Context:
Jozani wider ecosystem is a major remnant biodiversity hotspot in Zanzibar that needs a lot of care and development projects that focus on conservation. It has millions of fauna and flora that are being pressured by surrounding communities. This has put the ecosystem to become so vulnerable because less is done to ensuring that the ongoing human activities are actually supporting conservation initiatives. Worse enough is when there are so many NGOs and CBOs working along this very important ecosystem and yet they have low capacity in climate change and adaptation issues, conservation capacities is low and therefore a big need to provide support to these NGOs and CBOs to improve their contribution in conserving Jozani Wider Ecosystem conservation.

About the proponent:

Zanzibar Climate Change Alliance (ZACCA) is an umbrella NGO based in Zanzibar working on climate change governance in Zanzibar and Tanzania at large. It was registered under the Societies Act No 6 of 1995 with registration number 2149.

Project?s primary objective:
The main objective of this project is to enhance capacity of civil society organizations on climate change and biodiversity conservation around Jozani wider ecosystem

Project?s purpose:
To raise awareness and build capacity of civil societies, focusing on NGOs and their partners

Project specific objectives:

? To increase NGOs access to information, communication and coordination on biodiversity conservation and climate change
? To increase knowledge and skills on biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, mitigation & capacity to integrate climate change into existing programmes
? Enhance sharing and learning on practical experience and good models of biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation

Implementation strategies:
? Program launching ceremony to introduce the project to the intended beneficiaries
? Participatory planning workshop to map out the project key components
? Develop and operationalize the climate change NGOs website in order to widely disseminate project activities and results
? Design training events for selected topics including developing a training curriculum for schools and colleges
? Organize and facilitate a series of experiences and lesson learnt workshops on key topics
Project sustainability strategies:
? The support agencies and project staff will need to meet monthly to discuss the work plan for the coming months in order to ensure that the project is on track
? Training of Trainers (ToT) will ensure that the project is sustainable even when the funds from UNDP have finished. They will continue teaching others
? Integrating this project to the ongoing government activities will ensure that the government take over even after the project has been phased out