Burundi

The project will increase land productivity and strengthen climate resilience of fragile colline communities by restoring priority watersheds, scaling integrated landscape management, and supporting climate-resilient livelihoods. Core activities include enabling policies and institutions for climate risk management, adaptive watershed planning and restoration, climate‑smart agriculture and diversified livelihoods, and land certification to enhance tenure security, with a Contingent Emergency Response Component for shocks

The project will respond to Bujumbura’s flood emergency by financing climate-resilient urban infrastructure and risk-informed urban management.

The project focuses mostly on the use of terracing and protection of natural areas to reduce land degradation and provision associated benefits, such as flood risk reduction, erion control.