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 Sponsored by Irish Aid, this portal forms a key component of the dissemination of key outcomes of the Government of Mozambique’s project 

‘Responding to Climate Change in Mozambique’

Introduction

The dissemination of the main findings and recommendations resulting from the INGC Phase II Study, ‘Responding to Climate Change in Mozambique,’ conducted by the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC) from Sept. 2009 through Dec. 2011 is seen as critical to the success of the initiative. The importance of the dissemination of findings through reports and presentations at the provincial level was foreseen in the design of the study. 

A key outcome from the 7-8 June 2011 stakeholder consultations was that there is a huge need for the dissemination of Phase I and II information at a much wider scale, at the provincial, district and community level. An important outcome from the Coordinating Council of Disaster Management meeting of 19 Sept. 2011 was furthermore that dissemination should start as soon as possible, including at ministerial level, whereby the content should be adjusted to the level and reality of the different audiences.

 Objectives

The objectives of the dissemination plan are:

To alert public opinion and the government at all levels about the increased risks but also opportunities created by climate change, bringing across the main findings and recommendations of INGC Phase I and II;

To stimulate national debate on the relationship between climate change and disaster risk management, and to encourage the government to approve the national strategy on climate change and disaster risk (developed through INGC Phase II); as well as the overall national strategy on climate change (to be developed by MICOA);

To help identify, through wider consultation, additional adaptation measures in key sectors and hence help prepare project proposals for funding these measures;

To help build local capacity to analyze risks, plan response and identify opportunities;

To provide an evidence base and good visual representation to inform and guide the government’s negotiation position for international fora such as at COP 17; and 

To help establish a baseline with various groups of people at various levels (e.g. government, farmers, public, local enterprises) on the levels of preparedness for climate change now – in order to compare this with a similar exercise in 2013 and 2015 etc, thereby helping establish the impact of adaptation measures on these groups of people.

The following sponsors are acknowledged for their contribution to the initiative (click to link):