Community-based adaptation to climate change in Africa project launched

17 August 2010, PreventionWeb
URL: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/news/v.php?id=15067

The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) and other partners in Europe and South Asia are undertaking an action research, testing tools for community adaptation, knowledge generation and capacity building project on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa (CBAA) project,” said Shepard Zvigadza, Director of the Zimbabwe Environmental Regional Organization (ZERO).

ACTS is a three-year project being implemented with selected vulnerable communities in Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Sudan, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its objective is to assist communities to adapt to climate change and share lessons learned from project activities with key stakeholders at local, national, regional and international levels and to elicit their support for climate change adaptation.