Adaptive Governance: Social, Ecological and Agricultural Resilience in the face of Climate cHange (SEARCH )

1. Adaptive Governance: Social, Ecological and Agricultural Resilience in the face of Climate cHange (SEARCH) This project is funded by Dr. Amr AbdelMeguid CEDARE

2. Operational Principles for Adaptive Governance • Empowering local communities • Developing human capacities • Encouraging grass-root participation • Instigating stakeholders dialogue for concerted actions • Facilitating national-to-local and local-to-national reach • StrengtheningGenderbalance • Building partnerships for action • Providingpracticalinformationforpolicymakers • Learning by doing • Building on local knowledge • Ensuring accountability and promoting responsibility • Documenting processes and disseminating lessons learned

3. SEARCH SEARCH is a three year regional project to develop a resilience framework for local action planning and to increase climate resilience through joint learning, and testing by stakeholders in demonstration sites

4. SEARCHworking in five countries Morocco Palestine Lebanon EGYPT Jordan

5. Jordan - The Zarqa River - one of the most 5 water scarce countries Morocco - The Oued el Kebir Watershed - degraded vegetative cover Palestine - MarjSanour Watershed - environmental problems, floods and drought Egypt – Ehnasia in BeniSuef & Samalout in Minya – poorest areas in Egypt and lowest development levels Lebanon - Akkar/Hermel Region - rich ecosystems,forests and drought Location of Action

6. SEARCH Partners

7. SEARCH Partners

8. Pressure on natural resources has grown sharply as a result of the impact of the climate change Other Emerging factors such as increase in population, per-capita demand and competing demands of other sectors Water have been traditionally managed in a highly centralized manner, which failed to integrate the ecosystem management and satisfy the end users needs Problem Definition

9. Increase social and ecological resilience in watershed ecosystems in the face of climate and other drivers of change SEARCH Overall Objective

10. SEARCH Approach • Participatory Planning Cycle (PPC) - The PPC is a framework that works at different levels  • The resilience PPC focus on visioning, creating detailed strategies and policy recommendations for ecosystem management in watersheds • Stakeholders dialogue for concerted actions

11. Adaptive Governance - The Participatory Planning Cycle

12. Visioning: initial visioning and problem identification Assessing: targeted data collection and analysis; creation of a shared information base Strategizing: scenario building and development of strategies to meet the vision under different scenarios Planning: detailed planning based on most likely scenarios and related strategies Implementing: execution of plans and (pilot) projects Reflecting: analysis of monitoring and process documentation to inform further planning cycles

13. National committees National Level Government, universities, civilsociety Intermediate level (governorate/Watershed) Governorate level Facilitation teams teams Localgovernment, line Facilitation ministries, NGOs Documentation Technicalsupport Capacitybuilding Village Level CBOs Women, agricultural, domestic, others … Stakeholders Dialogue for Concerted Actions

14. Activities

15. Resilience Vision

16. Awareness raising • Capacity building Self organization Learning

17. Stakeholders Analysis • Local stakeholders identified at the watershed level • Power relations, interests, and influence on the watershed and ecosystem services • Stakeholders categorized according to roles in the watershed management (primary and secondary)

18. Problem Identification • Problems affecting livelihoods identified at the watershed level • Problems identified such as: • reduction in crop production, • Increased irrigation requirements, • shifts in crop seasons, • growth of undesired plants, • increased power consumption • etc.

19. Gov. stakeholders and communities brought together to develop strategies, implement activities Stakeholders (any group or individual) play important role in the development of the local community area Local communities involved in the decision making process and in adopting systems essential for sustainability • Dialogue for Concerted Actions sense of ownership responsibility Sustainable Infrastructure

20. Resilience Assessment

21. Strategies • Establishing, supporting and building capacities of community based organizations (water boards, water users associations, agricultural cooperatives) • Building technical and scientific capacities of government institutions • Narrowing the gaps between government stakeholders and communities • IWRM / decentralization of decision making • Access to Information (meteorological, landuse, crop distribution, etc.) • Sustaining dialogue at all levels • Building partnerships and mobilizing financial resources

22. Planning • Developing cropping calendars • Training on water conservation • Weeds control • Cultivation of low water consumption and high economic value crops • Land leveling • …..

23. Results • Capacities and knowledge of local community and stakeholders, are increased through action learning • Local action planning for climate change adaptation • Institutional capacities and coordination is demonstrated towards ecosystem resilience

24. Expected Results • Climate vulnerabilities reduced by pilot implementation of local actions in demonstration watersheds. • Practical guidelines jointly developed and applied with policy makers to contribute to national and sectoral strategies and plans for climate change adaptation

25. Expected Results • Improved Governance for better Ecosystem management and services in the watershed • Communities in the watershed become more resilient to climate change and water problems • Improved agricultural productivity for better livelihood conditions

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