Project Title
Building Climate Resilience in the Landscapes of the Kigoma Region of Tanzania
Key Figures
- Budget: $19 million (+ $4.6 million in cofinance)
- Executing entity: Vice President’s Office of Tanzania and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Area rehabilitated: 261,000 hectares of forest and agroecological ecosystems improved and conserved
- Beneficiaries: 1.2 million (570,000 directly)
- Fund: Green Climate Fund
- Timeframe: 2024-2029
Description
The project targets Tanzania’s Kigoma region – on the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika – hosting a population of approximately 2.3 million and an additional 250,000 refugees from neighbouring countries, the majority of whom live in the refugee camps of Nduta and Nyarugusu. These settlements, which were rapidly established in response to critical humanitarian needs, have added to the population pressures on the degraded surrounding ecosystems.
The initiative is set to be a flagship approach on the practice of using nature-based solutions and ecosystem restoration as a holistic strategy to adapt to climate change - technically referred to as ecosystem-based adaptation - especially in landscapes hosting displaced populations. Climate-resilient land use planning, forestry, agriculture, water security, flood control and policy interventions will be implemented in an integrated landscape approach.
Tanzania currently hosts around 250,000 refugees, mainly from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Media & Resources
- Press Release: Tanzania builds climate resilience in major push to restore landscapes hosting displaced populations
- Green Climate Fund webpage
- Funding proposal
- Publication: A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons From the UN Environment Programme
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