Enhance the Rural Farmer's Resilience to climate change adaptation in the East, West and Northern Rwanda

Climate change in Rwanda.

Rwanda has the most difficult challenges of high vulnerability to climate change such increased drought periods in the Eastern Rwanda and increased frequency and intensity of storms in the Northern and Western Rwanda. Most of the paces threaten to stall or reverse development gains and hence extreme recurrent poverty of the rural farmer’s communities and livelihoods in urban areas of Rwanda. The Rwandan living standards must be improved by developing the economy and society in a way that is able to withstand the impacts of a changing climate.


Projected impacts and others, undermine investments in food security and global health, as well as create new potential for conflict over land and resources. This grant will strengthen the collaboration of different actor such as local government, private sector, NGOs, the research community, and particularly vulnerable populations. Working together to facilitate adaptation will help to increase the resilience of vulnerable communities, and ecosystems to climate change impacts.

These interventions are going to gain on the U.S. dedicated significant additional funding to climate change adaptation from 2010 to 2012. The intervention of the project will build on the findings of the recent national information on climate vulnerabilities found by the Rwandan second National Communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Two non government organizations(GLCPD AND ADPR/TURAMIRANE are going to work for the achievements of the proposed recommendations from the national communications reports from the UNEP and elaborated by Rwanda Environment Authority.