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United Nations Development Programme Country: Belarus PROJECT DOCUMENT Project Title: Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation into Territorial Planning Policies and Practices UNDP Strategic Plan Environment and Sustainable Development Primary Outcome: Mainstreaming environment and energy Expected CP Outcome(s)/Indicator(s): Programme Component 3: Environmental Sustainability; Outcome 11: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, protected areas and other commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity and other multilateral environmental agreements integrated into national governance and production systems (including social, economic and policy frameworks such as MDGs, NSSEDS and key sectors such as agriculture, forestry, energy, and flood control) Expected CPAP Output(s)/Indicator(s): Protected areas, hectares Implementing partner: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (MNREP) Brief Description The project objective is to mainstream biodiversity conservation priorities into Belarus’ territorial planning policies and practices. The project will remove systemic, regulatory and knowledge barriers to mainstreaming biodiversity conservation into territorial planning. The objective will be achieved through two outcomes: i) Enabling regulatory, policy and institutional framework for land-use planning that reflects biodiversity considerations outside protected areas, and ii) Tested models for development and enforcement of biodiversity-compatible land-use plans at the district levels. The immediate global biodiversity benefits include enhanced ecosystem integrity outside PAs in 10 administrative districts (approximately 2 million hectares). In the long-term, taking into account the sought replication effect, the project will ensure the long-term integrity of fragile ecosystems over 36% of the country. Programme Period: 2006-2010 Total budget 8,055,300 Atlas Award ID: 00058307 Total allocated resources: 8,055,300 Atlas Project ID: 00072384 o GEF 971,000 PIMS: 3985 o MNREP 100,000 Start date: November 2009 o State Committee on Property 2,200,000 End Date: December 2013 o Ministry of Forestry 4,784,300 LPAC Meeting Date: t.b.d Management Arrangements: NEX Agreed by (Government): NAME SIGNATURE Date/Month/Year Agreed by (Executing Entity/Implementing Partner): NAME SIGNATURE Date/Month/Year Agreed by (UNDP): NAME SIGNATURE Date/Month/Year (August 09) 1 of 89 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................................................... 3 1. SITUATION ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................................................ 4 1.1 GEOGRAPHIC AND BIODIVERSITY CONTEXT ..................................................................................................... 4 1.2 STATUS OF BIODIVERSITY OUTSIDE PROTECTED AREAS .................................................................................. 4 1.3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT.............................................................................................................................. 5 1.4 KEY DRIVERS OF THE LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OUTSIDE PROTECTED AREAS ...... 6 1.5 LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE PRESERVATION OF RARE SPECIES AND ECOSYSTEMS .... 8 1.6 TERRITORIAL PLANNING AS AN ENTRY POINT FOR MAINSTREAMING BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ......... 12 1.7 DESIRED LONG-TERM SOLUTION ..................................................................................................................... 13 1.8 BARRIERS TO ACHIEVING THE DESIRED LONG-TERM SOLUTION .................................................................... 13 2. PROJECT STRATEGY ........................................................................................................................................ 14 2.1 CONFORMITY WITH GEF POLICY ................................................................................................................... 14 2.2 COUNTRY OWNERSHIP: COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY AND COUNTRY DRIVEN-NESS ........................................... 15 2.3 PROJECT GOAL, OBJECTIVE, OUTCOMES AND OUTPUTS ............................................................................... 15 2.4 KEY INDICATORS, RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS ................................................................................................ 21 2.5 INCREMENTAL COST ASSESSMENT ................................................................................................................. 22 2.6 COST-EFFECTIVENESS ..................................................................................................................................... 24 2.7 SUSTAINABILITY .............................................................................................................................................. 25 2.8 REPLICABILITY ................................................................................................................................................ 25 3. PROJECT RESULTS FRAMEWORK .............................................................................................................. 27 4. MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS ............................................................................................................... 31 4.1 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS ................................................................................................................... 31 4.2 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS ............................................................................................... 31 4.3 AUDIT ARRANGEMENTS .................................................................................................................................. 33 4.4 COORDINATION WITH OTHER RELATED INITIATIVES...................................................................................... 33 4.5 USE OF INSTITUTIONAL LOGOS ON PROJECT DELIVERABLES ......................................................................... 34 5. MONITORING FRAMEWORK AND EVALUATION.................................................................................. 35 5.1 PROJECT START ................................................................................................................................................ 35 5.2 QUARTERLY ..................................................................................................................................................... 35 5.3 ANNUALLY ...................................................................................................................................................... 36 5.4 PERIODIC MONITORING THROUGH SITE VISITS .............................................................................................. 36 5.5 MID-TERM OF PROJECT CYCLE ........................................................................................................................ 36 5.6 END OF PROJECT .............................................................................................................................................. 36 5.7 LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING .......................................................................................................... 37 6 LEGAL CONTEXT ............................................................................................................................................... 38 7. ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................................................ 39 (August 09) 2 of 89 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS APR Annual Project Review ATLAS UNDP’s Enterprise Resources Platform AWP Annual Work Plan CO Country Office CP (UNDP) Country Programme CPAP (UNDP) Country Programme Action Plan Dept. Department EIA Environmental Impact Assessment FSC Forest Stewardship Council GEF Global Environment Facility GOB Government of Belarus Ha Hectares IC Incremental cost IR Inception Report IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature IW Inception Workshop LPAC Local Project Appraisal Committee M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MNREP Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection MSP Medium Size Project NAP National Action Plan NEX National Execution NGO Non-government Organization NPM National Project Manager PAs Protected Areas PB Project Board PBM Project Board Meeting PIMS Project Information Management System PIR Project Implementation Review PIU Project Implementation Unit PPG Project Preparation Grant PSC Project Steering Committee RCU Regional Coordination Unit SBAA Standard Basic Assistance Agreement SO Strategic Objective SP Strategic Priority SRF Strategic Results Framework TORs Terms of Reference TPR Tri-partite Review TTR Terminal Tri-partite Review UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance Framework UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNDP-CO United Nations Development Programme – Country Office UNDP-GEF United Nations Development Programme – Global Environment Facility Unit UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change USD United States Dollar (August 09) 3 of 89 1. SITUATION ANALYSIS 1.1 Geographic and biodiversity context 1. Belarus is a land-locked country situated along the Western Dvina and Dnieper Rivers. It is bordered to the west by Poland, north by Latvia and Lithuania, east by Russia, and south by Ukraine. The total land area of 207,598 square kilometers is divided into 6 regions (oblasts) – Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel,