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SouthSouthNorth 2 Project
Main objective is to find the links between poverty and climate change and to deliver projects which achieve poverty reduction in the context of climate change

International Partnership Institution: SouthSouthNorth

South South North (SSN) is a network of organizations, research institutions and consultants grouped into one developmental organisation with considerable expertise to help public and private stakeholders and beneficiaries build capacity to reduce poverty in the context of global climate change. SSN operates in Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Bangladesh and Indonesia
     
    Organizations, research institutions and consultants that form the SSN network:
Centro Clima COPPE UFRJ (Brazil)
Bangladesh Center of Advanced Studies (Bangladesh)
Pelangi (Indonesia)
SSN Africa (Southern Africa)
  Redeh - Rede de Desenvolvimento Humano (Brazil)
  CEEST (Tanzania)
GED (Mozambique)

Project Objective, Programmes and Phases

........The main aim of SouthSouthNorth is to work with partners in developing climate change mitigation and adaptation projects in the developing world, and through these projects to develop capacity in the field of the mitigation and adaptation, to develop technological transfer and receptivity and policy and to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development of four Southern or developing nations/regions, being Brazil, Bangladesh, Indonesia, South Africa, and two further sub-saharan countries.

Under the Project SSN 2, the government of the Netherlands has entrusted SouthSouthNorth to find the links between poverty and climate change and to deliver projects which achieve poverty reduction in the context of climate change. From 2005 until 2008, 13 projects will be identified and implemented which reduce poverty and which mitigate or adapt to climate change. For SSN2, SouthSouthNorth extended its operations under 5 Programmes and have developed regionally into Sub Saharan Africa, with the help of GED in Mozambique and TaTedo in Tanzania.

  • MITIGATION Programme: will develop at least five community based projects in developing countries with at least three in Southern Africa will to reduce poverty whilst achieving global greenhouse gas emission reductions following a best practice no regrets approach to climate change mitigation.
  • ADAPTATION Programme: will develop at least seven community based projects that assist the poor in developing countries to adapt to climate change, building their adaptive capacity and resilience to create sustainable livelihoods and strategies for coping with climate change.
  • TECHNOLOGY RECEPTIVITY and TRANSFER Programme: This programme intersects with all other SSN programmes to ensure that technologies appropriate to the poor in developing countries will be adequately transferred and lessons learnt in all projects developed.
  • CAPACITY BUILDING Programme: This programme also intersects with all other programmes to help build the capacity internally within SSN and amongst various target groups in partnership with stakeholders to mitigate, adapt and transfer technologies that reduce poverty and all the lessons learnt will be captured and disseminated for international sharing.
  • POLICY INTERVENTION Programme: This programme also intersect with all other programmes to encourage the development of most beneficial policies based on the experiences of South South North projects.

SSN 2 project phases: from 2005 to 2008

Phase 1: Develop and improve methodologies for project selection; and select partners, target group and partners for community based adaptation and mitigation projects
Phase 2 Design projects in participation
Phase 3: Implement participative projects and share and disseminate the benefits of project-based experience for the benefit of the world

Below, read information about Mitigation and Adaptation Programmes:

 
MITIGATION Programme

 

General Outcomes

Partners in selected projects in Brazil, Indonesia, Mozambique, South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania are assisted through facilitation to develop sustainable climate change mitigation projects which achieve poverty reduction and increased southern capacity.

Mitigation projects are considered to be fully developed (“implementable”) when they are sustainable, that is, when the selected partners in the different countries have the capacity to get them through to the end. Their actual implementation may be pending different requirements to be negotiated between the involved parties (e.g. final decision about allocation of financial resources for investment), which go beyond the reach of SSN. The “exit point” of SSN can thus be just before or after validation of the project, but the bottom-line will be a PDD ready for validation with sufficient capacity built within the PDT members of the partner institutions to get it through transaction and implementation.

Mitigation:

  • Mitigation project activities are defined as initiatives that reduce GHG emissions compared to a baseline.
  • SSN2 is required to develop mitigation projects that also provide a substantive contribution to poverty reduction.
  • Bearing in mind this requirement, SSN2 mitigation projects will also if possible (but not exclusively) be eligible as CDM candidates according to the requirements set up by the CDM Executive Board of the UNFCCC, and contributing to the sustainable development of the host countries as established by Gold Standard (GS) criteria and/or DNAs.
  • SSN mitigation projects will thus first be targeted to prioritise poverty reduction, and then whenever possible be eligible as CDM project activities, and comply with the Gold Standard criteria.

Specific deliverables:

    • A minimum of 5 implementable mitigation projects (at least one project in each of the selected countries: Brazil, Indonesia, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania that contribute to sustainable development and poverty reduction
    • The refining of SSN methodology to identify, design and transact mitigation projects which promote sustainable development
    • Capacity building in designing and implementing mitigation projects, in all selected countries (including a contribution to an improved SSN Toolkit, providing inputs to the Capacity Development programme)
Duration: January 2005 to December 2008
Status: under development
Mitigation Programme - Brazilian Team
  International Director and National Co-Ordination
 

Prof. Emilio Lebre La Rovere, D.Sc.

  Researchers
 

Alexandre D'Avignon, D. Sc. - Technology Receptivity/Transfer Programme

 

Carolina Dubeux, D.Sc. in process

 

Claudia do Valle Costa, D.Sc. in process

 

Joyce Monteiro, D.Sc. in process

 

Luciano Oliveira, D.Sc. - Technical Manager

  Communications and Facilitation
 
Flavia Nadalutti, MBA Environment COPPE
  Monitoring:
 

Jacqueline Mariano, D.Sc.

Produtos:
  Mitigation PIN Template
  2006 Activities of Mitigation Programme
  2005 Activities of Mitigation Programme
 

Mitigation Project Idea Notes: will be available soon

 
Adaptation Programme

Overall objective:
To enhance poor communities’ ability to adapt to climate change. This project will focus on building the adaptive capacity of the poor to adjust to climate change and variability and will lead to policy inputs that will support sustainable livelihoods.

Specific objectives:

1. To implement seven Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change Projects in six countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America
2. To develop a generic methodology for Community Based Adaptation (CBA) Projects in developing countries
3. To influence national policy making in six countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America on integrating adaptation to climate change into national policies and plans
4. To provide inputs to ongoing international policy discussions on funding adaptation to climate change in developing countries

Phases, Activities and Dates:

Phases of the Adaptation Programme
Phase 1
Identification Phase. This phase will happen in 2005. In this phase we will map vulnerabilities to Climate Change and also poverty at national, regional and local level. From these two information we will choose “hot-spots”, places where have high vulnerability to any aspect of climate change (agriculture; biodiversity; health; coastal zone and water resources) and also poverty. Then, we will select project partners in those areas. The partners are NGOs or other organizations that works locally
Phase 2 Design Phase. This phase will happen in 2006. the partner will sign MOU (memorandum of understanding) and we will design project with the partner for target group. The target group is community that suffer from impact of climate change. We will study with partner the vulnerability to climate change and look for action to cope with climate vulnerability. At this moment we will plan capacity building in climate change aspects and technological need assessment
Phase 3 Implementation Phase. This phase will happen in 2006 and 2007. In this phase we will implement different activities including capacity building and also activities that aim reduction of local poverty and reduction of local vulnerability. We also look for fund raising at global and country level. During this phase we will develop a generic methodology or tool in a learning-by-doing mode for developing community based adaptation projects in six developing countries
Phase 4 Monitoring Phase. This phase will occur in 2008. In this phase we will evaluate projects under some indicators. In this phase we will discuss with policy makers lessons learned with this project and how these lessons can be translated into policies

 
Phase 1 results in Brazil:
Seven Project Ideas were identified:

• Project 1 – Building Capacity to adapt to climate Change and reduce poverty by using small scale water technologies – This project we be carried by CEMINA, a Brazilian NGO, in collaboration with “Pintandense” Women Association. This project is in Municipality of Pintadas, State of Bahia, Semi-arid region in Northeast Region of Brazil.

• Project 2 – Environmental Education and Social Mobilization in Semi-arid region of Brazil – South of State of Piaui in regions called “Chapada das Mangabeiras” and “Tabuleiros do Alto Parnaíba”. This project is Project of Cities Ministry – National Secretary of Sanitation and will take place in three states: Piauí; Paraíba and Alagoas. States of Northeast Region. These area are inside Drought Polygon. This project will give the guideline to National Policy of Environmental Education toward Sanitation.

• Project 3 – Environmental Education and Sustainable Development in poor municipality in winterland of state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This project will carry out by municipality of Miracema. The main purpose of this project is to develop an educational proposal aimed at building citizenship with a perspective of local sustainability. Also aim to develop concrete proposals in the field of agronomics that may contribute to improve climate conditions and to reduce poverty, which has caused people to leave the area.

• Project 4 – Project of Adaptation and Recuperation of Degraded Area in Poor Communities that suffering with floods in Petrópolis, Municipality of State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The NGO MAPA (Environmental Movement of Petropolis and adjacencies) and Piabanha River Committee will carry out this project that aim to think of guideline to control the flow in side hill in poor area with reforestation and implementation of simple measures of drainage.

• Project 5 – Building Capacity on the health vulnerabilities to Climate Change in Amazonian Region of Brazil. The NGO Saude Alegria will carry out this project that will take place in communities that lives in riverside of rivers: Amazon; Tapajós and Arapius. In rural area of Santarem and Belterra Municipalities. In State of Para in North Region of Brazil. The project aim to develop capacity building of those communities to prevent diseases like malaria, leishmaniose and others that have relation with climate change.

• Project 6 – Agroextrative Re-conversion of the Eucaliptus Monoculture in the Vereda Funda Community. This project will work with NGO called, Alternative Agriculture Center of North of Minas Gerais State – CAA-NM, that work in Vereda Funda community area. The objective of project is poverty alleviation and adaptation to the climatic change due to the local community's invigoration, diversification of the production in area highly vulnerable the climatic change (Brazilian semi-arid region) and mitigation through to reforestation activity.

• Project 7 - Reforestation and Control of landslide in Macacos Hill, slum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One of our Parner will be Civil Defense of Rio de Janeiro and the other is Association of Residence of Macaco Hill. This project to develop capacity building of this community in control of flow. We also study simple measures to improve drainage of this hill.
Results to be achieved


Result 1: Implementation of the adaptation projects in Brazil. At international level of SSN2 project, seven communities of poor and vulnerable communities in six countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America will be better able to adapt to impacts of climate change.
Result 2: A generic Methodology or tool for community based organization (CBOs), or NGOs, in developing countries, to develop adaptation projects.
Result 3: Adaptation to climate change is incorporated into relevant national (and sectoral) policy and planning in six countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Result 4: Inputs (through workshops, policy briefs, reports, others) to ongoing international policy making on funding adaptation in developing countries. e.g through the Conferences of Parties (COPs) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Vigência: Janeiro de 2005 a Dezembro de 2008
Status: under development
 
Brazilian Adaptation Programme Team
Brazilian Co-ordination:
  Prof. Emilio Lebre La Rovere, D.Sc. COPPE UFRJ
Thais Corral, Director Redeh - Rede de Desenvolvimento Humano
 
Researchers
  André Felipe Simões, D.Sc.
Débora Kligerman, D.Sc.
Martha Macedo Barata, D.Sc.
Maria Regina Maroun, M.Sc. in process
   
Produtos: will be available soon
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