Project Details

Project Number None
Project Name ENHANCING DISASTER RESILIENCE ON DROUGHTS IN SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
Sector/Thematic Area Other Multisector
Financing Agency Japan
Modality B01
Description According to statistics by the government of Pakistan and UNDP, Sindh Province, particularly Umerkot District, is one of the poorest in Pakistan, and an assessment for the project was conducted in April 2018. The assessment results revealed significant negative impact from chronic water shortage and drought, therefore the project aims to enhance disaster resilience on droughts through improving access to water and agricultural practice that is more drought resilient. Specifically, the project will provide water related information to the community for improving awareness on DRR in the area, improve access to drinking water, and improve access to agricultural water source and technology which can reduce vulnerability of the drought affected community. In order to ensure sustainability, the project aims to build a mechanism in which community takes the ownership for maintaining and managing the activities and the assets of the project upon completion. And the project will carry out information dissemination on technicality of the model used in the project so that it will be considered as a model process for other drought affected areas in Pakistan. Specifically speaking, initial LandSat image analysis will allow narrowing down the potential area for aquafer, which will enable the team to focus on areas to conduct ERS, which will increase probability of getting to good water source through construction of wells. Furthermore, national DRR seminar will be organized on annual basis to share the project outcomes widely.
Adaptation Finance (thousand USD) 361.250327830772
Mitigation Finance (thousand USD) 0.0
Total Project Climate Financing Amount (thousand USD) 361.250327830772
Mitigation Objective Not targeted/Not screened
Adaptation Objective Principal
Region South & Central Asia