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Outline. 1.0 Background and Introduction 2.0 NAPA of Liberia 2.1 Rationale for NAAPA 2.2 Introduction and Setting 2.2.1 Country Profile 2.2.2 National Circumstances 2.3 Framework for Adaptation Programme 2.4 Identification of Key Adaptations Needs

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  1. Outline 1.0 Background and Introduction 2.0 NAPA of Liberia 2.1 Rationale for NAAPA 2.2 Introduction and Setting 2.2.1 Country Profile 2.2.2 National Circumstances 2.3 Framework for Adaptation Programme 2.4 Identification of Key Adaptations Needs 2.5 Criteria for Selecting Priority Activities 2.6 List of Priority Activities 2.7 NAPA Preparation Process 2.7.1 Institutional Arrangement 2.7.2 Synthesis of Information 2.7.3 Stakeholders Consultation 2.7.4 Endorsement of NAPAs 2.8 Challenges 2.9 Recommendation and Way forward

  2. 1.0 Background and Introduction Liberia: ratified the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol in 2002 respectively UNFCCC Decision • Decision 29/CP:7: Established the Least Developed Countries Expert Group(LEG) • Decision 4/CP.11: Extension of LEG Mandate until 2007 Financing • GEF/UNEP made available US$200,000 Institutional Arrangement • EPA Liberia executed the project • Steering Committee • Multi-Integrated Assessment Team(MIAT) • Project Management Team • National Experts/Consultants Methodology • NAPA Annotated Guideline • Stakeholder Consultations-Bottom to Top Approach • National Consultants’ Reports • Literature Review

  3. 2.0 NAPA of Liberia Executive Summary • Introduction and Setting • Framework for Adaptation Programme • Identification of Key Adaptation Needs • Criteria for Selecting Priority Projects • List of Priority Projects • NAPA Preparation Process Annex 1: Profiles of Institutions in the Stakeholder Consultation Process Annex 2: Highest Priority Project Profiles

  4. 2.1 Rationale for NAPA • To enhance national adaptive capacity needs • To Produce national adaptation programme of action • To generate consultation at the grass root level • To address urgent and immediate needs due to the adverse effects of climate change • To assess current vulnerability and local coping strategies at the community levels and use that to identify immediate priority actions

  5. 2.2 Introduction and Setting Environmental Problems and Stresses • Deforestation • Land Degradation/Soil Erosion • Loss of biodiversity • Tropical storm • Coastal erosion • Flood • Water and sanitation

  6. 2.2.1 Country Profile

  7. 2.2.2 National Circumstances

  8. 2.3 Framework for Adaptation Programme Significance of Climate Climate risks pose a serious challenge to emerging development activities in Liberia • Agriculture • Forestry • Fisheries • Public Health • Water Resources

  9. Framework for Adaptation Programme cont’d Vulnerability to Climate Variability • Changing rainfall pattern • Flood • Increase in temperature • Tropical Storm • Sea Level Rise

  10. Projection of future climate change over Liberia

  11. Framework for Adaptation Programme cont’d Potential Impacts of Climate Change Agriculture • Decrease in crop yield • Increase in pest infestation, weeds and animal diseases • Extinction of species(long term) Forestry • Slow tree growth • Longer period of rain- death of certain tree species(South East) and Northwest forest blocks

  12. Framework for Adaptation Programme cont’d Fisheries • Changing water temperatures and rainfall patterns – decline level of certain fish species Public Health • Changes in rainfall and temperature patterns – result to increase level of waterborne diseases(malaria, cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever etc.

  13. 2.4 Identification of key adaptation needs Adaptation options identified from the following: • Vulnerability and adaptation report • Synergy Assessment Report • Stakeholder Consultations(Bottom – Top Approach)

  14. 2.5 Criteria for Selecting Priority Activities • Level or degree of adverse effects of climate change • Poverty reduction to enhance adaptive capacity • Synergy with other Multilateral Environmental Agreements to which Liberia is a party • Cost Effectiveness(quantitative; expressed in cost per million units

  15. 2.6 List of Priority Activities • Multi-Criteria Analysis(MCA)-scoring, weighting and ranking 28 Adaptation Projects proposed by stakeholders initially Validation Forum • 8 highest prioritized projects emerged: Agriculture:Integrated crop and livestock farming

  16. List of Priority Activities Contd. Forestry and wetlands: Switching from fossil fuel based to biomass based energy products Energy: Promoting energy efficiency and conservation Water: Awareness and sensitization about the importance of water resource management Coastal Zones: Development of an integrated coastal zone management Meteorological: Rebuilding the national meteorological monitoring network Public Health: Use of insecticide treated materials (ITMs) Three Urgent and Immediate Adaptation Priorities • Integrated cropping/livestock farming • Improved monitoring of climate change • Coastal defence systems of Monrovia, Buchanan and Robertsport

  17. 2.7 NAPA Preparation Process • Institutional Arrangement • Synthesis of Information • Stakeholder Consultation • Endorsement of NAPAs

  18. 2.7.1Institutional Arrangement NAPA National Steering Committee • Steering Committee members: Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy,Permanent Representative of Liberia to WMO, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ministry of Planning and Economics Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Society Against Environmental Degradation(SAED), Ministry of Agriculture, Save My Future Foundation(SAFE), University of Liberia, UNDP, Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia, Food and Agriculture Organization,World Vision-Liberia, Liberia Electricity Corporation,Ministry of Gender and Development Liberia Indigenous Forum for the Environment(LIFE), Social Enterprise Development of West Africa. Multi-disciplinary Integrated Assessment Team(MIAT): • Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Gender and Development, University of Liberia, Liberia Electricity Corporation, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Roberts International Airport, Society Against Environmental Degradation(SAED) Project Management Team • Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, Accountant and Secretary

  19. 2.7.2 Synthesis of Information • Technical Reports on Vulnerability and Adaptation, Reconstruction Development Plan, Projects prepared by national consultants, Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), National Environmental Policy, Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers

  20. 2.7.3 Stakeholders Consultation Inception workshop in Monrovia

  21. 2.7.4 Endorsement of NAPAs • Following series of consultation workshops, the Draft final NAPA report was discussed in a national workshop held in Monrovia. • The document was improved by incorporating comments and suggestions made during the national workshop • Steering Committee reviewed and approved the NAPA document • The NAPA document was officially approved and signed by The House of Representatives Committee on Land, Mines Energy & Environment and the Chairman of the Environmental Policy Council (Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy). • NAPA document was submitted to the UNFCCC in July 2008

  22. 2.8 Challenges CAPACITY GAPS • Lack of professionals with technical expertise on climate change due to mass exodus during crisis (brain drain) • Lack of infrastructures for data collection and monitoring. Institutions which collected data prior to the war got destroyed, losing all available data • Inadequate public awareness on the impacts of climate change

  23. 2.9 Recommendation & Way Forward • Creating enabling environment by rebuilding institutions responsible for climate data collection and monitoring • Sustained public awareness and sensitization • Human resource capacity building (training) to enhance research and studies on climate change activities in Liberia, including the development of climate change related scenarios • Enhancing information sharing and technology transfer

  24. Recommendation & Way Forward cont’d • Climate change is a serious and on-going threat to development and livelihood in Least Developed Countries like Liberia. It will add burdens to those who are already poor and vulnerable, making poverty eradication an elusion. • Adaptation is the only way forward. However, in the absence of limited funding to address adaptation options identified in the NAPA process the entire effort of addressing impacts of climate change in the country will remain a charade.

  25. Recommendation & Way Forward cont’d • Against this background, the concerted effort of stakeholders is what is required for urgent action to implement priority NAPA projects. The following institutional and financial framework provides opportunity for achieving such: Adaptation Funding under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol • Special climate change fund • Least Developed Countries (LDCs) fund • Adaptation fund to finance adaptation projects and programs under Kyoto protocol Trust funds of the GEF Bilateral donors

  26. July 20 2008rainfall disaster in Monrovia • 24 hour rainfall recorded at the Liberian hydrological station • 419.5mm • Impact ( Monrovia and its enviorns)

  27. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!

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