stress on livelihood activities. Urgent rehabilitation of existing hydropower Flood management and Reduce CO2 Increase storage None Loss of Displacement Reservoir 2 generation infrastructure and establishment of new increased water storage if emissions from for irrigation, habitat/forests of people. construction power stations levels of rainfall and hence hydropower, drinking purposes, and potential located on site runoff decrease with clean energy industrial growth. carbon containing climate change. source. Strengthen sequestration biodiversity and livelihood sink when settlement. activities. reservoir area flooded. National hydrological management system established Improved capacity to None Improve capacity None None None Successful 3 to make data usable for management research, detect and understand to measure and establishment public information and risk assessments variations in rainfall, runoff understand and and river flow in the changes in management of context of climate change hydrology, hydrological hydro-meteorological benefits to gauges, impacts. research and monitoring management techniques and approaches. data management. Improving water quality and protecting water sources Positive impact on human None Positive impact on None None None Effective 3 health and aquatic health and implementation environment, particularly aquatic and if rainfall and run-off environment. management. decreases with climate change Groundwater management and development Increase levels of None Increase levels of None Potential for Potential to Diesel or petrol 1 groundwater through and access to increased over-exact used to power recharge, if rainfall water for energy use and groundwater pumps. becomes more variable. domestic, carbon dioxide aquifers Groundwater sanitation, emission from leading to aquifers have agriculture and diesel pumps. decreased the other domestic availability. activities. potential to be Strengthen exploited for livelihood irrigation. activities. Average of CCD assessment 2.3 Present of each component in policy % 100 20 100 25 50 50 Agriculture Increase crop diversification Increase adaptive capacity Potential to Strengthen rural None None None Successfully 4 through diversification, increase livelihoods. implemented with temperature rise and biodiversity and managed. rainfall pattern changes. resource base and
stress on livelihood activities. Urgent rehabilitation of existing hydropower generation infrastructure and establishment of new power stations Flood management and increased water storage if levels of rainfall and hence runoff decrease with climate change. Reduce CO2 emissions from hydropower, clean energy source. Increase storage for irrigation, drinking purposes, industrial growth. Strengthen livelihood activities. None Loss of habitat/forests and potential carbon sequestration sink when reservoir area flooded. Displacement of people. Reservoir construction located on site containing biodiversity and settlement. 2 National hydrological management system established to make data usable for management research, public information and risk assessments Improved capacity to detect and understand variations in rainfall, runoff and river flow in the context of climate change hydro-meteorological impacts. None Improve capacity to measure and understand changes in hydrology, benefits to research and management approaches. None None None Successful establishment and management of hydrological gauges, monitoring techniques and data management. 3 Improving water quality and protecting water sources Positive impact on human health and aquatic environment, particularly if rainfall and run-off decreases with climate change None Positive impact on health and aquatic environment. None None None Effective implementation and management. 3 Groundwater management and development Increase levels of groundwater through recharge, if rainfall becomes more variable. None Increase levels of and access to water for domestic, sanitation, agriculture and other domestic activities. Strengthen livelihood activities. None Potential for increased energy use and carbon dioxide emission from diesel pumps. Potential to over-exact groundwater aquifers leading to decreased availability. Diesel or petrol used to power pumps. Groundwater aquifers have the potential to be exploited for irrigation. 1 Average of CCD assessment 2.3 Present of each component in policy % 100 20 100 25 50 50 Agriculture Increase crop diversification Increase adaptive capacity through diversification, with temperature rise and rainfall pattern changes. Potential to increase biodiversity resource base and Strengthen rural livelihoods. None None None Successfully implemented and managed. 4