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It targets the Zambezi Watercourse, where climate change is causing increased drought, flooding, and reduced hydropower potential. The programme focuses on four components: building community resilience through infrastructure and agribusiness, strengthening integrated landscape management, enhancing adaptive and institutional capacity, and programme coordination. Key targets include benefiting 3.79 million direct beneficiaries, restoring 970,000 hectares of degraded land, and reducing emissions by 37.1 million tCO2eq. The initiative emphasizes the use of digital technologies, carbon farming via the Boomitra model, and the establishment of a Direct Credit Window to de-risk private sector investment in agribusiness.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The Zambezi Watercourse is highly vulnerable to climate change, with projections indicating a substantial decrease in water availability due to rising temperatures and higher evapotranspiration, which may reduce hydropower production potential by 9% in the 2020s, 18% in the 2050s, and 28% in the 2080s.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The programme aims to provide direct benefits to approximately 3.79 million smallholder farmers and indirect benefits to 65.17 million people, with a target of 50% women and 50% youth participation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"PIDACC-Zambezi will implement significant infrastructure projects, including the construction or rehabilitation of 2 million m³ of small water storage facilities, 2,000 solar-powered wells and boreholes, and 25,000 hectares of small-scale community irrigation schemes.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The programme targets a total emission reduction of 37,142,150 tCO2eq over its lifespan, primarily through renewable energy generation (100 MW solar, 10 MW mini hydropower, and 1 MW biogas) and carbon farming on 510,000 hectares of land.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To address financing barriers, the programme will establish a PIDACC Direct Credit Window (PDCW) to provide local private financial institutions with lendable resources, requiring a 10% cash contribution from beneficiaries and 30-40% from the local PFIs.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The programme will scale up agricultural innovations, including the Boomitra Carbon Program for pasturelands to generate carbon credits and the deployment of eight Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) to over 480,000 smallholder farmers.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Institutional capacity will be strengthened by upgrading the Zambezi Water Information System (ZAMWIS) to include flow forecasting, monitoring, and the determination of environmental flows (e-flows).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The programme identifies specific climate 'hotspots' for future impact, notably in southern Malawi and surrounding districts of Mozambique, as well as central Zimbabwe and parts of southern Zambia.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004931#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate change adaptation","water management","hydropower","carbon credit","renewable energy","solar energy","biogas","agroforestry","Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation","Climate-smart agriculture","disaster risk reduction","early warning system","climate finance","Blended Finance","gender equality"],"geography_discussed":["Kenya"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["investment proposal","vulnerability assessment","strategic planning"]}]}