Climate Risk Management in Action
Climate Risk Management in Action Series
Benefits of Climate Risk Management Series
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Towards Sustainable Fisheries in the Philippines: Climate Risk Management Key to Impact
USAID Fish Right’s CRM actions include increasing the amount of biologically significant area placed under improved management, strengthening the capacity of local governments and communities to improve coastal and fisheries resilience, mainstreaming resilience into existing fisheries management plans, leveraging funds towards the planning and implementation of ecosystem-based actions, and reducing mangrove destruction in program areas.
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Minimizing Disruption to Family Planning Services in the Philippines
USAID ReachHealth has integrated climate risk management (CRM) into its health systems strengthening and service delivery interventions to align CRM with national and local disaster risk reduction policies for more sustainable impact. Following USAID’s 2016 CRM policy, the project developed a climate risk assessment tool, which it has applied to climate and non-climate events, including typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Protecting Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Haiti: Climate Risk Management Sustains Project Gains
USAID’s WATSAN (water and sanitation) project works to strengthen local capacity and the water and sanitation infrastructure so that it can withstand and operate reliably under floods, landslides, and droughts. Integrating CRM into the project’s main activities has contributed to meaningful benefits, including sustained water savings, avoided damages to water and sanitation infrastructure, access to clean water, avoided travel costs, increased revenue for water service providers, and prevention of waterborne illnesses.
Climate Risk Management Promotes Peace in Uganda
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In the Karamoja region of northern Uganda, conflict frequently erupted among herders and communities over access to water and pasture for livestock.
“We experienced drought sometimes for 90 days,” said Mr. John Ekamarpus Longora, the leader of a kraal, a mobile enclosed livestock camp set up by pastoralists during the dry season. “The trees dry, water levels and sources go down, and conflicts tend to arise because of a scramble for natural resources.”
Climate Risk Management Increases Crop Yields and Strengthens Resilience in Kosovo
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Climate Risk Management Proves Critical to Sustaining Food Security in Cambodia
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Climate Risk Management Strengthens Biodiversity Conservation in Dominican Republic
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Armenians Address Water Vulnerabilities Head-On
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Calming Climate-Related Conflict in Karamoja
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Activity, Planning the Assessment, Incorporate Assessment Results, Implement and Adaptively Manage, Uganda, Conflict Management and Mitigation, CRM
Identifying and Managing Climate Risk in Global Nutrition Interventions
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Activity, Conduct the Assessment, Incorporate Assessment Results, Global, Nutrition, Food Security, CRM
Managing Fisheries in the Face of Climate Risk
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Activity, Conduct the Assessment, Incorporate Assessment Results, Asia, Philippines, Fisheries, CRM
Haiti Water and Sanitation Programs Prepare for Climate Events
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Activity, Conduct the Assessment, Incorporate Assessment Results, LAC, Haiti, WASH, CRM
USAID’s Country Strategy for Zimbabwe: Integrating Climate Risk Management
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Strategy, Plan for Screening, Conduct the Screening, Incorporate Screening Results, Africa, Zimbabwe, Health, CRM
Engineering Design Builds Climate-Resilience in Haiti and Dominica
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Pre-CRM Policy, Activity, LAC, Haiti, Dominica, Infrastructure
Climate Risk Management Case Studies
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Philippines: USAID ReachHealth - Climate Risk Management Case Study
In the Philippines, the USAID ReachHealth Project delivers family planning and maternal and neonatal health services to women and adolescent girls. USAID ReachHealth integrated climate risk management (CRM) into the design, implementation, and sustainability of its activities. The Project builds the capacities of healthcare workers and local governments to prepare for and respond to climate impacts and to ensure continuous delivery of healthcare services during and after extreme weather events, contributing to key project benefits.
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Philippines: Fish Right Activity - Climate Risk Management Case Study
In the Philippines, the USAID Fish Right Activity improves marine biodiversity and fisheries management by reducing overfishing, destructive and illegal fishing, and degradation of marine ecosystems. Understanding the climate risks faced by the Philippines, USAID and the Fish Right team incorporated climate impacts into activity design and implementation, strengthening the long-term sustainability of activity interventions. This case study describes Fish Right’s climate risk management (CRM) actions in the Philippines during its first three years of implementation, with a focus on quantifying and, where possible, monetizing benefits from Program activities.
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Haiti: USAID Water and Sanitation Project - Climate Risk Management Case Study
In Haiti, the USAID Water and Sanitation Project strengthens the technical and operational capacity of communal utilities and private purveyors of water and sanitation services. Climate stressors in the region—such as more intense and frequent hurricanes as well as droughts and floods—can damage water and sanitation infrastructure, exacerbating water shortages and increasing the risk of contamination. To address these challenges, the USAID Water and Sanitation Project incorporates climate risk in the design and implementation of its water and sanitation activities.
Uganda: USAID Securing Peace and Promoting Prosperity (EKISIL) Activity - Climate Risk Management Case Study
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Climate Integration Case Study: USAID/Uganda’s Commodity Production and Marketing
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Pre-CRM Policy, Activity, Africa, Uganda, Agriculture
Climate Integration Case Study: USAID/Senegal’s Naatal Mbay
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USAID/Senegal’s Naatal Mbay has taken a climate-smart agriculture approach that has, as an example, increased use of daily and seasonal rainfall data to help manage production risks from rainfall variability and drought.
Pre-CRM Policy, Activity, Africa, Senegal, Agriculture
Climate Integration Case Study: Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab
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Pre-CRM Policy, Activity, Agriculture