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Adaptive Governance for a Changing Climate: Government, Communities
ACCRA CASE STUDY JUNE 2017 ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE Government, communities and others working collaboratively in Mozambique to transform climate adaptation planning systems Community members validating their local adaptation plan with district government officials and ACCRA team in Guija district, Mozambique. Photo: Thomas White In Mozambique, climate change has been increasing the vulnerability of rural and urban communities. Droughts, floods and cyclones are more frequent and severe, and sea- levels continue to rise – and the situation is likely to worsen. This has undermined the government’s efforts to achieve its goal of reducing extreme poverty. The approval of the new National Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy (ENAMMC) in 2012 presented an important opportunity for ACCRA to advise the Government of Mozambique and ultimately to effect systemic and institutional change in planning for climate change adaptation. ACCRA also supported MITADER, which is responsible for operationalizing the strategy, with tools, resources and advice on processes. This story of change was developed following an external evaluation of ACCRA’s work in Mozambique, through a series of interviews and a learning history workshop held in October 2016 in Maputo. CONTENTS About ACCRA ............................................................................................................ 3 About this story of change ........................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. 1 The context and key actors: mozambique -
LDPI Working Paper
“I Would Rather Have My Land Back” Subaltern Voices and Corporate/State Land Grab in the Save Valley E. Kushinga Makombe LDPI Working Paper “I Would Rather Have My Land Back”: Subaltern Voices and Corporate/State Land Grab in the Save Valley By E. Kushinga Makombe Published by: The Land Deal Politics Initiative www.iss.nl/ldpi [email protected] in collaboration with: Institute for Development Studies (IDS) University of Sussex Library Road Brighton, BN1 9RE United Kingdom Tel: +44 1273 606261 Fax: +44 1273 621202 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ids.ac.uk Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) P.O. Box 29776 2502 LT The Hague The Netherlands Tel: +31 70 426 0664 Fax: +31 70 426 0799 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.iss.nl/icas The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) School of Government, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17 Bellville 7535, Cape Town South Africa Tel: +27 21 959 3733 Fax: +27 21 959 3732 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.plaas.org.za The Polson Institute for Global Development Department of Development Sociology Cornell University 133 Warren Hall Ithaca NY 14853 United States of America Tel: +1 607 255-3163 Fax: +1 607 254-2896 E-mail: [email protected] Website: polson.cals.cornell.edu © February 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission from the publisher and the author. -
1.3. Potential Small Scale Eco-Tourism in the Limpopo National Park - Support Zone Final Report
MINISTÉRIO DO TURISMO DIRECÇÃO NACIONAL DAS ÁREAS DE CONSERVAÇÃO PARQUE NACIONAL DO LIMPOPO ESTUDO DO POTENCIAL DO USO DE TERRA E CAPACIDADE DE CARGA PARA A POPULAÇÃO DA ZONA DE APOIO DO PARQUE NACIONAL DO LIMPOPO EM MOÇAMBIQUE 1.3. Potential small scale Eco-tourism in the Limpopo National Park - Support Zone Final Report Maputo, 21 December 2012 Index Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................. 3 1. Executive summary ....................................................................................................... 5 2. Terms of reference ........................................................................................................ 6 3. Methodology of field study tour ................................................................................... 8 3.1. Tourism potential in the Limpopo National Park – support zone............................. 8 4. Introduction & Back ground ........................................................................................ 10 5. Findings & analysis ...................................................................................................... 11 5.1. Pafuri tourism traffic statistics 2008/9 - 2010 ......................................................... 11 5.2. Tourism projections for the Limpopo National Park ............................................... 12 5.3. General distances in relation to Limpopo National Park ......................................... 12 5.4. Tourism camping -
Exploring Feasible Yields for Cassava Production for Food and Fuel in the Context of Smallholder Farming Systems in Alto Molócuè, Northern Mozambique
Exploring feasible yields for cassava production for food and fuel in the context of smallholder farming systems in Alto Molócuè, Northern Mozambique Sanne van den Dungen Msc thesis Plant Production Systems June 2010 Wageningen University, The Netherlands 2 Exploring feasible yields for cassava production for food and fuel in the context of smallholder farming systems in Alto Molócuè, Northern Mozambique Sanne van den Dungen MSc Thesis Plant Sciences PPS 80436 36 credits June 2010 Supervisors: Ir. Sander de Vries Dr. Ir. Gerrie van de Ven Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ken E. Giller (Plant Production Systems) Plant Production Systems Group Wageningen University P.O. Box 430, 6700 AK, The Netherlands 3 Preface and acknowledgements From the first contact I had with ir. Sander de Vries, Dr. Ir, Gerrie van de Ven and Prof. Dr. Ken Giller, I was able to express my personal motivations and wishes concerning this thesis. I would especially like to thank Sander and Gerrie for their patience and support during the length of this thesis. I was able to shape the research in, what for me was the reason to come to Wageningen: explorative research on farming systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa. I am very happy to have been able to pursue this dream. There are many people I would like to thank for making the four months of fieldwork research possible, in Northern Mozambique 2009. First of all I would like to thank Sicco Kolijn for his contaminating enthusiasm and motivation. I admire his network and am thankful for the help I received in finding a suitable region for research, for hospitality and concerns. -
Addendum to the Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of DR Congo
Addendum to the report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of DR Congo S/2001/1072 Letter dated 10 November 2001 from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council I wish to refer to the presidential statement dated 3 May 2001 (S/PRST/2001/13), in which the Security Council extended the mandate of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a final period of three months. I also wish to refer to the President's letter, by which the Panel's mandate was extended until 30 November 2001 (S/2001/951), and the Panel was requested to submit, through me, an addendum to its final report. I have the honour to transmit to you the addendum to the report of the Panel, submitted to me by the Chairperson of the Panel. I should be grateful if you would bring the report to the attention of the members of the Security Council. (Signed) Kofi A. Annan Addendum to the report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 I. Introduction 1. By the statement of its President of 2 June 2000 (S/PRST/2000/20), the Security Council requested the Secretary-General to establish a Panel of Experts on the illegal exploitation of the natural resources and other forms of wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the following mandate: (a) To follow up on reports and collect information on all activities of illegal exploitation of natural resources and other forms of wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including in violation of the sovereignty of that country; (b) To research and analyse the links between the exploitation of the natural resources and other forms of wealth in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the continuation of the conflict. -
RDUCROT Baseline Report Limpopo Mozambique
LAND AND WATER GOVERNANCE AND PROPOOR MECHANISMS IN THE MOZAMBICAN PART OF THE LIMPOPO BASIN: BASELINE STUDY WORKING DOCUMENT DECEMBER 2011 Raphaëlle Ducrot Project : CPWF Limpopo Basin : Water Gouvernance 1 SOMMAIRE 1 THE FORMAL INSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK 6 1.1 Territorial and administrative governance 6 1.1.1 Provincial level 6 1.1.2 District level 7 1.1.3 The Limpopo National Park 9 1.2 Land management 11 1.3 Traditional authorities 13 1.4 Water Governance framework 15 1.4.1 International Water Governance 15 1.4.2 Governance of Water Resources 17 a) Water management at national level 17 b) Local and decentralized water institutions 19 ARA 19 The Limpopo Basin Committee 20 Irrigated schemes 22 Water Users Association in Chokwé perimeter (WUA) 24 1.4.3 Governance of domestic water supply 25 a) Cities and peri-urban areas (Butterworth and O’Leary, 2009) 25 b) Rural areas 26 1.4.4 Local water institutions 28 1.4.5 Governance of risks and climate change 28 1.5 Official aid assistance and water 29 1.6 Coordination mechanisms 30 c) Planning and budgeting mechanisms in the water sector (Uandela, 2010) 30 d) Between government administration 31 e) Between donor and government 31 f) What coordination at decentralized level? 31 2 THE HYDROLOGICAL FUNCTIONING OF THE MOZAMBICAN PART OF THE LIMPOPO BASIN 33 2.1 Description of the basin 33 2.2 Water availability 34 2.2.1 Current uses (Van der Zaag, 2010) 34 2.2.2 Water availability 35 2.3 Water related risks in the basin 36 2.4 Other problems 36 2 3 WATER AND LIVELIHOODS IN THE LIMPOPO BASIN 37 3.1 a short historical review 37 3.2 Some relevant social and cultural aspects 40 3.3 Livelihoods in Limpopo basin 42 3.4 Gender aspects 45 3.5 Vulnerability to risks and resilience 46 3.5.1 Water hazards: one among many stressors. -
Drought Response in Mozambique Appeal 2016
SECRETARIAT - 150 route de Ferney, P.O. Box 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland - TEL: +41 22 791 6033 - FAX: +41 22 791 6506 www.actalliance.org Appeal Mozambique Drought Response in Southern Mozambique Appeal Target: US$ 1,831,800 Balance Requested: US$ 1,831,800 Geneva 21st January, 2016 Dear Colleagues, The Mozambican government’s Disaster Management Technical Commission (CTGC) on January 16th, 2016 announced an orange alert, only one step removed from the maximum state of disaster readiness, a red alert. The move was prompted by a combination of torrential rains north of the Zambezi and a severe drought in southern Mozambique. The soils in the north of the country are now saturated, and the weather forecast is for 300 millimetres of rain in the next 15 days in Nampula, Niassa and Cabo Delgado provinces. In Cabo Delgado, the Messalo, Muagide and Megaruma rivers are now all at flood alert level. According to report by SETSAN (National Secretariat Food Security) published in January 2016, 176,000 people are facing worrying food insecurity, additional 575,000 people are at risk of food insecurity by March 2016, and 50,360 people are currently receiving food aid. The worst hit province is Gaza province, and the report indicates that about 77,375 people in Gaza province are currently facing stressed acute food shortages and require humanitarian assistance to help protect their lives, and additional 27,000 people are at risk to pass to this category. ACT forum in Mozambique is planning to attend to 8,940 households with a total population of 47,570 affected communities through food distribution, WASH, Food security through improved agricultural practice and community managed DRR. -
Rautenbach Gets Big Farm
News24 | OLX | PROPERTY24 | CAREERS24 | SPREE | AUTOTRADER | Login / SignUp Search IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Cape Town Sunday 12-17°C More sun than clouds. Brought to Cool. you by: LA ST UPDATED: 2018-06-10, 3 DAY FORECAST 14:35 News Voices Business Sport Water Crisis #GuptaLeaks Lifestyle Video Focus Jobs Property Rautenbach gets big farm MOST READ NEWSC iINty Y OPUrRe sARsEA TOP LIFESTYLE 2010-01-14 00:00 Zuma fuels ANC war Boks edge England in Ellis Park thriller Media24 A Cape Town woman shares how she was scammed into a teaching job in China Bok ratings: ‘Inbound’ boys sparkle! When a gangster is cornered OHANNESBURG — While the campaign to More.. drive white farmers from their farms is being What To Read Next strengthened, the Zimbabwean government Zuma fuels ANC war is giving 100 000 hectares of land to the /News controversial South African businessman Billy Rautenbach for the production of biofuel. When a gangster is cornered WATCH: Defiant Zuma “It’s an absolute scandal, while we’re driven issues stark warning to off our farms like dogs — farms which Islamic fundamentalists sow critics produce food for Zimbabwe,” Charles Taffs, terror in northern deputy chair of the Zimbabwean Farmers’ Mozambique Association, told Beeld yesterday. The Nuanetsi estate in the Masvingo province belongs to the Joshua Nkomo trust, and is not one of the farms that have been taken from white farmers since 2002. “It’s a matter of principle, and not because Rautenbach is white or about white farmers. He’s big buddies with Mugabe’s Zanu-PF. It’s all about money. -
Zimbabwe: a Strategy of Tension
UNHCR Centre for Documentation and Research WRITENET Paper No. 04/2000 ZIMBABWE: A STRATEGY OF TENSION By Richard Carver Independent Researcher Oxford, United Kingdom July 2000 WriteNet is a Network of Researchers and Writers on Human Rights, Forced Migration, Ethnic and Political Conflict WriteNet is a Subsidiary of Practical Management (UK) E-mail: [email protected] THIS PAPER WAS PREPARED MAINLY ON THE BASIS OF PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION, ANALYSIS AND COMMENT. ALL SOURCES ARE CITED. THE PAPER IS NOT, AND DOES NOT PURPORT TO BE, EITHER EXHAUSTIVE WITH REGARD TO CONDITIONS IN THE COUNTRY SURVEYED, OR CONCLUSIVE AS TO THE MERITS OF ANY PARTICULAR CLAIM TO REFUGEE STATUS OR ASYLUM. THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THE PAPER ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHOR AND ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF WRITENET OR UNHCR. ISSN TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................................1 2. ORIGINS OF THE PRESENT CRISIS............................................................................................1 2.1 THE MATABELELAND CRISIS...........................................................................................................1 2.2 ECONOMIC CRISIS ...........................................................................................................................3 2.3 LAND ..............................................................................................................................................4 2.4 CONCENTRATION OF POLITICAL -
Zimbabwe's Resource Colonialism in Democratic Republic of Congo
“[OSLEG has] the resources to protect and defend, support logistically, and assist generally in the development of commercial ventures to explore, research, exploit and market the mineral, timber, and other resources held by the state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” Extract from the partnership agreement between the Zimbabwean company OSLEG and the Kinshasha based Comiex-Congo, whose majority shareholder was Laurent Desire Kabila, former president of the DRC. Global Witness Ltd P O Box 6042, London N19 5WP, United Kingdom telephone: + 44 (0)20 7272 6731 fax: + 44 (0)20 7272 9425 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.globalwitness.org/ ISBN 1 903304 05 9 Recommendations contained on page 2 2nd edition: Updated February 2002 Branching Out Zimbabwe’s Resource Colonialism in Democratic Republic of Congo A Report by Global Witness. February 2002 Branching Out – Zimbabwe’s Resource Colonialism in Democratic Republic of Congo 40 20 ∞ ∞ 0∞ 20∞ 40∞ 60 ∞ Contents 40∞ 40∞ Recommendations M e d Algiers i t e Tunis r r TUNISIA a Rabat n Madeira Is. e a n S e Preface (PORTUGAL) a MOROCCO Tripoli Canary Is. Cairo (SPAIN) ALGERIA Introduction Laayoun LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA EGYPT Western Sahara The timber deal R e d S 20 e 20 ∞ MAURITANIA a ∞ . The creation of SOCEBO CAPE VERDE Nouakchott NIGER MALI ERITREA Dakar CHAD Khartoum Praia Asmara . Supporting information SENEGAL Niamey Lake GAMBIA Bamako Chad n Banjul SUDAN Ade BURKINA FASO f of Socotra N'Djamena DJIBOUTI Gul Bissau (YEMEN) Ouagadougou Djibouti GUINEA-BISSAU GUINEA . Will the deal happen as planned? B E NIGERIA G T Conakry H N ETHIOPIA O C‘TE- A I Freetown G N Abuja N A D'IVOIRE A O Addis Ababa SIERRA CENTRAL I LEONE Yamoussoukro L Monrovia Accra AFRICAN REPUBLIC A . -
Literature Review of Climate Resilience in the Mozambique Portion of the Limpopo/Olifants River Basin
Literature review of climate resilience in the Mozambique portion of the Limpopo/Olifants river basin Verde Azul 02/06/2016 © 2017 The Association for Water and Rural Development Contents 1 Introductory Note .................................................................................... 3 2 Location of the Limpopo River Basin ............................................................. 3 3 Biophysical Features of the Limpopo River Basin .............................................. 5 3.1 Climatic Conditions ............................................................................. 5 3.2 Topography ....................................................................................... 8 3.3 Geology ........................................................................................... 9 3.4 Soils .............................................................................................. 10 4 Water Resources ................................................................................... 11 4.1 Water Quantity ................................................................................ 11 4.2 Water quality .................................................................................. 13 4.3 Environmental Flow ........................................................................... 13 4.4 Water degradation factors .................................................................. 16 4.5 Main Infrastructure in the Limpopo River Basin ......................................... 16 4.6 Water Availability ............................................................................ -
1 Southern Africa Regional Flood Update
Southern Africa Regional Flood Update 20 January 2011 Highlights • In Mozambique, a number of river basins have registered alert levels, and water levels are increasing; • River levels in the upper Zambezi and the Okavango rivers are very high for this early in the rainfall season; • Two spillway gates of Lake Kariba will be opened on 22 January 2011, which could in time lead to flooding downstream; • In South Africa, 40 people have died and 6,000 displaced due to flooding. A National State of Disaster will be declared in 28 municipalities in 7 provinces. • A map of the region is found on Page 7 in this Bulletin Rainfall forecast According to the regional rainfall forecast, all countries in contiguous southern Africa are expected to receive normal to above-normal rainfall between January and March 2011, specifically the regions of northern Zimbabwe, central Zambia, southern Malawi, central Mozambique and most of Madagascar, which are expected to receive above-normal rainfall. In the case of Mozambique and Madagascar, this rainfall could come in the form of tropical cyclones, which affect these countries every season. Likely scenarios Flooding along the major rivers of the region is an annual occurrence, and regularly affected communities, who depend on the floodplains for food production, usually move to higher ground well in advance of the floodwaters. Meteorological and hydrological authorities are monitoring the situation and regular warnings are being issued. It should be noted that exchange of information between countries that share major rivers have improved significantly. All countries have contingency plans prepared with scenarios of what could happen and interventions needed.