How to do note: Formulating a CR-CVP - Lessons from Brazil
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The document discusses key lessons from Brazil on formulating community-level climate resilience and vulnerability reduction programs (CR-CVPs). It outlines challenges faced such as lack of awareness, knowledge, and organization. Successful programs in Brazil took a broader, basin-level approach and engaged communities through territorial investment plans. Networks of cooperatives and empowering youth were important program constituents. Small-scale technologies, ecosystem restoration, and social control commissions strengthened implementation and outcomes. Assessing impacts on livelihoods, poverty, and ecosystems is crucial for evaluating CR-CVP progress. A multidimensional, socioecological resilience framework coupled with technical assistance is recommended for effective climate resilience initiatives.
How to do note: Formulating a CR-CVP - Lessons from Brazil
- 1. HOW TO DO NOTE: FORMULATING A CR-CVP Lessons from Brazil Alexandra Teixeira Rural Development Specialist 08 February 2023
- 2. Challenges Key constraints • lack of awareness of climate change and its impacts • limited knowledge of how to adapt productive system at different stakeholder levels • poor community organization and institutional set-ups for NRM • lack of proper capacity-building • inadequate access to technical assistance and rural extension • weak mechanisms to coordinate collective learning and adaptive actions • low ownership by the community Community-level approach may be insufficient a broader strategy may be needed (basin level etc.) Example: Pró-Semiárido Project (PSA, Brazil) participatory targeting strategy • subprojects organized in rural territories, composed of 3 to 4 contiguous/nearby communities • Territorial Investment Plans diagnosis of the territory’s environmental, social & productive status • participation, effective targeting, demand-driven investments
- 3. Key constituents of CR-CVPs Networks of cooperatives • Central da Caatinga Network (Bahia) connects family farming cooperatives to markets in Brazil / global • Provides technologies and commercial solutions • strategic commercial spaces specialized in the diversity of products from family farming & solidarity economy Youth (PSA) • youth from the communities act as Rural Community Agents (ACRs) • strengthen local organizations & support implementation of project activities • assure community ownership, proximity & trust • Income and job opportunities for youth Youth (PVSA) • integrated through Family Farming Schools (escola família agrícola) • Training in nutrition education, climate-resilience practices & development of nurseries and agroforestry systems • Field days sensitization on importance of preserving Caatinga biome
- 4. IFAD’s best practices in Brazil PRIORITIZATION OF ADAPTATION OPTION Small-scale Social Technologies (ST) for Climate-Resilient Agriculture small-scale water-and-energy access interventions • household cisterns • underground dams • greywater reuse systems • Biodigesters • efficient eco-stoves • wind and solar systems ST: low-cost, developed and applied in the interaction with the population, largely and successfully tested, frequently managed by women and allow improving living conditions. significant production diversification, directly impacting on dietary patterns, nutritional status of families, increase in food security & income
- 5. IFAD’s best practices in Brazil PRIORITIZATION OF ADAPTATION OPTION Re-Caatingamento • recover degraded areas, restore & conserve the biodiversity / ecosystem services of the Caatinga biome • active participation of the community responsible for soil preparation, fencing, building plant nurseries, producing & planting seedlings recognition of communities as "guardians of the Caatinga“ empowering youth formation of strategic forage reserves protection of water resources adding-value to local biodiversity products income-generating activities strengthening and valuing the traditional way of life of Fundo de Pasto communities
- 6. IFAD’s best practices in Brazil IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CR-CVP Social Control Commission • established in the territories • consultative, monitor project, social control of the project activities, mediate conflicts, plan ACR activities, coordination beyond the limits of communities and rural territory • Ensure CR-CVP results in transparent and inclusive decision-making strengthen the role of project participants, guide & raise awareness of social control mechanisms among members and ensure participation & transparency in the implementation of the investment plans are the result of technical assistance aimed at strengthening local capacities crucial to ensuring openness, monitoring and transparency in the processes
- 7. IFAD’s best practices in Brazil ASSESSMENT OF THE CR-CVP’S PROGRESS at Impact Level • outcomes should be shown to be contributing to impacts enhanced livelihoods, decreased poverty & vulnerability, decreased deforestation rate, better nutrition, improved individual & family well-being and biophysical impacts at the ecosystem level Economic-Ecological Analysis of Agroecosystems – the Lume Method • method to calculate the economic return of agroecological investments • identify the project’s contribution to • increasing the autonomy of agroecosystems • social integration of family farming in territorial dynamics of rural development • includes economic, ecological and political relationships often hidden in conventional economic theory
- 8. • CR-CVPs require a comprehensive and integrated multidimensional strategy • Socioecological resilience is essential; strengthening climate resilience is part of a broader human development framework, addressing multiple perspectives (economic, productive, social, environmental, political) • CR-CVPs should support short-cycle production alongside long-term adaptation techniques • Technical assistance in CR-CVPs has transformative potential, enhancing sustainability of investment and diversification in production • Investment in training technical assistance personnel is crucial for effective climate resilience initiatives. Lessons learned and strategic recommendations
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