FAO signs USD 47 million project for climate change resilience in Pakistan
Funded by the Green Climate Fund, the project stands to directly benefit 1.3 million rural people
On February 15, FAO and the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Climate Change (Pakistan) Malik Amin Aslam signed a USD 47 million project to help the most vulnerable farmers in the Indus River Basin increase their resilience to climate change. The agreement follows the approval of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) of a grant of nearly USD 35 million. The project stands to directly benefit 1.3 million rural people, including women farmers.
Pakistan’s agriculture sector is affected by its arid to semi-arid climate, as well as its dependency on a single river system, along with snow and glacial melt water, to provide its agricultural water supply. The FAO project, “Transforming the Indus Basin with Climate Resilient Agriculture and Water Management,” will be implemented in eight districts in Punjab and Sindh Provinces over a six-year period. It aims to both increase farmers’ resilience and strengthen government capacity to support communities’ ability to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
The project will support capacity building to continuously monitor and assess climate change risks and adaptation needs by installing state-of-the art information services technology and training national experts to translate these insights into action on the ground.
About the FAO and GCF partnership
The GCF is the world’s largest dedicated fund helping developing countries reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and enhance their ability to respond to climate change. It was set up by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010. FAO is accredited with the GCF as a grant-implementing entity for medium-sized projects (USD 50-250 million) with a medium level of environmental and social risk. FAO stands ready to support its Member States to develop and implement country-led projects on adaptation, climate-smart agriculture, combatting land and forest degradation, sustainable forest management and disaster risk reduction, among other areas in which FAO possesses considerable expertise.
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