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UNDP Project Document Strengthening the Conservation Role UNDP Project Document Government of Togo Executing Agency: Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Directorate of Wildlife and Hunting Other Partners: Ministry of Agriculture, Joint Program for Poverty Reduction and Localization of the MDGs PNADE (National Program of Decentralized Environmental Actions), European Union, UEMOA United Nations Development Program Global Environment Facility - GEF GEF’s Strategic Programme for West Africa – SPWA / Sub-component Biodiversity UNDP GEF PIMS no. 4220 Strengthening the conservation role of Togo’s national System of Protected Areas (PA) Brief description Following socio-political upheaval in the country in the 1990s and the near-total withdrawal of international development cooperation, Togo's PA system, along with much of the country's infrastructure, has fallen into severe decline. National Parks and Reserves are poorly managed, there is no overall strategy for PA management, legal and policy frameworks are inadequate, resources very limited and staff lacks the means, training and motivation to do their jobs. In the Oti-Mandouri Faunal Reserve and adjacent Kéran National Park, the boundaries of the PAs are not respected and local communities have invaded, installing crops, livestock pasture and villages and devastating habitats through unsustainable exploitation (bushfires, fuelwood and charcoal production, hunting). Conflicts between wildlife, farmers and herders are increasing, exacerbated by additional pressure from transhumant people and livestock and climate change. The once rich fauna of these two PA, which together form the Oti-Kéran-Mandouri (OKM) Complex (site focus of the Project), has largely disappeared. This threatens biodiversity on a regional ecosystem scale, as the sites form part of traditional elephant and other large mammal migration corridors. Urgent GEF support is critical to reversing this situation before it is too late, by re-establishing a functional OKM Complex PA, supporting adjacent communities to start sustainable natural resource management and alternative income-generating activities (including ecotourism once habitats and some fauna are restored), to re- establish a functional national PA system in Togo and to secure the regional ecosystem links with neighboring countries to allow faunal migration and repopulation of the OKM Complex by wildlife. PRODOC 4220 Rationalising Togo’s PA System 1 Table of Contents SECTION I: Elaboration of the Narrative ....................................................................................................... 7 PART I: Situation Analysis ........................................................................................................................... 7 Context and global significance ........................................................................................................... 7 Environmental context .................................................................................................................................... 7 Protected area system: Current status and coverage ........................................................................................ 8 Socio-economic context ................................................................................................................................ 10 Institutional, Policy and Legislative context ................................................................................................. 12 Threats, Root causes and Impacts ...................................................................................................... 15 Long-term solution and barriers to achieving the solution ................................................................. 17 Stakeholder analysis ........................................................................................................................... 20 Baseline analysis ................................................................................................................................ 24 PART II: Strategy ........................................................................................................................................ 25 Project Rationale and Policy Conformity ........................................................................................... 25 Fit with the GEF Focal Area Strategy and Strategic Program ....................................................................... 25 Rationale and summary of GEF Alternative ................................................................................................. 25 Project Goal, Objective, Outcomes and Outputs/activities ................................................................ 26 Project Indicators................................................................................................................................ 33 Risks and Assumptions ...................................................................................................................... 35 Incremental reasoning and expected global, national and local benefits ........................................... 39 Cost-effectiveness .............................................................................................................................. 41 Country Ownership: Country Eligibility and Country Drivenness .................................................... 42 Sustainability and Replicability ......................................................................................................... 43 PART III: Management Arrangements ..................................................................................................... 45 Oversight ............................................................................................................................................ 46 Central level ....................................................................................................................................... 46 Site level ............................................................................................................................................. 48 PART IV: Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and Budget ......................................................................... 49 Monitoring and reporting ................................................................................................................... 49 Inception Phase ............................................................................................................................................. 49 Monitoring responsibilities and events .......................................................................................................... 50 Project start .................................................................................................................................................... 51 Quarterly ....................................................................................................................................................... 51 Annually: Annual Project Review/Project Implementation Reports (APR/PIR) .......................................... 52 Periodic Monitoring through site visits ......................................................................................................... 52 Mid-term of project cycle .............................................................................................................................. 52 End of Project ................................................................................................................................................ 52 Learning and knowledge sharing ................................................................................................................... 53 Audit Clause ....................................................................................................................................... 54 PART V: Legal Context ............................................................................................................................... 55 SECTION II: STRATEGIC RESULTS FRAMEWORK (SRF) AND GEF INCREMENT ..................... 57 PART I: Strategic Results Framework, SRF (formerly GEF Logical Framework) Analysis ............... 57 Indicator framework as part of the SRF ............................................................................................. 57 List of Output and Outcome as part of the SRF ................................................................................. 60 Part II: Incremental Cost Analysis ............................................................................................................. 62 SECTION III: Total Budget and Work Plan ................................................................................................. 66 Part I: Total Budget and Work Plan .......................................................................................................... 66 SECTION IV: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION .......................................................................................... 70 PART I: Other agreements ......................................................................................................................... 70 Overview of Co-financing Letters ...................................................................................................... 70 PRODOC 4220 Rationalising Togo’s PA System 2 Outline of TOR for Technical Assistance Service Provision by IUCN ............................................. 71 Generic TOR for Service Provision
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