Ethiopia grabs first ClimDev special fund grant
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Ethiopia has sealed a $ 1.1 M deal with the newly launched ClimDev-Africa Special Fund, to strengthen its climate information and early warning systems for climate resilience development and adaptation -- becoming the first African country to benefit from the Fund. A project document circulated in Lima, Peru on the side lines of the 20th Session of global climate negotiations (COP20), states that the Ethiopian project will enhance the building of national capacities in climate monitoring, data analysis, interpretation, forecasting and dissemination to foster the use of climate services in decision making. The current project is aligned with most national development strategies in Ethiopia, including the Climate Resilience and Green Economy Strategy, the Growth and Transformation Plan, Agricultural Extension Strategy and NMA Strategic Plan. Ethiopia’s National Economic Development Plan acknowledges that climate change will impact negatively on the country’s economy and hinder the prospects for achieving some of the MDGs targets. Partners in the ClimDev-Africa Programme consider climate change to be a serious threat to Africa and are engaged at the highest levels of their respective institutions in tackling it.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (2014-12). Ethiopia grabs first ClimDev special fund grant. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/35439”Collections
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