Introduction

You work for an NGO that consults with developing nations on a variety of development issues. Your new client is the East African nation of Kenzania. Kenzania is slowly getting on its feet after a destructive civil war. The economy is doing better, fueled by significant growth in the agriculture and tourism sectors. The government is back to providing basic services. In fact, almost no week passes without news of a school or hospital opening. For the first time in many years, the government seems to be functioning productively. Nevertheless, Kenzania still qualifies as a Least Developed Country.

In addition to fixing and improving basic services, the Kenzania government is also turning its attention to matters that the pre-war government ignored. One of these areas is adaptation to the impacts of climate change felt in several parts of the country. To address this problem, the government created the Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (CATF), an inter-agency working group comprised of staff with environmental backgrounds, but limited climate adaptation experience.

The CATF identified the following priority areas for adaptation in Kenzania:

A low-lying island off the coast of the mainland. The island is slowly but surely being swallowed up by the ocean. It is home to 35,000 residents an ethnic group closely related to the tribe that resides on the coast, just across the channel that separates the mainland and island.
Kenzania’s largest city and its capital. The capital suffers from a lack of potable water, which is often rationed, experiences floods in the slums and other unmanaged settlement areas, and has high unemployment.
A area of highly fertile agricultural land that borders the city on three sides. Because most of the freshwater is diverted to the city, the fields have not been productive, raising serious food security concerns.
Vast grasslands several hundred miles northwest of the city. This area is rapidly shrinking due to the encroaching desert. Sparse vegetation that had been holding off the dunes was virtually all cleared for fuel during the civil war. The area is heavily used for grazing cattle. Beef exports are vital for the recovering Kenzanian economy.
After conducting a vulnerability assessment of Kenzanias priority areas, the CATF came up with the following proposals to address the issues above:

Relocate the ethnic group to the city. Though a relocation of this scale has not been conducted before, it is believed the relocated community of 35,000 islanders will be immediately plugged into life of a capital city and supported by a social safety net.
Build a large desalination plant to provide potable water to the capital and the surrounding agricultural fields. To run the desalination plant, build a coal- or natural gas-fired generation facility. This, according to CATF, will be a “killing two birds with one stone” type of solution.
Distribute inexpensive natural gas-fired cooking and heating stoves to the cattle farmers so they are no longer forced to cut brush and trees for fuel.

The head of CATF is eager to start working on these projects. As with virtually anything in Kenzania, funding is an issue. He has heard of international programs for funding climate change adaptation projects, particularly the new Green Climate Fund (GCF). He is wondering if any of the programs can aid Kenzania with the proposed projects. He calls your office and asks you to prepare a short briefing memo on this subject.

Instructions
Your memo should meet the following requirements:

The paper should be between 800-1,000 words including footnotes.
You must provide a brief assessment of the various pre-GCF UNFCCC climate change adaptation funds as they apply to your client.
You must contrast the pre-GCF adaptation funds with the GCF, discussing the extent to which the GCF can reasonably be hoped to overcome persistent problems with the previous financial schemes. This will obviously require you first to identify the problems.
You must elaborate on the likelihood of each proposed CATF initiative receiving funding through the UNFCCC framework. Where appropriate, you may suggest a better solution (using private financing, drawing on adaptation funding concepts from the U.S. or African Development Bank funds) in terms of reaching the overarching goal of financing the projects.

This assignment will test both your knowledge of international climate change adaptation funding mechanisms and your creativity in applying this knowledge to a given scenario. You might find that additional research is helpful in writing the memo. If you choose to use outside materials, please make sure to use credible sources.

Must have 6 scholarly sources

Overview:

In Milestone One, you selected an agency and developed an issue statement regarding a need of that agency. In this milestone, you will incorporate your Milestone One work into the Overview of Community and Need section and then research the need described in your issue statement and produce a literature review that lists the resources you consulted. There will be research to be performed for this milestone. This will be the second of three milestones that lead to a successful capstone completion. Once you have researched, identified, and located the articles for your literature review, you need to analyze them and organize them before you begin working on your outline. You should organize these articles to best help you formulate evidence-based recommendations that will make a positive difference in the agency.

Prompt:

You will submit your agency needs assessment, which includes a literature review with a brief synopsis of each resource you plan to use for the findings and recommendations report. You should use both primary and secondary sources, evaluate how these sources relate to your issue, develop criminological theories, discuss any ethical impact, describe any technological impact, and provide a review of the literature on the issue. Your findings and recommendations report (Milestone Three) will include the statement of need, program recommendations, goals and objectives, staffing/administration/resource needs, and evaluation plan.

Make sure to include the following in your paper:

Capstone Component 1: Agency Needs Assessment

I. Overview of Community and Need:
This section should serve as the foundation for presenting your agency needs assessment; it is your opportunity to comprehensively describe the selected agency and its identified need. Overall, it is important to include any information that is pertinent for comprehending the agency and need. It is up to you to establish a robust context for understanding and responding to the agencys need.

II. Communication with the Agency:
This section should include a summary of your research in addition to any correspondence between you and your selected agency that has occurred up to this point in the term. This will include the agencys description of its need and why it is a need, as well as the research you conducted with the agency to obtain additional information about the need, such as why the need is present and what resources were previously used to attempt to address the need. While conducting interviews with the agency, use the interview consent form provided in the course materials. Remember: If you are not able to get in contact with an agency, you may use the agencys website and the agencys mission and vision for the foundation of your project.

III. Gathering Community Information (Methodology):
Your methodology for this project is a brief systematic literature review. In this section, discuss how you collected your information and provide justification for your chosen method(s). Describe step-by-step for the reader how you conducted your brief systematic literature review so that the reader could follow your methods if they wanted to replicate the study.

IV. Literature Review:
Using primary and secondary sources, provide a brief review of the literature and an evaluative review of the topic. What does the literature say about the topic, and how will you utilize this information? Through a review of the literature, your evaluation should include but not be limited to the relationship of the following to your topic:

A.  The application of criminological theories B.  Ethical impact C.  The impact of the organizational culture D.  The impact of technologies E.  Previously attempted interventions in other agencies around this issue and their success (or lack thereof)

V. Need Analysis: This section should include your analysis of the data you gathered on the agency need. This will provide your conclusions drawn from the raw data you described in the preceding section. Referring to your assessment of the agency and comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the problem, address the following: A.  What is the magnitude of the problem in the agency? B.  What resources and interventions currently exist in the agency? C.  Provide a description of the impact the current resources and interventions are having on the agency. Are they effective? Why or why not? D.  What obstacles exist in the agency that prevent impacting or addressing the problem?

Guidelines for Submission:
Your paper must be submitted as a 3- 5 -page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.