Contribution to the African Regional Mountain Forum 2014



Contract partner: UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme - Vienna Country: Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 55.000,00 Project start: 01.10.2014 End: 31.12.2014

Short Description:

Overall goal


Ziel: Enhancing collaboration and framing a regional agenda for sustainable mountain development challenges in African mountains.


Erwartete Ergebnisse:

1. To provide an opportunity for different sustainable mountain development stakeholders to enhance understanding of common conservation and development issues in the region;

2. To share lessons and experiences in meeting the conservation and development challenges including water, energy, food security and climate change in African Mountain regions;

3. To identify strategic actions to address major emerging issues such as climate change in the region.

4. To promote linkages and collaboration between different stakeholders (governments, civil society and private sector) for a regional framework on sustainable mountain development in Africa


Zielgruppe: About 90 participants from African government institutions, academia, civil society and private sector are expected to attend the forum.


Maßnahme: Organization of the Forum


Hintergrund: African mountains provide indispensable goods and services for communities living in and around them, and for various downstream users. They harbour unique biodiversity, provide water, food, and energy security at local, national, and regional levels. However, pressure from increasing human activities and climate change are leading to rapid montane biodiversity loss, land degradation and natural disasters, jeopardizing their ability to balance people’s needs. In response to these needs and in the framework of the Post-2015 Development Agenda/current discussions towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ARCOS and the Africa Mountain Partnership Champions Committee in partnership with the East African Community (EAC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) are organising the African Mountains Regional Forum 2014.

project number 2765-00/2014
source of funding OEZA
sector Umweltschutz allgemein
tied
modality
marker
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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