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FAO/GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY PROJECT DOCUMENT Project Title: Integrated Sustainable Land and Coastal Management FAO Project symbol: GCP/VAN/001/GFF (entity number: 622863) GEF Project ID: 5397 Recipient Country(ies): Vanuatu Executing partners: Ministries of Climate Change; Lands and Natural Resources; Agriculture, Quarantine, Forestry and Fisheries Expected EOD (Starting 1 November 2016 Date): Expected NTE (End Date): 31 October 2021 Contribution to FAO’s a. Strategic objective/Organizational Result: SO2: Increase and improve Strategic Framework: provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a (Indicate as appropriate) sustainable manner. Organizational Outcomes 1 and 2, b. Regional Result/Priority Areas: Fostering agricultural production and rural development Enhancing equitable, productive and sustainable natural resource management and utilization c. Country Programming Framework Outcome: Contribution to GEF TF Biodiversity (BD-1) – Improve sustainability of protected area systems Focal Area Strategic Land Degradation (LD-3) - Integrated Landscapes: Reduce pressures on Objectives and Programs: natural resources from competing land uses in the wider landscape Climate Change Mitigation (CCM-5) – Promote conservation and enhancement of carbon stocks through sustainable management of land use, land use change, and forestry International Waters (IW-3) - Sustainable Forest Management (SFM-1) - Reduce pressures on forest resources and generate sustainable flows of forest ecosystem services Sustainable Forest Management (SFM-2) - Environmental and Social low risk moderate risk √ high risk Risk Classification Gender Marker G0 G1 √ G2a G2b Financing Plan: GEF/LDCF/SCCF allocation: USD 4 605 680 Co-financing: FAO (grant) 1 175 000 FAO (in-kind) 600 000 ACIAR1 (grant) 571 516 VANGO2 (grant) 650 000 VANGO (i-kind) 5 000 Live &Learn Vanuatu(in-kind) 20 000 The Pacific Community (SPC) (grant) 1 354 597 Vanuatu Government (grant) 10 000 000 Vanuatu Government (in-kind) 500 000 New York Botanical Garden (grant) 414 445 Sub-total co-financing: 15 290 558 Total budget: USD 19 896 238 1 Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research 2 Vanuatu Association of Non-Governmental Organisations. 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project forms part of the regional ridge to reef (R2R) programme “Pacific Islands Ridge-to-Reef National Priorities: Integrated Water, Land, Forest and Coastal Management to Preserve Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, Store Carbon, Improve Climate Resilience and Sustain Livelihoods”. It will promote the integrated management of watersheds and associated landscapes in four main project localities in such a way as to deliver multifocal (BD-1, LD-3, CCM-5, IW-3, SFM-1 & SFM-2) benefits. Its three components will focus on 1) Improving the enabling environment for integrated sustainable land and coastal management, by mainstreaming integrated R2R considerations mainstreamed into sector development policies, strengthening environmental planning and decision-making processes so that they take integrated R2R considerations into account, and increasing the availability of financial resources from sources such as the tourism sector to environmental conservation and PA management; 2) Field level support to integrated ridge to reef management in priority island localities; through the facilitation of multi-stakeholder participatory planning and governance, the promotion of production systems compatible with the maintenance of ecosystem goods and services, the direct restoration of degraded areas, the strengthening and expansion of community-based PAs and associated buffer zones and corridors, and the strengthening of local finance mechanisms; and 3) Knowledge management, including the systematization and dissemination of best practices and lessons learned, support to decision-making and planning guided by information on trends in ecosystem conditions, and effective M&E in support of adaptive project management. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ............................................................................................... 6 SECTION 1 – PROJECT RATIONALE ............................................................................................ 9 1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT CONTEXT .................................................................. 9 1.1.1 Background ................................................................................................. 9 1.1.2 General geographical context .................................................................... 9 1.1.3 Population and development levels .......................................................... 9 Figure 1. Population trends by province, 1989-2009 ............................................... 10 1.1.4 Climate ...................................................................................................... 10 1.1.5 Biodiversity ............................................................................................... 10 Figure 2. Location of Vanuatu within the East Melanesian Islands Conservation Hotspot 10 1.1.6 Forest resources ........................................................................................ 15 Figure 3. Distribution of major forest types for Vanuatu as defined by the VANRIS system 16 1.1.7 Land Tenure and Governance .................................................................. 18 1.1.8 Economy and Natural Resource-Based Production Sectors .................... 20 Figure 4. Contribution of primary sectors to GDP .................................................... 20 Figure 5. Growth in Tourist Arrivals 2006-2012 ....................................................... 24 Figure 6. Projected trends in the economic impact of cruise ship tourism in Vanuatu 25 1.1.9 Institutional framework ........................................................................... 26 1.1.10 Policy, Strategic and Planning Framework ............................................ 27 1.1.11 Legislative Framework ............................................................................ 31 1.1.12 Land Use Planning and Environmental Decision Making ...................... 32 1.1.13 Protected Areas Frameworks ................................................................. 33 1.2 TARGET LOCATIONS .............................................................................................. 34 Figure 7. Locations of target areas ............................................................................ 34 1.2.1 Justifications for selection ........................................................................... 34 1.2.2 Characterisation of the target localities ..................................................... 36 Figure 8. Aneityum target locality ............................................................................ 36 Figure 9. Forest types on Aneityum .......................................................................... 37 Figure 10. Middle Bush target locality, Tanna ............................................................ 40 Figure 11. South Pentecost target locality ................................................................. 46 Figure 12. Gaua target locality .................................................................................... 47 1.3 THE CURRENT SITUATION ..................................................................................... 48 1.3.1 Main environmental threats ....................................................................... 48 Figure 13. Results from the 1990-2000 gross deforestation assessment and forest cover mapping exercise completed for Vanuatu .......................................................... 48 Figure 14. Schematic of land-use model for South Pentecost, showing relationship of disturbed areas to intact forest (Dark Bush) and directional pathways to either increasing or decreasing similarity to Dark Bush. ......................................................... 51 1.3.2 Baseline initiatives ....................................................................................... 54 3 1.3.3 Remaining barriers to address the environmental threats ....................... 55 1.4. THE GEF ALTERNATIVE ............................................................................................ 60 1.4.1 Development objective, project objective and components .................... 60 1.4.2 Strategies ..................................................................................................... 60 1.4.3 Outcomes and outputs: ............................................................................... 61 Box 2. Kava and environmental services on Pentecost: an example of the potential implications of policy influence ..................................................................................... 63 Box 3. Example to date of community-based norms on marine resource management .................................................................................................................. 71 Box 4. Restoration experiences to date on Aneityum ............................................. 78 Box 5. The Nakau Programme .................................................................................. 90 Global environmental benefits ............................................................................ 94 1.4.4 Assumptions .............................................................................................. 96 1.4.5 Stakeholder consultation and engagement ............................................