Summary of Ex Post Evaluation #5 of AF Project MTN/MIE/Food/2011/1/Pd “Enhancing Resilience of Communities to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change on Food Security in Mauritania (PARSACC)”

Project Summary: The PARSACC project was funded by a USD 7.8 million grant from the Adaptation Fund. It was implemented by the World Food Programme (WFP) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) of Mauritania, which served as the project’s executing entity. It aimed to enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities to the effects of climate change on food security. PARSACC was designed in response to Mauritania’s arid climate and the impacts of climate change, which are driving desertification through increasing temperatures, decreasing rainfall and increasing risk of drought – all factors that adversely affect food production. The project targeted communities living in eight wilayas, or regions, with livelihoods that were predominantly dependent on subsistence farming and livestock and highly sensitive to climatic variability

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