Africa

Being the second largest continent on earth, Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change, as it faces a high exposure to its impacts and low adaptive capacity. Global warming is increasing extreme temperatures, as well as heatwaves. Heavy precipitation events are increasing throughout the continent, while average annual precipitation only increases in parts of eastern and southern Africa and decreases in the northern regions. Some parts will experience greater flooding and other regions will suffer from an increase of droughts caused by decreased rainfall and heat. Agriculture is the biggest economic sector and especially put at risk by different impacts of climate change. Climate change leads to yield loss, lower soil quality, the spreading of crop and livestock diseases and salinization through coastal flooding caused by sea level rise. The African population is also endangered by water scarcity and an increase in vector and water-borne diseases, as well as infrastructural damages through increasing extreme weather events.

Country Year Host organisation Partners involved Activity
Benin 2017 CIPRE SECAAR Community analysis and inhouse training
Burkina Faso 2016 Secaar Bread for all (Bfa), Missionary Alliance (AMI), Synergie Paysanne (SYNPA) Analysis in the community of Sourgou
Burkina Faso 2016 Secaar Bread for all (Bfa), Missionary Alliance (AMI), Synergie Paysanne (SYNPA) Training workshop in the city of Koudougou (including different organizations from Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Togo)
Cameroon 2021 GADD Bread for the World Short analysis
Cameroon 2013 Cercle International pour la Promotion de la Création (CIPCRE) Département missionnaire (DM-échange et mission), Bread for all (Bfa), FAKT Analysis in one of CIPCRE’s pilot villages Bamendjo
Cameroon 2013 Bread for all (Bfa) Département missionnaire (DM-échange et mission), Cercle International pour la Promotion de la Création (CIPCRE) Training workshop in Bandjoun
Dem. Rep. Congo 2018 PIDR Bread for the world Inhouse training and analysis in Kisangani
Dem. Rep. Congo 2017 Service chrétien d’appui à l’animation rurale (SEECAR) Bread for all (Bfa), Département missionnaire (DM-échange et mission), Centre Régional d’Appui et de Formation pour le Développement (CRAFOD) Training workshop in Kimpese with participants from SECAAR and partners from Congo and Rwanda
Dem. Rep. Congo 2015- 2017 Centre de promotion rurale (CPR) Bread for all (Bfa), Brot für die Welt (BfdW), FAKT Analysis on the Idjwi Island in the Kihumba district, focusing on a project of CPR called SAPROPI (translated = Food security and peasant promotion program). The very positive feedback from the population and the political district leaders led CPR to focus their project activities on this district. Positive experience over time led to several post-training activities.
Dem. Rep. Congo 2015 Centre de promotion rurale (CPR) FAKT, Brot für die Welt (BfdW), Bread for all (Bfa) Training workshop tin Bugarula on the Idjwi Island in the East, including different organizations from Congolese provinces, Rwanda and Benin
Dem. Rep. Congo 2014 Centre Régional d’Appui et de Formation pour le Développement (CRAFOD) FAKT, Bread for all (Bfa), Brot für die Welt (BfdW) Analysis in Malanga on one of CRAFOD’s project called PROGEL (translated = Local Environmental Governance Program in Bas-Congo); Training workshop Kimpese with 16 different organizations from Bas-Congo and Bandundu
Egypt 2024 COC BLESS - The Coptic Orthodox Church (COC)’s Bishopric of Public, Ecumenical and Social Services (BLESS) Greenish, CEWLA Onsite Training, Community Assessment in Beni Suif Governorate
Ethiopia 2009 Bread for all (Bfa) Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS) Training workshop in Addis Ababa
Ethiopia 2009 Gurmuu Bread for all (Bfa), Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS) Analysis on a community level rural development project in the districts of Guduru and Hababo, Oromiya.
Kenya 2023 RODI Bread for the World Community analysis
Madagascar 2017 - 2018 Fastenopfer (FO) Savaivo, Bread for all (Bfa) Analysis on FO’s project “Tsinjo Aina” (“Secure life”) in the village of Mahavanona, a Fokontany on the east coast of Madagascar Subsequently, the PACDR-Tool was shortened into a simpler version and translated into Malagasy. Additionally, a small guide for using the tool was developed. In early 2018 five training workshops were implemented for different regional teams of the Tsinjo Aina project in different communities.
Madagascar 2017 Bread for all (Bfa) Fastenopfer (FO), Savaivo Training workshop in Antananarivo
Malawi 2024 CARD ELDS, CEPA Onsite-training, community assessment
Mali 2018 STOP-SAHEL SECAAR, Bread for the World Community assessment and inhouse training
Namibia 2023 NACDO, ACAT INDIGO, Bread for the World Community assessment
Niger 2009 Bread for all (Bfa) Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS) Training workshop in Niamey
Niger 2009 Groupe d’Appui au Développement Rural – Recherche et Action (GADR-RA) Bread for all (Bfa), Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS) Analysis on GADR-RA’s community-level project in Guidan Ider, Tahoua
Senegal 2015 Solidarité et action pour la promotion de l’arrondissement de Tattaguine (SAPPAT) Fastenopfer (FO) SAPPAT launches their own climate project, enabling over 80 participating agricultural organizations and services and political decision-makers a platform to exchange on agriculture and climate questions
Senegal 2011 - 2015 Regroupement Communautaire pour l’auto Développement de Fissel (RECODEF) Fastenopfer (FO), Bread for all (Bfa) Analysis on one of RECODEF’s projects, which focused on increasing food security in the rural community of Fissel; Being motivated through the analysis, RECODEF submitted a project at the climate fond, which supported 20 families at growing crops with agroecological methods. Subsequently more families were trained in agroecological methods, as the 20 first families were seen as role models.
Senegal 2011 Bread for all (Bfa) Fastenopfer (FO) Training workshop in Toubab Dialo with participants from different organisations from Senegal and Burkina Faso
Sierra Leone 2019 MADAM SILNORF, CCSL, FIOH, SLADEA, YMCA, Bread for the World Community assessment and inhouse training
South Africa 2022 AFRA Bread for the world Training of trainers and practitioners in Mooi River
South Africa 2015 - 2016 Umthathi Fastenopfer (FO) The training workshop in 2014 gave one of FO’s participating partner organizations – Umthathi – the drive to submit a project at the climate fond. In this project Umthathi trained 30 champions from 15 different communities in using the PACDR-Tool and on the Climate change components in the Umthahti Training Manual. The champions then organized climate trainings in their own communities and identified suitable adaptation strategies.
South Africa 2014 - 2016 Khanyisa Educational Project Fastenopfer (FO) After participating in the traning workshop in 2014, Khanyisa implemented 8 climate analyses in four different communities (Paterson, Kwanobuhle, Thornhill, Addo and Hankey) with smallholder farmers. The participants of these workshops afterwards spread their knowledge about climate change and adaptation/mitigation measures in the communities. They could even secure the support of the government in three different regions.
South Africa 2014 Surplus People Project (SPP) Bread for all (Bfa), FAKT, Fastenopfer (FO) Analysis of a project of SPP in Pella, Northern Cape. The projects focus was agrarian transformation for food sovereignty.
South Africa Bread for all (Bfa) FAKT, Fastenopfer (FO), Surplus People Project (SPP) Training workshop in Cape Town
Tanzania 2021 SAT Bread for the World Community assessment and inhouse training
Togo 2012 Bread for all (Bfa) Département missionnaire (DM-échange et mission), Service Chrétien d’Appui à l’Animation Rurale (SECAAR) Training workshop in Tsévié including different organizations from Burkina Faso, Benin, Tchad and Togo
Togo 2012 Service Chrétien d’Appui à l’Animation Rurale (SECAAR) Bread for all (Bfa), Département missionnaire (DM-échange et mission) Subsequently, Secaar used the tool in their project work in western and central Africa. After some time, experience showed that a simpler version of the tool would be useful for the locals. Therefore, Secaar created together with local partners and climate experts from Europe the PACDR manual and translated it into the local language Ewé. The manual was then tested in two workshops and updated accordingly.
Uganda 2019 PELUM Uganda, Church of Uganda (CoU) Bread for the world Community analysis and inhouse training
Uganda 2018 Bread for all (Bfa) Tearfund Switzerland (TF), Church of Uganda (CoU) Second level training workshop in Kabale district with members of CoU and befriended organisations from Uganda and Congo; The focus lied on the KDWSP project, community-based resource management and climate advocacy.
Uganda 2014 - 2018 Church of Uganda (CoU) – Kigezi Diocese Water and Sanitation Programme (KDWSP) Bread for all (Bfa), Tearfund Switzerland (TF) Analysis in the Kabale district in a project operated by KDWSP; It included two workshops with local female and male beneficiaries and a concluding discussion. All identified adaptation strategies were being implemented in the KDWSP project in the following years. Therefore, a pilot project was implemented in Rubaya, integrating more and more activities on farming god’s way and water harvesting.
Uganda 2014 Bread for all (Bfa) Tearfund Switzerland (TF), Church of Uganda (CoU) Training workshop Kampala
Zimbabwe 2010 Bread for all (Bfa) Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS) Training workshop in Bulawayo including participants from organizations from Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 2010 Fambidzanai Permaculture Center Bread for all (Bfa), Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS) Analysis on a project to integrate permaculture and market access for resource poor, smallholder organic farmers in two villages in the district of Matobo
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