Building Climate Resilience Communities (BCRC) Project:

Objectives:

• Improve climate resilience contributing to food, nutrition, livelihood security of households.
• Enhance agriculture income through value chain approach.
• Diversifying rural income and women entrepreneurship

Key Outcomes:

• Villages with improved climate resilience
• Communities diversified food production and consumption for better nutrition.
• Higher crop productivity/production/income over baseline.
• Increased market returns for producer by engaging with farmer collectives.
• Strengthening existing income sources and promotion of additional income sources.
• Financial independence for women and increased role in decision making.

Watershed CCA Project: (Ghodaj, Umraj, Lakh Kh and Kedarwadgaon)

Objectives:

• Improving adaptation to climate variability / change in farm sector with better
• management and maintenance of soil and water regime enabling better crop / pasture
• land productivity and resultant increase in income of small and marginal farmers.
• Promoting climate resilient farming system and diversification of livelihoods engaging
• community and their associations in the concrete adaptation pathway.
• Reducing climate change vulnerability and process of marginalization with integration of
• risk mitigation products, like crop, weather and market advisory; and information system.

Key Outcome of the Projects:

• Adaptive capacity of the communities in watersheds is strengthened and their vulnerability to climate change is reduced.