Socio-Enviromental Management in Municipalities of Pará Project
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Effectiveness Evaluation Report Socio-enviromental Management in Municipalities of Pará Project June/2017 This report presents the efectiveness evaluation results of the project supported by the Amazon Fund, called "Socio-environmental management in municipalities of Pará", which was concluded in 2014. This evaluation was carried out by a team of independent consultants, under the coordination of technical cooperation between BNDES and German Cooperation for Sustainable Development through GIZ. All opinions expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the authors, not necessarily relecting the position of GIZ and BNDES. This document has not been subject to editorial review. ©DeutscheGesellschatfürInternationaleZusammenarbeit(GIZ)GmbH. BancoNacionaldeDesenvolvimentoEconômicoeSocial–BNDES–2017 Evaluation Team Bernardo Anache Heliandro Torres Maia Leandro Beser Monika Röper Design Helise Oliveira Gomes Reproduction of this text and the data contained therein is allowed, provided the source is acknowledged. Reproductions for commercial purposes are prohibited Summary Executive Summary ..........................................................................................................6 Cross-Cutting Criteria .......................................................................................................9 1. Background ...................................................................................................................11 2. Introduction .................................................................................................................14 3. Methodology ................................................................................................................ 15 4. Results ..........................................................................................................................16 4.1. General Objective (Monitoring and Control Component): Government and nongovernmental actions in 11 municipalities in the state of Pará ensure the fight against deforestation and environmental regularization of properties in compliance with environmental legislation .....................................................................................................17 4.2. General Objective (Territorial Planning Component): 11 municipalities in the state of Pará with regular land tenure contributing to land-use planning ....................................26 4.3. General Objective (Sustainable Productive Activities Component): Deforested and degraded areas in the Uraim River Basin recovered for economic and conservation purposes.................................................................................................................................28 5. Counterfactual analysis in the municipality of Acará ..............................................30 5.1. Environmental management in Acará ...........................................................................30 6. Project management and monitoring ...................................................................... 31 7. Conclusions...................................................................................................................32 8. Recommendations ......................................................................................................34 9. Lessons Learned ...........................................................................................................36 10. References ..................................................................................................................37 11. Annexes .......................................................................................................................38 11.1. Cancun Safeguards ........................................................................................................38 11.2. The executor of the project: Institute of People and Environment of the Amazon (Imazon) .................................................................................................................................46 11.3. Supported municipalities and situation in the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) 47 11.4. Economic profile of municipalities supported by the project and municipality for counterfactual analysis (@Cidades, IBGE, 2010-2014). ......................................................48 11.5. Data of the municipalities of the project and of Control for Selection of the municipalities for Field Mission ............................................................................................51 11.6. Map - List of priority municipalities for actions to control and monitor deforestation in the Legal Amazon .............................................................................................................. 52 11.7. List of interviewees ........................................................................................................ 53 11.8. Term of Reference (ToR) ...............................................................................................54 Lists of Charts, Boxes, Tables and Figures List of Charts Chart 1. Annual percentage increase of deforestation in municipalities of Pará. In highlight, the project’s duration. ......................18 List of Boxes Box 1. Key concepts: the CAR, the PRAD e the PRA. ..............................................................................................................................12 Box 2. Projects in the state of Pará: SEMAS/PA and the Green Municipalities Program (PMV) ...........................................................14 Box 3. Analysis of deforestation in Pará and in the municipalities supported by the project ..............................................................18 Box 4. The implementation of the Rural Environmental Registry supported by Imazon in the municipalities visited ......................23 List of tables Table 1. Objectives of projects supported by the Amazon Fund ............................................................................................................14 Table 2. Sum of deforestation increment in the periods: before, during and at the end of the project. .............................................18 List of Figures Figure 1. Location of municipalities in the region where the project operates and consolidated deforestation. .................................11 Figure 2. Summary of the logical framework of the project in the Amazon Fund with general and specific objectives, as well as products and services. .............................................................................................................................................................................16 Glossary Pará APP Permanent Preservation Area PA Municipal Environmental Portal BNDES Brazilian Development Bank PAM Gross Domestic Product CAR Rural Environmental Registration PIB Green Municipalities Program CRA Environmental Reserve Quota PMV Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Plan of Action to Prevent and Control EMATER/PA PPCDAm company of the state of Pará Deforestation in the Legal Amazon Environmental Regularization Program FA Amazon Fund PRA Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale PRADs Recovery Plans for Degraded Areas Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Project for Monitoring Deforestation in GIZ PRODES (German Cooperation for Sustainable the Legal Amazon by Inpe Satellite Development) National Program to Strengthen Family PRONAF GTA Animal Transport Guide Agriculture ha Hectare Reducing emissions from deforestation Brazilian Institute of Geography and and forest degradation and the role of IBGE Statistics REDD+ conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest Institute of Economic and Social Idesp carbon stocks in developing countries Development of Pará RL Legal Reserve Institute of People and the Environment IMAZON of the Amazon SAD Deforestation Alert System National Institute of Colonization and SEMAS State Secretaries of Environment INCRA Agrarian Reform SFB Brazilian Forest Service INPE National Institute of Space Research National System of Rural Environmental SiCAR IPAM Amazon Environment Research Institute Cadastre ITERPA Pará Land Institute SIDRA IBGE Automatic Recovery System LAR Rural Environmental License SIG Geographic Information System MMA Ministry of the Environment SMMA Municipal Secretariats of Environment MPE State Prosecution Service SR Rural Union MPF Federal Prosecution Service TAC Term of Conduct Change Organization for Economic Co-operation TNC The Nature Conservancy OCDE and Development United Nations Framework Convention UNFCCC OEMAs State Environmental Agencies on Climate Change Integrated Environmental Monitoring ONG Non-governmental organization Simlam and Licensing System 6 Executive Summary The Socio-environmental Management project1 in deforested in the supported municipalities, while Municipalities of Pará was executed between 2011 and in the project period deforestation was of 890 km², 2014 by the Institute of People and the Environment of a reduction of 61.5%. After the project was ended, the Amazon (Imazon) non-governmental organization deforestation was 167 km² (2015). (NGO), involving eleven municipalities in the Southeast of Para, which, after undergoing project At the end of the project, three municipalities interventions, were found as follows in relation to (Ulianópolis, Dom Eliseu and Tailândia) had left the list deforestation control: of priority municipalities. All registered considerable declines in deforestation. Deforestation combat,