Enhancing Climate Resilience in Flood-Prone Areas in Northwestern South Sudan (ECRF) South Sudan

The ECRF project is a five-year initiative (2026-2030) requesting 44.68 million USD from the Green Climate Fund to address extreme climate vulnerability in northwestern South Sudan. Targeting Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap states, the project aims to benefit 575,111 direct and 1,098,820 indirect beneficiaries. It employs a three-component strategy: strengthening national and local institutional capacity for climate information and disaster risk management; enhancing the delivery of last-mile climate services and private sector supply of adaptation inputs; and implementing community-led sustainable land and water management and climate-resilient livelihoods. The project is co-executed by the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNHCR, with additional co-financing from the Government of Japan.

• South Sudan is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change, ranking second globally in vulnerability indices, and has experienced five consecutive years of unprecedented floods from 2019 to 2024.
• Climate analysis shows a general wetting trend with average annual precipitation increasing by 2.4% per decade between 1980 and 2020, though this is spatially uneven and accompanied by intensifying drought conditions due to rising potential evapotranspiration.
• Temperature trends indicate a statistically significant warming trend from 1980-2020, with the national average minimum temperature rising by 0.2°C per decade and the mean temperature increasing by 0.16°C per decade.
• The project targets Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap states, where approximately 95% of the population relies on climate-sensitive livelihoods, primarily agro-pastoralism.
• The project's first component focuses on institutional capacity, including upgrading technical infrastructure for the South Sudan Meteorological Services (SSMS) and the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MoWRI) to improve hydrological information and forecasting.
• The second component aims to bridge the gap between institutional systems and communities by co-designing last-mile climate services that integrate scientific forecasts with local and indigenous knowledge systems.
• The third component implements community-led sustainable land and water management (SLM/SWM) and the creation of climate-resilient assets, such as small-scale water infrastructure and flood control dykes.
• The project includes a specific focus on refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), with UNHCR managing a grant program to assist 50 refugee-led, group-based agricultural SMEs with 8,520 USD each.
• Total financing for the project is 49,995,426 USD, consisting of 44,679,086 USD requested from the GCF as a grant and 5,316,000 USD in co-financing from WFP and the Government of Japan.
• The project is classified as Environmental and Social (E&S) Category C, meaning it is expected to present minimal or no adverse environmental or social risks.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2025). Enhancing Climate Resilience in Flood-Prone Areas in Northwestern South Sudan (ECRF) South Sudan. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp279.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. Enhancing Climate Resilience in Flood-Prone Areas in Northwestern South Sudan (ECRF) South Sudan. 2025. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp279.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2025enhancing, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{Enhancing Climate Resilience in Flood-Prone Areas in Northwestern South Sudan (ECRF) South Sudan}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/fp279.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }