PAI Innovations in the Social Dimensions of Climate Resilience Examples from Malawi, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and the Caribbean Roger-Mark De Souza March 18, 2013 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC Malawi: Media Briefing on PAI - AFIDEP research Philippines: Nexus Film – linking RH, population and climate PAI’s training module – part of UN: Climate Change Learning Portal Bangladesh: District policymakers taking action to integrate population into climate plans Trinidad and Tobago: Sans Souci community members who are leading adaptation initiatives
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PAI Innovations in the Social Dimensions of Climate Resilience Examples from Malawi, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and the Caribbean
Roger-Mark De Souza March 18, 2013
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC
Malawi: Media Briefing on PAI - AFIDEP research
Philippines: Nexus Film – linking RH, population and climate
PAI’s training module – part of UN: Climate Change Learning Portal
Bangladesh: District policymakers taking action to integrate population into climate plans
Trinidad and Tobago: Sans Souci community members who are leading adaptation initiatives
Three Key Points
• Family planning matters for climate change adaptation
• Innovative approaches are having an impact: – Malawi, Bangladesh, Philippines, and the Caribbean
• There are concrete opportunities to build on this momentum
What is PAI’s Strategy?
At PAI, we believe that in a planet with continued population growth, efficiency gains and technology alone will not mitigate the negative impacts of climate change nor allow the most vulnerable to adapt to those changes. Accounting for population dynamics in climate change policies will slow population growth, empower the most vulnerable to become more climate resilient, and support development paths that reduce emissions.
Source: USAID, Building Resilience to Recurrent Crisis: USAID Policy and Program Guidance. Washington, DC. Dec. 2012.
This Supports Other Approaches to Resilience
USAID policy and program Guidance
Family Planning/Reproductive Health Can Help Build Resilience
• FP/RH crucial for development – Fundamental human right with large-scale
benefits – Speed up demographic transition – Slower population growth will buy time to
promote education, technology – Achieve windows of opportunity for demographic
dividend and rapid economic growth – Increase resilience and adaptive capacity
Malawi: Building Policy Advocacy
“Governments in the continent have to be in the forefront to study the climate change phenomena and advocate for better policies for women …(there is) a need to empower them in climate change adaptation processes.” — Lingalireni Mihowa, Special Advisor to the (Vice) President, Malawi
Delivering our report to the Vice President of Malawi
Bangladesh: Leveraging Local and National Action
Community engagement and mobilization in most vulnerable areas
Policy engagement: Member of Parliament is introducing parliamentary debate, and sub-district leadership councils are integrating pop and climate
New partners and advocates: Bangladesh’s leading climate negotiator and Bangladeshi world leader on climate and development
High level briefing on population and climate at the National Press Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Nov 2012
“Bangladesh can be a world leader in providing
critical services for women in the face of climate
vulnerability…”
Bangladesh’s leading climate negotiator, Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad
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• New Reproductive Health law • New film: Nexus – RH, Population and Climate • State of Philippines Population Report • Local Government Unit (Hindang, Leyte)
enacted a PHE ordinance
The Philippines: New Developments
PhilDHRRA
Local Government Accountability and Tracking
• Appraise, monitor and assess plans and budgets on Gender/RH/FP and Climate adaptation
• Challenges: – Capacity – Building trust – Documentation
PhilDHRRA - Philippine Partnership for the
Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas
Examples of “transparency boards” – documenting budget allocations and spending for local government units
Goals of SIDS CBA Program: • Improve communities’ adaptive
capacity • Provide concrete ground-level
experience of local climate change adaptation
• Scale up through mainstreaming with national policies
• Program duration: 2011- 2016 • Includes the Caribbean, Indian,
Atlantic and Pacific Islands (38 countries)
• US$2,550,000 allocated for Caribbean CBA projects
• Total program budget = US$5,475,463
The Caribbean (Small Island Developing States): Community Based Adaptation
Roger S. Pulwarty is a scientist from Trinidad and Tobago who contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 jointly held with Al Gore
Sans Souci community members, Trinidad and Tobago
Vulnerability Reduction Assessment
• VRA meetings are held 3 times over the course of the project
• VRA score for one meeting is consists of average of scores
• By end of project, VRA score should be higher reflecting improved adaptive capacity
• VRA, quantitative and capacity analysis, and population analysis