Project Brief Guinea Bissau

MULTI-FOCAL AREA ENABLING ACTIVITY PROPOSAL FOR GEF FUNDING FOR NATIONAL CAPACITY NEEDS SELF-ASSESSMENT FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (NCSA)

PROJECT AGENCY ID : 2616 FINANCING PLAN (US$) PROJECT GEFSEC ID : GEF PROJECT COUNTRY: Guinea-Bissau Project US$ COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY : Guinea-Bissau is a party to 200,000 UNFCCC, UNCBD and UNCCD Conventions. PDF A US$ PROJECT TITLE : National Capacity Needs Self- 25,000 Assessment for Global Environmental Management

in Guinea-Bissau Sub-Total GEF US$ GEF AGENCY: UNDP 225,000 IMPLEMENTING AGENCY: Ministry of Natural Co-financing Resources in charge of the Environment (MNR) UNDP DURATION: 24 months Government Contribution US$ GEF FOCAL AREA: Multi-focal 25,000 GEF OPERATIONAL PROGRAM: EA GEF STRATEGY PRIORITY: CB2 cash STARTING DATE: August, 2006 US$ IA FEE: US$ 20,250 25,000

in kind Others Sub-total Co-financing US$ RECORD OF ENDORSEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT (OPERTIONAL FOCAL POINT): 50,000 CONVENTION PARTICIPATION Total Project Financing US$ Convention Ratification Date National275,000 Focal Point UNFCCC Signed and ratified in: March ‘95 Mr. Alexandre Cabral Climate Change CBD Signed and ratified in: March ‘95 Mrs. Gomes Lopes Biodiversity UNCCD Signed and ratified in: March ‘95 Mr. Causso Diombera Desertification Control

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This proposal has been prepared in accordance with GEF policies and procedures and meets the standards of the GEF Project Review Criteria for NCSA approval.

Project Contact Person Frank Pinto Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Executive Coordinator Regional Coordinator, UNDP-GEF UNDP-GEF Date: 1 June 2006 Tel. and email+221.8491778 / [email protected] ANCR National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment for Global Environmental Management (NCSA) BGP Project Management Office (PMO) CBD Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) CCNUCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) CCNUD United Nations Convention on Desertification Control (UNCDC) CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) CNE National Environmental Council (NEC) CNP National Project Coordinator ( NPC) or National Lead Consultant (NLC) CNUED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (1992 Rio Summit ) CPP Project Steering Committee (PSC) CRP Project Select Committee (PSEC) DGE Director General of the Environment (DGE) DNP National Project Director (NPD) DSRP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) FEM Global Environmental Facility (GEF) FMI International Monetary Fund (IMF) GEM Global Environmental Management (GEM) IDH Human Development Index (HDI) MRN Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNR) NCSA/ ANCR National Capacity Needs Self-Assessment/ Auto-Evaluation Nationale des Capacités à Renforcer NEPAD New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) OMD Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ONG Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) PANA National Action Program for Adaptation to Climate Change PFO/FEM GEF Operational Focal Point (GEF/OFP) PIB Gross Domestic Product (GDP) PNGE National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) PNB Gross National Product (GNP) PNUD United Nations Development Program (UNDP) SMDD World Summit on Sustainable Development (“Rio + 10”) SPANDB National Strategy and Action Plan for Biodiversity (NSAPBD) UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research VIH/SIDA Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) I CONTEXT I.1. Political, Socio-economic and Poverty Reduction Context 1. Guinea-Bissau, is located on the western coast of Africa. It is bounded on the north by Senegal, on the east and south by Guinea, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. The country covers an area of 36,125 sq km. According to its geographical coordinates, it extends from Cabo Roxo (latitude 12° 20’ North) to Ponta Cagete (latitude 10° 59’ North) and between meridians 13° 38’ and 16° 43’ W. It extends over 193 km in latitude and 330 km in longitude. Guinea-Bissau is divided into two geographical areas one of which is continental and the other insular which is formed by a chain of contiguous islands such as Jeta, Pecixe, Areias, Como and Melo and the Bijagós archipelago, consisting of 88 islands and small islands only 21 of which are inhabited. Guinea-Bissau’s coastal area is internationally known for conservation and biodiversity both by the number and variety of birds and the stretch of its mangroves. It is also famous for being the main spawning sites of various species of fish, shrimps and marine mammals along the West African1 coast.

2. Guinea-Bissau isdivided into three administrative provinces: north province, east province and south province. The three provinces are subdivided into eight (08) provinces each of which is run by a governor. The eight provinces are: Cacheu, Oio, Gabu, Bafatá, Quínara, Tombali, Bolama Bijagós and Biombo. The capital, Bissau is the ninth distinct administrative entity called Autonomous Bissau Sector (ABS), which is run by a mayor. The population of Guinea-Bissau was estimated at 1,181,641inhabitants in 2002 with an annual growth rate of 2.3%.

3. Guinea-Bissau is one of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) with its economy based on the primary sector through the exploitation of natural resources particularly agriculture, fishery, forest and stockbreeding. The main productions of the agricultural sector are rice and cashew (Anacarda occidentale): the former is grown as food crop and the latter as cash crop with the production of cashew nut contributing over 58% to GDP in 2004, employing seasonally between 75 and 80% of the working population and accounting for over 90% of exports2. The country’s dependency on a single export commodity, notably cashew nut makes its economy vulnerable. Livestock products3 account for 17% of the country’s GDP and 32% of the agricultural sector GDP. Livestock estimates are 410 000 cows 74% of which are raised in the east province; 240 000 sheep 85% of which are raised in the east province; 225 000 goats 58% of which are raised in the east province and 26% in the north province; 67 000 pigs 49% of which are raised in the north province, 19% in the south province and 17% on the Bijagos islands; and over 473 000 poultry evenly distributed among the different provinces. Annual per capita meat consumption is 6 kg. With a production capacity of 1.3 million tons, the fishery sector employs about 10 000 people and accounts for 4% of GDP and 40% of the State overall budget, corresponding to an annual revenue of about US$ 12 to 15 million. Guinea-Bissau’s average piscatorial product exploitation capacity is estimated at 275 000 tons annually. In 2001, there were about 3 360 registered traditional fishermen. Guinea-Bissau has 2 million hectares of its land covered by forests, or slightly over 55% of the national territory, marked ecological diversity (wet forests, dry forests, gallery forests, savanna, palm

1 FAO 2005. Detailed Program on African Agriculture Development (PDDAA), Investment Program for Guinea Bissau (Provisional Document, May 2005 Version). 2 UNDP 2006. Note on the Socio-Economic Situation of Guinea Bissau. February 2006. 3 FAO 2005. Detailed Program on African Agriculture Development (PDDAA Investment Program for Guinea Bissau (Provisional Document, May 2005 Version). groves and mangroves) as well as wood reserves estimated at 48 million m 3. The rate of destruction of these resources is high with the exploitation of wood for charcoal being one of the main causes of forest degradation. Shifting agriculture, extension of cashew-grown area, fish-smoking and transhumance are also some of the main causes of accelerated deforestation.

4. The secondary and service sectors of the economy, mainly made up of water and power supply industries in the former case and services such as trade, catering and hotel industry, in the latter, make stable but weak contributions to GDP. The respective contributions of these sectors to GDP rose from 11.6% in 2003 to 11.7% in 2004 under industry and from 21.1% to 28.4% under services.

5. In1975, Guinea-Bissau became a founding member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It also joined other sub-regional organizations such as the Organization for the Development of the River Gambia (OMVG) and the Permanent Inter-State Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS). In order to straighten disequilibria in its public finance and better integrate its economy at the regional level, the country joined on Mai 1977 the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and subsequently the CFA currency area.

6. Since its independence up to the mid-1980s, the country had opted for a communist and centralized economic system. The State’s frequent interference with economic activities and a resource allocation based more on Marxist options have hindered the country’s economic growth.

7. By the end of the 1980s, efforts were made to straighten internal and external disequilibria by adopting reform programs backed by the Bretton Woods Institutions. Though limited in scope, these reforms have enabled the country to achieve some of the macroeconomic equilibria and to raise its annual growth estimated at 4% on average over the 1994 to 1997 period. Thanks to these reforms, the private sector has started to play an active role in the economy. However, private sector development was mainly linked to the trading of cashew nut which accounted for 95% of export receipts.

8. For Guinea-Bissau, the 1994-1997 period represented an era of noticeable progress towards stabilizing the macroeconomic and financial situation. Basic structural reforms were adopted and their implementation initiated. Additionally, its membership of the WAEMU consolidated monetary stability and led to the adoption of the CFA currency area banking laws and regulations that stabilized the exchange rate. All the progress made contributed to raising real GDP growth by about 2% annually between 1994 1997.

9. Unfortunately, the political and military crisis that shook the country in 1988 compromised the efforts made in the previous years to achieve economic recovery. It affected very negatively all sectors of activity and subsequently weakened the achievements on the basis of which it was anticipated that internal and external equilibria could be achieved and investments made in the social sectors. The falling price on the international market of cashew nut, the main export commodity increased export receipt shortfalls as from 1988. The crisis caused a sharp 28% fall in real GDP in 1998 and a 17% drop in agricultural production which continued to decrease between 2000 and 2003. Indeed, from 2000 to 2003, government unsteadiness disrupted all the institutions of the Republic. The executive power became unstable with successive governments which did not have enough time to carry out consistent and lasting actions. The interdependence of the presidential, judiciary and legislative powers ceased to be a reality and was superseded by confrontations at the highest level of government which, as they grew worse, disorganized the operation of justice and resulted in the dissolution of the Parliament in 2002. The disorganization of the State machine caused by these institutional conflicts became one of the major obstacles to the implementation of consistent economic and social policies.

10. Since 2001, the government has been trying to solve the situation by formulating the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), on the one hand, and promulgating an Agricultural Development Policy Letter (ADPL) in April 2002, on the other. 11. Indeed, the political commitment of the transition institutions allowed the country to finalize its PRSP in August 2004. The PRSP which aims at the gradual reduction of poverty is based on the following four objectives:  (a) create the conditions for a rapid and accelerated growth by boosting key sectors and diversifying export activities;  (b) increase the populations’ access to basic social services by developing infrastructures and enhancing service quality and quantity;  (c) implement programs targeting vulnerable groups in order to reduce gender disparities and promote social equity, and  (d) improve governance. However, it became necessary in 2005 to review PRSPs in order to make the national poverty reduction strategy more operational and integrate into it some overlooked concerns such as the environment. This situation delayed to some extent the efforts initiated since 2001 to finalize and implement within a reasonable time-frame the national poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) whose objective is to achieve strong and sustainable economic growth of 9% annually and to allow the country access to the international financial resources earmarked for Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC). It is worth noting that Guinea-Bissau’s outstanding official debt amounts to US$ 900 million. 12. The ADPL (2002) is part of the economic and social policy recovery efforts whose priority objectives are the following:  meet the basic needs of the populations;  ensure a better income redistribution and fight poverty; and  ensure a rational use of natural resources. 13. The ADLP consists of:  a real implementation of a liberalization policy;  a new distribution of responsibilities among the different development actors;  a phased disengagement of the State and promotion of the private sector; and  a redefinition of the responsibilities of the different public services of rural institutions in accordance with the principles of real decentralization;. 14. This policy has today translated into a slight improvement of socioeconomic indicators. Indeed, in 2002 Guinea-Bissau ranked 167 out of 173 countries around the world, and with an HDI of 0.348 in 2003, the country ranked 172 out of 177 countries (UNDP 20054). Besides, gross school enrollment rate rose from 41% in 2000/01 to 57% in 2003/04. 15. Social and population indicators for 2000 put life span at birth at 45 years, infant mortality rate at 132/1000, maternal/infant mortality rate at 910/100,000 live births. As for education, illiteracy rate is close to 62% and is higher among women at 82%, and the combined school enrollment rate (primary and higher education) at 37% (UNDP, 20025). 16. Social and human conditions remained gloomy in Guinea-Bissau between 2002 and 2004 as indicated in the poverty analysis conducted in 2002 and the 2004 First National Report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report revealed the slow rate at which MDGs are being achieved in Guinea-Bissau. Two Bissau-Guineans out of three are still hit by absolute poverty, and there is still no pattern of any reduction due to sluggish economic activity. Education for all and gender equality are making progress though at a slow pace in relation to the objectives defined for 2015. Infant mortality is frightful: one out of five children does not reach the age of five. Many women still lose their lives giving birth. The HIV/AIDS pandemic, malaria and tuberculosis continue to expand. Drinking water supply, sanitation and access to decent housing is still a luxury

4 UNDP 2005, 2005 World Report on Human Development. 5 UNDP 2005, World Report on Human Development. in Guinea-Bissau6 for a great number of the population. Only fifty seven per cent of the urban population and 49% of the rural population have access to drinking water (7). 17. The achievement of MDGs by 2015 which provides a means to develop human capital requires the deployment of substantial energies by Guinea-Bissau.

1.2. Integration of the Environment into Guinea-Bissau’s Development Policy 18. In order to integrate the environment into the country’s development efforts, in 2002, the government had established the National Environmental Council (NEC) to “monitor” sustainable natural resource management policy. NEC was to be chaired by the Head of State in accordance with article N° 4 of Decree 24/92. Unfortunately, this committee was dissolved before it could start operating. 19. The environmental policy is based on two pillars viz.: (a) management of renewable natural resources and (b) management of the urban environment. 20. The concern for environmental management and planning and its mainstreaming in national development effort was concretized by the end of the 1980s with the establishment of the Coastal Planning Bureau (CPB), a structure whose objectives today are still mainly to:  maximize the economic activities developed by the coastal rural population;  maintain the renewal of exploitable natural resources;  conserve the samples representative of the natural resource endowment of the country’s coastal area by creating specific protected areas;  harmonize spatially and over time the different economic sectors;  propose mechanisms for conflict resolution between the different interest groups.

21. It is within the framework of this program limited to the coastal area that the various measures linked to environmental issues have been initiated and resulted in the creation of the following five protected areas in this wet area:  the National Orango Park with its 158,000 hectares  the Cacheu Natural Mangrove Park, which extends over 80,000 hectares;  the Marinho Joâo and Poilâo National Park with an area of 500 sq km;  Lac Cufada Natural Park with its 100,000 hectares; and  the Dolombi National Park.

22. After the ratification of the Rio generation Conventions in March 1995, the First National Conference on the Environment was held in 1996 in Bissau. It brought together experts from various specialized State institutions, parliamentarians, local and traditional authorities, NGO representatives, youth associations, unions, private sector etc. Important recommendations were made at this conference in order to secure a massive participation of all actors in the environment protection process and rational use of available natural resources.

23. The National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) adopted by the government on February 21, 2004 and aimed at: (i) developing actions allowing a rational use of natural resources and conservation of biological resources, in particular, (ii) imposing the conduct of impact studies on all projects that are likely to have negative fallouts on the environment in order to find ways and means to mitigate them. NEMP objectives place emphasis on the importance of partners’ participation along with all the organizations of the civil society and private sector as well as sub-regional and international cooperation in order to ensure a better environmental protection and a sustainable use of natural resources. NEMP recommended 14 action programs which are yet to be implemented; the 14th NEMP program will focus on the Creation of Institutional Capacities and Building the Capacities of the different staff and actors so that they can better fulfill their respective roles in

6 National Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (DENARP or PRSP) Version Revised in October 2005 on the basis of DENARP adopted in August 2004 7 UNDP 1997. Development Cooperation, 1995-1996Report,October 1997 Environmental Management. NCSA will constitute an essential stage in the process of determining legal and institutional constraints to a better environmental management in Guinea Bissau and enable the different actors to agree on their respective roles and responsibilities in this responsible and participatory management.

24. Guinea-Bissau’s government’s commitment to the environment thus translated over the past few years into the creation of various protected areas, the establishment of the Regional Strategy for Protected Marine Areas (RSPMA) in West Africa, the formulation of the National Sanitation Development Plan (NSDP), the design of the Master Water and Sanitation Plan, the Coastal Area and Biodiversity Management Project (CABMP), NEMP formulation and adoption, adoption of the Agricultural Development Policy Letter and participation in the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD), notably the environmental component and natural and agricultural resources.

1.3. Legal and Institutional Framework for Environmental Management 1.3.1. Legal Framework 25. A framework law on the environment and a Manual on Environmental Impact Study are still under preparation in 2006. However, in 1992 through Decree n°24/92 (Official Gazette n° 12 dated March 23), a National Environmental Council was established (NEC). Following a recommendation by the national conference on the environment, NEC was dissolved in 1999 unfortunately without being able to operate for lack of human capacities and political will to bring together the various ministries in charge of natural and environmental resource management. The National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) was adopted and promulgated by the government on February 21, 2004. 26. In 1992, the Government approved the Master Water and Sanitation Plan which took stock of the situation and an Action Plan for the 1992-2001 period. This document was later updated for the 1997-2006 period. The Master Plan assesses surface and underground water resources and analyzes the status of Drinking Water Supply (APP) across the country. 27. Executive Order Decree n°5-A/92 dated September 17, 1992 establishing the Water Code provides for the law and general regulation governing water resource management

28. There are also a number of decrees and laws governing natural resource use including:

 Law n° 1/2000 dated July 24 – Mining and Mineral Law;  Executive Order n° 4 – A / 91 dated October 29 which approves the Forest Act;  Executive Order nº 7/2000 established the National Pesticide Commission which is integrated into the Sahel Pesticide Committee (SPC);  Decree n° 11 / 2000 establishing the Orango Island Group National Park;  Decree n° 12 / 2000 establishing the Cacheu Mangrove Natural Park; and  Decree n° 13 / 2000 establishing the Cufada Marsh National Park.

29. Since 1996, after the dissolution of NEC, the responsibility for supervising and monitoring the government’s environmental action fell on the Environment General Directorate.

1.3.2. Institutional Framework for Environmental Management 30. In Guinea-Bissau, the institutional framework for environmental management is characterized first by the absence of an Environment Ministry as such and the migration of the central environmental management framework, that is, the Environment General Directorate to and from various ministries with different calling. Thus in 1994, a State Secretariat for Tourism, Environment and Arts and Crafts was created by Executive Order n° 2/94 published in the Official Gazette dated November 24. In 1996, following a cabinet reshuffle, the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Arts and Crafts was established (Executive Order n°4/96 dated January 19), and the National Environmental Council was dissolved by Executive Order n° 11/96 and replaced by the Environment General Directorate. Then, the State Secretariat for Tourism, Environment and Arts and Crafts was upgraded to a ministry status. Later, the Environment General Directorate came successively under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy, and today under the Ministry of Natural Resources. 31. At the government level, several structures were created but lacked consistency with an unclear definition of missions, responsibilities, functions and competences, causing jurisdictional dispute to continue among the different ministries and their civil servants. The development of environmental actions was hindered by the duplication of some institutional mandates and jurisdictional dispute. In other cases, the clear failure to value or to give responsibilities to already existing institutions delayed the commencement of planned activities, leading to some inconsistencies between ongoing actions.

32. In order to overcome all these constraints and inconsistencies, the National Environmental Management Plan (NEMP) provides for the creation of a full-fledged Environment Ministry, a National Environmental Institute (INA) and an Institute for Biodiversity and Protected Areas (IBPA). The Environment Ministry and INA are yet to be created but IBPA has been created as a product of the PGZCB project with the World Bank support. IBPA today operates under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture while a National Protected Area Directorate (NPAD) has been lodged with the Environment General Directorate within the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR). So far, IBPA has been handling the onsite management of protected areas while NPAD has only been implementing the country’s protected area policy.

33. The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has been handling environmental management policy and coordination since 2003 through the Environment General Directorate; however, several ministries have a general environment and natural resource management service. At the recommendation of NEMP, today four technical departments operate under the authority of the General Environment Directorate: (a) an Urban Environment and Anti-pollution Directorate; (b) a Natural Resource Management and Nature Conservation Directorate; (c) a National Protected Area Directorate (NPAD); and an Environmental Information, Training, Documentation and Education Center. The Environment General Directorate employs 21 staff including 14 executives. The creation of regional environmental representations is also under consideration by NEMP.

34. Many ministries and their specialized services carry on day to day environmental and natural resource management. These include: (i) the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development which has a Forest and Hunting Directorate, an Agriculture General Directorate, a Livestock General Directorate, IBPA and the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INPA); (ii) the Ministry of Fishery and Maritime Economy; (iii) the Ministry of Public Works, Construction and Town-Planning whose activities i.e. construction of infrastructures, bridges and roads impact on the environment; (iv) the Ministry of Tourism and Land-Use Planning; (v) the Ministry of Social Communication and Parliamentarian Affairs; (vi) the Ministry of Economy which includes a State Secretariat for Planning; (vii) the Ministry of Finance; (viii) the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Handicrafts; (ix) the Ministry of Public Health; (x) the Ministry of National Education and Higher Learning which is mandated to provide training in environmental issues; (xi) the Ministry in charge of Territorial Administration; (xii) the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty; (xiii) the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities which manages international conventions and plead their causes with donors; and (xiv) the State Secretariat for Culture.

35. The enterprises operating in the private sector use properly environmental resources for their production. They are organized around two competing chambers of agricultural trade (Chamber of Commerce for Agricultural Industry (CCAI) and Chamber of Agriculture, Commerce and Industry (CACI) and a National Farmers’ Association (NFA). In Guinea-Bissau, with little guidance from MNR, private businesses are often a source of pollution and contribute to the depletion of natural resources 36. There are also a few NGOs operating in the environmental sector. These include AD, Tiniguena, Nantinian, Alternag, Guiné Verde, CNJ, RENAJ, CREPA and ROPA. NGOs act as an interface between public sector services and grassroots populations and provide them with guidance so that they can adequately participate in a sustainable natural and environmental resource management. 37. Lastly, decentralized services (Bissau City Hall, provincial governorates) assist in waste management and environmental sanitation.

38. Through their programs and projects, international Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) based in the country and private or community groupings support the environmental management actions of public institutions and services and serve as efficient partners to reach grassroots populations and involve them in a responsible environmental management. International NGOs include World Conservation Union (IUCN), Swissaid and the Dutch SNV

1.4. Context of Global Environmental Management in Guinea-Bissau 39. In 1955, Guinea-Bissau signed and ratified the three major Rio conventions viz. the Convention on Biodiversity, the Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Desertification/Land Degradation Control. 40. In March 2005, the country ratified the following conventions: the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the Kyoto Protocol, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and their Disposal. The implementation of these conventions depends on international financial mechanisms. 41. For the three Conventions of the Rio Generation:  Convention on Desertification and Land Degradation Control The government set up in 2003 the National Coordination Organ (NCO) which is the steering body of the NAP/DC formulation process with GEF financial backing (Global Environment Facility) and the Global Mechanism through the UNCCD Executive Secretariat and CILSS. The coordinating body conducted (a) a diagnostic study on the desertification phenomenon and an updating of the basic data, (b) decentralized workshops in 2003 until (c) they resulted in the national forum on the launching of NAP/DC in September 2004, (d) the preparation of the 2004 National Report on the Implementation of the UNCCD Convention in Guinea-Bissau, and (e) the Workshop Validating the Main Orientations of the Intervention of the National Action Plan for Desertification Control (NAP/DC). Numerous projects have also been drawn up for the benefit of national NGOs.

 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 42. The Government of Guinea Bissau signed in March 1955 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the National Assembly ratified it in October 1995. In December 2004, the First National Communication was made with UNDP/GEF support. Several reports were subsequently presented at the different party conferences to this convention and the following thematic reports or actions were carried out:  National review of greenhouse gas in 2001;  vulnerability and adaptation to the negative effects of climate change in 2002;  economic options for mitigating greenhouse gas in 2004;  quantitative socioeconomic impact analysis of climate;  information, education and sensitization campaign in high schools and universities as well as the county’s regions. Guinea-Bissau has just received from the LDCs (Paises Menas Avançados) US$ 200,000 to finance the design of the National Action Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change (NAPA). A PDF B project worth US$ 405,000 was submitted to UNDP/GEF to speed up the drafting of the Second National Communication. In March 2005, the People’s National Assembly ratified the Kyoto Protocol. An Executive Order created a National Authority (AND) and a National Commission on Climate Change (NCCC).In 2000, a Focal Point for Climate Change had been designated by the government.

 Convention on Biological Diversity 43. The Government of Guinea Bissau has benefited since December 1997 from UNDP/GEF support in formulating the National Strategy and Action Plan for Biodiversity Conservation adopted by the government in 2005. GEF support also made it possible to prepare the country’s reports to the Party Conferences and to identify capacity building needs for biodiversity conservation. Within this framework of capacity building, an Atlas on the country’s biodiversity and a draft Decree on the development of biodiversity resources have just been produced.

1.6. Taking Stock of Capacity Building in Environmental Management 44. Analysts of capacity building in development sectors demonstrated that the actions that had already been undertaken or initiated were sectoral and uncoordinated. It is worth noting that SNV, CIPA, BPC, PRCM, IUCN and other Non-Governmental Organizations organized over the past six years training of staff on the job or in workshops

45. Through its agro-sylvo-pastoral project, SNV created community forests and set up a training program both of which contributed to capacity building in the management, monitoring and forest resource review fields as well as in charcoal production techniques/technologies and use of enhanced fire pit. The Research Center for Applied Fish-Farming (CIPA) of the Ministry of Fishery and Maritime Economy benefits from several regional programs aimed at improving piscatorial stock and monitoring industrial fishery. CIPA saw its intervention capacities developed, and its contribution to development improved significantly

46. Within the framework of Wetlands integrated management, the BPC (Coastal Planning Office) with IUCN financial backing trained national technicians in the field of (a) migratory or resident aquatic bird monitoring and counting, (b) identification and assessment of projects designed to raise the living standard of neighboring populations. The technicians of the Marin João Vieira Piolão Park also benefited from capacity development in the field of marine tortoise monitoring, marking and conservation. BPC technicians and other institutions involved in environmental issues received variable training with IUCN financial backing in order to develop their capacities in the fields of sustainable development project monitoring and assessment and initiation to Geographical Information System (GIS).

47. In the process of setting up PRCM (Regional Marine and Coastal Program), several training actions focusing on the principles of co-managing the natural resources of protected areas were carried out. The capacities of the protected area staff were also developed in the field of maritime management and tax-based funding. The technicians of the community radios integrated in the protected areas received training in ethics, programming and other technical aspects.

48. In efforts to protect the ozone layer, border security agents (customs and para-military) received training to enhance their capacity to control the entry and marketing of greenhouse gas. Besides, the association of refrigeration technicians received trainer training in good refrigeration practices

49. Since 2002, Guinea-Bissau has benefited from a project on the creation of an Analysis and Training Center (ATC) financed by the Harare-based African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF). ATC has just completed the first phase of its 4-year project and is about to start the second one. In-service training in economic and social policy analysis (including in principle environmental policy) was delivered while a university education up to the master’s degree level was given to Guinea-Bissau students sent abroad for this purpose. It is worth noting that Guinea Bissau has two universities established in 2004: one of them, the Amilcar Cabral University is public and the other, the Colinas de Boé University is private. None of them teaches natural nor environmental science classes. All the country’s university-level executives received their training abroad particularly in Portugal, Russia and Cuba.

50. Concurrently, ACBF is assisting though moderately Guinea Bissau with US$ 50,000 for it to create a National Capacity Needs Building Secretariat (SENAREC) whose focal point is based within the Prime Minister’s Office. SENAREC’s mission will be to initiate, coordinate and monitor sectoral and trans-sectoral capacity building programs across the country. NCSA will constitute the environmental arm of SENAREC and both concomitant initiatives will have to work together in synergy and ensure that NCSA’s achievements are perfectly integrated in the country’s development and capacity building efforts. 51. However, there are no coordinated programs mainstreaming inter-sectoral aspects with clearly defined environmental capacity building priorities in Guinea-Bissau. Another observation is that sectoral capacity building programs do not explicitly integrate environment and particularly global environment management in them. Guinea-Bissau has greater capacity needs in the fields of study, analysis, research and environmental management in order to be able to reverse the growing trend of forest and environmental degradation. Human resources must be properly trained and outfitted to monitor the state of the environment, natural resource management and control their degradation factors

52. Concerning global environmental management, the studies conducted on biological diversity and climate change involved executives from different sectors of activities beyond the ministry in charge of environmental management. The regional and national workshops organized contributed to some extent to sensitizing some of the development actors to the problematic of global environmental management and its implications for national development. These meetings have demonstrated the need for synergy between the activities linked to the implementation of the different conventions in order to better integrate global environmental management objectives into national development strategies.

II OBJECTIVES AND LINKS WITH ONGOING ACTIVITES

53. The main objective of this NCSA is to assess at the national level global environmental management capacities in Guinea-Bissau. This national self-assessment will pinpoint the weaknesses, constraints and priorities in capacity creation, management and development as well as the individual, institutional and systemic capacity building needed to manage environmental resources so that they can be sustainably used to support national efforts to achieve sustainable development and reduce poverty. This project will also enable the country to formulate a strategy and action plan to enhance environmental resource management capacities, to submit this action plan to partners and donors and to work out verifiable and relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and poverty reduction indicators in order to monitor and assess the capacity building process.

54. Building on previous achievements and ongoing processes, the project will focus on the constraints and the capacity building and development needs linked to the management of international conventions particularly those dealing with biodiversity, climate change and desertification control with a view to their coordination and creating a synergy between them. The project will also determine the capacity building needs of existing institutions and develop national and regional networks. Lastly, through a participatory process, the project will strengthen dialogue, information sharing and cooperation among those involved in environmental management from the grassroots communities to the highest level of the State including: (a) decentralized organs and the Government technical services at the central level, in the three (3) provinces and the country’s eight (8) administrative regions; as well as (b) NGOs; and (c) the private sector involved in the sustainable management and use of the environment and of its resources 55. In order to ascertain that the project will advance national sustainable development priorities, its activities will provide the basis for enhancing the capacities of the public and private sectors as well as those of NGOs in the sustainable environmental and energy management sector by setting up a Project Steering Committee (PSC). The project will constitute the first implementation of the 14th NEMP priority program on environmental management capacity building. It will pay special attention to the implementation and compliance with MDGs recommendations for Guinea-Bissau and those made by the September 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in South Africa. The project will therefore be integrated in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper process (PRSP) formulated in 2001, adopted by the Ministerial Council on August 31, 2004 and revised in 2005 with the support of Dutch, European, UNDP and World Bank Cooperation. 56. The NCSA-GEM process will integrate and rely on the activities and relevant results of the National Strategy and Action Plan for Biological Diversity (NSAPB) formulation processes, national communication on climate change, NAPA; desertification control and its National Action Plan (NAP); as well as the results of the sectoral capacity building projects carried out in the country in the past five years after the 1999 war. 57.. More importantly, considering ongoing regional initiatives and activities, the project will establish a link between its activities and their expected results and the NEPAD capacity building program. Accordingly; Guinea-Bissau will seek to create some synergy between the implementation of Annex 1 to the NEPAD Environmental Action Plan and NCSA. The NCSA project managers in Guinea Bissau will therefore participate in the sub-regional activities of the UNDP, UNEP and GEF Global NCSA Support Program.

58. The results expected from the NCSA projects are:  a report on the current status identifying all past and ongoing activities under the three key conventions;  thematic assessments identifying priority constraints in capacity building;  an analysis identifying transversal and priority capacity building issues and constraints;  a Strategy and an Action Plan determining: a) the actions to be undertaken to meet priority constraints; b) a timetable for the capacity building actions planned; c) the actors who have to carry out these actions; and d) the monitoring and assessment plan; and  a Final Report clearly explaining NCSA processes and results including the methodologies followed and describing priority themes and transversal constraints at the individual, institutional and systemic levels.

III PROJECT ACTIVITES

59. The project activities will be carried out according to the approach and principles recommended by GEF in its operational manuals for NCSA, UNITAR Manual and the UNDP/GEF Resource Kit.

60. The project activities are described in detail and chronologically below. These activities will involve all the representatives of the population strata especially the private and public sector, the civil society and NGOs which are by the way represented both n the thematic groups and PSC. Through national and regional workshops, the populations coming from decentralized entities and the grassroots (provinces, districts and municipalities) will also be involved in the NCSA process.

Activity N° 1: NCSA-GEM Planning and Initiation Process

61. To initiate the NCSA-GEM process:  the Minister of Natural Resources in charge of the Environment will appoint the Director General of the Environment as National Project Director (NPD) to act as the government focal point for the NCSA-GEM process. NPD will closely monitor and be involved in the MDG and PRSP processes in order to create some synergy with NCSA;  He/She will also establish a project office (government’s contribution in kind) for NPD and a National Project Coordinator (or lead national consultant or NPC) who will be responsible for project day to day management full time. NPC will also facilitate coordination and synergy between the processes linked to international conventions on the environment under the aegis of NPD and with the cooperation of GEF Operational Focal Point in the country (GEF/OFP);  a Project Select Committee will be set up by the Ministry of Natural Resources in charge of the Environment at the proposal of the Director General of the Environment. The Project Select Committee will be made up of eight members viz. NPD who is also GEF/OFP, a representative of the PRSP or MDG unit, a representative of the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty, the 3 Focal Points of the conventions on biodiversity, climate change and desertification control; NPC and the UNDP Environment Program Advisor;  the Project Select Committee will finalize, approve or amend if necessary the project work plan and will also prepare the terms of reference for all inputs, consultant services, participations and and project activities;  the Project Select Committee will recruit project staff notably the national and thematic consultants and will form thematic working groups per convention;  the Project Select Committee will ensure coordination and information sharing with the other ongoing initiatives and establish a strong link between them in terms of integrating the objectives, procedures (without duplicating efforts) and a better human and/or institutional resource use;  the Project Select Committee will be responsible for identifying, consulting and ensuring adequate participation by the actors concerned including notably members of other national multi-sectoral commissions, national, provincial and municipal authorities, grassroots communities, NGOs, the private sector and the civil society;  the Project Select Committee will ensure information sharing at the national level and across the Sub- Saharan region in order to benefit from and disseminate the experiences acquired from the NCSA- GEM process;  the Project Select Committee will ensure the sharing of information and knowledge at the national, provincial and regional or local levels;  .the Project Select Committee will determine the working methodologies adapted to Guinea-Bissau’s NCSA. Accordingly, the Project Select Committee will consult the UNITAR Manual and the UNDP/GEF NCSA Resource Kit as well as any document drafted by the UNDP and UNEP Global NCSA Support Program. The result of this N° 1 activity is to put in place and ensure adequate operation of a project coordinating and management unit .

Activity N° 2: Secure Participation and Support at the Top of the Nation

62. A Project Steering Committee (PSC) will be established by the Minister of Natural Resources in charge of the Environment and keep the Prime Minister and all other participating ministries informed so as to guide and support the NCSA-GEM project and ensure transversal coordination through all the public and private services and NGOs that manage and/or use environmental resources in the country. In addition to its steering mandate, PSC will establish a wide network of information and integration of NCSA-GEM activities into sustainable national development, poverty reduction (PRSP) efforts and those aimed at achieving the MDGs. The members of this network are expected to participate in project major events, notably national and provincial or regional workshops.

63. PSC will met once every six months or at least three times during project lifetime especially at project official launching, on finalizing NCSA-GEM for endorsement and on approving the capacity building strategy, its action plan as well as its monitoring and assessment. The result of this N° activity is to put in place some support at the top of the Nation and to obtain a better integration of NCSA results into national capacity building and poverty reduction efforts.

Activity N° 3: Existing Information and Data Review

64. Thematic working groups per key convention such as climate change, biodiversity, desertification/land degradation control will be set up by the Project Select Committee according to relevant national committees. With the services of consultants, each of the three thematic working groups will produce a status report successively on (a) all the actions taken by the country to implement the conventions and ways to popularize these conventions and their impacts; (b) policies and laws including ways to control them; (c) the institutions and organizations involved; (d) ongoing projects and programs; and (e) training in environmental management and their relevance to the country’s needs to ensure an efficient national and global environmental management. The thematic working groups will then identify the capacity constraints at the systemic, organizational and individual levels that might be responsible for weaknesses in the implementation of the conventions and a good management of environmental resources. The result expected from this activity is a status report and a synthesis of existing data and information on the constraints and individual, institutional and systemic capacity building needs.

Activity N° 4: Integration and Common Adoption of Initial Prioritization (1 st National Workshop)

65. A national consultant will be hired to carry out this task and produce an overall document which will integrate all the synthetic themes (Activity N°3) by categorizing and prioritizing common and specific fields per theme. The members of the different thematic working groups will be invited to a 1-day national pooling workshop designed to adopt and validate this document synthesizing the priorities. This first 1-day national workshop will better mainstream inter-sectoral and gender issues and especially integrate them into environmental management and the national development effort. The result expected from Activity N° 4 is a priority round up paper, which adopted as such at this workshop, will be sent to the country’s three administrative provinces via their eight administrative regions for further contributions.

Activity N° 5: Contribution, Refinement and Adoption of Capacity Building Priorities for the Three Provinces, the Eight Administrative Regions and the Autonomous Bissau Sector

66. The round up paper adopted at the national level by the working groups meeting in the first national pooling workshop will be submitted to the two natural regions of the country for refinement and validation. The regional consultative mode will be determined by the Project Select Committee, notably by circulating the working document with an explanatory mail a month ahead for comments and observations and by validating it through a 1-day workshop per province. A region will be chosen for each of the three administrative provinces to organize a provincial workshop. NPC and the national consultant who produced the initial round up paper will organize and facilitate the two provincial workshops at which the document will be refined with the populations’ views and validated. Representatives of the various segments of the populations will be invited to these provincial consultations including the private and public sectors, decentralized regional assemblies, traditional authorities, the civil society and NGOs. For non-visited regions, different consultative modes will be determined by the Project Select Committee, notably through correspondence, radio or TV programs with the listeners or viewers participating through phone calls. A round up paper incorporating the contributions of the provincial consultations and workshops held in the selected regions will be produced by NPC and the national consultant who produced the initial round up paper.

Activity N° 6: Synthesis of the Contributions made by the Administrative Provinces and Regions 67. The round up paper produced by the provinces will be submitted by the Project Select Committee to PSC and if necessary to PRSP and MDG units in order to facilitate NCSA integration into ongoing capacity development projects and national development efforts. The result of this Activity N° 6 is to approve the synthesis of provincial contributions by a second SPC meeting.

Activity N° 7: In-depth Analysis of Priority Areas

68. A team of three national consultants (a sociologist, an economist and an environmentalist) specialized in individual institutional and systemic capacity analysis will be hired by the job to undertake an in-depth analysis of capacity building priorities as selected by the thematic working groups, the first national pooling workshop and the consultative and enrichment workshops involving the actors concerned in the three provinces of the country. The contributions of PSC, the PRSP and MDG Units will also be integrated. The service of an international consultant will be hired if necessary to assist the national team in producing the NCSA round up paper as well as the strategy and action plan for environmental capacity development in Guinea-Bissau.

69. The three national consultants assisted by an international consultant will work in a team spirit, visit the working groups and use the latter’s’ expertise in their work theme. The in-depth analysis should be brief and conducted at least on the three key conventions viz. biodiversity, climate change and desertification control. The in-depth analysis should also demonstrate the impact and link with country’s capacity building needs for development and poverty reduction and how environmental resources can contribute to this exercise. This analysis should therefore recommend ways to overcome these constraints. Accordingly, the in-depth analysis should consider the historical, social, economic, political and administrative factors that have contributed, underlie or add to the constraints identified in terms of insufficient national capacity building and propose solutions at the individual, institutional and national systemic levels.

70. Each of the thematic groups should meet with the four consultants (3 national and 1 international) to feed further the in-depth analysis which will constitute the working document for the production of the NCSA-GEM Final Report

Activity N° 8: Analysis of Transversal Issues – Production of the Round up Paper

71. The four consultants will ascertain that trans-sectoral/transversal issues between the thematic areas including their links with other processes such as PRSP and MDG and the gender problematic are fully identified and analyzed. The consultants will produce a special trans-sectoral assessment in collaboration with the thematic working groups.

Activity N° 9: Design of a Strategy, Action Plan, Follow up Indicators and 2 nd National Workshop

72. With the service of a national consultant, the Project Select Committee will design through NPC and NPD a strategy and action plan aimed at overcoming identified constraints. The draft of the strategy and action plan will be submitted with other related documents like the follow up indicators to the 2 nd national workshop in which members of the Project Select Committee, thematic working groups and all the representatives of the actors concerned will participate. The participants in this workshop will also finalize and adopt: (a) In-depth NCSA Analysis; (b) Transversal Assessment; and (c) Strategy and Action Plan. These documents will later be submitted to PSC, the national PRSP commission, the Ministry of National Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty for appropriation and integration into the national resource mobilization and implementation effort.

Activity N°10: Consultation between the Government, the Private Sector and External Partners 73. Under the aegis of PSC and the Ministry of National Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty, the three successive documents viz. In-depth NCSA Analysis; (b) Transversal Assessment; and (c) Strategy and Action Plan and a logical framework of this action plan will be subject to consultation between the government, the private sector as well as internal and external partners in order to determine responsible parties and identify potential financing sources. The result of this Activity N° 10 is to organize consultations between partners on the financing of Guinea-Bissau’s NCSA.

Activity N°11: Preparation and Adoption of the Country’s NCSA Final Document at the Third National Workshop

74. NCSA Final Document (or Final Report), which reviews (a) the capacity development priorities of thematic and transversal issues; (b) the strategy and action plan; (c) the processes undertaken; and (d) the lessons learnt, will be drafted by a team of consultants who took part in the NCSA activities. The document will be submitted to stakeholders and discussed at a third national workshop. The participants in this third national workshop will be the representatives of all stakeholders including members of the thematic working groups. This workshop will be facilitated by NPC and will discuss and adopt the NCSA Final Document. After its adoption at this third national workshop, the NCSA Final Document will be submitted to PSC and PRSP or at least to the Ministry of National Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty and the other ministries participating in this exercise, for its integration in the national development processes. The Document will be later submitted to the Ministerial Council for final adoption and if necessary, to the National Assembly in order to turn it into a national policy document.

Activity N° 12: Participation in PRSP Development; Establishment of a Capacity Development Monitoring and Assessment Mechanism

75. Once the NCSA Document has been drafted, the Project Select Committee will prepare an overall strategy monitoring and assessment plan with follow up indicators and put in place a monitoring and assessment mechanism. The Monitoring and Assessment Plan will be submitted to PSC. PSC will give directives as to the integration of the NCSA results into PRSP and MDG. The mechanism will be set up within six months, and on completion, a participatory assessment will be carried out at a fourth national workshop. IV. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION 76. A Project Steering Committee (PSC) will be responsible for project political oversight and inter-sectoral coordination. PSC will ensure linkage with and integration of project efforts into ongoing or future sustainable development processes, notably NEMP, MDGs and PRSP. PSC will be chaired by the Minister of Natural Resources in charge of the Environment or his/her representative. The 1st Vice-Chairperson will be the Minister of Social Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty or his/her representative. The 2nd Vice-Chairperson will be the Minister of Territorial Administration or his/her representative. The 3rd Vice-Chairperson will be the State Secretary for Planning or his/her representative. The Director General of the Environment will act as the Secretariat. The representatives of the following ministries will be members:  Agriculture and Rural Development;  Social Communication and Parliamentarian Affaires;  Economy;  Health;  Education and Higher Learning;  Finance;  Public Affairs, Construction and Town-Planning;  Tourism;  Transport;  Fishery and Maritime Economy;  Foreign Affaires  Trade; and  Territorial Administration. The membership of PSC will also include a representative of the People’s National Assembly, the Director General of Meteorology, Water Resources and Land-Use Planning, a representative of Integrated Water Management Structure (GIRE), six representatives of public institutions such as IBPA, INPA, the Amilcar Cabral University, CIPA, PRSP unit, MDG unit and SENAREC unit, the Mayor of Bissau representing regional governors, three representatives of the private sector from CCAI, CACI and ANAG, three representatives of NGOs to be selected among AD, Tiniguena, Nantinian, Alternag, Guiné Verde, CNJ, RENAJ, CREPA and ROPA and lastly a representative of the donors in this case the UNDP Environment Program Officer

77. PSC will meet at least three times during project lifetime and oversee the activities of a Project Select Committee which will meet more often as the need arises in lieu of PSC.

78. The Project Select Committee will be made up of nine members as follows: (a) NPD as the Director General of the Environment and the country’s GEF/OFP; (b) the Focal Points of the conventions on biodiversity; (c) climate change; and (d) desertification control; (e) the Technical Secretariat of the Project Select Committee will be assumed by a NPC who will be the project full time manager; (f) the UNDP Environment Program Officer; (g) a representative of the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty which in this case also represents the MDG Unit; (h) a representative of the State Secretariat for Planning also representing the PRSP Unit; (i) the Head of the Water and Sanitation Thematic Group. The Project Select Committee will be responsible for (horizontal) coordination and creating synergy between efforts linked to the activities of the national processes under the different international conventions and sectors of national and global environment. Lastly, the Project Select Committee will make sure that inter-sectoral environmental issues are fully analyzed and deepened in NCSA-GEM and are solved in subsequent national strategy and action plan.

79. Briefing and sensitization meetings will be held during the process to keep the external stakeholders concerned (notably the Prime Minister’s Office, the State Secretariat for Planning, the Ministry of Finance, Agriculture, etc.) informed of the development process and the round table planned after the formulation of the strategy and action plan so that these external stakeholders outside the MNR can assist in preparing a more efficient resource mobilization.

80. The project will benefit from a Management Office (PMO) the offices of which will be offered by the Ministry of Natural Resources in charge of the Environment (MNR). The PMO will be formed by the National Project Coordinator (NPC) to be hired as the lead national consultant through a vacancy announcement by the UNDP local office in Bissau in coordination with MNR. A maximum of three support staff will be recruited: an assistant, an accountant and a secretary all of whom will be awarded a support staff contract with the project.

81. The project will be implemented by MNR on behalf of the government. MNR will appoint the Director General of the Environment as the National Project Director (NPD). NPD will be answerable to the government and UNDP in that he/she will ensure that project inputs are mobilized in time and project results achieved within the prescribed time. NPD will be responsible for submitting work plans, quarterly disbursements and their supporting documents as well as interim reports both to UNDP and MNR. NPD will direct the Project Select Committee and oversee the activities of the National Project Coordinator (NPC) who will be recruited on a full time basis and offered a lead national consultant contract with his/her salaries paid from the project budget.

82. The Project Select Committee will also hire by the job a number of consultants to discharge miscellaneous project activities. These national consultants and an international consultant will be supervised by NPC. All purchases and services linked to the project will comply with UNDP national implementation standards.

83. The Project Select Committee will hire and use under the project budget national expert or consultant services and those of process or workshop facilitators. This expertise must come from people well-familiar with the processes of environmental conventions but also from sources outside the environmental sector to analyze and develop individual, institutional and systemic capacities. This external expertise will be sought for example in the fields of administrative, social, economic and legislative reforms as well as organizational changes. The terms of reference of these expertise consultant and facilitation services will be drawn up by NPC and NPD and approved by the Project Select Committee.

84. MNR will offer under its contribution in kind an office to NPD and NPC. The Government of Guinea- Bissau will also offer in kind the expertise of thematic groups, communication links and offices for PMO and bear the costs of meetings such as national (4) and provincial (3) workshops which may exceed the budget of NCSA-GEM project. Participation in both PSC and the Project Select Committee will also be included in the country’s contribution in kind. All these contributions in kind have been estimated at about US$ 25,000. A co- financing worth US$ 25,000 has been subscribed by the Ministry of Territorial Administration under its WAEMU account to finance the participation of the Water and Sanitation Thematic Group in this NCSA exercise.

85. The UNDP local office in Bissau will play an important role in terms of guiding project activities and ensuring that NCSA manuals (GEF and UNITAR as well as UNDP-GEF Toolkit) are strictly complied with and that project focus on the different horizontal (coordination of processes and synergy between actions) and vertical (individual institutional and systemic) aspects of NCSA. UNDP will also ensure that the consultative process under NCSA is a participatory and widely based one as well as its integration in the national sustainable development processes (NEMP, MDG and PRSP). V. ACTIVITY TIMETABLE

Activity/ Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19- 24 1. Initiation of the NCSA-GEM process 2. Secure participation and support at the top of government 3. Review of existing data and information 4. 1st National Workshop on Integration and Co-Validation of Initial Prioritization 5. Contribution and Adoption of Capacity Building Priorities for each of the country’s 3 provinces and 8 administrative regions 6. Synthesis of the contribution of the 3 provinces and 8 administrative regions 7. Detailed and in-depth studies on Priority areas 8. Analysis of Transversal Issues and Production of a Round Up Paper 9. Design of strategy, Action Plan and Follow Up Indicators; 2nd National workshop and 2nd meeting of PSC 10. Consultation between Government, Private Sector and External Stakeholders outside the realm of Environmental Management 11. Preparation and Adoption of NCSA-GEM and Final Report of Guinea- Bissau to 3rd National Workshop [and] by 3rd meeting of PSC 12a. Internal Monitoring and Assessment by project team every quarter

12b Establishment of a participatory monitoring mechanism for implementation of GEM capacity development by 4th National Workshop.

VI BUDGET: (in US$)

86. The government’s contribution in kind was not included in the budget. It is estimated at US$ 25,000 and will cover logistical support.

Activity Review of PROCESS: RESULTS: Total GEF Total Co- achieveme (Assessment, Assessment financing by nts Consultations, Reports / (US$) Government Workshops, Strategy & (US$) etc.) Action Plan Assessments Themes Reviews of Existing Data  Biodiversity 8,000 13,000 4,000 25,000  Climate Change 8,000 13,000 4,000 25,000  Desertification & Land Degradation 8,000 13,000 4,000 25,000  Water & Sanitation 8,000 13,000 4,000

25,000 Synergies and Transversal Analyses 16,000 56,000 13,000 85,000

Design of Strategy & Action Plan 10,000 5,000 15,000

Monitoring and 5,000 2,000 7,000 Assessment Coordination and Management 15,000 3,000 18,000

TOTAL 40,000 125,000 35,000 200,000 25,000 ANNEXES TO BRIEF DOCUMENT:

I. Membership of Project Steering Committee (PSC) 43 members II. Membership of Project Select Committee (PSEC, 9 members) III. List of Members of Thematic Working Groups IV. Organization Chart and Project Institutional Anchoring

Annex I: List of Office Staff and PSC Members of NCSA-GEM8

Office: 1. Minister of Natural Resources in charge of the Environment, or his/her representative, Chairperson; 2. Minister of Social Solidarity and Struggle against Poverty, or his/her Representative, 1st Vice- Chairperson; 3. Minister of Territorial Administration, or his/her Representative, 2nd Vice-Chairperson;. 4. State Secretary for Planning, or his/her Representative, 3rd Vice-Chairperson;. 5. Director General of the Environment and GEF/OPF will act as the Secretariat. Members: 6. Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and rural Development; 7. Representative of the Ministry of Social Communication and Parliamentarian affairs; 8. Representative of the Ministry of Economy; 9. Representative of the Health Ministry; 10. Representative of the Ministry of Education and Higher Learning; 11. Representative of the Ministry of Finance; 12. Representative of the Ministry of Public Works, Construction and Town-Planning; 13. Representatives of the Ministry of Tourism; 14. Representative of the Ministry of Transportation; 15. Representative of Ministry of Fishery and Maritime Economy; 16. Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 17. Representative of the Trade Ministry; and 18. representative of the Ministry of Territorial Administration. 19. representative of the People’s National Assembly; 20. Director General of Water Resources; 21. Director General of Meteorology; 22. Director General of Territorial administration; 23. Mayor of Bissau, or his/her representative; 24. Focal Point Biodiversity, representing the BD Thematic Group; 25. Focal Point Climate Change, representing the CC Thematic Group; 26. Focal Point Desertification, representing the Desertification Thematic Group; 27. National NCSA Project Coordinator; 28. representative of the Water and Sanitation Thematic Group; 29. Private Sector: representing CCIA Chamber of Commerce; 30. Private Sector representing the CACI Chamber of Commerce 31. Private Sector representing ANAG; 32. Representative of NGO1 33. Representative of NGO2 34. Representative of NGO3 35. UNDP Environment Advisor, representing the donors;

8 The Steering Committee may resort to the service of any person whose expertise it deems necessary in the fulfillment of its mission. 36. Representative of the Integrated Water Management Structure (GIRE);. Representatives of the following public institutions: 37. IBPA, 38. INPA, 39. Amilcar Cabral University, 40. CIPA, 41. DSRP Unit, 42. MDG Unit 43. SENAREC. Unit Annex II. Membership of NCSA-GEM Project Select Committee

1. National Project Director, Director General of the Environment, GEF Operational Focal Point, Chairperson; 2. National NCSA Project Coordinator, Secretariat of the Project Select Committee; 3. Biodiversity Focal Point and Head of the Biodiversity Thematic Group; 4. Climate Change Focal Point and Head of the Climate Change Thematic Group; 5. Desertification Control Focal Point and Head of the Desertification and Land Degradation Thematic Group; 6. Head of the Water and Sanitation Thematic Group; 7. UNDP Environment Program Advisor; 8. A Representative of the PRSP Unit also representing the Planning Secretariat; and 9. A Representative of the MDG Unit also representing the Ministry of Social Slidarity and Struggle against Poverty.

Annex III. Members of the Thematic Working Groups

A.3.1. Thematic Working Group

The Climate Change Focal Point will facilitate this working group and propose its terms of reference and membership in agreement with the Project Select Committee and NPD. The membership of the working group must include representatives of all sectors of national activity including the public and private sectors, NGOs and local communities.

A.3.2. Biodiversity Thematic Working Group

The Biodiversity Focal Point will facilitate this working group and propose its terms of reference and membership especially the partners having participated in consultations during the NSAPBD formulation process, in agreement with the Project Select Committee and NPD. The membership of the working group must include representatives of all sectors of national activity including the public and private sectors, NGOs and local communities.

A.3.3. Desertification Control Thematic Working Group

The Desertification/Land Degradation Focal Point will facilitate this working group and propose its terms of reference and membership in agreement with the Project Select Committee and NPD. The membership of the working group must include representatives of all sectors of national activity including the public and private sectors, NGOs and local communities.

A.3.4. Water & Sanitation Thematic Working Group

The Head of GIRE will facilitate this working group and propose its terms of reference and membership in agreement with the Project Select Committee and NPD. The membership of the working group must include representatives of all sectors of national activity including the public and private sectors, NGOs and local communities. Annex IV. Anchoring and Organization Chart of Guinea-Bissau NCSA Project

Minister of Natural Resources State Sec. for Planning Min. S. Solidarity, S. P. Min. Territ. Administrat°

PRSP MDG Water & Sanit.Financing

Project Steering Committee (43 Members)

Director Gen. Environment. Project Select Committee (9 Members)

National Project Coordinator Project Management Office (4 Staff)

Provincial National Biodiversity Climate Change Workshops Workshops Thematic Thematic Working (3) (4) Working Group Group

Water & Sanitation Desertification Thematic Working Control Thematic Group Working Group