AFB/PPRC.21/20 26 September 2017 Adaptation Fund Board Project and Programme Review Committee Twenty-First Meeting Bonn, Germany, 10-11 October 2017 Agenda Item 6 p) PROPOSAL FOR NAMIBIA (1) AFB/PPRC.21/20 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 (OPG, Annex 4) 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: 1. Country Eligibility, 2. Project Eligibility, 3. Resource Availability, and 4. Eligibility of NIE/MIE. 4. The fifth criterion, applied when reviewing a fully-developed project document, is: 5. Implementation Arrangements. 5. It is worth noting that since the twenty-second Board meeting, the Environmental and Social (E&S) Policy of the Fund was approved and consequently compliance with the Policy has been included in the review criteria both for concept documents and fully-developed project documents. The proposals template was revised as well, to include sections requesting demonstration of compliance of the project/programme with the E&S Policy. 6. In 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. 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. AFB/PPRC.21/20 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 “Community-based Integrated Farming System for Climate Change Adaptation” was submitted by the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN), which is the National Implementing Entity of the Adaptation Fund for Namibia. 10. This is the fourth submission of the proposal. It was first submitted as a fully-developed project document in the Board twenty-sixth meeting, and was not approved. Following the Board decision, the proponent had decided to resubmit the proposal as a project concept, which was submitted to the secretariat for the twenty-seventh meeting. However, the proposal was withdrawn following a request from the Designated Authority for Namibia, before the meeting. 11. The proposal was resubmitted in the twenty-eighth meeting as a project concept and the Board decided to: a) Endorse the project concept, as supplemented by the clarification response provided by the Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN) to the request made by the technical review; b) Request the secretariat to transmit to DRFN the observations in the review sheet annexed to the notification of the Board’s decision, as well as the following issues: (i) The fully-developed project document should elaborate on the adaptation reasoning of output 1.2., including activity 1.2.2; (ii) The fully-developed project document should confirm that an adequate water use agreement has been established with the neighbouring country for irrigation activities in the Kunene River in Angola; (iii) The fully-developed project document should ensure that the costs related to the activities of bush thinning are not overestimated, as the targeted area covered 200,000 hectares; (iv) The fully-developed project document should demonstrate the cost effectiveness of the project, with inclusion of the alternate options and their related costs; (v) The fully-developed project document should demonstrate complementarities and synergies of the project with other relevant initiatives; (vi) A comprehensive consultation process is expected at the fully-developed project document stage, in compliance with the relevant Adaptation Fund policies and guidelines; AFB/PPRC.21/20 (vii) The fully-developed project document should demonstrate that a proper environmental and social risk assessment has taken place, with adequate categorization of the project as a result of that process; c) Approve the Project Formulation Grant of US$ 30,000; d) Request DRFN to transmit the observations under item (b) to the Government of Namibia; and e) Encourage the Government of Namibia to submit through DRFN a fully- developed project proposal that would also address the observations under item (b) above. (Decision B.28/2) 12. The present submission of the fully-developed project document was received by the secretariat in time to be considered in the twenty-eighth Board meeting. The secretariat carried out a technical review of the project proposal, assigned it the diary number NAM/NIE/Agri/2015/2, and completed a review sheet. 13. In accordance with a request to the secretariat made by the Board in its 10th meeting, the secretariat shared this review sheet with DRFN, and offered it the opportunity of providing responses before the review sheet was sent to the PPRC. 14. 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, a response table is also attached, explaining where and how the observations made by the Board when endorsing the project concept at its twenty-eighth meeting had been addressed by the proponent in the fully-developed project document submitted for this meeting. The proposal is also submitted with changes between the initial submission and the revised version highlighted. AFB/PPRC.21/20 Project Summary Namibia – Community-based Integrated Farming System for Climate Change Adaptation Implementing Entity: DRFN Project/Programme Execution Cost: USD 437,734 Total Project/Programme Cost: USD 4,607,729 Implementing Fee: USD 391,657 Financing Requested: USD 4,999,386 Project Background and Context: Namibia is the driest country in Sub-Saharan Africa and has limited surface-water sources; more than 50% of water used in Namibia comes from an estimated 50,000 boreholes. The Otjozondjupa and Omaheke regions are overlain with deep Kalahari and rely solely on groundwater resources. This proposed 5-year project with a budget of USD 4,999,386 will assist vulnerable small-scale communal farmers in the Omusati and Omaheke regions of Namibia to implement daptation actions and practices that strengthen their adaptive capacities and enhance resilience of their farming system to climate variability and change. The project approaches adaptation of the agricultural and natural resource-based sector in Namibia to climate change in a holistic manner that increases production efficiency and brings value-added products to market effectively, by investing in techniques, technologies and in people. At the community level, cross-cutting concepts are integrated to make communal farming systems more adaptive to climate change and variability. The primary focus of the proposed project is to strengthen the adaptive capacities of vulnerable communities, especially women-headed households, and enhance resilience of their farming system to climate variability. Component 1: Improve ecosystem management (USD 1,378,537) This component entails the implementation of climate-smart sustainable rangeland management by vulnerable communities. This will improve the resilience of their rangeland- based ecosystem and other agricultural resources to climate variability and change. Component 2: Enhance rain-fed crop and livestock production (USD 593,152) This component entails the implementation of climate-smart dry-land production and management techniques that will enhance the adaptive capacity of their crop and livestock production systems. Higher, more efficient, and more sustainable yield of rain-fed crops and of livestock production due to climate-smart management will result, and be supported by processing, value-addition, and improved marketing of produce to improve livelihoods. Component 3: Enhance irrigated horticultural production (USD 404,481) This component aims to enhance the production of irrigated horticultural produce and achieve higher, more efficient and more sustainable yields of irrigated horticultural produce due to climate-smart management, supported by processing, value-addition and improved marketing of produce, which results in improved livelihoods.