1. Local Government Climate Change Support Program 2016
Draft Nkangala DM Climate Change Response Plan

2. Presentation Contents
Climate change plan development
Activities to date
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Results
Draft Climate Change Response Actions

3. Climate Change Plan Development
Developed through the Local Government Climate Change Support Program (LGCCS)
First Step - Conducting a climate change vulnerability assessment
Second Step - Developing climate change responses
Draft plan in place for review

4. Progress to date Toolkit development
District level vulnerability assessments 24 May 2016
Draft municipal Climate Change Response Plans

5. Agriculture

6. Priority Indicators: Agriculture
Theme
Indicator Title
Agriculture
Change in grain (maize, wheat & barley) production
Increased risks to livestock (cattle and pigs)
Reduced food security
Loss of grasslands

7. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Change in grain (maize, wheat & barley) production
Research & improve understanding of CC impacts on grain production
Research & improve understanding of grain production
Conduct research on alternative agricultural production
Promote knowledge generation, sharing & stakeholder participation
Implement evidence based monitoring initiatives
Identify climate resilient land-uses

8. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Increased risks to livestock (cattle and pigs)
Commission research and improve understanding of CC impacts livestock
Generate and share scientific, social and indigenous knowledge
Promote knowledge generation, sharing & stakeholder participation
Strengthen management plans, to enable continuous monitoring of water and herbage availability for livestock
Develop a framework that will assist farmers with adjusting to reduced rainfall
Educate farmers on the advantages associated with early detection of diseases in animals

9. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Reduced food security
Conduct a risk assessment of CC on food security for subsistence farmers
Identify responses that will improve food availability for subsistence farmers
Conduct workshops to educate subsistence farmers and business on how to manage the risk of the potential CC impacts
Develop emergency plans that will assist with responding to CC related impacts
Identify livelihood and economic diversification strategies that will reduce food insecurity
Collect information on indigenous knowledge which contribute towards building resilience

10. Responses: Agriculture
Sub-Project: Loss of Grasslands
Research and improve understanding of CC impacts on biodiversity
Research and improve understanding of ecosystems services
Promote knowledge generation, sharing & stakeholder participation
Strengthen management plans of grasslands
Implement evidence based monitoring initiatives
Incorporate biodiversity management into planning systems for other sectors

11. Human Settlements

12. Priority Indicators: Human Settlements
Theme
Indicator Title
Human Settlements
Increase occupational health problems
Increased migration to urban and peri-urban areas

13. Responses: Human Settlements
Sub-Project: Increase occupational health problems
Conduct climate change impact assessment on occupational health
Identify and profile groups that are most vulnerable to heat stress and dehydration
Conduct awareness campaigns on the health risks of high temperatures in the workplace and inform on appropriate responses
Commission a reliable early warning system that will alert industries and businesses on extreme weather events

14. Responses: Human Settlements
Sub-Project: Increased migration to urban and peri-urban areas
Assess drivers and dynamics of migration
Identify alternative basic service provision options for rural areas, such as water tanks, new sanitation services, etc
Develop and implement rural development programs to create economic opportunities
Promote behavioural change within communities that will contribute towards the building of economic nodes within rural areas and consequently reduce the need for migration

15. Water

16. Priority Indicators: Water
Theme
Indicator Title
Water
Decreased quality of drinking water
Decreased water quality in ecosystem due to increased concentrations of effluent and salt concentrations

17. Responses: Water Sub-Project: Decreased quality of drinking water
Research and improve understanding of CC impacts on water quality
Adopt and enforce simple, innovative, adaptive engineering approaches to wastewater treatment
Incorporate projected climate change impacts into the planning of municipal water supply
Identify and implement innovative groundwater monitoring initiatives
Prioritise and allocate resources to adaptation interventions that will minimise the pollution of drinking water

18. Responses: Water Sub-Project: Decreased water quality in ecosystem
Research and improve understanding of CC impacts on water quality and availability
Conduct a climate change impact assessment on health risks to aquatic systems
Adopt and enforce simple, innovative, adaptive engineering approaches wastewater treatment initiatives
Strengthen management plans of wastewater treatment
Identify and implement wastewater monitoring initiatives
Protect and rehabilitate aquatic systems so that they can provide flow attenuation and ecosystem goods and services

19. Local Government Climate Change Support Program 2016
Draft Nkangala DM Climate Change Response Plan