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FAO/GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY PROJECT DOCUMENT Project Title: Community-based Integrated Natural Resource Management FAO Project symbol: GCP /FIJ/007/GFF (entity no. 639009) GEF Project ID: 9880 Recipient Country(ies): Fiji Executing Entity / Operational Partner: Ministry of iTaukei Affairs Expected EOD (Starting Date): December 2020 Expected NTE (End Date): November 2024 Contribution to FAO’s Strategic FrameWork: Strategic program/Organizational Output: (Indicate as appropriate) Strategic Programme 2 – Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable Output 2.1.2 - Capacities of institutions are strengthened to promote the adoption of more integrated and cross-sectoral practices that sustainably increase productivity and production, address climate change and environmental degradation Country Programming Framework (CPF) Outputs: Fiji CPF (2018 – 2022) Output 2: Sustainable and climate-smart practices promoted to help build resilient agriculture, fisheries and forestry production systems Corporate Output 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 Contribution to GEF TF Focal Area Strategic LD3 Program 4 Scaling-up sustainable land management through Objectives and Programs: the Landscape Approach CCM2 Program 4 Environmental and Social Risk Classification loW risk moderate risk X high risk Gender Marker1 G0 G1 ´ G2a G2b Financing Plan: GEF allocation: GEFTF: USD 2,119,425 Co-financing: Ministry of Forests: USD 7,010,000 Ministry of Agriculture: USD 21,690,000 Ministry of iTauki Affairs: USD 1,677,215 FAO FLR: USD 500,000 Sub-total co-financing: USD 30,877,215 Total budget: USD 32,996,640 1 See Guidance Note on ‘Gender Mainstreaming in project identification and formulation’. http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6854e.pdf 1 Executive Summary Fiji is a large archipelago With diverse landscapes and climate. More than 332 islands are scattered over 1.3 million square kilometers of the South Pacific Ocean. With around 60% of Fiji’s land area consisting of forest cover (amounting to approximately 1 million ha), Fiji’s forests play an important role in providing valuable ecosystem services and the maintenance of forested landscapes are capable of reducing some of the likely impacts of climate change. Indeed Fiji is increasingly stricken by devastating climate events. Deforestation and land degradation in forests and peripheries of forest frontiers are key environmental problems faced by Fiji. The rate of degradation in the forest peripheries, in this context, also refers to loss of vegetation cover in agroecosystems (including rangelands), and the continued loss of productivity in agricultural lands, impacting local livelihoods significantly. Poor agricultural land practices have contributed to degradation of agricultural lands and their productivity, and the vicious cycle of resource depletion and land degradation. The development objective of the project is to address the negative impacts of unsustainable management forests and land driven by economic development as well as poverty and livelihood demands of local communities. The project aims to achieve this by establishing and pursuing a landscape-based approach to comprehensive planning and management that harmonizes socio-economic development, sustainable management of natural resources and conservation biodiversity. The project’s interventions Will ensure that an enabling environment such capacitated communities and proper restoration strategies and financing are put in place so that degraded forests and lands are rehabilitated and existing protected areas and high conservation value forests are protected. The project objective is to promote community-based integrated natural resource management at landscape level to reduce land degradation, enhance carbon stocks and strengthen local livelihoods in Ra and Tailevu provinces. The main targets for the projects are: • 47,719 ha are under Land Use Plans integrating Integrated Natural Resource Management at District level • 18,799 ha are under CBINRM thanks to the development and implementation of Community Based Integrated Natural Resource Management (CBINRM) plans • 3,500 people have a more diversified income source and livelihood • 443,019 tCO2eq emissions are mitigated through project activities over a 20-year period (direct). Note: the project has an indirect impact potential after the end of the project of an additional 1,909,345 tCO2eq In order to reach these objectives, the projects will undertake the folloWing activities. Component 1: Strengthening local level capacities for Integrated Natural Resource Management (INRM) Activities under this component Will build on on-going/planned community level awareness raising (MoFo, MoFi & MoA), institutional capacity building activities for SLM/SFM and forest restoration (MTA/FAO AAD) and demonstration activities (MoFo, MoFi & MoA) under the baseline and co-financing initiatives. GEF incremental resources Will be utilized to improve the coordination of current capacity building activities, expand the capacity building to the community level in a streamlined manner and ensure that local communities have the adequate capacity to implement INRM plans at the village level. The main outcomes expected from this component are: • 17 target sites Where the Capacity Building scores are improved • 4 demonstration sites running and maintained by community members, showing efficient capacity building Component 2: Community-based Integrated Natural Resource Management Activities under this component Will support improved stakeholder coordination in planning and INRM activities implementation. The Yaubula Management Support Committee (YMST) at district and local levels are key elements of this exercise to ensure local empoWerment. First, the planning process for CBINRM will be strengthened over 47,719ha through: • 3 improved district level Land Use Plans (LUP) integrating INRM • 30 CBINRM plans for land units 2 Then, once the CBINRM plans have been developed and linked to sustainable business plans, the project Will support their implementation through supporting coordination mechanisms and fundraising/support seeking for the activities. The main expected results are: • 17 YMST committees following up the implementation of the CBINRM plans • 18,799ha brought under community-based integrated natural resource management • 4 enterprises linked to CBINRM support generating benefits Outcome 3: Monitoring, evaluation and lessons dissemination This component Will ensure that project results and achievements Will be disseminated for replicability and scaling up and that project’s progress is tracked and periodic evaluations are conducted for adaptive management. Under this component, the main expected results are: • 5,000 key stakeholders in Government agencies, CSO and communities With increased awareness of the potential of INRM • 10 good practices systemized and shared through the online platform and the Community of Practice • 8 of communities involved in CBINRM monitoring • A M&E system put in place to ensure adaptive management 3 ACRONYMS AAD Action Against Desertification APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CBINRM Community Based Integrated Natural Resources Management CCM Climate Change Mitigation CSA Climate Smart Agriculture CSO Civil Society Organization FDB Fiji Development Bank FFS Farmer Field Schools FFTC Fiji Forest Training Centre FLMA Fiji Locally Managed Area FNU Fiji National University GCF Green Climate Fund GGF Green GroWth FrameWork GoF Government of Fiji IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development IHRDP Integrated Human Resource Development Program INDC Intended Nationally Determined Contributions iTLTB iTaukei Land Trust Board MoA Ministry of Agriculture MoFi Ministry of Fisheries MoFo Ministry of Forests MTA Ministry of iTaukei Affairs NCCP National Climate Change Policy MCSMED National Centre for Small and Micro Enterprises Development PHAMA Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access PMU Program Management Unit PPG Project Preparation Grant RLUP Rural Land Use Policy SIDS Small Islands Developing States SLM Sustainable Land Management SPC The Pacific Community TLTB iTauki Land Trust Board UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change USP University of South Pacific YMST Yaubula Management Support Teams 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................... 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................. 1 SECTION 1 – PROJECT RATIONALE ............................................................................. 3 1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT CONTEXT .......................................................................................... 3 1.1.1 NATIONAL CONTEXT .............................................................................................................................. 3 1.1.2 CONTEXT IN INTERVENTION AREAS .......................................................................................................... 16 1.2 THE CURRENT SITUATION ........................................................................................................... 19 1.2.1 MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS ........................................................................................................... 19 1.2.2 BASELINE INITIATIVES ..........................................................................................................................
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