Mongolia is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events including droughts, flash flooding and harsh winters. In addition, unsustainable agriculture and development practices are accelerating the deterioration of the country’s land and water resources and associated ecosystem services. The project will target two eco-regions, the Altai Mountain/Great Lakes Basin and the Eastern Steppe, and aims to maintain the water supplies of the mountain and steppe ecosystems. As a first step, the project plans to provide strategic guidance for development sectors. The National Government and Provincial Governments will then adopt the completed strategies as formal policy to guide future resource management decisions. The project will focus upon better tactics for grazing management, restoration of riparian zones, survivability of biodiversity, and efficiency of water use. Success will be measured by how well community-level implementation improves the overall integrity of water provisioning services within each watershed relevant to climate change challenges. An ecosystem-planning program will be established within each watershed to guide implementation and coordinate future resource management decision-making.
Learn more
- Adaptation Story Mongolia
- UNDP article: Nomads no more
- UNDP Photo Essay: Riders under Storms
- UNDP case study about the project
- UNDP Project Video
- Watch a video about what 79-year-old Mongolian herder has to say about climate change
| Project Component 1: Landscape level integrated land use and water resources monitoring and planning system focused upon reduction of ecosystem vulnerability to climate change | USD 500,000 |
| Project Component 2: Landscape level adaptation techniques maintaining ecosystem integrity and water security under conditions of climate change | USD 3,390,000 |
| Project Component 3: Institutional and policy capacity strengthened to support Ecosystem-based Adaption replication, monitoring, and enforcement for critical watersheds | USD 699,124 |
| Project/Programme Execution Cost | USD 480,000 |
| Total Project/Programme Cost (= Project Component + Execution Cost) | USD 5,069,124 |
| Implementing Fee | USD 430,876 |
| Grant Amount (= Total Project/Programme Cost + Implementing Fee) | USD 5,500,000 |
Project Documents
| Attachment | Type | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Project document | 2 MB | |
| Inception Report | 2 MB | |
| Mid-term evaluation report | 3 MB | |
| Final evaluation report | 2 MB | |
| PPR1 (for web) | XLSX | 138 KB |
| PPR2 (for web) | XLS | 447 KB |
| PPR3 (for web) | XLS | 559 KB |
| PPR4 (for web) | XLS | 532 KB |
| PPR5 (for web) | XLS | 589 KB |