Climate Risk Management in Finnish Development Cooperation - Gaia

specifically designed to support sustainable watershed development and management through community
based planning and participation in the Ribb, Gumera, and Jema sub-watersheds in the Lake Tana sub-basin.
The WME Project, has been attached to the B1 to provide specific Technical Assistance to support the
management of Component B1, and the entire TWIRDP, with regards to monitoring and evaluation.
Climate risks for project outcomes
As a technical support project aimed at local and regional governance there are very few direct
climate risks threatening the achievement of the expected six key results:
1. Relevant, accurate and reliable baseline information is available;
2. Fully functional M&E system and MIS established;
3. M&E system effectively used for planning and implementation by managers at national, regional,
Woreda and Kebele 60 levels;
4. Human and organisational capacity at regional, Woreda and Kebele levels enhanced to effectively
implement M&E,
5. M&E system is operating as a platform for effective horizontal and vertical information sharing among
project stakeholders;
6. Component B1 M&E system and MIS are institutionalised across levels among stakeholders.
The direct climatic risks e.g. due to possible extreme weather events associated with field
measurements (such as riverbank gauging stations) can be considered low. Climate extremes might
also create some difficulties in reaching remote project areas, but do not pose any considerable risks
to reaching the identified key results.
Outcomes of the project could in some cases be indirectly influenced by natural hazards leading to
reduced staff resources in project and woreda/kebele organisations or e.g. lead to interruptions to
participatory sampling programme (depending on local vulnerability). However, the current climatic
hazards nor the projected climate change in the longer-term (including temperature increase 1-3°C
by mid-century, changes in precipitation or other climatic parameters), do not pose any significant
risks to the achievement of the project outcomes.
Prior climate considerations
During WME project preparation and planning climate change and variability issues have generally
been taken into consideration, noting that “natural disasters do not pose direct risks to the project
but may potentially indirectly affect implementation”. WME project documentation does not
elaborate further on these considerations e.g. how the potential climate implications have been
assessed or in which manner implementation might be indirectly affected.
A priori, climate considerations are at the heart of the entire Tana Beles Integrated Water Resources
Development Project (TBIWRDP), of which WME will form a key component. Investments that are to
be provided through TBIWRDP in watershed development are expected to provide tangible benefits
60 A kebele, which is part of a woredas, is the smallest administrative unit of Ethiopia.
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