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Dr. Sumaya Ahmed Zaki-Eldeen Institute of Environmental Studies

Second AIACC African and Indian Ocean Island Regional Workshop Dakar 24-27 March 2004 Sudan AIACC- AF14 : How communities of Western Sudan have coped with and adapted to present climate hazards. Dr. Sumaya Ahmed Zaki-Eldeen Institute of Environmental Studies

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Dr. Sumaya Ahmed Zaki-Eldeen Institute of Environmental Studies

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  1. Second AIACC African and Indian Ocean Island Regional Workshop Dakar 24-27 March 2004Sudan AIACC-AF14: How communities of Western Sudan have coped with and adapted to present climate hazards Dr. Sumaya Ahmed Zaki-Eldeen Institute of Environmental Studies Khartoum Universityzakields@yahoo.com

  2. The CBRR Project • Villages in the drought-prone Bara Province, Western Sudan • Approach: Community-Based Rangeland Rehabilitation • Two main development objectives: • Create locally sustainable NRM system to rehabilitate overexploited lands for the purpose of carbon sequestration • Reduce the risk of production failure by increasing the number of livelihood alternatives… leading to greater local stability • Key Actors: Villages within Gireigikh rural council, pilot project staff, UNDP/GEF

  3. Major intervention OF CBRRP: A group of villages undertook a package of SL measures. These included: • Institution Building • Training • Community Development: Water development, Rural energy management, Introduction of revolving credit, Drought contingency planning • Rangeland Rehabilitation: Replanting, Stabilization of sand dunes, Creation of windbreaks, Livestock restocking and management

  4. Methods for assessing adaptive capacity, adaptation options and uncertainties • Sustainable Livelihoods Framework and its concept of the five capitals has been used • These capitals were assessed based on three main dimensions productivity, equity and sustainability. Risk dimension was also considered

  5. Cont. • A number of indicators have been identified with the community for three dimensionsfor the five capitals • An assessment sheet was used to compare the situation before and after the intervention of the CBRRP • Word picture

  6. Results:Productivity:Natural capital:

  7. Financial Capital

  8. Human Capital

  9. Physical Capital

  10. Social Capital

  11. Sustainability:Natural Capital

  12. Financial Capital

  13. Human Capital

  14. Physical Capital

  15. Social Capital

  16. Equity • Chances of marginalized groups (women, poor, kawahla tribe) increased significantly particularly with regard to: • access to grazing land • access to credit • access to social services • access to training • participation in decision-making.

  17. Overall change in the resilience of the five capitals 70

  18. Are strategies for coping/adapting to present climate hazards transferable to adapting to future climate change?

  19. Factors that are most responsible for uncertainties (risk) about adaptive capacity and the effectivenessof adaptation options: • Government policies • lack of finance • Migration of trained people • Immigration (settlement of other tribes) • Conflict over resources

  20. Thank You

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