Kilimanjaro Findings
Climate change projections for the Kilimanjaro region indicate a 25 to 60% increase in short rain precipitation and an increase of 20 to 45% precipitation of the long rains. Over the past thirty...
Rufiji Findings
Over 90% of households indicated that they relied upon means other than agriculture to survive flood and drought. All households interviewed indicated that agriculture did not provide enough food...
NCAP Vietnam Study Sites
Figure 1: Location of Thua Thien Hue province in Vietnam and the surrounding regions(Source: Phong Tran et al. 2007)
...NCAP Vietnam: Impacts on Thua Thien Hue Province
Apart from assessing the impacts of climate change on water resources, the project has also looked into the impacts of climate change on other sectors in Thua Thien Hue Province and Phu Vang...
NCAP Vietnam Water Resources
For the assessment of the potential climate change impacts on water resources, different modeling methods were used, including MIKE11 and MIKEBASIN. The input data that was used included...
Aden City
Aden City is the chief port of Yemen and is one of the largest natural harbors in the world with an area of about 70km² of sheltered water surrounded by Jebel Shamsan, Khoremakser, and...
Yemen Sana'a Basin
The Sana'a Basin is located in the Central Highlands of Yemen and includes the capital city of Sana'a. At an elevation ranging from 2,000 to 2,200m ASL, the basin is characterized...
Yemen Sadah Basin
An intermountain basin, the Sadah Basin is situated in Yemen’s western highlands about 250km north of Sana’a as shown in Figure 3.1 below. The basin is characterized by sparse...
NCAP Lessons Learned
This page brings together links to the lessons learned from the NCAP projects in different countries.
CountriesBangladesh
Bhutan
Bolivia
Colombia
Ghana
...
NCAP Findings
Links to summaries of the key findings from the 14 different NCAP projects are provided below.
CountriesBangladesh
Bhutan
Bolivia
Colombia
Ghana
...
NCAP Vietnam: Thua Thien Hue
The following are specific recommendations for the most vulnerable sectors and areas - agriculture, water resources and coastal zones - of Thua Thien Hue Province:
Adaptation options for...
Lessons learned from NCAP
Some of the main lessons learned from the NCAP project are:
Climate change is not the sole challenge that vulnerable communities in developing countries...Key findings from Mozambique NCAP Project
The majority of people involved in this study are chronically vulnerable to a range of stresses including climate risk. 70% of households are employed in the informal market and therefore have...
Bolivia: Impacts by Sector
This page looks at the impacts of climate change on different sectors in Bolivia. It forms part of a larger report produced by Tahia Devisscher and Ben Smith in November...
Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme (NCAP)
This article provides an overview of the first phase of the Netherlands Climate Change Studies Assistance Programme and links to the project reports from the 13 counties covered under the scheme.
Methodology of Tanzania NCAP Project
The methodologies in the NCAP Tanzania project sits in the broader framework of vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity.
Rufiji Methods
The table below details the...
Mali NCAP Project
Community Meeting in Massabla
IntroductionLike many sub-Saharan countries, Mali already experiences the effects of severe droughts and rainfall variability, leading...
Lessons learned from Mozambique NCAP Project
Discussion and Conclusions
The majority of the people within all the study areas are vulnerable to a range of climate risks. Chronic poverty erodes the resilience of communities to external...
Local Adaptation in Coasts
The NCAP project sought to respond to a need for adaptation measures at a more local level and focused on the elaboration of a more detailed and specific adaptation strategy for Paramaribo...
Netherlands Climate Assistance Programme
NCAP is a programme of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Management of the NCAP is passed to an independent executing agency.
