Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Tanzania

Project Title

Developing core capacity to address adaptation to climate change in productive coastal zones

Project factsheet

Description

The project aims to help Tanzania to implement a set of urgent adaptation needs, particularly along the coasts, while also addressing remaining institutional gaps for adaptation. The main technical assistance activities include training on livelihood planning, vulnerability assessments, revision of land use policies to integrate climate adaptation, strengthening of civil society and community organizations’ capacity on climate change activities, support to curriculum development, and provision of internship programs. Project investments include mangrove restoration, setting up water harvesting systems, relocating salinized wells, and reconstructing and upgrading coastal infrastructure such as sea walls, groynes, dikes, and spillways. The project is executed by the Vice President’s Office and in partnership with UNOPS.

The project was designed and implemented together with its sister project “Implementation of concrete adaptation measures to reduce vulnerability of livelihoods and economy of coastal communities of Tanzania” financed by the Adaptation Fund. The investments and technical assistance in this project focus on the coastal regions of Rufiji, Pangani, Bagamoyo, and two areas in Zanzibar. The AF project, on the other hand, has site locations in Zanzibar.

Project website.

Media & Resources

• Lessons Learned: Climate Adaptation in Tanzania with Ecosystem Restoration & Flood Defence Infrastructure
• Story: New Walls Aim to Hold Back Rising Seas off Tanzania – Scientific American
• Story: Rising Sea-levels, How to stop a city from sinking – UN Environment
• Press release: Tanzanian Vice-President applauds seawall project in major push for adaptation – UN Environment
• Story: Beyond the Seawall – Chesko’s story – UNOPS
• Story: Beyond the Seawall – To Live and Learn - UNOPS
• Story: Seawalls in Tanzania Build Climate Resilience – IISD
• Video: Tanzania – Seawall project – UN Environment
• Story: Drink salty water or go thirsty? Climate change hits Tanzanian school children - UN Environment
• Story: 'Seawater is coming into our farms and killing the plants' - UN Environment
• Project factsheet
• GEF project webpage
• Terminal Evaluation 2019
• Find more climate adaptation resources and multimedia

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For more information about the project or UNEP’s work in climate adaptation, contact us here UNEP-Climate-Adaptation@un.org