The overall the objective of the Strategy is to enhance the national resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change and enable the country to pursue low-emission development pathways to achieve sustainable development. The specific objectives of the NCCRS are to: - i) Enhance mainstreaming of climate change issues into national sector and local government development plans and budgets; ii). Facilitate implementation and monitoring of the Tanzania’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC); iii) Align climate change interventions with the national development agenda of industrialised economy; iv) Devise and implement strategic adaptation and mitigation measures in line with the national circumstances, requirements of climate change related multilateral environmental agreements, sustainable development goals (SDGs) and related bilateral and regional agreements; v) Enhance research, public awareness, education and capacity building on climate change issues; vi) Enhance coordination and institutional capacity, including provision of climate services and implementation of the national framework for climate services; vii) Facilitate mobilisation of sustainable and adequate finance and technologies to support climate change adaptation and mitigation interventions; viii) Promote and facilitate transfer of climate-smart technologies to support climate change adaptation and mitigation; ix) Promote gender-responsive climate change adaptation and mitigation interventions; and x) Promote inclusive engagement of stakeholders, including community, media, civil society organisations and private sector in designing, implementing and monitoring sustainable climate change adaptation and mitigation interventions.
It provides strategic interventions and action plan for climate change adaptation, climate change mitigations, disaster risk management and climate finance, among other issues.
