Five City Adaptation Network Update

2009/02/05

The Five City Adaptation Network project, an Africa-based regional climate change adaptation initiative managed by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, was launched during October and November last year. The project has been enthusiastically received by the participating cities, which include Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Cape Town (South Africa), Walvis Bay (Namibia), Maputo (Mozambique) and Port Louis (Mauritius).

ICLEI Africa Energy and Climate Change Team members, Lucinda Fairhurst and Lizanda du Preez, held a number of stakeholder workshops in order to identify and inform the decision makers within the participant local governments, local community-based organizations and members, and local researchers about the project, whilst gathering initial data and information on the observed and perceived impacts of climate change on local communities.

A conference on climate change adaptation in Africa will be hosted and coordinated by ICLEI Africa in Cape Town later this year with the aim of building the capacity of project participants and to create a platform from which knowledge and experiences of climate change can be shared.