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Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation s Strategy into Community Livelihood and Development (MCCASIC-LiD) is a project developed in a participatory manner by community people and relevant local government agencies with the purpose of assisting the target communes of CTO to adapt and contribute to reducing their climate change vulnerability. From the VRA exercise, in order to enable community people to adapt to climate change, four important factors must be considered and included in the project: (1)-Awareness Raining on Climate Change and Adaptation (2)-Adaptive agriculture practices (3)-Management of adaptation-enabling natural resources (4)-Reduction of vulnerability and rehabilitation of infrastructures Based on the agreed findings and analysis conducted with villagers, Commune Council and local government agencies, the project will provide awareness raising on climate change causes, impact and adaptation to villagers including commune councillors . Understanding that community should have relevant, effective and capable local institutions to coordinate collective actions, provide information on climate change to villagers, the project will train commune committee for disaster risk management, Farmer Water User Committee (FWUC), community fishery committee and community based cow bank committee to deal with a number of issues which will help them to adapt to climate change. The project will assist villagers financially and technically in order for them to be able to practice adaptive agriculture by introducing water effective irrigation system (drip-system) which are ideal for women and disable people for vegetable gardening, rehabilitating a 2000m canal to increase rice yield by enabling 225 farmer to do two time a year of rice farming and improving rice yield from 1100 kgs to 2500kgs per hectare. The VRA found that natural resources are second most important sources of livelihood for villagers; therefore, the project will assist villagers and commune councilors to manage natural resources that enable to adapt to climate change. This project will assist the communities to manage water resource and fishery resources. The project will work cooperatively and actively with key stakeholders such as Council Councillors, commune committee for disaster management (CCDM), provincial department of water resources (PDOWRAM), Provincial Department of Environment (DOE), Provincial Department of Women s Affair (PDOWA) and Provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (PDOAFF), Provincial Committee for Disasters Management (PCDM) and University of Build Bright (BBU). The main goal of the project is to ensure that the communities have sustainable and effective capacity to adapt to climate change and to reduce vulnerability dramatically caused by climate change. 1.2 Objectives The project goal is increased adaptive capacity and reducing vulnerability of 14225 people (including 8014 women and 125 disable people in the target communities) from climate change impacts by piloting Community Based Adaptation initiatives to improve their livelihood and mainstreaming climate change adaptation priorities into Commune Development Plan . Specific objectives are as follows: Objective 1 : Awareness Raising At the end of the project, at least 14,225 people including 125 disable people and 24 Commune Council members from 14 villages in 2 communes will be aware of climate change and its impact through education and awareness campaigns about cause and impact of climate change and adaptation. Objective 2: Institutions Development and Capacity Building At the end of the project 5 community based committees, Commune committee for disaster management (CCDM), FWUC (FWUC), Community fish hatchery station, community fishery committee and a cow bank committee will be established, reorganized and well function. Objective 3: Adaptive Agriculture (diversification) and Natural Resources Management At the end of the project, vulnerability to livelihood and socio-economic impacts caused by climate change will be reduced by increasing water access for 225 families (Canal construction), rice yield improvement (2 times a year for 225 families), aquaculture productions (for 50 families), vegetable gardening (125 women headed households and disable people), and increasing natural fish stock by community fishery for 2331 families. Objective 4: Lesson Learnt Documentation and Sharing At the end of the project, the two targeted communes have mainstreamed climate change adaptation priorities into Commune Development Plans and Commune Investment plans, lesson learn and good practices from project implementation will be documented and share with wilder stakeholders. 1.3 Outcomes Outcome 1.1:the target families will be prepared and apply Community Based adaptive initiatives effectively to reduce vulnerability to climate change Outcome 2.1: all Organized Committees (5 community based committees, Commune committee for disaster management (CCDM), FWUC (FWUC), Community fish hatchery station, community fishery committee and a cow bank committee) are able to provide better services to the target community members. Outcome3.1: the most vulnerable people will have better adaptive capacity to climate change by increasing agricultural yield from multiple farming through practicing adaptive farming techniques. Outcome 3.2: Villagers will be able to access water for farming year round and community will be better protected from mini scale flood. Out

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