Benin National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)

Benin National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)

National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change, those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following is the NAPA for Benin.

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Project details

Levels of intervention

  • National

Key implementers

  • Country Office
  • National Governments

Funding amounts

200,000
32,000

Project partners

  • Benin Ministry of Agriculture
  • Service Météorologique National, Benin
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Global Environment Facility (GEF)
  • Ministère de l'Environnement, de l'Habitat et de l'Urbanisme, Benin

Introduction

National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) provide a process for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change, those for which further delay would increase vulnerability and/or costs at a later stage. The following is the NAPA for Benin.

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Project details

Main Human Vulnerabilities and Livelihood Impacts:

  • Reduced agricultural production
  • Water shortage and/or groundwater depletion
  • Increased disease and/or other health problems
  • Food security
Thematic Area
Area
Infrastructure/Climate Change Risk Management
Climate-related hazards addressed:
Disease
Level of intervention
  • National
Key collaborators
  • Country Office
  • National Governments
Primary beneficiaries:

Through improved capacity building and project identification, government agencies will increase their abilities to insulate urban and rural populations from the adverse effects of climate change.

Implementing agencies and partnering organizations
  • Benin Ministry of Agriculture
  • Service Météorologique National, Benin
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Global Environment Facility (GEF)
  • Ministère de l'Environnement, de l'Habitat et de l'Urbanisme, Benin
Project status
Completed
Financing amount
200,000
Co-financing total
32,000

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Key results & output

Priority Adaptation Projects:

  • Mobilization from surfaces waters in order to adapt to climate change in the most vulnerable villages from the Center and the North
  • Implementation of a climatic risks forecast and alert system for food security in 4 agro-ecological vulnerable areas
  • Adaptation of the population to climate change through the promotion of renewable energies and high-performance economical homes in areas vulnerable to climate change and whose lands are highly eroded
  • Protection of the coastal area to counter the rising of the sea level

Reports & publications

Assessments and Background Documents
Benin Second National Communication (2011) French
Assessments and Background Documents
Benin National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) Official Document (French) - January 2008

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