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United Nations Development Programme Country: Lao PDR PROJECT DOCUMENT Project Title: • Improving the Resilience of the Agriculture Sector in Lao PDR to Climate Change Impacts UNDAF Lao PDR 2007 - 2011 (June 2006) Outcome: • By 2011, the livelihoods of poor, vulnerable and food insecure populations are enhanced through sustainable development (within the MDG framework) UNDP Strategic Plan Environment and Sustainable Development Primary Outcome: • Promote climate change adaptation UNDP Strategic Plan Secondary Outcome: 1. Strengthened capacity of developing countries to mainstream climate change adaptation policies into national development plans Expected CP 7 (March 2007) Outcome: • Outcome 2: Pro-poor planning mechanisms, harmonization of aid coordination and disaster management Expected CPAP Output: • Capacities on sustainable land management, drought and flood preparedness enhanced through participatory adaptation and monitoring activities in selected provinces Executing Entity/Implementing Partner: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, MAF, Vientiane, Lao PDR Implementing Entity/Responsible Partners: National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, NAFRI Conceptual Summary (brief description next page) The NAPA follow-up project realizes improved resilience of the agriculture sector to Climate Change impacts through four distinct outcomes, which in itself form a logical sequence of components, envisaging future replication 1. Knowledge Management 2. Capacity Building 3. Community-based agricultural adaptation practice 4. Adaptation learning Each outcome has a significant stand-alone value, at the same time additional benefits accrue through close integration of the four components. Programme Period: 2011-2014 Total resources required $ 12,163,998 Atlas Award ID: 00060492 Total allocated resources: $ 12,163,998 Project ID: 00076176 PIMS # _________3868 a) LCDF $ 4,445,450 Start date: January 2011 End Date December 2014 Co-financing b) Government Lao PDR Management Arrangements NIM (In-kind) $ 378,320 (Parallel) $ 4,764,969 PAC Meeting Date November 2010 UNDP (Parallel) $ 2,575,259 Total Co-financing $ 7,718,548 Agreed by (Executing Entity/Implementing Partner): Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Lao PDR / National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI) Date/Month/Year Agreed by (UNDP): Date/Month/Year Lao PDR Resilience Agriculture Sector Climate Change – NAPA follow up Page 1 Brief Description The land-locked country of Lao PDR is highly exposed and vulnerable to flooding and drought. These impacts are being induced by observable changes in the climate including higher than usual intensity rainfall events during the raining season and extended dry seasons. The related risks include sudden flash-floods, landslides and large-scale land-erosion on slopes and - recently - typhoons in the south. These events can be very destructive not only altering the landscape, fauna and vegetation, but also destroying public infrastructure, property, productive land, agricultural assets and harvests. The people of Lao PDR are particularly vulnerable to climate change because 80% of livelihoods are associated with some form of agricultural activity. Furthermore poor farmers have a limited asset base and lack access to support provided by the state. Furthermore recent market forces, mainly through external investors and tourism, have started to re-structure agricultural production towards large scale monoculture farming and away from more traditional subsistence smallholder farming. The overall effect has been to delink long established interdependencies between farming and ecosystems, to reduce diversity in crop varieties and production techniques, leading to even greater vulnerability to climate risks. In order to promote resilience in the agricultural sector Lao PDR needs assistance in improving the knowledge base on climate change, strengthening agriculture and rural sector policies and developing institutional capacities so that systematic adaptation planning can be carried out. At the same time appropriate and adaptive agricultural practices need to be introduced on the ground together with measures to introduce alternative livelihood options for poor rural communities. There are numerous barriers to achieving these objectives. Climate risks (both immediate and long term) are not well integrated into rural and agricultural development policies. Agricultural extension services are ill equipped to advise farmers on how to improve resilience in practical and cost effective ways. Information on climate risks is not readily available and few people in government and within other institutions have the skills to interpret this information for decision makers. Furthermore there is insufficient understand of the way in which poor farmers are already coping with climate risks and the nature of the support that they need to increase their resilience except in quite general terms. In order to promote resilience in the agricultural sector and enable informed decision-making, the existing knowledge base on climate change and impacts in Lao PDR will be strengthened, specifically as it relates to agricultural production, food security and vulnerability. The capacities of sectoral planners at national, provincial, district kumban levels will be strengthened to understand and address climate change related risks to local food production. Community-based adaptive agricultural practices and off-farm income generating opportunities will be demonstrated to farmers and communities in 3 provinces and 5 districts. Adaptation monitoring and learning as a long-term process will assure that lessons learnt do benefit the local population, as well as national policies and international Climate Change adaptation efforts. Lao PDR Resilience Agriculture Sector Climate Change – NAPA follow up Page 2 Contents List of Acronyms and Abbreviations ........................................................................................... 4 List of Annexes .......................................................................................................................... 6 1. Situation analysis .............................................................................................................. 7 1.1 Climate change - induced problem ................................................................................................ 7 1.2 Origins and underlying causes for climate change effects ............................................................. 9 1.3 Long-term solutions to achieving the solution .............................................................................. 12 1.4 Barriers to overcome ................................................................................................................... 16 1.5 Stakeholder baseline analysis ..................................................................................................... 18 2. Strategy ........................................................................................................................... 22 2.1 Project rationale and policy conformity ........................................................................................ 22 2.2 Consistency of project with objectives and priorities of GEF / NAPA............................................ 23 2.3 Country ownership: country eligibility and country driven-ness ................................................... 24 2.4 Design principles and strategic considerations ............................................................................ 27 2.7 Project Objective, Outcomes and Outputs/activities ..................................................................... 31 2.8. Key indicators, risks and assumptions ......................................................................................... 42 2.9 Cost-effectiveness ........................................................................................................................ 43 2.10 Sustainability .............................................................................................................................. 44 2.11 Replicability ................................................................................................................................ 45 2.12 Stakeholder involvement plan .................................................................................................... 46 3. Results Framework ......................................................................................................... 47 Applicable SOF (e.g. GEF) Strategic Objective and Program: ............................................................................ 47 Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) National Adaptation Programmes Of Action (NAPA) ........................ 47 4. Total Budget and Workplan .................................................................................................. 52 5. Management Arrangements ................................................................................................. 58 5.1 Project executive and implementing partner (GoL): ...................................................................... 58 5.2 Project organogram: ..................................................................................................................... 58 Executive ............................................................................................................................................................ 60 Senior Beneficiary .............................................................................................................................................