Overview of the project

Our experience focuses on climate and energy planning at the local level in order to realise national political ambitions in the fight against climate change. Indeed, the municipality of Tsévié is very vulnerable to climate change. The major climate risks identified are drought, floods, high temperatures, seasonal shifts, poor rainfall distribution and strong winds. Deforestation and forest clearance are dangers increasing this vulnerability and exposing the population to the negative impacts of climate change, the extent of which is already perceptible in the township.

Climate and energy planning at the local level is not always easy. In the case of the city of Tsévié, the municipality’s institutional structures are not adapted and the actors do not have the capacity to take this into account.

To address this challenge, the city has established a multidisciplinary and multisectoral technical group, of which our organisation is a member, to perform a diagnosis of the vulnerability of the city and its surroundings, an in-depth analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the commune’s territory in the face of climate change and the major risks related to the future climate, and to draw up an action plan for sustainable access to energy and for the climate (APSAEC). Such collaboration between different actors (NGO, research, municipality) has provided the city with reliable information, an APSAEC, and has encouraged taking into account the interests, needs and demands of the city’s most vulnerable populations.