Strengthening the resilience of communities and ecosystems vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the Mono-TOGO basin

The project aims to protect approximately 400,000 beneficiaries in the Mono-TOGO basin through a two-pronged approach: strengthening institutional and community capacity for Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and implementing ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) measures. Key activities include the development of a drought and flood risk early warning system, the installation of hydrological monitoring equipment, and the implementation of riverine stabilization and soil conservation measures across an estimated 40,000 hectares. The project requests USD 16 million in grant funding from the Green Climate Fund, with a total indicative cost of USD 46 million, to address technical and financial barriers in a region where agriculture is a primary economic driver but highly vulnerable to climate extremes.

• The project targets 400,000 direct beneficiaries, representing approximately 15% of the Mono basin population and 5% of Togo's total population, with 52% of these beneficiaries being female.
• The project employs a two-pronged strategy: first, enhancing institutional and community capacity via a climate-resilient Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) plan; and second, improving agricultural livelihoods through ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) focusing on soil conservation and riverine stabilization.
• Specific technical interventions for water management include the installation of automated level measurements systems, flow rate meters, rain gauges, and agrometeorological stations to support a new drought and flood risk monitoring online tool.
• Ecosystem-based adaptation measures will involve riverine stabilization using bioengineering, relief level curves, and gully treatment with gabion or masonry thresholds across an estimated 40,000 hectares.
• The project identifies critical climate risks in the Mono Basin, including the pollution of drinking water by flooding, saline intrusion into coastal aquifers, and declining agricultural yields due to worsening droughts and soil lateralization in the plateaux region.
• The total indicative cost of the project is USD 46 million, with USD 16 million requested as a grant from the Green Climate Fund and USD 30 million in co-financing from the Government of Togo and UNDP.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2019). Strengthening the resilience of communities and ecosystems vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the Mono-TOGO basin. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/22530-strengthening-resilience-communities-and-ecosystems-vulnerable-impacts-climate-change-mono.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Strengthening the resilience of communities and ecosystems vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the Mono-TOGO basin. 2019. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/22530-strengthening-resilience-communities-and-ecosystems-vulnerable-impacts-climate-change-mono.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2019strengthening, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Strengthening the resilience of communities and ecosystems vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in the Mono-TOGO basin}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2019}, month = jul, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/22530-strengthening-resilience-communities-and-ecosystems-vulnerable-impacts-climate-change-mono.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }