Summary of key findings
| Level | Perceived effects of climate change | Adaptation and mitigation strategies | Key gaps and risks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micro (VSLA communities and rural women entrepreneurs) | - Unpredictable rainfall, prolonged droughts and floods damage crops and livestock - Reduced yields → food insecurity, difficulty repaying loans - Constraining VSLAs’ major activities of saving and loans; increasing loan defaults threaten VSLA sustainability | - Anti-erosion measures, terracing, tree planting, wetland cultivation - Irrigation, seasonal timing adjustments - Diversification into livestock and small businesses | - Limited formal knowledge about climate change adaptation - Reliance on informal peer learning - Increased financial vulnerability of VSLAs |
| Meso (local support ecosystem: NGOs, local government, micro-finance) | - Some awareness of VSLA vulnerability, but limited climate-specific interventions | - CARE and partners provide training on financial literacy, entrepreneurship | - Climate adaptation not integrated into VSLA training - Weak linkage between macro-level policies and micro-level needs - Meso actors lag in promoting transformative skills |
| Macro (national government and policies) | - High level of awareness of climate change impacts on agriculture and rural poverty - Climate change is recognised as threat to SDG #1: No Poverty | - Wide range of adaptation and mitigation policies (irrigation, forest restoration, renewable energy, water governance, climate-smart agriculture) - Large projects (e.g., Green Gicumbi, LAFREC) and investments to combat climate change effects | - Implementation gap: strategies not reaching VSLA members effectively - More effort is needed to build transformative capacity for rural entrepreneurs |
| Level | Perceived effects of climate change | Adaptation and mitigation strategies | Key gaps and risks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micro ( | - Unpredictable rainfall, prolonged droughts and floods damage crops and livestock - Reduced yields → food insecurity, difficulty repaying loans - Constraining VSLAs’ major activities of saving and loans; increasing loan defaults threaten | - Anti-erosion measures, terracing, tree planting, wetland cultivation - Irrigation, seasonal timing adjustments - Diversification into livestock and small businesses | - Limited formal knowledge about climate change adaptation - Reliance on informal peer learning - Increased financial vulnerability of VSLAs |
| Meso (local support ecosystem: NGOs, local government, micro-finance) | - Some awareness of | - | - Climate adaptation not integrated into |
| Macro (national government and policies) | - High level of awareness of climate change impacts on agriculture and rural poverty - Climate change is recognised as threat to | - Wide range of adaptation and mitigation policies (irrigation, forest restoration, renewable energy, water governance, climate-smart agriculture) - Large projects (e.g., Green Gicumbi, | - Implementation gap: strategies not reaching |
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