engagement and commitment of the partners, the program fostered and coordinated
continuous sharing of knowledge, data, and work between service providers,
secretariats, municipalities and other stakeholders from distinct sectors and scales
of decision making. Thus, it influenced progress towards overcoming some of the
historical challenges related to drought management in Brazil.
Keywords Drought • Climate change • Outcome harvesting • Resilience
17.1 Introduction
Extreme droughts and climate change are increasingly seen as important challenges
to achieving green growth, improving agricultural livestock production, meeting
water supply needs, and for residential users and commercial/industrial producers
in Brazil (World Bank 2012). According to the World Bank’s recent Turn Down the
Heat reports, scientists expect drought phenomena to increase in frequency, duration, and intensity, ultimately translating to higher levels of evapotranspiration,
reductions in arable land, and greater food insecurity in many countries and regions
(World Bank 2012).
Traditional forms of dealing with drought, based on crisis management as
opposed to proactive risk management (or drought preparedness) will likely not
be able to tackle the devastating and long-lasting consequences expected from
future climate change scenarios. In drought prone areas, such as the Brazilian
semi-arid, drought preparedness appears as key to face these anticipated challenges.
Aligned with international discussions and successful initiatives from other
countries, the Brazil Drought Preparedness and Climate Resilience non-lending
technical assistance program (Drought NLTA), requested by the Government of
Brazil (GoB), was initiated by The World Bank (WB) in July 2013 to support a
process to shift the paradigm from reactive to proactive drought management.
The program aims to tackle historical challenges to the improvement of drought
management in the country, through the promotion of knowledge exchange and
through support for the development of drought preparedness measures and tools.
Fostering drought resilience, and, as a consequence, climate change resilience, in
the Brazilian case, also means promoting a strong effort of integration of institutions across sectors and levels, clarification and definition of roles, and the promotion of bottom-up and regionally-led initiatives, working towards a paradigm shift.
The Drought NLTA was designed to support Brazilian partners towards these
associated institutional and technical upgrades.
This chapter showcases the Drought NLTA program and highlights
key-milestones and direct and indirect outcomes identified to date (the program is
still being implemented at the time of drafting this chapter). It also presents the
elected Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) approach, one that parallels
the complexity of the program, integrating the variety of the multi-sector partners’
perspectives. Focusing on outcomes – understood as institutional changes – the
PM&E approach provides a framework to collect and analyze outcomes that looks
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continuous sharing of knowledge, data, and work between service providers,
secretariats, municipalities and other stakeholders from distinct sectors and scales
of decision making. Thus, it influenced progress towards overcoming some of the
historical challenges related to drought management in Brazil.
Keywords Drought • Climate change • Outcome harvesting • Resilience
17.1 Introduction
Extreme droughts and climate change are increasingly seen as important challenges
to achieving green growth, improving agricultural livestock production, meeting
water supply needs, and for residential users and commercial/industrial producers
in Brazil (World Bank 2012). According to the World Bank’s recent Turn Down the
Heat reports, scientists expect drought phenomena to increase in frequency, duration, and intensity, ultimately translating to higher levels of evapotranspiration,
reductions in arable land, and greater food insecurity in many countries and regions
(World Bank 2012).
Traditional forms of dealing with drought, based on crisis management as
opposed to proactive risk management (or drought preparedness) will likely not
be able to tackle the devastating and long-lasting consequences expected from
future climate change scenarios. In drought prone areas, such as the Brazilian
semi-arid, drought preparedness appears as key to face these anticipated challenges.
Aligned with international discussions and successful initiatives from other
countries, the Brazil Drought Preparedness and Climate Resilience non-lending
technical assistance program (Drought NLTA), requested by the Government of
Brazil (GoB), was initiated by The World Bank (WB) in July 2013 to support a
process to shift the paradigm from reactive to proactive drought management.
The program aims to tackle historical challenges to the improvement of drought
management in the country, through the promotion of knowledge exchange and
through support for the development of drought preparedness measures and tools.
Fostering drought resilience, and, as a consequence, climate change resilience, in
the Brazilian case, also means promoting a strong effort of integration of institutions across sectors and levels, clarification and definition of roles, and the promotion of bottom-up and regionally-led initiatives, working towards a paradigm shift.
The Drought NLTA was designed to support Brazilian partners towards these
associated institutional and technical upgrades.
This chapter showcases the Drought NLTA program and highlights
key-milestones and direct and indirect outcomes identified to date (the program is
still being implemented at the time of drafting this chapter). It also presents the
elected Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) approach, one that parallels
the complexity of the program, integrating the variety of the multi-sector partners’
perspectives. Focusing on outcomes – understood as institutional changes – the
PM&E approach provides a framework to collect and analyze outcomes that looks
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