ICAD’s Executive Director, Gift Maloya, made the statement during the launch and dissemination workshop on mainstreaming human mobility into Malawi’s National Adaptation Plan Process in Lilongwe on Thursday.
Maloya highlighted the urgency of the briefing note, stating, “ICAD’s briefing note comes at the right time when Malawi continues to experience extreme climate events and shocks that have significantly affected human settlements and livelihoods in the country.”
Droughts, changing rainfall patterns, floods, heat waves and extreme frosting are among the common challenges affecting the world, particularly in developing countries due to climate change.
The cross-cutting call for creating synergies, collaboration, climate green financing, adaptation, and action at a local level is critical as the developing world seeks to reduce the impact of climate change.
Addressing these challenges, decision makers from more than a dozen of countries are meeting in Victoria Falls under the “Peer Learning Forum” with a focus on transitioning from planning to implementation in National Adaptation Plan processes.
Policy makers and climate experts drawn from 15 countries across the globe descended on Victoria Falls to share experiences and create synergies on how they can adapt to climate change as well as build resilience within their communities to minimize the effects of the global phenomenon.
The peer learning forum whose theme was, “Transitioning from Planning to Implementation in the National Adaptation Plan Process” was hosted by the National Adaptation Plan Global Network in collaboration with the Government of Zimbabwe to promote peer-to-peer learning on how countries can finance and take action on the priorities set out in their National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).
In interviews, the participants said they were excited at the knowledge-sharing experience adding that countries could no longer afford not to share information on various strategies that they were putting in place to adapt to the effects of climate change.