Building Regional Adaptive capacity and resilience to climate variability and change in Vulnerable sectors in the Andes (BRAVA)

Direct beneficiaries: National meteorological services, ministries (Environment, Agriculture, Disaster Risk Management), academia, private companies.

Final beneficiaries: decision makers in in the Andean region; local population, including the most vulnerable.

Outcome 1: The capacities of National Hydro Meteorological Services and Regional Climate Centres to produce and communicate weather, water and climate information and services have been strengthened.

Outcome 2: Institutional coordination has been strengthened and new tools and processes have been incorporated that add value and make it possible to "translate" weather, water and climate information into usable knowledge and services.

Outcome 3: Institutions and stakeholders have co-designed and implemented local activities to demonstrate increased resilience and adaptation to climate variability and -change through weather, water and climate information.

Outcome 4: Improved regional coordination and planning has (i) generated positive synergies, (ii) strengthened human capacities in the region, and (iii) synthesized lessons learned that facilitate scaling-up and replication in other contexts. 

Risultati principali attesi:  

·       New or improved tools, procedures and processes adopted by national authorities

·       Pilot adaptation actions implemented, monitored and evaluated, deriving lessons for scale-up/replication

·       Rural social actors (NGOs, local agencies) strengthened in the co-design and implementation of appropriate and context-specific climate services

·       Translation of climate information into sectoral impacts and outcomes of adaptation actions

·       Regional Core Expertise network created

·      Tools for access to global or regional gridded climate data sets established

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

·     Baseline established: during the opening phase, the main barriers and gaps for improved weather, water and climate services were identified in the participating countries.

·     Intervention strategy defined: options to strengthen services along the value chain identified and assessed along the following criteria: i) existing capacities of national services; ii) infrastructure and data processing capabilities; iii) existence of adequate models and databases; iv) ability to service “the first mile” through sectoral approaches.

·     Stakeholder consultations held: The importance of building and identifying - in collaboration with the partners in each intervention area -  determinants of social and economic vulnerabilities to climate variability and -change was broadly recognized.

·    Gender analysis conducted: key recommendations and activities to promote the gender mainstreaming into the project implementation have been identified and integrated into the project design.