Projects

Project: Building climate adaptation capacities at natural World Heritage sites - especially in Africa - with a focus on communication, training and fundraising. Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: USD 99,951 Duration: 2020 - 2022 Studies show that more than half of all natural World Heritage sites are threatened by large-scale industrial projects, with adverse effects on the ecosystem.

Project: Building climate adaptation capacities at natural World Heritage sites - especially in Africa - with a focus on communication, training and fundraising. Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: USD 404,000 Duration: 2020 - 2022 This project supports the start-up of Unesco's climate programme for natural World Heritage, which is led by the Flemish Fanny Douvere. The ultimate goal of this project is to strengthen the resilience of natural World Heritage sites in developing countries - and in Africa in particular - by building capacities for climate adaptation and developing a sustainable financing

Project: South-Africa - Flanders Climate Change Adaptation Research and Training partnership: building the adaptation knowledge and capacity base Beneficiary: African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI)  Amount: 2 198 505 euro Duration: 2020 Strengthening the capacity of South African society in the field of climate adaptation by training young people, especially from disadvantaged groups, at university level. The project provides 19 research grants for Masters students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

Beneficiary: SEED, hosted by Adelphi Research gGmbH Amount: 1.170.000 euro Period: 2017 – 2019 Adelphi has been appointed as a SEED Hosting Partner in 2013. SEED is a public benefit organisation that contributes to Cape Town’s resilience through awakening the potential of our unemployed township youth; connecting them to their strengths, the positive resilience action they can take in their lives and also to green jobs. With this project, SEED focuses on various components to enable the breakthrough of eco-inclusive companies. This initiative builds upon an earlier project of SEED, also s

Project: "Economics and Governance of Water Security in Africa" - recommendations for water management in Cape Town Beneficiary: OECD Amount: € 80.000 Duration: 2019  The project is part of the OECD program "Governance and economics of water security in Africa". A policy dialogue with stakeholders from public, private and non-profit sectors in Cape Town is be started . This policy dialogue, supervised by OECD and the framework outlined in "Principles on Water Governance ", should lead to recommendations to make water management more future-proof. 

Project: Reducing food and income insecurity among vulnerable households in Malawi through climate services and integrated risk management Beneficiary: World Food Programme  Amount: 2.500.000 euro Duration: 2017-2019 Flanders supports the World Food Programme (WFP) in protecting farmers in Malawi against the increasing climate challenges. Recent months WFP has paid food and / or cash transfers to 5.8 million Malawians who can not meet their food needs as a result of the drought by the weather phenomenon El Niño. Now, El Niño is over, La Niña will be introduced.

Project: Strenghening the climate resilience of vulnerable communities in Malawi Beneficiary : UNDP Duration: 2019 - 2022 Budget: 2.500.000 euro The general objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of district councils to respond to climate change in the districts of Mzimba and Kusunga. The project works on three specific objectives: improving the capacity of district councils to integrate climate adaptation into the district development plans; developing an integrated protection of water extraction areas; reducing the exposure of communities to climate-related risks an

Project: 'Increasing resilience and reducing vulnerabilities of local communities to the effects of climate change: promoting Ecosystem Based Adaption (EbA)' in South Africa Beneficiary: UN Environment - South Africa Country Office  Budget: 1.000.000 euro  Duration: 2018-2020 With the project, UN Environment (UN environmental agency) wants to support the government of South Africa to implement the overarching implementation plan for Ecosystem Based Adapation (EbA). 'Ecosystem-based Adaptation' (EbA), uses biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation strategy to hel

Beneficiary: Red Cross-Flanders Amount: 2.500.000 euro Period: 2018 - 2020 Mozambique and Malawi are one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to extreme droughts, flooding and storms,... Climate change has a strong impact on the quality of peoples’ lives and the socio-economic conditions of the population are under pressure. International Red Cross-Flanders will focus on strengthening local Red Cross and Red Crescent sections in Malawi and Mozambique. Red Cross wil cooperate directly with local institutions.

Project: 'DEA Adaptive Capacity Facility' Beneficiary: Departement Environmental Affairs (DEA) Budget: 3.999.942 euro  Duration: 2018-2023 The project is coordinated by the South African ‘Departement Environmental Affairs’ (DEA). The department is responsible for the national response to climate change and the transition to green economy. The project focuses on strengthening the capacity for implementing climate adaptation, developing partnerships, setting up pilot projects and gathering and sharing knowledge.

Duration: 4 years Budget: 3.500.000 The Government of Flanders focuses on structural measures and works closely with the United Nations Organization for Agriculture and Food (FAO). From 2016 till 2019, FAO will assist Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia to increase the climate resilience and food security of local farmers. Lessons learned from this program will be brought to the FAO global level.

Summary: This Agreement aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty. Signed: 22/04/2016 Sanctioned and promulgated: 25/11/2016 International ratification: 06/04/2017 Entry into force: 06/05/2017 pdf file1140_Ondertekende akte in het Engels.pdf (4.33 MB) pdf file1140_Decreet.pdf (62 KB)  

Summary: The amendment provides an exception for the export of CO2 streams, in certain specified circumstances. Signed: 30/10/2009 Sanctioned and promulgated: 10/02/2017 pdf file1149_Procotol in het Engels met de Nederlandse vertaling.pdf (137 KB) pdf file1149_Decreet.pdf (76 KB)  

Duration: 2010-2013 Budget: 319.709,77 euro Through this agroforestry project the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) will develop a sustainable, cost-efficient way to contribute to greater food security and poverty reduction for millions of farming families in Sub-Saharan Africa. Duration and budget In 2010, a grant of 319,709.77 euros was allocated to the project "Community Agroforestry Tree Seeds Banks (CATS Banks): Building Agroforestry Scaling up Platform for Diversifying Livelihoods Opportunity in Malawi and Mozambique".

beneficiary: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Duration: 2013 Budget: 1.250.000 euro 98% of the victims of climatic disasters live in the developing countries. These countries depend on agriculture and natural resources for their income, which makes them extremely vulnerable in the face of climate change. Poor countries are also less adaptable to this new reality. The Government of Flanders invests 1.25 million euros in climate change management in Malawi. The objective is to allow developing countries to make a fast start on implementing adaptation and mitigation activities.

Duration: 2016-2018 Budget: 1.000.000 The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is a research centre with headquarters in Kenya. ICRAF promotes the worldwide application and dissemination of forestry in sustainable agricultural practices in view of better food production among smallholder farmers. Since 2009 Flanders has supported ICRAF’s Agroforestry Food Security Programme in Malawi which aims to sustainably increase the maize yield for farmers in the focus districts Mzimba and Kasungo through the application of agroforestry technologies.

Duration: 2017-2018 Budget: 500.000 euro Flanders supports ICRAF to inform policymakers and farmers in Malawi about the health of the soil. To protect farmers against climate change, it is important that their activities (fertilization, applying agroforestry, choice of crops, ...) align as closely as possible to the local soil health, which modifies increasingly due to climate change. ICRAF is developing, in collaboration with the Malawi government, an online searchable map that documents the characteristics of the upper soil layer (50 cm) in Malawi.

Summary: Declaration of the federated states and regional governments on climate change (Climate Leaders Summit)    Signed: 20/11/2003 pdf file722_Ondertekende akte in het Engels.pdf (1.01 MB)  

Beneficiary: International Partnership for Microbicides Budget: 400.000 euro International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) is an international NGO that works for safe and effective HIV prevention. IPM focuses on the development of new medical instruments and making them available at an affordable price in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Project: Grant to the African Climate Change Fund Beneficiary: African climate Change fund period: 2017-2018 Amount: 2.000.000 euro According a study by Climate Policy Initiative in 2013-2014, only 3% of global climate funding went to Sub Saharan Africa. This contrasts with the finding that Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the lowest contribution to climate change, but with the highest vulnerability to climate change impacts. It is known that these countries find it more difficult to raise climate finance.