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Abstract
Nowadays climate change event and poor population vulnerability become more
severe and natural resources scarcity intensity increased. In order to mitigate climate
change negative effects adaptive policies such as poverty reduction Strategy and
National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPA) as effective’s responsive strategies.
There are also farmers traditional adaptation methods which are consider as local
mainstreaming climate change adaptation framework.
This paper has explore subjective qualitative evaluation of climate change risk
management framework strategic and link its with poverty reduction strategy in the
Sahel .Sahel is one of the most vulnerable areas in the world with lower HDI(0.2%)
and have the highest poverty rate (over 45% of the people live below the poverty
line).
The study was focused on 9 Sahel countries (Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger,
Burkina-Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Soudan and Eritrea) and their Poverty Reduction
Strategy Papers (PRSP) and National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) by
assessing criteria such as: a) the consideration of climate change scenarios and the
vulnerabilities of the country; b) the analysis of poverty-climate links; and c) the
climate change institutional framework of the country. However Soudan and Eritrea
don’t have PRSP and Nigeria don’t have NAPA.
The results show that most Sahel countries does not included Climate change
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effect in their PRSP (except Burkina-Faso) but have a better performance with NAPA
framework elaboration. Burkina-Faso is Climate risk management model country in
the region but policies have failed because of farmer’s difficult conditions to get
access to credit and lack of good technical supports. NAPA and PRSP objectives did
not achieved because majority of poor were excluded, inefficiency in domestic
accounting systems and inefficient monitoring. Furthermore, donors funding problems,
natural disasters such as floods or droughts; biophysical modeling and simulation
insufficient data, lack of skilled labor are others reason.
To conclude, it is illustrates that mainstreaming natural hazards into PRSP and
the development of NAPA are a step forward into establishment of institutional
process to incorporate climate change into national policies. The World Bank and the
UNFCCC should coordinate efforts to support developing countries in their efforts to
incorporate adaptation to climate change in PRSP. Country need to strength the
coordination, networks and information flows between ministries, at different levels
of government and civil society to have more efficient integration of climate change
variables into poverty reduction and development strategies. Country's should also
have sustainable funding and should not rely only on donor. Policies should target
more vulnerable peoples, need good policies implementation and good monitoring.