Free State

Mpumalanga

Gauteng

Northern Cape

Kwazulu-Natal

North-West

Eastern Cape

Limpopo

Western Cape

South Africa

South Africa faces significant climate change challenges threatening water resources, agriculture, biodiversity and livelihoods. Droughts, extreme rainfall events, and wildfires have increased significantly over the past five decades. These climate hazards severely affect local livelihoods through reduced water availability, declining agricultural productivity, and a diminished capacity of natural ecosystems to buffer the effects of floods and droughts. The country faces limitations in coordination and capacity to implement ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) interventions at scale, sufficient resources, and inclusive community engagement.

To address these challenges, Eco-DRR offers integrated, nature-based solutions that restore and protect ecological infrastructure while reducing climate-related risks. By enhancing ecosystem resilience, these approaches help combat land degradation, support sustainable livelihoods and strengthen community capacity.

The project has three components: 1)  integrated landscape management to enhance the resilience of ecological infrastructure and climate-vulnerable communities in four district municipalities; 2) transformative disaster preparedness and response to reduce the adverse impacts of climate-induced hazards on built infrastructure and climate-vulnerable communities; and 3) creation of an enabling environment through a strengthened evidence base and improved learning and knowledge management to enhance private and public-sector investment in Eco-DRR.

The Eco-DRR project originated due to Readiness grant support and received support from the Project Preparation Facility (PPF) for detailed project design and feasibility work.

The project’s objective is to mitigate GHG emissions through enhancing quality infrastructure to accelerate the development of low carbon electric mobility market and value chains in South Africa. The project will support the policy framework and the development of quality infrastructure to promote local manufacturing of electric vehicle (EV) components such as batteries, the deployment of charging infrastructure and improving battery end-of-life management. Besides GHG emissions mitigation, the project will help develop green skills and create new jobs in line with the just energy transition policy of South Africa.

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

To empower and support civil society organisations (CSOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) in Least Developed Countries to implement high-impact and innovative initiatives that deliver climate change adaptation and environmental benefits in an inclusive manner.

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South Africa

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Global Environment Facility