Consideration of Funding Proposals – Addendum VIII Funding Proposal Package for FP053
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Meeting of the Board 30 September – 2 October 2017 GCF/B.18/04/Add.08 Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt Provisional agenda item 14(g) 11 September 2017 Consideration of funding proposals – Addendum VIII Funding proposal package for FP053 Summary This addendum contains the following three parts: a) A funding proposal summary titled “Enhancing climate change adaptation in the North coast and Nile Delta Regions in Egypt”; b) No-objection letters issued by the national designated authority(ies) or focal point(s); and c) Environmental and social report(s) disclosure; Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation in the North Coast and Project Title: Nile Delta Regions in Egypt Country: Egypt Accredited Entity: United Nations Development Programme Date of Submission: 4 September 017 Contents Section A PROJECT / PROGRAMME SUMMARY Section B FINANCING / COST INFORMATION Section C DETAILED PROJECT / PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION Section D RATIONALE FOR GCF INVOLVEMENT Section E EXPECTED PERFORMANCE AGAINST INVESTMENT CRITERIA Section F APPRAISAL SUMMARY Section G RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT Section H RESULTS MONITORING AND REPORTING Section I ANNEXES Note to accredited entities on the use of the funding proposal template • Sections A, B, D, E and H of the funding proposal require detailed inputs from the accredited entity. For all other sections, including the Appraisal Summary in section F, accredited entities have discretion in how they wish to present the information. Accredited entities can either directly incorporate information into this proposal, or provide summary information in the proposal with cross-reference to other project documents such as project appraisal document. • The total number of pages for the funding proposal (excluding annexes) is expected not to exceed 50. Please submit the completed form to: [email protected] Please use the following name convention for the file name: “FP-UNDP-050617-5945” PROJECT / PROGRAMME SUMMARY A GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL | PAGE 1 OF 74 A.1. Brief Project / Programme Information Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation in the North A.1.1. Project / programme title Coast and Nile Delta Regions in Egypt A.1.2. Project or programme Project A.1.3. Country (ies) / region Egypt A.1.4. National designated authority (ies) Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency A.1.5. Accredited entity United Nations Development Programme A.1.5.a. Access modality □ Direct ☒ International Executing Entity: Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation Beneficiaries: • Coastal governorates and local communities in Port Said, Damietta Beheira, Dakhalia, and Kafr El- Sheikh directly benefitting a total of 768,164 people, A.1.6. Executing entity / beneficiary of which 377,189 are women; and indirectly benefitting a total of 16.9 million people. • Ministry of Environment • Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR) • Egyptian Meteorological Authority • Research Institutes and Universities □ Micro (≤10) □ Small (10<x≤50) A.1.7. Project size category (Total investment, million USD) ☒ Medium (50<x≤250) □ Large (>250) A.1.8. Mitigation / adaptation focus □ Mitigation ☒ Adaptation ☐ Cross-cutting A.1.9. Date of submission 5 June 2017; 4 Sep 2017 Contact person, position Tom Twining-Ward Organization United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) A.1.10. Email address [email protected] Project contact Telephone number (office): +90 850 288 2612; (cell): +90 539 653 2807 details UNDP – Global Environment Finance Unit, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, Istanbul Regional Hub, Key Plaza, Mailing address 6th Floor, Abide-i Hürriyet Cd., İstiklal Sk. No/11, Şişli, 34381, Istanbul, Turkey A.1.11. Results areas (mark all that apply) Reduced emissions from: Energy access and power generation ☐ (E.g. on-grid, micro-grid or off-grid solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) ☐ Low emission transport 1 PROJECT / PROGRAMME SUMMARY A GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL | PAGE 2 OF 74 (E.g. high-speed rail, rapid bus system, etc.) Buildings, cities and industries and appliances ☐ (E.g. new and retrofitted energy-efficient buildings, energy-efficient equipment for companies and supply chain management, etc.) Forestry and land use ☐ (E.g. forest conservation and management, agroforestry, agricultural irrigation, water treatment and management, etc.) Increased resilience of: Most vulnerable people and communities ☒ (E.g. mitigation of operational risk associated with climate change – diversification of supply sources and supply chain management, relocation of manufacturing facilities and warehouses, etc.) Health and well-being, and food and water security ☐ (E.g. climate-resilient crops, efficient irrigation systems, etc.) ☒ Infrastructure and built environment (E.g. sea walls, resilient road networks, etc.) Ecosystem and ecosystem services ☐ (E.g. ecosystem conservation and management, ecotourism, etc.) A.2. Project / Programme Executive Summary (max 300 words) Please provide a brief description of the proposed project/programme, including the objectives and primary measurable benefits (see investment criteria in section E). The detailed description can be elaborated in section C. 1. This proposal seeks to support adaptation efforts of the Government of Egypt (GoE) in the Nile Delta, the area identified by the IPCC in its Fourth Assessment Report as one of the world’s three “extreme” vulnerability hotspots. The Nile Delta is situated in northern Egypt, where the river Nile reaches the Mediterranean Sea. The Delta begins approximately 20 kilometers (km) north of Cairo and extends north for about 150km. At the coast the delta is about 250km wide, from Alexandria in the West to Port Said in the East. The area of the Nile Delta is about 20,000 km2; is home to approximately 40 million Egyptians; ranks among the world's most fertile farming areas; and accounts for approximately 90% of Egypt’s agricultural sector output. 2. The objective of the proposed project is to reduce coastal flooding risks in Egypt’s North Coast due to the combination of projected sea level rise and more frequent and intense extreme storm events. Output 1 focuses on the installation of 69 km of sand dune dikes along five (5) vulnerable hotspots within the Nile Delta that were identified during an engineering scoping assessment and technical feasibility study. This output will provide a “beneficial reuse” for existing maintenance dredged material from a number of local sources that are operating under existing Government of Egypt approvals. Output 2 focuses on the development of an integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) plan for the entire North Coast, to manage long-term climate change risks and provide Egypt with adaptability to impending flood risks. 3. The barriers that will be addressed by the proposed project include a lack of high quality data to inform planning decisions; absence of a suitable framework for implementing integrated approaches to coastal adaptation; weak institutional coordination to build coastline resilience to sea level rise impacts; the significant reduction of dredge material that would otherwise be disposed into the marine environment; and low institutional capacity to anticipate and manage expected sea level rise impacts. The proposed project will facilitate transformational change in in the short-term by reducing coastal flooding threats along vulnerable 2 PROJECT / PROGRAMME SUMMARY A GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL | PAGE 3 OF 74 hotspots in the Delta and in the long-term by integrating additional risks of climate change into coastal management and planning, budgeting and implementation of risk reduction measures. 4. The “soft” coastal protection measures will directly benefit approximately 768,164 people and indirectly benefit 16.9 million people in urban/rural communities. They have been designed to mirror natural coastal features and/or sand dunes and will transform the areas from high to low risk zones for coastal flooding. They will be stabilized with a combination of rocks and local vegetation species to encourage dune growth by trapping and stabilizing blown sand. Importantly, the coastal protection measures will provide beneficial reuse of existing dredge material that would otherwise be disposed into the marine environment. 5. The ICZM plan will provide benefits through capacity building to enable high resolution diagnosis of coastal threats, updated regulatory and institutional frameworks to account for sea level rise, and a coastal observation system for ongoing data collection/analysis. 6. The project is aligned with GoE’s priorities as outlined in its Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement and is line with Egypt’s Country Work Programme, as submitted to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Based on a request made to UNDP by the National Designated Authority (Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency NDA; Coastal Research Institute (CoRI) and Shore Protection Authority (SPA)), the project is also a part of UNDP’s Work Programme to the GCF and is aligned with Government’s priorities to focus on as per the Country Programme Document, which outlines UNDP’s foci in Egypt. A.3. Project/Programme Milestone Expected approval from accredited entity’s Not applicable Board (if applicable) Expected financial close (if applicable) TBD (Date of agreement on the FAA between UNDP and GCF) Start: 01/01/2018 Estimated implementation start and end date End: 31/12/2024 Project/programme lifespan 7 years 3 FINANCING / COST INFORMATION B GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL | PAGE 4 OF 74 B.1. Description of Financial Elements