Summary:
The project aims to create Climate Smart Villages (CSVs) and promote the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approaches while encouraging national governments to participate. It also strives to set new standards for conflict-sensitive and peace-responsive climate action through innovative methods and toolkits, serving as a model for such initiatives. Climate-Smart Villages are examples of local actions that promote adaptation and resilience to climatic stresses.

Summary:
At the onset of climate disasters, disaster risk responses are often delayed due to a lack of available finance and poorly planned response measures. Forecast- based Financing (FbF) is a model that seeks to pre-emptively overcome these barriers by working with communities at- risk, meteorological services, agencies specialized in disaster risk reduction and other relevant national actors, to agree on a set of priority responses, and the necessary budget, that would be initiated prior to the onset of a disaster, when the disaster- forecast reaches a certain trigger ‘threshold’. In essence, FbF releases humanitarian funding for planned activities based on forecast information which reduces risks, enhances preparedness, and makes disaster risk management more effective.