising targets and prioritize donors for advancing
the CARE-WWF Alliance;
– Consolidate our capacity on food security and climate change
advocacy.
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