Working around the world

Millet is a very important crop in Ghana, but the impacts of climate change are dramatically reducing yields. There is little we can do to restore better millet harvests, so CARE is introducing other crops that are more resilient to the local impacts of climate change.

- David Sumbo, Programme Coordinator for CARE in Ghana

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AUSTRIA
Action: Policy engagement
Overview: CARE Austria is a member of a NGO platform for Climate Justice (convening 18 major NGOs from the environment, development and humanitarian sector).
Initiative: Members from the NGO platform will host a one-day national conference in 2009 before COP 15 with a focus on climate change adaptation and gender.
Contact: Andreas Zahner, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

Action: Organizational change
Partner: Consulting with Climate Alliance Austria (www.klimabuendnis.at)
Overview: CARE Austria engaged in initiatives to reduce institutional greenhouse gas emissions and achieve carbon neutrality. Climate Alliance Austria supported CARE in regards to processes and methodologies to access the footprint of CARE Austria office routine and travel. CARE Austria has now been certified as ‘Climate friendly' institution. Based on the final results and recommendations of the assessments, a CARE Austria Green Team will develop internal policies and guidance related to frequent monitoring of the organization's carbon footprint and to design options for future emission reductions and offsets for emissions.
Contact: Andreas Zahner, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

BANGLADESH
Project: Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change (RVCC) Project
Action: Community-based adaptation
Partners: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Pani Committee.
Overview: The project piloted an approach to community-level adaptation to climate change. It took an integrated approach to vulnerability reduction, focusing on raising awareness of climate change and associated vulnerability areas, promoting concrete actions by households and communities to reduce their vulnerability, and advocating with government at multiple levels for appropriate action to reduce vulnerability to climate change. One resulting action was a campaign for the government to provide safe water to vulnerable populations, and to address the problem of saline intrusion, in the south-western part of the country.
Benefits: The RVCC project worked in partnership with 16 organizations, strengthening their capacity to address climate-related vulnerability, and increasing the sustainability of the activities. The activities were designed to be consistent with gender equality principles, and the participation of women active in their communities increased through the project. The safe water campaign resulted in action with the Prime Minister's Office issuing a directive to relevant ministries to address the potable water issue in the southwest region. The Prime Minister for the public health department allocated resources to work on water supply in the region.
Contact: Seema Gaikwad, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Completed

BELGIUM, Brussels
Action: Global alliance
Membership: Members of Concord climate change group. Concord is the European confederation representing, through its 40 members, more than 1,800 European NGOs for relief and international development.
Status: Ongoing

BOLIVIA, La Paz department
Location: Municipality of Batallas; municipality of Palca
Pilot project 1: Adaptation to the Impact of Rapid Glacier Retreat in the Tropical Andes Project (PRAA)
Pilot Project 2: Implementation of pilot adaptation measures in the High Lands and High Valleys in communities highly vulnerable to the effects of glacier retreat.
Action: To contribute to strengthening the resilience of local ecosystems and economies to the impacts of glacier retreat in the tropical Andes, through the implementation of specific pilot adaptation activities that illustrate the costs and benefits of adaptation.
Partners: Secretariat of the Community of Andean Nations (CAN); Ministry for Water and Environment, National Program of Climate Change, Bolivia; Vice Minister of Biodiversity; World Bank, Department for the Environment; Local governments in Bolivia
Overview: The project will focus on increasing community resilience to climate change caused by the retreat of glaciers through integrated pilot micro basins management plans, integrated water resource management and activities to adapt agriculture and livestock activities to the loss of water regulation and supply caused by glacier retreat.
Benefits: Two local governments will approve plans and implement norms and strategies for adaptation to climate change, in particular to a reduced water availability caused by the retreat of glaciers in the Andean region. Two pilot projects will generate evidence and recommendations on the costs and benefits of adaptation strategies and directly benefit 100 families and indirectly benefit 500 families. Twenty-five leaders at regional and local level will have increased their knowledge and commitment to climate change adaptation.
Contact: Silvia Aguilar, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: In development

BRAZIL
Action: Policy engagement
Partner: Cantor CO2e
Overview: Collaborate with private sector company to help the State of Piauí develop its policy framework for climate change
Benefits: Helping address the urgent need to support community-based adaptation initiatives and the regulation of bio-fuels production to ensure it reduces rather than worsens poverty.
Contact: Markus Brose, Director, CARE Brasil, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing
Action: Policy engagement
Partner: COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Overview: With most of the attention in Brazil on the Amazon, Piaui as a poor state in the semi-arid Nordeste is marginalised from efforts to tackle climate change. Yet it is vulnerable to droughts and floods. The project helps the State of Piauí develop its climate change policy through setting up a multi-stakeholder climate change forum, conducting vulnerability analysis and implementing pilot mitigation and adaptation projects.
Benefits: The project fills the ‘governance gap' between national level policy instruments and community level small-scale projects, and helps a local government with limited institutional capacity respond adequately to the challenge of climate change by putting in place mechanisms (such as payments for environmental services) that can benefit poor people.
Contact: Markus Brose, Director, CARE Brasil, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

CANADA, Ottawa
Project: CARE Canada, members of the Canadian Coalition on Climate Change and Development (C4D)
Action: Capacity building and policy engagement
Partners: CARE Canada, Co-ops Canada, CUSO-VSO, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam Quebec, Nature Canada, The Pembina Institute, Mennonite Central Committee, United Church Canada, David Suzuki Foundation, IDRC, USC Canada, CHF Canada, Foodgrains Bank Canada, CCIC, Marbeck Resource Consultants, World Vision, Farm Radio International, Results Canada, and Red Cross Canada, among others.
Overview: C4D is a group of development, humanitarian and environmental organizations that joined together in 2006 to share knowledge, collaborate and take concerted action to address climate change. The goal of C4D is to develop knowledge and capacity in the international development community to address the challenges that climate change poses to sustainable development; and to bring the voice of the international development community to the policy debate on Canada's response to climate change.
Benefits: Capacity building, knowledge sharing and collaboration, acting as a collective voice for advocacy, enhanced collective ability to mitigate risks associated with climate change undermining the sustainability of efforts to reduce poverty, deepening understanding of impacts and adaptation measures, and fostering greater responsibility as global citizens and civil society organizations.
Contact: Christina Polzot, CARE Canada, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Status: Ongoing

DENMARK, COPENHAGEN
Action: Policy engagement
Membership: CARE Denmark, members of the 92-group
Overview: The 92-group represents a coalition of 22 Danish organizations, who all share an interest in and commitment towards sustainable development. Some member organizations work mainly in Denmark and others focus their initiatives on the international level. The group was launched during the preparations for United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The three overall aims of the 92-group are to influence Denmark's, the European Union's, the World Trade Organization's and United Nations' policies in relation to global sustainable development. Secondly, the group works to influence the global climate change negotiations with the purpose of ensuring a fair and ambitious climate agreement in December 2009. Thirdly, the group functions as a focal point between Danish NGOs and the global civil society in the work towards global sustainable development.
Contact: MortonFauerby Thomsen, CARE Denmark, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

Project: Southern Voices
Action: Participation of members in COP-15 and preliminary meetings. The project works with members from different partner organizations in three of CARE Denmark's country offices and is supported by the Danish-92 group. (Working in Denmark, Germany, Bangkok, Nepal, Ghana and Tanzania)
Partners: CARE Denmark, Federation of Community Forestry Users (Fecofun, Nepal), Civic Response (Ghana) and Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG, Tanzania).
Overview: To enhance participation of southern climate stakeholders in the COP15 climate negotiations and preliminary meetings in regards to climate adaptation and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD). The main position is that COP15 should result in an ambitious global climate agreement, which contributes to reducing anthropogenic climate change in a sustainable and equitable way, and which compensates developing countries for the cost of adaptation.
Benefits: The needs, perspectives and positions of people, and civil society organisations in developing countries are actively advocated for in the international climate negotiations leading up to COP15. It also creates national networks on climate change and forestry, and creates useful links between civil society and national governments.
Contact: MortonFauerby Thomsen, CARE Denmark, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

Overview: European base for Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network
Contact: PECCN Advocacy Coordinator: Poul Erik Lauridsen, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

ECUADOR
Project: LIFT-UP (Evidencia Sur: Incidencia Norte)
Action: Policy engagement and evidence-based research
Partner: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Overview: The LIFT-UP programme aims to scale up the impact of CARE policy engagement for more effective and adequately resourced U.S. government international development programs on climate change policy.
Contact: Belen Cordovez, LIFT-UP Coordinator: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

EGYPT
Action: Policy engagement
Membership: CARE Egypt member of World Wide Views on Global Warming(www.wwviews.org)
Overview: World Wide Views on Global Warming (WWViews) strives to engage citizens and bring forward their views through citizen consultations in 46 countries all over the world. During these consultations citizens will deliberate and vote on some of the questions negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Contact: Mohamed Nada, Mohamed, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

ETHIOPIA
Action: Climate-Related Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Borana and Somali Pastoralist Communities
Partners: Save the Children UK and International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Technical support by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), CARE International and Save the Children UK. Financial support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Organisation (ECHO).
Overview: CARE Ethiopia and Save the Children UK staff members used the CARE's Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) Framework and IISD's Community-Based Risk Screening Tool - Adaptation and Livelihoods (CRiSTAL) - with six pastoralist communities in highly climate-impacted areas to gather information and help develop climate change initiatives. Findings will be distributed through a report and film.
Benefits: Develop greater understanding of climate impacts on pastoralists; empowering them to work together with the NGOs on adaptation initiatives
Contact: Charles Hopkins, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

FRANCE, PARIS
Project: Launch of www.copenhague-2009.com.
Action: Policy engagement
Partners: This is an initiative of eleven French NGOs: World Wildlife Fund France, Greenpeace France, Action contre la Faim, CARE France, Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme, Fondation Nicolas Hulot, Les Amis de la Terre, Médecins du Monde, Oxfam France-Agir Ici, Réseau Action Climat and Secours Catholique.
Overview: The ‘Ultimatum Climatique‘ proposes to the President of France a clear political position related to climate change and also demonstrates support from the civil population at the Conference of Copenhagen 2009. The group of NGO's decided to express its concerns and ask the Government to act with ambition and determination during the meeting of the parties of UNFCCC. Industrialised nations, like France, have to make a commitment and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions of at least 40 percent by 2020. They carry moral, legal and economic responsibility for leading the fight against the climate change.
Contact: Olivier Braunsteffer, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or Nohemi Medina, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

GERMANY, BONN
Action: Policy engagement
Partners: United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
Overview: Official release collaborative report: In Search of Shelter. Mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement. This report explores how environmental shocks and stresses, especially those related to climate change, can push people to leave their homes in search of ‘greener pastures' ... or just to survive.
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Completed

GHANA
Project: Community Land Use Responses to Climate Change (CLURCC) Project
Action: Community-based adaptation and policy engagement
Partner: Canadian Partnership Branch of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
Overview: CARE is working with local communities to promote the integration of climate change adaptation issues into the Medium Term Plans (2010-2015) for two districts in northern Ghana.
Benefits: Promoting district-level action to reduce vulnerability, while addressing some of the systemic inequalities that increase vulnerability of women, will build adaptive capacity to address future climate impacts.
Contact: Angie Daze, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

GUATEMALA
Project: Manejo Integrado de Bosques: Mi Bosque (My Forest) project
Action: Carbon Finance
Partners: AES USA, 11 municipal governments and Del Valle University
Overview: The Mi Bosque project strengthens the capacity of local authorities, the owners of communal lands, and other actors to identify, design and implement socially appropriate activities to reduce deforesation. This is a pilot project for subnational REDD activities contributing to the Government of Guatemala's National Climate Change Policy.
Benefits: Through the improved management of local forest resources, the project contribtues to the development and adaptative capacity of 80 highland communities while simultaneously sequestering greenhouse gasses.
Contact: Roberto Chuc, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

INDONESIA
Project: Central Kalimantan Peatlands Project (CKPP)
Action: Carbon finance
Collaboration: US Department of Agriculture and the European Community, DIPECHO
Overview: CARE has been supporting improved peatland management and fire risk reduction initiatives in Kalimantan since 2002.
Benefits: By strengthening local capacity to restore and conserve the environment, and by improving community-government cooperation, CARE Indonesia is simultaneously mitigating climate change and reducing poverty. Some of the results include that forest fires are happening less often, malnutrition has been reduced, local incomes are on the rise, and there is new life in the soil

Contact: Heather Vansice, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Completed

KENYA
Overview: African base for Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network
Contact: CARE's East and Central Africa Regional Climate Change Officer: Cynthia Awuor, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

NEPAL, Doti and Kailali Districts
Project: SAMADHAN - Building disaster resilience of vulnerable communities in Nepal
Action: Strengthening disaster management capacities and improving the Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) practices among the most vulnerable communities
Partners: European Commission's humanitarian aid department / Disaster Preparedness (DIPECHO); Austrian Development Agency; Equality Development Center (EDC) and Conscious Society for Social Development (CSSD)
Overview: Guided by CARE´s Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (CVCA) methodology, the project integrates a climate ‘lens' to focus on analysis of climate-related vulnerability as well as capacity to adapt to climate change.
Benefits: Increased awareness on potential disasters, its risks, risk reduction measures in the vulnerable communities; increased disaster management capacities for poor and vulnerable communities; increased capacity of communities to plan, mobilize local resources, implement and sustain small-scale disaster mitigation measures and increased capacity of NGOs and other stakeholders at different levels to support the community based disaster risk management.
Contact: Andreas Zahner, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

NETHERLANDS, Amsterdam
Action: Organizational change
Overview: CARE Netherlands developed a Green Team to create internal policies and guidance related to frequent monitoring of the organization's carbon footprint and to design options for future emission reductions and offsets for emissions. It also is exploring ways to facilitate mechanisms that can help the people most affected by climate change benefit from carbon trading.
Contact: Erik Rottier, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

NICARAGUA
Project: Sustainable livelihoods and climate change in 7 municipalities
Action: Carbon finance
Partners: The Institute of Human Promotion (INPRHU); The association of the municipalities of Nueva Segovia (AMUNSE); The association of the municipalities of Madriz; The International Union for Conservation of Nature - (IUCN)
Overview: The project will introduce new technologies and appropriate practices in order to decrease greenhouse gases in agricultural and fishing systems; set up 2055 hectares with agro-forestry systems and 3645 hectares of silvopastoral systems to trap 76 500 tons of CO2; increase the knowledge of the population and key actors on climate change and its consequences in short, middle and long term through the implementation of training workshops with the communities; and include poor communities in the carbon market by the organization of 46 community groups, the implementation of 100 micro-projects and by the creation of a Community's found in Social Carbon.
Benefits: The project will reach 1,120 small breeders, 80 craftsmen, 57 technicians and civil servants, organizations and local institutions. Total beneficiaries: 79,800 residents of 7 targeted municipalities.
Contact: Nohemi Medina, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

NIGER
Project: 2008 CVCA and CRiSTAL training workshop
Action: Community-based adaptation
Partner: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Workshop participants: CARE, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Intercooperation, Plan International, Agrhymet, World Vision and the Government of Niger
Overview: The workshop provided participants with a framework for understanding vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and to enhance capacity to integrate climate change vulnerability and adaptation considerations into project design and management.
Contact: Angie Daze, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Completed

PERU, Cuzco and Junin
Project: Adaptation to Rapid Glacier Retreat in the Tropical Andes Project (PRAA)
Action: Adaptation to climate change (glacier retreat)
Partners: CARE UK, CARE Peru, ACDI, Scotiabank, Andean Community
Overview: Sub regional adaptation project (Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia) lead by the Andean Community Secretariat, with direct participation of the Ministries of Environment of the three countries. Two crucial points are the incorporation of scientific information (climate variables) in the design of the adaptation measures and an economic analysis of investments in adaptation.
Benefits: Pilot adaptation measures validated and economic analysis of costs and benefits from adaptation to climate change.
Contact: Nella Canales, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: In development

Project: Making Carbon Finance Work for the Poor
Action: Carbon finance
Partners: CARE USA - Innovation Fund, CARE UK-LAPPA, German International Cooperation Agency (GTZ )
Overview: Learning project to identify CARE's role in the carbon market. The pilot project in Peru is an initiative in the installation of improved stoves in Huancavelica (Peruvian highlands), within CARE's safe and healthy reconstruction housing project. The project is been design to comply with the Gold Standard.
Benefits: Improve housing conditions within an earthquake affected area while learning about the carbon finance mechanisms.
Contact: Nella Canales, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

Project: Leveraging information to transform US policies towards developing countries
Action: Policy engagement
Partner: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Overview: Research for policy engagement purposes. In Peru, the cluster is adaptation to climate change. The research will look for strategies and mechanisms to promote irrigation policies that include poor and ultra poor farmers from the highlands in Peru affected by glacier retreat.
Benefits: Collection of evidence from the field with policy advocacy purposes.
Contact: Nella Canales, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

Project: Carbon neutral initiative
Action: Organizational change
Overview: The process includes the quantification of CARE's contribution to climate change in terms of TCO2e and the identification of mitigation measures.
Contact: Nella Canales, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

POLAND, Poznan
Action: Policy Engagement
Partners: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Maplecroft
Overview: Official release collaborative report: Humanitarian Implications of Climate Change. Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots. This report maps where extreme climatic phenomena may strike and correlates it with data on where people are most impoverished and vulnerable.
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Completed

SWITZERLAND, GENEVA
Action: Policy engagement
Overview: CARE is an active member in the UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Force on Climate Change. The Task Force serves as a forum to facilitate collaboration between members, especially with regards to engagement in international policymaking processes.
Benefits: Ensuring that the policy positions of UN agencies and other key international organizations communicate the priority concerns of the world' most vulnerable people.
Contact: Poul Eric Lauridsen, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

TAJIKISTAN
Project: Adaptation to Climate Change in Tajikistan (ACCT)
Action: Community-based adaptation
Partner: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Overview: The project worked with women to help develop household-level adaptation strategies most likely to reduce the impact of climate-related shocks and stresses. Cold frames (small greenhouses) were distributed to especially vulnerable households in the target communities.
Benefits: Increased food security for vulnerable households during the difficult winter season.
Contact: Angie Daze, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Completed

TANZANIA, Dar es Salaam
Project: Southern Voices
Action: Participation of members in COP-15 and preliminary meetings. The project works with members from different partner organizations in three of CARE Denmark's country offices and is supported by the Danish-92 group. (Working in Denmark, Germany, Bangkok, Nepal, Ghana and Tanzania)
Partners: CARE Denmark, Federation of Community Forestry Users (Fecofun, Nepal), Civic Response (Ghana) and Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG, Tanzania).
Overview: To enhance participation of southern climate stakeholders in the COP15 climate negotiations and preliminary meetings in regards to climate adaptation and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD). The main position is that COP15 should result in an ambitious global climate agreement, which contributes to reducing anthropogenic climate change in a sustainable and equitable way, and which compensates developing countries for the cost of adaptation.
Benefits: The needs, perspectives and positions of people, and civil society organisations in developing countries are actively advocated for in the international climate negotiations leading up to COP15. It also creates national networks on climate change and forestry, and creates useful links between civil society and national governments.
Contact: MortonFauerby Thomsen, CARE Denmark, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

THAILAND, Bangkok
Project: Southern Voices
Action: Participation of members in COP-15 and preliminary meetings. The project works with members from different partner organizations in three of CARE Denmark's country offices and is supported by the Danish-92 group. (Working in Denmark, Germany, Bangkok, Nepal, Ghana and Tanzania)
Partners: CARE Denmark, Federation of Community Forestry Users (Fecofun, Nepal), Civic Response (Ghana) and Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG, Tanzania).
Overview: To enhance participation of southern climate stakeholders in the COP15 climate negotiations and preliminary meetings in regards to climate adaptation and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD). The main position is that COP15 should result in an ambitious global climate agreement, which contributes to reducing anthropogenic climate change in a sustainable and equitable way, and which compensates developing countries for the cost of adaptation.
Benefits: The needs, perspectives and positions of people, and civil society organisations in developing countries are actively advocated for in the international climate negotiations leading up to COP15. It also creates national networks on climate change and forestry, and creates useful links between civil society and national governments.
Contact: MortonFauerby Thomsen, CARE Denmark, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

UNITED KINGDOM, London
Action: Global alliances
Membership: Member of Working Group on Development and Climate Change - Up in Smoke coalition. The Working Group on Climate Change and Development is a unique and diverse network of development and environment organisations. Its central message is that solving poverty and tackling climate change are intimately linked and equally vital, not either/ors.
Status: Ongoing

UNITED STATES, Atlanta
Action: Organizational change
Overview: CARE USA is engaged in initiatives to reduce institutional greenhouse gas emissions. It received an assessment grant for an audit of its headquarters' energy and water use that will provide recommendations for making the building greener. The CARE USA Green Team is developing internal policies and guidance related to frequent monitoring of the organization's carbon footprint and to design options for future emission reductions and offsets for emissions.
Contact: Christina Chan, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

UNITED STATES, Washington D.C.
Action: Policy engagement
Overview: Together with NGO partners in Washington, D.C., CARE is advocating for the U.S. government to pass legislation that limits domestic greenhouse gas emissions in line with scientifically sound international targets to prevent warming beyond 2o C (3.6 o F). That legislation should commit to and support international and domestic mechanisms to ensure that adaptation resources reach people in developing countries who need it most, and to put in place measures to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) and sets standards and safeguards to protect the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities. We are also working with partners to ensure that the U.S. engages responsibly in UNFCC process to develop a robust and socially just post-2012 global climate agreement.
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Status: Ongoing

UNITED STATES, Washington DC
Action: Global alliances
Membership: Member of the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance. CCBA is a unique partnership among research institutions, corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The CCBA is made up of Members and Advising Institutions. The Members founded the CCBA and contributed to the development of the CCB standards. The independent Advising Institutions facilitated the revision of the draft Standards based on public comments and field-testing.
Status: Ongoing

UNITED STATES, Washington DC
Action: Global alliances
Membership: Member of InterAction, the largest coalition of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focused on the world's poor and most vulnerable people. InterAction members recognize that climate change is a global reality that has, and will increasingly have, multiple impacts on the work done by the humanitarian and development communities.
Status: Ongoing

VIETNAM, Hanoi
Overview: Asian base for Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network
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Action: Policy engagement, information and capacity building
Overview: Create and oversee Working Group on Climate Change (CCWG )
Partners: NGO Resource Centre; Oxfam; CARE; Catholic Relief Services; SNV Netherlands Development Organisation; East Meets West Foundation; World Wildlife Foundation; Challenge to Change and Centre for Sustainable Rural Development.
Overview: The CCWG seeks to contribute to reducing the vulnerability of poor people in Vietnam to the impacts of climate change through NGO coordination, advocacy and capacity building for environmentally and economically sustainable and socially just responses to climate change. The CCWG operates through a core group and 4 thematic groups: adaptation, mitigation, policy influence, awareness and behaviour change. CCWG aims to broaden the participation of INGOs, as well as Vietnamese NGOs, in the climate change debate, enable NGOs to share their current engagement and future interest in addressing climate change, and to discuss the need and options for NGO coordination regarding climate change. CCWG provides an opportunity for NGO networking and coordinated inputs to government and donor policy and actions and for information exchange among these groups. For example, the CCWG web site hosts the World Bank donor CC project matrix.
Benefits: NGO access to information, increased NGO capacity, coordinated NGO voice and interface with government and donors; all providing for pro-poor responses to climate change.
Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: www.ngocentre.org.vn/node/5457
Status: Ongoing

VIETNAM, Da Loc commune, Hau Loc District, Thanh Hoa province
Project: Community-Based Mangrove Reforestation and Management
Action: Multiple benefit Community-Based Adaptation
Partners: Commune People's Committee, District Office for Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD)
Overview: The project established community based mangrove management system across six villages, planting, maintaining and managing 200 hectares of mangroves for coastal protection from storms, typhoons and sea level rise plus support to livelihood options which reduce or avoid impacts of soil salination.
Benefits: Costal and dyke protection, improved long term security of coastal villages, increased incomes from livelihood initiatives, community control over mangrove resources, increased access of poor to mangrove resources and benefits.
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Status: Ongoing