Building the climate resilience of food insecure smallholder farmers through integrated management of climate risk (R4)
Category: MCF
Document Type: Gender Action Plan
Initiative to Build Climate Resilience for Food-Insecure Farmers in Senegal, Commencing September 2017
This initiative, with an estimated lifespan of 4 years starting around September 2017, aims to increase the climate resilience of food-insecure smallholder households in the Kaffrine, Kolda, Tambacounda, Fatick, and Kaolack regions of Senegal. The project targets 45,000 households (approximately 405,000 people, including 245,000 direct beneficiaries), with a focus on ensuring over 50% are women, girls, and female-headed/widowed households. The purpose is to help these vulnerable populations adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change, such as increased rainfall variability (drought), rising sea levels, soil erosion, and salinization, which threaten food security and force asset sales. Key activities and obligations include: 1. **Risk Reduction:** Implementing water and soil conservation measures, increasing water availability (e.g., building water ponds), promoting livelihood diversification, and providing training on climate-resilient practices, including climate-smart agriculture, CCA good practices, cultivating vegetable gardens and nurseries, low-lying lands management, and tree planting. Community-based disaster risk reduction asset creation is a core component. 2. **Risk Transfer:** Establishing a weather index insurance program to transfer climate shock risk to the international market, providing compensation to farmers. The government of Senegal is obligated to contribute half the cost of the insurance premium for enrolled households. 3. **Financial Resilience:** Creating risk reserves to enable farmers to save for sustainability and facilitating the use of surplus production as collateral to unlock access to credit for investment in agricultural inputs and diversified, non-climate-sensitive Income Generating Activities (IGAs). 4. **Community Engagement:** Ensuring participation in Community-based Participatory Planning (CBPP) and management committees at the village level. 5. **Food Assistance:** Providing food assistance as part of the activities. The affected sectors are primarily Agriculture, Water Management, and Finance (insurance, savings, credit). The project aims to achieve increased adaptive capacity for 245,000 farmers (50% women), protect 45,000 farmers (50% women) from covariate climate shocks through insurance and enable investment, and increase the adaptive capacity of 25,000 smallholders (50% women) through savings, surplus production utilization, and IGA diversification. No specific external regulations or statutes are named as compliance requirements within the provided text, beyond the project's own framework and Gender Action Plan.
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FP049: Building the climate resilience of food insecure smallholder farmers through integrated management of climate risk Senegal | WFP | B.18/04 28 September 2017 Annex 31: Gender Action Plan *Based on the GAP template that the Mitigation and Adaptation and Private Sector Facility Divisions at GCF shared1. Activities Indicators and Responsibi Timeline Budget Targets lity Impact: improved food and income security of 45,000 food insecure smallholder households, over 50% of which are women, girls and female – headed/widowed households (for a total of 405,000 people of which 245,000 people reached directly and 160,000 indirectly) in the regions of Kaffrine, Kolda, Tambacounda, Fatick, Kaolack of Senegal, by building their resilience to increasingly recurrent climate shocks, and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. Outcome Statement: (1) increased adaptive capacity of 245,000 food insecure smallholder farmers (of which 50% are women) and their families (for a total of 405,000); (2) 45,000 food insecure smallholder farmers (50% women) are protected from the impact of covariate climate shocks2 and invest in agricultural inputs and diversified Income Generating Activities (IGAs); (3) 25,000 food insecure smallholders (50% women) have increased adaptive capacity by gradually building savings, while improving their ability to produce and sell surpluses, and diversifying their income sources through investments in IGAs that are not climate sensitive. Output 1.1: Training of farmers on innovative, climate smart agricultural practices and support of community-based disaster risk reduction assets creation, such as water and soil conservation.3 1.1.1 Food insecure smallholder farmers trained on assets creation and CSA 225,000 targeted 1.1.2 Food insecure smallholder farmers receive CCA good practices smallholder farmers (of 1.1.3 Food insecure smallholders (especially women) cultivate vegetable gardens and fruit/value which 127,000 women) added trees nurseries4 benefit from disaster risk reduction 1.1.4 Food insecure smallholder farmers carry out low-lying lands management and water By the 50% of community-based assets conservation activities end of the WFP Output 1.1 and from USD 1.1.5 Food insecure smallholders build water ponds project budget 1,340,000 of food 1.1.6 Food insecure smallholders plant trees assistance (from 1.1.7 Food insecure smallholders receive food assistance baseline of 108,000 1.1.8 Food insecure smallholders participate in Community-based Participatory Planning (CBPP) beneficiaries of which and management committees at the village level5 50% are women and USD 600,000) 1The template is adopted from the Asian Development Bank and further elaborated by the GCF 2 Covariate risk results from a shock that collectively impacts the community as a whole and can have massive impact by triggering one or more other shocks. E.g. floods, droughts, hurricanes 3 Based on WFP experience with the Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) program, these interventions aim at improving the natural resource base of smallholder farming communities and increase their ability to obtain adequate yields to feed their families in the face of increasing frequency and intensity of droughts. 4 Development of vegetable gardens, the expansion and improvement of rice cultivation are activities that explicitly target women to improve their economic opportunities, given that in Senegal women are holders of small portions of land for vegetable and rice production. 5 Equal participation of men and women in CBPP and management committees at the village level can lead to better targeting and more accurate identification of needs. 1 Output 1.2: Provision of climate services, enabling farmers to access reliable climate information via their mobile phones and radio programs, as well
Tags: Adaptation, Adaptation Planning, Agriculture, Climate Change Risks, Climate Finance, Development, Disaster Risk Management, Drr, Food Security, Funding, Governance, Insurance, Investment, Land Use, Loan, Meteorology, Policy, Soil Erosion, Subsidies, Water, Water Management
Sector: Public