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Proposal for Iran, Republic Islamic Of AFB/PPRC.24/16 27 February, 2019 Adaptation Fund Board Project and Programme Review Committee Twenty-Fourth Meeting Bonn, Germany, 12-13 March, 2019 Agenda Item 9.i PROPOSAL FOR IRAN, REPUBLIC ISLAMIC OF AFB/PPRC.24/16 Background 1. The Operational Policies and Guidelines (OPG) for Parties to Access Resources from the Adaptation Fund (the Fund), adopted by the Adaptation Fund Board (the Board), state in paragraph 45 that regular adaptation project and programme proposals, i.e. those that request funding exceeding US$ 1 million, would undergo either a one-step, or a two-step approval process. In case of the one-step process, the proponent would directly submit a fully-developed project proposal. In the two-step process, the proponent would first submit a brief project concept, which would be reviewed by the Project and Programme Review Committee (PPRC) and would have to receive the endorsement of the Board. In the second step, the fully- developed project/programme document would be reviewed by the PPRC, and would ultimately require the Board’s approval. 2. The Templates approved by the Board (Annex 5 of the OPG, as amended in March 2016) do not include a separate template for project and programme concepts but provide that these are to be submitted using the project and programme proposal template. The section on Adaptation Fund Project Review Criteria states: For regular projects using the two-step approval process, only the first four criteria will be applied when reviewing the 1st step for regular project concept. In addition, the information provided in the 1st step approval process with respect to the review criteria for the regular project concept could be less detailed than the information in the request for approval template submitted at the 2nd step approval process. Furthermore, a final project document is required for regular projects for the 2nd step approval, in addition to the approval template. 3. The first four criteria mentioned above are: (i) Country Eligibility, (ii) Project Eligibility, (iii) Resource Availability, and (iv) Eligibility of NIE/MIE. 4. The fifth criterion, applied when reviewing a fully-developed project document, is: (v) Implementation Arrangements. 5. It is worth noting that at the twenty-second Board meeting, the Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) of the Fund was approved and at the twenty-seventh Board meeting, the Gender Policy (GP) of the Fund was also approved. Consequently, compliance with both the ESP and the GP has been included in the review criteria both for concept documents and fully-developed project documents. The proposal template was revised as well, to include sections requesting demonstration of compliance of the project/programme with the ESP and the GP. 6. At its seventeenth meeting, the Board decided (Decision B.17/7) to approve “Instructions for preparing a request for project or programme funding from the Adaptation Fund”, contained in the Annex to document AFB/PPRC.8/4, which further outlines applicable review criteria for both concepts and fully-developed proposals. The latest version of this document was launched in conjunction with the revision of the Operational Policies and Guidelines in November 2013. 2 AFB/PPRC.24/16 7. Based on the Board Decision B.9/2, the first call for project and programme proposals was issued and an invitation letter to eligible Parties to submit project and programme proposals to the Fund was sent out on April 8, 2010. 8. According to the Board Decision B.12/10, a project or programme proposal needs to be received by the secretariat no less than nine weeks before a Board meeting, in order to be considered by the Board in that meeting. 9. The following fully-developed project document titled “Reducing vulnerability to climate change in the Lake Bakhtegan Basin” was submitted for Iran, Republic Islamic of by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is a Multilateral Implementing Entity of the Adaptation Fund. 10. This is the second submission of the proposal using the one-step submission process. It was first submitted to the thirty-second Board meeting, but was withdrawn by the proponent following the initial review of the secretariat. 11. The current submission was received by the secretariat in time to be considered in the thirty-third Board meeting. The secretariat carried out a technical review of the project proposal, assigned it the diary number IRN/MIE/Water/2018/1, and completed a review sheet. 12. In accordance with a request to the secretariat made by the Board in its 10th meeting, the secretariat shared this review sheet with UNDP, and offered it the opportunity of providing responses before the review sheet was sent to the PPRC. 13. The secretariat is submitting to the PPRC the summary and, pursuant to decision B.17/15, the final technical review of the project, both prepared by the secretariat, along with the final submission of the proposal in the following section. In accordance with decision B.25.15, the proposal is submitted with changes between the initial submission and the revised version highlighted. 3 AFB/PPRC.24/16 Project Summary Iran, Islamic Republic of – Reducing vulnerability to climate change in the Lake Bakhtegan Basin Implementing Entity: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Project/Programme Execution Cost: 829,839 USD Total Project/Programme Cost: 9,092,766 USD Implementing Fee: 772,885 USD Financing Requested: 9,865,651 USD Project Background and Context Iran is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. It is a country with arid and semi-arid areas, limited water availability, low forest cover, liable to drought and desertification, prone to floods, high urban atmospheric pollution, and fragile mountainous ecosystems. The objective of the proposed project is to increase the resilience of communities and the natural environment of the Bakhtegan Basin to climate variability and change through integrated landscape management. Component 1: A data and information management system for decision support and communications is developed and implemented to support development of long-term climate resilience in the Bakhtegan basin (USD 1,080,277) This component will focus on enhanced management and processing of relevant climate, hydrological, land use and other identified data and information aimed at supporting decision making and actions that enhance the climate resilience of the Bakhtegan Basin. Component 2: The resilience of communities in the Bakhtegan Basin is strengthened through implementation of climate smart agriculture and alternative livelihoods (USD 3,049,300) This component will focus on the development and implementation of climate smart agriculture and alternative livelihood practices which are aimed towards achieving significant reductions in the demand for, and pressure on, land and water resources in the Bakhtegan Basin. Component 3: The resilience of the natural environment of the Bakhtegan Basin is strengthened (USD 3,572,630) This component will focus on implementation of a range of soil and water conservation measures in rangelands and forests; and the rehabilitation and conservation of national parks and protected areas. Component 4: Institutional Capacity at the local, regional and national level is strengthened for improved governance and decision making in relation to climate risk management and effective implementation of adaptation measures (USD 560,720) 4 AFB/PPRC.24/16 This component will implement comprehsneive communications, education and capacity building programme on climate resilience and will form a Basin Council to facilitate the long-term sustainable and climate resilient management of the Bakhtegan Basin. 5 AFB/PPRC.24/16 ADAPTATION FUND BOARD SECRETARIAT TECHNICAL REVIEW OF PROJECT/PROGRAMME PROPOSAL PROJECT/PROGRAMME CATEGORY: Full Proposal _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Country/Region: Iran, Islamic Republic of Project Title: Reducing vulnerability to climate change in the Lake Bakhtegan Basin Thematic Focal Area: Water Management Implementing Entity: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) AF Project ID: IRN/MIE/Water/2018/1 IE Project ID: Requested Financing from Adaptation Fund (US Dollars): 9,865,651 Reviewer and contact person: Mr. Hugo Remaury Co-reviewer(s): Mr. Dirk Lamberts IE Contact Person: Mr. Reis Lopez Rello Review Questions Comments January 22, 2019 Comments February 14, 2019 Criteria 1. Is the country Yes. party to the Kyoto Protocol? 2. Is the country a Yes. Country developing country Eligibility particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change? Project 1. Has the No. The letter of endorsement, dated Eligibility designated August 2018, is signed by a different 6 AFB/PPRC.24/16 government person than the DA listed on the AF authority for the website. Adaptation Fund endorsed the CR1: Please provide an official letter by CR1: Addressed. project/program the DA, or a letter officially nominating the me? signatory as the DA. 2. Does the length No. of the proposal amount to no CAR1: Please reduce the length of the CAR1: Addressed. more than Fifty main text and its annex to a maximum of pages for the 100 pages each. project/program me concept, including its annexes; or One hundred pages for the fully- developed project document, and one hundred pages for its annexes? 3. Does the project Potentially. / programme support concrete Despite the additional information adaptation provided, the link between the expected actions to assist climate scenarios and the proposed the country in interventions is still missing. Indeed, addressing according to the information currently adaptive provided, the conditions of the target capacity to the region appear to be more the 7 AFB/PPRC.24/16 adverse effects consequences of past and on-going of climate mismanagement of water resources in a change and complex governance environment than of build in climate climate change. resilience? CR2: Please highlight further the role of CR2: Addressed, as per the information provided in the climate change in the current conditions response sheet, although the description of the observed in the region.
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