Climate change,
environment and
natural resource management
Our expertise spans integrated water resources management, climate adaptation and resilience, disaster risk reduction, biodiversity conservation, forestry governance, sustainable land use, and climate finance. In the water sector, we have delivered river basin planning and governance assignments across Asia and Africa, with recent experience including supporting provincial water sector reform and water-efficient agriculture in Pakistan and developing the long-term integrated management and investment plan for the Orange-Senqu River Basin shared by Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. We also support innovative approaches to disaster, flood and coastal resilience, combining hydrological modelling, nature-based solutions, ecosystem-based adaptation and climate risk financing, with our experience including the introduction of integrated flood risk management approaches across Central and Southern Asian countries and through the piloting of innovative financing and insurance mechanisms to protect coastal ecosystems and infrastructure in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In the forestry and natural resources sector, our portfolio includes support to protected areas and transboundary conservation landscapes across the Congo Basin, climate-resilient planning for protected areas in the Philippines, organisational reform and digitalisation of forest governance systems in the Republic of Congo, and the application of remote sensing, land-use mapping, carbon stock monitoring and REDD+ monitoring, reporting and verification systems in West Africa to support evidence-based climate action.
Project Examples
Technical assistance to the coastal, marine and island specific biodiversity management project
The EUR 15 million-programme aimed at developing and strengthening the national and regional capacities for sustainable participatory management of coastal, marine and island specific biodiversity in the islands states and coastal states of the ESA-IO region. The programme had five main result areas: improved and harmonised policies and legal and institutional frameworks; enhanced education sensitisation, communication and information tools for the management of the use of biodiversity; improved systems for networking and exchange of data, statistics, and other biodiversity related information; improved Biodiversity Thematic Centres; and, enhanced contribution of biodiversity to sustainable economic development and sustainable livelihoods across the region.
Technical Assistance for the monitoring, knowledge sharing and visibility of the regional programme Ecosystèmes Forestiers d’Afrique Centrale 6
The ECOFAC 6 programme aims to support 12 protected areas spread across seven different states including eight priority conservation landscapes. The regional support implemented by Landell Mills focuses on bringing together and exchanging knowledge and experience at the local, national and regional level. The specific objective is to more effectively protect the drivers and fragile ecosystems of Central Africa, taking into account sustainable management of ecosystem services.
Project Management Design and Supervision Consulting Services (PMDSC) under Bagmati River Basin Improvement Project (BRBIP)
The BRBIP, when complete, will improve water security in terms of quantity and water quality and resilience to potential climate change impact in the Bagmati River Basin. It builds on the general public’s desire to restore the river environment in the Kathmandu Valley and the Government’s efforts to mitigate the impact of water-induced disasters in the middle and lower reaches of the basin. Landell Mills led the Project Management Design and Supervision Consulting Services under BRBIP between 2014 and 2020.
Climate Adaptation through Irrigation Modernization Sector Project
Viet Nam’s agricultural sector is vulnerable to climate change while ranking sixth worldwide for climate risk exposure. The Government has recognised there is a need to strengthen climate resilience in the agricultural sector through modernising irrigation and drainage infrastructures. The major output of the contract is an irrigation project design which responds to government's needs and fulfils ADB requirements.
Strengthening Integrated Flood Risk Management (IFRM)
The project provides targeted technical support for program and project preparation and promotes more holistic flood risk solutions, including basin-scale and nature-based solutions (NBS) thereby strengthening flood resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change. The TA has identified locations in the target eight ADB Developing Member Countries where innovative IFRM investments (including NBS) can be made, through integration into ADB loan project designs and mainstreaming into government strategies, policies and plans to scale-up interventions successfully undertaken elsewhere.
Assessing the impact of International Climate Fund programmes on household and community resilience to climate variability and climate change
This report by Landell Mills details the findings of a short assignment on the measurement of resilience commissioned by DFID as part of its support to the UK’s International Climate Fund (ICF).
Click here to read the report.
