The development objective of the Second Phase of Strengthening Climate Resilience Project for Zambia is to strengthen Zambia’s institutional framework for climate resilience and improve the adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities in the Barotse sub-basin. The project has three components. The first component is strategic national program support. This component aims to strengthen the national institutional and financial framework for climate resilience for providing the basis for long-term transformational change in Zambia and helping support the secretariat’s umbrella role in overseeing and monitoring the national program and in particular the Strategic Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (SPCR). It includes the following two sub-components: (i) institutional support to national climate change program; and (ii) strengthened climate information. The second component is support to participatory adaptation. This component will strengthen the adaptive capacity of vulnerable rural communities in the Barotse sub-basin, through: facilitation and strengthening of community decision-making; technical support to Western Province and district councils; and incremental project management support to Western Province and district councils. The third component is pilot participatory adaptation. This component will fund actual participatory adaptation investments in the Barotse sub-basin. It includes following three sub-components: (1) community adaptation sub-grants; (2) adaptation contingency fund; and (3) rehabilitation and strengthened management of traditional canals.