Climate-Security Practices | Planetary Security Initiative

The Planetary Security Initiative Overview of Climate Security Practices

Climate Security Practices (CSPs) are tangible actions implemented by a (local or central) government, organisation, community, private actor or individual to help prevent, reduce, mitigate or adapt (to) security risks and threats related to impacts of climate change and related environmental degradation, as well as subsequent policies (PSI climate security practices report, 2021).

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Title	Actors	Country of Implementation	Type	Year of Implementation
UNDESERT	Aarhus University & partners	Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal	Climate adaptation and resilience with a spin-off for peace and security	2010-2015
Weather-index insurance	CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems & International Water Management Institute	India	Bolstering disaster risk reduction for extreme weather	2017-2019
Good Water Neighbours Project	EcoPeace Middle East	Jordan, Israel and Palestine	Dialogue and cooperation on shared scarce natural resources, as part of peacebuilding effort	2001-Present
Peace Renewable Energy Credits	Energy Peace Partners, Nuru, 3Degrees, Microsoft	Democratic Republic Congo	The financial mechanism for investment in sustainable energy in fragile countries	2020-Present
Inter Collectivite du Sourou	Netherlands Embassy, CARE Mali, local communities	Mali	The governance structure for inclusive natural resource management and stability	2017-Present
3S Initiative	3S Initiative	Africa	Investments, rural job creation, agroecological farming	2017-Present
Juba Peace Agreement	Sudan Transitional Government, the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), Minni Minawi’s Sudan Liberation movement	Sudan	Natural resource management included in the peace agreement	2020
French Defence Forces	French Ministry of Defence	France and abroad	Natural resources in theatres of military operation and efforts to reduce local tensions	2016-Present
Feed the Future	USAID	Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda	Building resilience through improving agricultural production and markets.	2012-Present
Power your life	Solar Now	Uganda and Kenya	Solar energy solutions	N/A
UNSOM Drought Operations Coordination Center	United Nations	Somalia	Institutionalizing climate-related security risks in the UN mission	2016-Present
Climate change and security risks	UNEP, EU, Adelphi	Sudan, Nepal	Strengthening resilience to climate security risks	2017-2021
Partnering with NASA to find solutions from the sky	Mercy Corps	Kenya	Adaptation to climate change for small-holder farmers	2019
The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative	United Nations World Food Programme	Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and Zambia	Policy guidelines on solutions to address food insecurity caused by climate change	2011-Present
Environmental Peacebuilding	Mercy Corps	Nigeria	Environmental peacebuilding	2019
Powering Peace	Energy Peace Partners, The Stimson Center	DRC	The sustainable energy use of missions	2018
Peace Centers for Climate and Social Resilience	Haramaya University	Ethiopia	Training, peacebuilding, dialogues	2014
PEACE III	Mercy Corps and Pact	Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda	Peacebuilding including environmental factors	2014-2019
Ending GBV and Achieving the SDGs	UNDP	Uganda	Fostering resilience, with an integrated gender lens	2020
The Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme	FAO, Wageningen University & Research (WUR)	Somalia, Sudan and South-Sudan	The building of resilient livelihoods and food systems which contribute to sustainable localized peace.	2019-2023
Project for land reclamation efforts towards pastoral usage and in conservation areas	Luxembourg Development Cooperation Agency, Government of Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	Pastureland reclamation with emphasis on climate resilience and sustainability. Goals include conflict reduction between farmers and pastoralists.	2018-2022
Colombian Peace Process	Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Colombian Government, Norwegian Government, Cuban Government	Colombia	A peace deal that ends decades-long guerilla war. Incorporates climate protection mechanisms and environmental safeguards.	2016-present
Kauswagan From Arms to Farms Project	Kauswagan Municipality, VNG International, Philippine Army, the Agricultural Training Institute and several other NGOs and CSOs.	Philippines	A local level project that focuses on allieviating climate related food insecurity, reintegrating ex-combatants and builiding trust between communities.	2010-present
Marial Bai Peace Initiative	VNG International, 3 South Sudanese State Governments, Tribal Chiefs and Communities	South Sudan	A peace initiative that establishes cattle migration regulation along with dispute and compensation mechanisms. Reduces climate impacted farmer-herder conflicts.	2016-present
MINUSMA Climate Security Practices	MINUSMA	Mali	Various different projects have been implemented as part of the UN intervention into Mali in order to adress some of the underlying climatic causes of the conflict.	2013-present
The Lake Chad Regional Stabilisation Strategy	African Union, Lake Chad Basin Commission, International Donors	Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria	A strategy, involving a host of climate security practices, that seeks to provide livelihood security for millions of people and so lessen conflict and food stress.	2018-present
Resilience in Somalia	Somali government, UNSOM, International Donors	Somalia	Safety net programmes and adaptation like dam building that seek to secure livelihoods and prevent extremist recruitment	2012-present
Cross Border Cooperation in the Greater Karamoja Cluster	UN FAO, IGAD, local groups, regional governments	Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda	Cross border cooperation including natural resource sharing and animal health initiatives that build trust between communities at risk of conflict and concurrently build overall resilience	2013-present
Preventing Radicalisation in Kidal	MINUSMA, UN	Mali	A community anti-radicalisation programme that seeks to bolster climate threatened livelihood security and so prevent radicalisation	2021
Improving Security and Climate Resilience in Fragile Contexts through the Water-Energy-Food Security Nexus - "FREXUS"	GIZ, EU	Mali, Chad and Niger	An integrated approach that works with communities facing natural resource conflict in order to develop a natural resources convention and a path for sustainable development	2019-present
Environmental Peacemaking in Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger border region	European Institute of Peace (EIP), TrustWorks Global, Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate of Defence	Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger	An 18 month project implementing environmental peacemaking in the Liptako Gourma region	2022-2023
Policy Framework for Pastoralism in Africa	African Union	Africa	A policy framework that draws linkages between climate change and security, improves living and working conditions of pastoral communities in Africa, and consolidates peace, security, and democracy.	2013-present
Great Green Wall Iniative	UNCCD	Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Chad	Iniative that aims to restore the continent's degraded landscapes and bring life to the African countries as a way to adress drought, famine, conflict, and migration.	2007-present
The Drought Iniative	UNCCD	Ethiopia, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Serbia, Macedonia, and Moldova	Iniative that aims to promote a decisive shift in drought management, by focussing on drought preparedness systems, by reducing drought vulnerability, and by boosting resilience of people and ecosystemes.	2018-present
CEWARN - Conflict and Early Warning and Response Mechanism	African Peace and Security Architecture	Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia	Focuses on conflict prevention through early warning and response mechanisms.	2002-present
ICPAC - IGAD's Climate Prediction and Application Center		Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Sudan, Rwanda, Djibouti, Burundi, Eritrea, Uganda	Provides climate services including climate information-sharing, climate forecasting, and early warnings. Scope of work covers areas of agriculture, food security, water, and disaster risk management.	1986-present
SECCCI - The Support for Effective Cooperation and Coordination of the Cross-border Initiatives in Southwest Ethiopia-Northwest Kenya, Marsabit-Borana and Dawa, and Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia	Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), UNDP	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Ethopia	Project that aims to strengthen regional policy frameworks and cross-border cooperation. Priority intervention areas include among others natural resource management, disaster risk maangement, conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding.	2018-2021
ILRI - International Livestock Research Institute	CGIAR	Kenya, Ethiopia	ILRI's mission is to improve food and nutrition security and to reduce poverty in developing countries.	2013-2022
CCAFS - Research Programe on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security	CGIAR	Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam	The program generates evidence and supports adoption of climate-smart agricultural policies and practices that alleviate poverty, increase gender equity, and support sustainable landscapes	2017-2022
The Kibira Peace Sanctuary	UNCDF	Burundi	Program that leverages blended finance to support joint peacebuilding and conservation interventions that target drivers of conflict associated with the lack of protection of the Kibira Forest	2021-2024
Supporting sustainable peace in Blue Nile State through gender-responsive natural resource governance and inclusive conflict resolution mechanisms	UNEP, UNWOMEN, UNDP	Sudan	Project that aims to support and engender peace processes in Blue Nile state by enhancing climate resilient livelihoods options for women, youth and other marginalised groups. Local governance of natural resources is improved by ensuring full and equal representation of women	2021-2024
Strengthening community coping mechanisms against risk of climate induced conflicts	ITC, UNWPA, WFP	Gambia	Project that aims to mitigate and address growing conflict and tensions occuring among rural agricultural communities in the Oambia, affected by the increasing impacts of climate change on their livelihoods.	2020-2022
Strengthening the role of women in peacebuilding through natural resources management at the community level	FAO, IOM	Yemen (Sana'a and Lahj)	This project will help the rural communities to better manage the natural resources ( land and water), strengthen the participation of women in conflict resolution mechanisms at the local communities level, increase the economic self-reliance and enhance social cohesion	2017-2019
Water for Peace in Yemen	FAO, IOM	Yemen	Project aimed at contributing to the mitigation of water-based conflicts that have affected agriculture, with the inclusion of women as conflict-resolution agents.	2018-2020
PIAP Initiative	FAO, IOM	Somalia	Project that reduces inter-communal conflict over natural resources in Marka District by supporting young people and women from the Biyomal and Habargidir sub-clans to lead the development of inclusive and participatory resource management mechanism and governance systems.	2021-2023
Women for Water & Peace	ILO, UNCDF	Sierra Leone	This project contributes to the mitigation of water-based community conflicts and prevent their potential eruption into violence by tackling one of the dominant threats to peace in five wards in Freetown	2022-2023