adaptacija na klimatske promjene I djelovanje u nesrecama

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• EU and ADA co-funded project
• Climate Forum East
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Georgia
• Moldova
• Ukraine
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Outline

• About the project
• Project purpose
• Overview
• Establishment of civil society organization (CSO)
  networks
• National climate vulnerability assessments
• Evidence-based advocacy/awareness raising on
  climate change adaptation
• Education for action and citizenship among young
  people
• Climate Forum East
• Expected results

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About the project

• Project duration January 2013 December 2014
• Project budget 1.1 million
• EU 825,000
• Austrian Development Agency 200,000
• Austrian Red Cross 50,000
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) 5,000
• Main beneficiaries population from Eastern
  Partnership countries vulnerable to climate risks

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Project purpose
Strengthen the capacity of CSO networks to
participate effectively in policy dialogue with
local authorities, EU institutions and
international organisations in Climate Change
Adaptation across all six Eastern Partnership
countries.
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Partners in the project

• implementing partners
• Austrian Red Cross project lead
• Armenian Red Cross Society www.redcross.am
• Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society
  www.redcrescent.az
• Belarus Red Cross Society www.redcross.by
• Georgia Red Cross Society www.redcross.ge
• ECOSPECTRU in Moldova
• National Ecological Society of Ukraine
• technical advisors
• World Wide Fund For Nature, Danube Carpathian
  Programme
• Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague,
  NL
• Environment Agency Austria

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Establishment of CSO networks

• Establishment of six national CSO networks, one
  in each of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
  Moldova and the Ukraine
• Building capacity of six national CSO networks in
  conducting climate vulnerability assessments
• Building capacity of six national CSO networks in
  communication, negotiation and development of
  (evidence-based) advocacy strategies
• Building capacity of six national CSO networks in
  education and activism amongst youth and
  community
• Development of regional platform for CSOs and
  other stakeholder to foster cross-border
  cooperation and initiatives

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Climate vulnerability assessments

• Six national and two regional reports
• Focus on regional and national
• vulnerabilities in defined key sectors
• (e.g. biodiversity, disaster management,
• energy, health, water resources etc.)
• Application of traditional tools
• methods, e.g. vulnerability and capacity
  assessments
• Pre-condition for evidence-based advocacy on
  national and regional level

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Climate change adaptation advocacy

• Trainings for six CSO networks in advocacy,
  communication and negotiation skills
• Development of joint advocacy strategies in
  climate change adaptation
• Implementation of joint awareness raising and
  evidence-based advocacy strategies on climate
  change adaptation

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Educating youth and communities

• Concrete activities focusing on communites and
  young people held by network members on a
  local/national level
• Advocacy workshops for youth and community
  leaders held in six countries seminars for
  teachers held
• Promotion of youth and community actions

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Climate Forum East

• Establishment of a regional forum with
  international, regional and national
  multi-sectoral stakeholders
• Linking national advocacy/awareness raising
  efforts in climate change adaptation to the
  regional level, defining joint priorities
• Systematic information exchange by governments
  and civil society organizations in climate change
  adaptation

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Expected results

• Strengthening advocacy/awareness raising
  including among youth and communities
• Establishing cross-sectoral strategic
  partnerships for joint action
• Strengthening civil society in Eastern Europe and
  South Caucasus region
• Fostering climate change adaptation initiatives
  in the region
• Bridging the gap between climate change
  adaptation activities on national and regional
  level
• Capacity building in climate vulnerability
  assessments
• Results of climate risk/vulnerability analysis
  can be used for design of future RC/RC and civil
  society activities

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Information and updates

• Project website
• Partner websites
• Austrian Red Cross www.roteskreuz.at
• Armenian Red Cross Society www.redcross.am
• Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society
  www.redcrescent.az
• Belarus Red Cross Society www.redcross.by
• Georgia Red Cross Society www.redcross.ge
• ECOSPECTRU (Moldova)
• National Ecological Society of Ukraine
  www.necu.org.ua
• WWF www.panda.org
• Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre
  www.climatecentre.org
• Environment Agency Austria www.umweltbundesamt
  .at

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Contacts

• general, overall project management/regional
  (East)
• Sonja Greiner, AutRC, sonja.greiner_at_redcross.at
• Armenia Suren Movsisyan, ARCS,
  surenmovsisyan_at_gmail.com
• Azerbaijan Shaban Shayev, AzRCS,
  shaban.shayev_at_redcrescent.az
• Belarus Dmitry Rusakov, BRCS, rusakov.dmitry_at_gmai
  l.com
• Georgia Mikheil Ramazashvili, GRCS,
  misha_lawyer_at_yahoo.com
• Moldova Dimitru Drumea, ECOSPECTRU,
  ddrumea559_at_gmail.com
• Ukraine Yury Urbansky, NECU, urbik_at_neco.org.ua
• Regional (West) Natalia Gozak, WWF,
  natalia.gozak_at_gmail.com