Overview

The Community-based Climate-responsive Livelihoods and Forestry (CCLF) project will strengthen the resilience of rural agro-pastoral communities in Afghanistan to the impacts of climate change on their livelihoods. The project will build capacities at community levels with investments in rural infrastructure for climate change resilience. Its interventions will focus on enhancing food security by replicating successful lessons and strategies of prior initiatives, relying on bottom-up approaches in which Community Level Committees (CLCs) and other types of community-based organizations (CBOs) play a central role. The project will facilitate adoption of climate resilient agricultural practices among farmers in both irrigated and rain-fed areas. The former with high value cereals, vegetables and fruit and the latter with short duration, pest and disease resistant varieties. This will be complemented by investments in restoring and new rural water infrastructure to expand irrigation, coupled with water harvesting and Soil and Water Conservation (SWC). Livestock owners will be supported through veterinary services and promotion of drought and disease resistant varieties combined with measures to restore and sustainably manage pastures and rangelands. Forest dependent communities will be mobilized and supported to undertake assisted regeneration and reforestation combined with woodlots to meet local fuel and timber needs.

Objectives

1. Strengthening of the Community Level Committees (CLCs) and capacities of Civil Society organizations to address climate change impacts
2. Restoration of degraded land and climate-resilient livelihood interventions
3. Advancing sustainable management of natural forests and establishment of new forest areas through reforestation
4. Knowledge management and M&E