The Development Fund believes that a comprehensive long term approach to adaptation to climate change is needed in order to address poverty in ways that reduce climate risk and vulnerability and increase the capacity to respond and adapt to climate. By examining three poverty reduction projects supported by the Development Fund the organization have demonstrated a way in which researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and different actors together can identify climate risk, vulnerability and adaptive capacity in a project or program within a given geographical context. The report focus on how project activities can reduce the risks and vulnerabilities and increase capacities to adapt to climate risk. One of the case studies in the report is from Ethiopia.
The work of REST
The Relief Society of Tigray (REST) is the local partner of the Development Fund in the Tigray region. REST works with poor and marginalized communities, and the project focuses on diversifying farming, gardening, animal husbandry, other uses of ecosystems, and other rural income-generating activities towards enhanced food security. Based on the case study from Ethiopia, the Development Fund have identified the main climate risks, vulnerability factors and adaptive capacity of poor people in the project areas. You can download the complete report by following the link to the right.
The Development Fund
The Development Fund is a Norwegian independent non-governmental organization that support environment- and development projects through local partners in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The organization believe that the fight against poverty must be based on sustainable management of natural resources in local communities.