The Lake Victoria region, shared by five East African countries, is home to about 45 million people, many of whom depend on the lake watershed for #agriculture, fishery, and livestock production. The impact of population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation over the last few decades has put enormous pressure on the lake and its surrounding environment, particularly as the lake is the region’s main source of drinking and agricultural and industrial water. With the populatio...n only growing, this environmental degradation, exacerbated by #ClimateChange, is also putting the long-term economic and social prospects of the region at risk, while at the same time making it even more vulnerable to future climate-related events. The Lake Victoria Basin Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) program, co-funded by Nordic Development Fund and World Bank, set out to engage private-sector investment towards cleaner and more efficient industrial production and supply chains throughout the area, while #RaisingAwareness and increasing #CapacityBuilding. “Companies gained access to trainings, technical support and strategies aimed at enhancing the long-term viability of the region’s eco-system, while boosting its resilience to an increasingly challenging climate,” says Martina Jägerhorn, NDF. Read the full article here: https://www.ndf.int/…/this-is-how-small-businesses-can-help…

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🔹 In 2016, the Blue Energy Mechanism (BEM) was a new and risky idea to invest in watersheds and get #hydropower companies as downstream beneficiaries to pay. 🔹 Back then, nature-based solutions were quite unknown. Now pilots like BEM are bringing big scale-up #opportunities in other downstream water sectors for boosting critical global #ClimateResilience goals. 🔹 “At that time, #NatureBasedSolutions were still coming into their own, specifically in the context addressing the ...impact of #ClimateChange on #ecosystems. This was something entirely new that just a few years earlier wouldn’t have been possible because the math didn’t exist,” says Isabel Leroux from NDF. Read more about this inspiring project in #LatinAmerica🔹 https://bit.ly/3IYk6bc Conservation International The Nature Conservancy #Climate #SustainableDevelopment