LACC Project : Lake Chad & Adaptation to Climate Change

The LACC Project aims to enhance climate resilience for 45,000 direct beneficiaries in the Lake Chad Basin through four pillars: sustainable resource management, resilient livelihoods, equitable local governance, and the dissemination of best practices. The project addresses severe vulnerabilities including rising temperatures, rainfall variability, and high poverty rates in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. Key interventions include the construction of solar-powered water harvesting structures, the promotion of agroforestry to sequester an estimated 1,139,225 tCO2eq, and the implementation of the Participatory Seasonal Planning (PSP) methodology for climate information. The project is led by CARE Nederland and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), targeting specific regions such as Diffa in Niger, the Far North in Cameroon, and the Lake Province in Chad.

• The project targets 45,000 direct beneficiaries and 717,000 indirect beneficiaries, representing approximately 1.26% of the total population of the three involved countries.
• Climate change in the Lake Chad Basin has caused temperature increases of approximately 6°C during March/April/May and September/October/November, and 34°C during June/July/August and December/January/February, leading to higher evapotranspiration and rainfall variability.
• The project expects to avoid 1,139,225 tCO2eq through agroforestry and Natural Regeneration Activities (NRA) across 140 hectares of land: 60 hectares in Niger, 60 hectares in Chad, and 20 hectares in Cameroon.
• The intervention is structured around four pillars: (1) integrated and sustainable management of water, soil, and forests; (2) resilient livelihoods; (3) resilient and equitable local governance; and (4) regional dissemination of good practices.
• The project introduces the Participatory Seasonal Planning (PSP) methodology to ensure climate information is understood and co-generated by communities, complementing existing early warning systems.
• Severe socio-economic barriers exist in the target areas, including poverty rates exceeding 70% in some regions and extremely low literacy and school attendance rates in the Far North of Cameroon and the Lake region of Chad.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2019). LACC Project : Lake Chad & Adaptation to Climate Change. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/23120-lacc-project-lake-chad-adaptation-climate-change.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. LACC Project : Lake Chad & Adaptation to Climate Change. 2019. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/23120-lacc-project-lake-chad-adaptation-climate-change.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2019lacc, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{LACC Project : Lake Chad \& Adaptation to Climate Change}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2019}, month = nov, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/23120-lacc-project-lake-chad-adaptation-climate-change.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }