Namibia
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Knowledge partnerCountry of registrationZimbabweRelation to CTCNNetwork MemberSector(s) of expertiseInfrastructure and Urban planningWaterAgriculture and forestryIndustry
Ali-Douglas Research Network is a non-profit, social science research network that aims at promoting information creation and sharing amongst Southern African institutions. The vision of the network is to be a leader in knowledge creation for social transformation.
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Climate change is likely to exacerbate the dry conditions already experienced in Southern Africa; but these predictions gain little policy attention in Southern African countries. This paper discusses how Namibia must take steps to provide some economic indicators of how climate change will affect the country and ensure that all its policies and activities are ‘climate proofed’.It is pointed out that poor nations suffer most of the effects of climate change because of limited financial resources, skills and technologies and high levels of poverty.
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The second edition of the WISIONS publication ‘Sustainble Energy for Poverty Reduction’ describes a range of projects that contribute to this end. One is the community-based adaptation project Solar Pintadas.
The aim of this project is to support rural development and entrepreneurship by increasing agricultural production through an efficient irrigation system driven by renewable energy. The project achieves this by using photovoltaic and biodiesel water pumps to improve local irrigation systems.
Other projects described are in India, the Philippines, Namibia and Brazil. -
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Using Namibia as a case study, IIED has begun a programme attempting to quantify the adverse economic impacts that climate change is having on developing countries.The article highlights initial conclusions from their study of Namibia which found that climate change is likely to exacerbate the dry conditions already experienced in southern Africa with rainfall, when it does come, being in bursts of greater intensity leading to erosion and flood damage. Poverty implications for rural communities will be acute.
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This report is a compilation of the community photostories below. It outlines ResourceAfrica UK's aim of bridging the knowledge and information gap and highlights how photostories can be used as a climate change vulnerability assessment tool. They are innovative, inclusive and fun ways of detecting community vulnerabilities. The photostories presented were instrumental in guiding ResourceAfrica UK's climate change communication interventions in each country.
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Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia.
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This report is an exploratory study on scaling up and scaling out the GEF SGP community-based adaptation (CBA) project, implemented by UNDP.
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Regional climate change projections for southern Africa indicate that global warming is likely to lead to greater increases in annual mean temperatures than the global average. This means increasing rainfall intensities, decreasing frequencies of low intensity (soft soaking) rainfall and longer dry periods between rainfall events, resulting in more severe droughts, floods and heatwaves, which will, in turn, lead to greater food insecurity in the region. This paper assesses the water-energy nexus in southern Africa in the context of climate change.