United Nations Climate Change
Best practices and lessons learned in addressing adaptation in least developed countries, vol. 2
Least Developed Countries
PART 2: Selected experiences of least developed countries in implementing national adaptation programmes of action and other adaptation initiatives
2.9 SUDAN
conditions are exacerbated by a range of human pressures making Sudan extremely vulnerable to current and future climatic shocks. Sudan will become even more vulnerable in the face of future climate change if adaptive measures are not taken.
Sudan is a large East African country the coast of which intersects the Red Sea. Comprised of largely arid lands and desert, water resources in Sudan are limited, while soil fertility is low and drought is common. These underlying Timeline of the NAPA preparation process in Sudan 2003
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March 2003
October 2003
June 2007
Funding for the preparation of the NAPA approved by the GEF
GEF agency approval date
Submission of NAPA to UNFCCC
NAPA PROJECTS UNDER IMPLEMENTATION
Sudan outlined five priority activities in its NAPA, and has proposed two projects under the LDCF. Sudan’s first project under the LDCF seeks to implement an urgent set of measures that will minimize and reverse the
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food insecurity and enhance adaptive capacity of smallscale farmers and pastoralists resulting from climate change, including variability in five vulnerable regions. Its components, inter alia, aim to enhance the resilience of food-production systems and food-insecure communities to climate change.
Project title
Implementing NAPA Priority Interventions to Build Resilience in the Agriculture and Water Sectors to the Adverse Impacts of Climate Change
Implementing agency
UNDP
National executing agency
Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources
Number of NAPA priority activities addressed
5/5
Project components
1.Implementation of pilot adaptation measures in demonstration sites 2.Building national and local adaptive capacities 3.Knowledge management
Cost in USD million (LDCF component/total cost)
3.7/7.3
First submission of the concept note (PIF) under the LDCF
August 2007
GEF CEO endorsement of the project
September 2009
Progress of implementation on the ground
Advanced stage of implementation on the ground
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