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Table of Contents A Table of Contents A. SITUATION ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................................... 6 A.1 Global Environmental Values of Project Landscapes ................................................................... 6 A.2 Livelihoods and Socio-economic Factors ........................................................................................ 9 A.3 The GEF Small Grants Programme in Sri Lanka ....................................................................... 15 A.5 Proposed Solution ........................................................................................................................... 18 A.6 Barriers to Achieving the Solution ................................................................................................ 18 B. STRATEGY ......................................................................................................................................... 19 B.1 Project Rationale and Proposed Alternative Scenario ................................................................ 19 B.2 Baseline Scenario and Associated Baseline Projects .................................................................... 20 B.3 Project Goal and Objective ............................................................................................................ 21 B.4 Project Components, Outcomes, Outputs, and Activities ........................................................... 21 B.5 Project’s Target Contribution to Global Environmental Benefits ............................................. 27 B.6 Resource Mobilization Strategy .................................................................................................... 28 B.7 Knowledge Management ................................................................................................................ 29 B.8 Consistency with National Priorities ............................................................................................. 31 B.9 Linkages with other Programmes and Projects ........................................................................... 33 B.10 CSO-Government Dialogue Platforms ......................................................................................... 35 B.11 Innovativeness, Sustainability, Replicability, and Lessons Learned .......................................... 35 B.11.a Innovativeness .................................................................................................................. 35 B.11.b Sustainability .................................................................................................................... 36 B.11.c Replicability and Scaling Up ........................................................................................... 37 B.11.d Lessons Learned ............................................................................................................... 37 B.12 Partnerships and Stakeholders ...................................................................................................... 38 B.12.a Non-State Stakeholders ................................................................................................... 38 B.12.b Traditional Communities and Indigenous Peoples............................................................. 39 B.12.c Gender ................................................................................................................................ 40 B.12.d Youth .................................................................................................................................. 40 C. PROJECT RESULTS FRAMEWORK ................................................................................................... 41 D. FINANCING ........................................................................................................................................ 49 D.1 Financing Plan ................................................................................................................................ 49 D.2 Cost-Effectiveness ........................................................................................................................... 50 D.3 Co-Financing ................................................................................................................................... 51 D.4 Total Budget and Work Plan ......................................................................................................... 52 E. MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS ..................................................................................................... 55 F. MONITORING FRAMEWORK AND EVALUATION ............................................................................. 59 G. LEGAL CONTEXT .............................................................................................................................. 66 H. REQUIRED ANNEXES ........................................................................................................................ 67 Annex 1: Project stakeholders, mandates and roles .......................................................................... 68 Annex 2: Strategy for Ensuring Gender Equality ............................................................................. 70 Annex 3: Risks, Assumptions, and Risk Log ...................................................................................... 72 Annex 4: Social and Environmental Screening Criteria ................................................................... 75 Annex 5: Project Monitoring Quality Assurance ............................................................................... 84 Annex 6: Integrated Results and Resources Framework per the UNDP Strategic Plan ................ 93 Annex 7: Provisional Work Plan 1 ........................................................................................................ 94 Annex 8: Outcome budget .................................................................................................................... 98 3 Annex 9: Terms of Reference............................................................................................................. 100 Annex 10: Situational Analysis: KCF and Surrounding Communities ....................................... 108 Annex 11: Situational Analysis: Coastal Region from Mannar Island up to Jaffna .................. 114 Annex 12: Situational Analysis: Urban Wetlands of Colombo ..................................................... 119 Annex 13: GEF SGP Operational Guidelines ................................................................................ 124 Annex 14. Tracking tools at baseline .................................................................................................... 142 4 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ACM Adaptive Collaborative Management APR Annual Progress Report CEA Central Environmental Authority COMDEKS Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative CPM Country Programme Manager CPMT Central Programme Management Team GEF Global Environment Facility GEF Sec Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility GIZ German Society for International Cooperation CSO Civil Society Organization IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources KCF Knuckles Conservation Forest M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MDG Millennium Development Goal MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement MMDE Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment NGO Non-Governmental Organization NPD National Project Director NSC National Steering Committee PIF Project Identification Form PIR Project Implementation Review RCU Regional Coordinating Unit REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SGP Small Grants Programme UNCBD United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNOPS United Nations Office for Project Services UNPDF United Nations Partnership for Development Framework 5 A. SITUATION ANALYSIS 1. The goal of this project is to support the achievement of global environmental benefits and the protection of the global environment through community and local solutions that work in harmony with national and global action. To that end, the objective of this project is to enable community-based organizations to take collective action for adaptive landscape management for socio-ecological resilience through design, implementation, and evaluation of grant projects for global environmental benefits and sustainable development in three ecologically sensitive landscapes: the Knuckles Conservation Forest and its buffer zone, the coastal region from Mannar Island to Jaffna, and the Colombo Wetlands. This will be carried out through participatory, multi-stakeholder, landscape management using the COMDEKS landscape planning and management approach 1. The proposed interventions are aimed at enhancing social and ecological resilience through community-based, community-driven projects to conserve biodiversity, optimize ecosystem services, manage land (particularly agro-ecosystems) and water sustainably, and mitigate climate change. 2. The three pilots will build on experience and lessons learned from previous SGP operational phases, and lessons learned from the COMDEKS Programme, to assist community-based organizations in carrying out and
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