UNDP Project Document Niger Delta Biodiversity Project
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UNDP Project Document Government of Nigeria Lead Agency: Federal Ministry of Environment Additional partners: Ministry of Niger Delta; Niger Delta Development Commission Ministry of Petroleum Resources; Oil Production Trade Sector, Lagos Chamber of Commerce United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Global Environment Facility (GEF) The GEF’s Strategic Programme for West Africa (SPWA) – Sub-component Biodiversity UNDP GEF PIMS no.: 2047 GEFSEC Project ID: 4090 Niger Delta Biodiversity Project Brief description This project’s goal is to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biological diversity in the Niger Delta. The project objective is “to mainstream biodiversity management priorities into the Niger Delta oil and gas (O&G) sector development policies and operations.” The project’s three main outcomes designed to achieve this objective are: 1) Stakeholders strengthen the governance framework of law, policy, and institutional capacity to enable the mainstreaming of biodiversity management into the O&G sector in the Niger Delta; 2) Government, the O&G industry and local communities adopt and pilot new biodiversity action planning tools for proactive biodiversity mainstreaming in the Niger Delta; 3) Stakeholders support long-term biodiversity management and the use of these new tools in the Niger Delta by capitalizing the Niger Delta Biodiversity Trust with a collaborative engagement mechanism for local communities, O&G companies and Government at its core. Each of the three outcomes of this project reflects the project’s (and UNDP’s) focus on strengthening the governance of biodiversity in the Niger Delta. By mainstreaming biodiversity into the O&G sector of the Niger Delta, the project is strengthening the governance of those resources. The geographic focus of the project is on the four core Nigerian States within the Niger Delta (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers States), which combined encompass an area of 46,420 km2 (the ‘indirect landscape mainstreaming target’). The physical footprint of the O&G company assets within this area is admitted by the industry to be 600 km2, which is considered the project’s initial ‘direct landscape mainstreaming target’ The project will bring improved biodiversity management to these areas indirectly and directly, respectively, as measured by improved state of globally significant species and ecosystems, legal and policy frameworks that incorporate biodiversity objectives, and O&G companies adopting best practice for biodiversity actions. A key result will be the establishment of a long-term funding mechanism for mainstreaming biodiversity into the O&G sector, called the Niger Delta Biodiversity Trust. PRODOC Niger Delta Biodiversity Project 1 Table of Contents SECTION I: Elaboration of the Narrative ....................................................................................................... 7 PART I: Situation Analysis ........................................................................................................................... 7 Context and global significance ........................................................................................................... 7 Background and Environmental context ................................................................................................. 7 Socio-Economic Context....................................................................................................................... 12 Institutional context ............................................................................................................................... 16 Law and policy context ......................................................................................................................... 25 Threats, Root causes and Impacts ...................................................................................................... 31 Pollution ................................................................................................................................................ 32 Habitat degradation and land-use change. ............................................................................................. 36 Over-harvesting of natural resources. ................................................................................................... 38 Invasive alien species. ........................................................................................................................... 39 Long-term solution and barriers to achieving the solution ................................................................. 39 Baseline analysis ................................................................................................................................ 45 PART II: Strategy ........................................................................................................................................ 52 Project Rationale and Policy Conformity ........................................................................................... 52 Fit with the GEF Focal Area Strategy and Strategic Programme.......................................................... 52 Rationale and summary of GEF Alternative ......................................................................................... 53 Project Goal, Objective, Outcomes and Outputs/activities ................................................................ 54 Outcome 1 ............................................................................................................................................. 54 Outcome 2 ............................................................................................................................................. 62 Outcome 3 ............................................................................................................................................. 71 Risks and Assumptions ...................................................................................................................... 79 Incremental reasoning and expected global, national and local benefits ........................................... 83 Reasoning and Summary of Benefits .................................................................................................... 83 System’s boundary ................................................................................................................................ 84 Incremental Cost Analysis .................................................................................................................... 85 Cost-effectiveness .............................................................................................................................. 87 Project consistency with national priorities/plans .............................................................................. 89 Country Ownership: Country Eligibility and Country Drivenness .................................................... 90 Sustainability and Replicability ......................................................................................................... 90 PART III: Management Arrangements ..................................................................................................... 92 Implementation Arrangements ........................................................................................................... 92 Project Oversight ................................................................................................................................ 93 Project Management ........................................................................................................................... 94 PART IV: Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and Budget ......................................................................... 95 Monitoring and reporting ................................................................................................................... 95 Inception Phase ..................................................................................................................................... 95 Quarterly ............................................................................................................................................... 96 Annually ................................................................................................................................................ 96 Periodic Monitoring through site visits ................................................................................................. 97 Mid-term of project cycle ...................................................................................................................... 97 End of Project ........................................................................................................................................ 97 Learning and knowledge sharing .......................................................................................................... 98 PART V: Legal Context ............................................................................................................................... 99 SECTION II: STRATEGIC RESULTS FRAMEWORK (SRF) AND GEF INCREMENT ................... 100 PART I: Strategic Results Framework, SRF (formerly GEF Logical Framework) Analysis ............. 100 Indicator framework as part of the SRF ........................................................................................... 100 SECTION III: Total Budget and Workplan