📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2023.2178.4
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
3600 North Africa
Contact person:
Anita Sebio Kouhe anita.sebio-kouhe@giz.de
Partner countries:
AFRICA, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
SUMMARY
Goals:
Selected Maghreb cities are better equipped to adapt to climate change.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Selected ministries in the respective partner countries
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if available)
19,500,000 euros
Current project:
5,000,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT
2019.2230.1
Municipal cooperation
SUCCESSOR PROJECT not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if available)
April 4, 2016 - February 28, 2027
Current project:
03/01/2024 - 02/28/2027
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Participatory development and good governance:
Project goal level: Project primarily aims at PD/GG
Environmental and resource protection, ecological sustainability
Project result level: Project component aims at environmental and/or resource protection
Gender equality
Project has a proven positive impact on equality
Poverty orientation
not available
CRS KEY
43030 Urban Development and Administration
EVALUATION not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
Climate change is the greatest challenge for the global community given its consequences for nature and people. In the Maghreb, average temperatures are now 1.5 degrees higher than pre-industrial times. A significant increase in temperature has occurred over the past 50 years and continues to increase. This causes water shortages, forest fires, heat islands, floods and desertification.
In cities, warming due to climate change is above average. Quickly acting measures are therefore important there to protect the population from the immediate effects of climate change. In particular, economically and socially weak population groups and vulnerable groups such as women, children and older people are dependent on protective measures. At the same time, the ability of cities to adapt and be resilient must be expanded.
Goal
Selected Maghreb cities are better equipped to adapt to climate change.
Approach
The project supports Maghreb partner cities in adapting to the consequences of climate change. To this end, it carries out capacity development measures. This means that it expands the capabilities of city administrations and the skills of their specialists and managers.
The participating cities develop municipal strategic climate adaptation plans based on climate risk profiles. In the spirit of "Leave No One Behind", they take particularly vulnerable population groups into accoun