by Alessia Marazzi, International Fund for Agricultural Development

1. Climate Resilience Community Village Plans
Lessons from Sudan
Alessia Marazzi
Environment and Climate Finance Specialist
08 February 2023

2. What is a CR CVP?
• CR- CVPs are community action plans aimed at building the
adaptive capacity of communities with a focus on common resources
• They identify implementable actions that are intended to reduce
the community’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change &
contribute to building resilient livelihood systems
• Actions are time-bound, but the process is dynamic  considers the
current and future climatic conditions and is regularly updated.

3. What is a CR CVP?
• The focus is on communities and empowering their members to
identify solutions to build resilience to CC
• Such activities include investments in adaptive management of NR
 registration and legalization of community forests;
 building capacities in rehabilitation practices and techniques;
 establishing community rangeland reserves as a fodder buffer for
prolonged dry seasons;
 investing in community water harvesting and storage.

4. Formulation process
• The formulation of CR- CVPs is a bottom-up and participatory
process, involving all members of the communities

5. Key points in formulating a CR CVP
• Seasonality, timelines, community contribution and
implementation capacity should be considered
• Integrating and valuing different types of knowledge to ensure
that actions are robust and locally relevant
• Integrating CR-CVPs into different levels of the planning
process (i.e. local to regional) to ensure coordination + build
strong multi-stakeholder partnerships

6. Lessons learned from Sudan - Terraces
• In Eastern Sudan, people traditionally cultivate
in the vicinity of their settlements. Over time, the
soil becomes degraded, infertile and of low
productivity  move cultivations to further wadi
beds, women not allowed.
• The CR CVP process identified terrace
construction as a climate-resilient NbS to
address low rainfall and crop productivity.
• Terrace construction increased productivity from
180 to 630 kg/ha for sorghum.
topography.
• Food security gains combined to increased livelihood opportunity for women.

7. Lessons learned from Sudan – Rangeland protection
• Issue of animal feed shortage due to low
rainfall, land degradation and
overgrazing.
• The CR CVP process identified several
rangeland protection measures to ensure
limited and controlled grazing.
• In 2011 with low rainfall, the protected
community rangeland reserves supplied
good and abundant dry fodder during the
dry season
topography.
• Further benefits were recorded as additional fodder was stored and sold at the
market.