African Initiative for Combating Desertification to Strengthen Resilience to Climate Change in the Sahel and Horn of Africa Kenichi Shishido Deputy Director, Global Environment Department, JICA Shishido.Kenichi@jica.go.jp
BACKGROUND Desertification in Shale and Horn of Africa; - Poverty, food insecurity, climate change, water shortage - Instability: Extreme violence, refugees Combating Desertification is important and urgent issue for sustainable development of the countries and peace and stability of the region and the world However Insufficient international attention and finance for combating desertification in the region Knowledge for combating desertification is not well accumulated in the countries Launch a new initiative for combating desertification with African ownership
DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN INITIATIVE Kick-Off Preparat ion Official Launch We are here! Oct. 2015 UNCCD-COP12 Side event Ankara, Turkey, Co-hosted by Kenya, Senegal & JICA July 2016 TICAD VI Preparatory Meeting Nairobi, Kenya, by Kenya & JICA August 2016 TICAD VI High-Level Side Event Nairobi, Kenya, by Kenya, Senegal, JICA, & UNCCD January 2017 Regional Seminar for Horn of Africa Nairobi, Kenya, by Kenya & JICA
OFFICIAL LAUNCH AT TICAD VI 27 August 2016, Nairobi
OBJECTIVES AND OUTPUTS Objectives Objectives: To contribute to 1) make nations and communities resilient to climate change by promoting measures for combating desertification 2) raise awareness of the international community to desertification Duration: August 2016-2022 Output 1: Networking Output 2: Knowledge-sharing Senegal for Sahel Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Hub-country Kenya for Horn of Africa Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Somalia South Sudan Sudan Output 3: Improving access to finance Harmonization Other Initiatives
TENTATIVE ACTIVITY OF THE AFRICAN INITIATIVE Workshops for networking, knowledge-sharing and facilitating the access to finance High-level events on the occasion of international conferences for urging further international responses to desertification and climate change Developing useful tools to promote networking / knowledge-sharing / access to finance Others * Any activities can be implemented jointly or harmonized with other related initiatives
PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS Co-organizers Government of Kenya: Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Horn of Africa) Government of Senegal: National Food Security Council, JICA and UNCCD (Sahel) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)* United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) * Partner Organizations Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Global Environment Facility (GEF) Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) (TBC) African Union (TBC) * As of August, 2016. Any organization that wish to contribute to the Initiative are welcomed. Secretariat Global Environment Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)*
JICA S INPUTS TO AFRICAN INITIATIVE Country Title Contents of related Component Duration & C/P Kenya TC: Capacity Development Project for Sustainable Forest Management in the Republic of Kenya (CADEP) Collect good practice for strengthening the resilience to climate change and drought and share it in the region * In component 5: Regional cooperation May, 2016 May, 2021 Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) and Ministry of Environment Senegal Sahel / Horn of Africa TC: Project for Reinforcement of Resilience in Senegal Training Course in Japan: Combating Desertification to Strengthen Resilience to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Regional cooperation: to be discussed 2017-2022 Executive Secretariat of National Council for Food Security (SECNSA) Enhance participants capacity for promoting measure to combat desertification 2017-2019 10 participants x 3 years
TIME FRAME 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 TICAD VI (Kenya) TICAD VII? TICAD VIII? UNCCD COP13 UNCCD COP14? UNCCD COP15? 2017 March 1-3: Regional Seminar for Sahel (Senegal) September: UNCCD COP13 (China) November: 1 st JICA Training Course in Japan Events in the Horn of Africa next presentation
TICAD VI Nairobi Declaration We acknowledge that addressing climate change, the loss of natural resources, desertification, El Nino, natural disasters, as well as forced displacement, in a timely manner is essential to achieve social stability.
What can we discuss? How we can maintain and extend network? How we can collect good practices / lesson learns? How we can share knowledge to wider stakeholders? How we can improve access to finance of partner countries? How we can approach higher and political level?