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with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for Republic of Chad 29 December 2019 | Strategic Frameworks Programme title: Strengthening capacities and partnerships for assessing mitigation and adaptation opportunities and enabling their implementation in the forestry and land use sectors in the context of the Great Green Wall (GGW), Chad Country: Chad National designated authority: Ministry of Environment, Water and Fisheries Implementing Institution: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Date of first submission: 28 April 2017 Date of current submission / 13 December 2019 V.5 version number Readiness and Preparatory Support Page 2 of 26 How to complete this document? - Please visit the Empowering Countries page of the GCF website to download the Readiness Guidebook and learn how to access funding under the GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme. - This document should be completed by National Designated Authorities (NDA) or focal points with support from their Delivery Partners where relevant. Once completed, this document should be submitted to the GCF by the NDA or focal point to [email protected]. - Please be concise. If you need to include any additional information, please attach it to the proposal. - If the Delivery Partner implementing the Readiness support is not a GCF Accredited Entity for project Funding Proposals, please complete the Financial Management Capacity Assessment (FMCA) questionnaire and submit it prior to or with this Readiness proposal. The FMCA is available for download at the Library page of the GCF website. Where to get support? - If you are not sure how to complete this document, or require support, please send an e-mail to [email protected]. - You can also complete as much of this document as you can and then send it to [email protected], copying both the Readiness Delivery Partner and the relevant GCF Country Dialogue Specialist and Regional Advisor. Please refer to the Country Profiles page of the GCF website to identify the relevant GCF Country Dialogue Specialist and Regional Advisor. - We will get back to you within five (5) working days to acknowledge receipt of your submission and discuss the way forward. Note: Environmental and Social Safeguards and Gender Throughout this document, when answering questions and providing details, please make sure to pay special attention to environmental, social and gender issues, particularly to the situation of vulnerable populations, including women and men. Please be specific about proposed actions to address these issues. Consult Annex IV of the Readiness Guidebook for more information. Please submit the completed form to: [email protected] Please use the following naming convention for the file name: “GCF Readiness Proposal-[Country]-[yymmdd]” Readiness and Preparatory Support Page 3 of 26 1. SUMMARY Country name: Chad Name of institution representing NDA Ministry of Environment, water and or Focal Point: Fisheries Name of contact person: Mr. Ibrahim Charfadine Abdelkerim Contact person’s position: Focal Point for the GCF Country submitting the Telephone number: +(235)63110507 proposal Email: [email protected] Ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Eau et de Full office address: la Pêche N’Djaména/Tchad Additional email addresses that need [email protected] to be copied on correspondences: [email protected] Date of initial 28 April 2017 submission Last date of 13 December 2019 Version number V.5 resubmission ☐ National designated authority ☒ Accredited entity ☒ Delivery partner Food and Agriculture Organization of the Name of institution: United Nations Name of official: Mr. Alexander Jones Which institution Director, Climate and Environment Division Position: will implement the (CBC) Readiness and Preparatory Telephone number: (+39) 06 5705 2331 Support project? [email protected]; CBC- Email: [email protected] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Full office address: Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy [email protected] Additional email addresses that need [email protected] to be copied on correspondences: [email protected] [email protected] Title of the Strengthening capacities and partnerships for assessing mitigation and adaptation Readiness opportunities and enabling their implementation in the forestry and land use sectors in support proposal the context of the Great Green Wall (GGW). ☐ I. Country capacity for engagement with GCF ☒ II. Country programming process Type of III. Direct access to climate finance Readiness ☐ ☒ IV. Climate finance accessed support sought ☐ V. Formulation of national adaptation planning and/or other adaptation planning processes Readiness and Preparatory Support Page 4 of 26 Chad is extremely affected by the impacts of climate change, in particular rising temperatures and prolonged drought, and is ranked as 180 over 181 as most vulnerable to climate change impacts and less ready to address them1. In order to address this threat, Chad has identified, through its Country Programme, the land-use and forest sector (LULUCF) as one of the priority areas for future investments aimed at mitigation and adaptation to climate change. This Readiness proposal builds on the broader national planning targeting the land use sector and forestry, and in particular on the Great Green Wall Strategy that was developed for Chad. In fact, Chad has developed with FAO’s support its national GGW strategy and action plan in 2012 2 and has identified broad priorities for interventions. To this day, the only activities undertaken by the GGW initiative mainly focused on awareness raising of communities and preliminary data gathering to identify intervention priorities and GGW geographic areas in the country. It is also important to mention that this strategy was developed before Chad had been able to formulate its NDCs and received little resources to achieve implementation of the strategy and action plan. Chad is, in fact, facing a number of barriers that limit its capacity to implement and mobilize resources to support identified interventions to address climate change impacts in the land use and forestry sector including: • Lack of national data on climate change impacts, benchmark data and emission reduction opportunities in the LULUCF sector, complementing the initial data generated by the GGW initiative; • Low capacity and limited inter-sectoral dialogue between the different institutions and entities at the institutional and regional level that are and may be involved in the identified priority adaptation and mitigation measures on climate change and forest sector issues and land management, in particular with regard to the GGW; Brief summary of • Lack of knowledge and dissemination of climate change mitigation and the request adaptation good practices in the sector; • Low commitment and interest of the private sector in adaptation and mitigation interventions in the forest and land use sector. This readiness proposal for Chad, as it is being the case for the 3 other readiness projects developed under the Great Green Wall (approved and under implementation in Burkina Faso, Senegal and submitted for Niger) will address the above mentioned barriers, first step to prepare and enable these GGW countries to feed, inform and contribute to the formulation and implementation process of the Multi-country project under development (Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall) and in alignment with the priorities identified in the Country Programme. This will allow the creation of an enabling environment for Chad to successfully invest in future climate change related diversified ininitiatives (what and where and by whom) to be prioritized and to define the national activities as part of the update of GGW strategy and the the regional multicountry project under formulation. Indeed this proposed Readiness project will support the GGW agency and the ministry to : 1) Identify and support training and knowledge sharing among stakeholders on climate change impacts and potential interventions in the land use and forestry sector; 2) Generate the required evidence-based data for baseline scenario of targeted climate change adaptation and/or mitigation interventions; 3) Identify adaptation and mitigation technologies in the LULUCF sector and assess their feasibility to adjust the priority interventions that the country has identified in its GGW strategy and to demonstrate their relevance in the regional Scaling-up resilience GGW project; 4) Assess opportunities for collaboration and engagement with the private sector to strengthen their role and support climate finance in Chad including the upcoming regional project (Sacling-up Resilience in the Great Green Wall). While this Readiness proposal will achieve the four pillars of intervention as described above, and is specific and tailored to tackle Chad’s specifities, it will also build on the Readiness and Preparatory Support Page 5 of 26 lessons learnt from the Readiness project under implementation in Burkina Faso and Senegal and in synergy with other GCF readiness projects and actions in other GGW countries. Total requested USD 359,903 Anticipated duration 18 months amount and currency ☒ Yes ☐ No Has the country received or is expecting to receive other Readiness and Preparatory Chad has received USD 300 000 from the GCF in February Support funding allocations (including 2017 for Readiness, with the Le Centre De Suivi Ecologique adaptation planning) from