National Priorities for GEF-5 (2010–2014) Was Held on September 29, 2011 in the Les Palmiers Hotel Conference Room in Lomé
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REPUBLIC OF TOGO Travail-Liberté-Patrie Ministry of Environment and Forestry Resources (MERF) NNAATTIIOONNAALL PPRRIIOORRIITTIIEESS FFOORR GGEEFF--55 www.the GEF.org October 2011 Table of Contents ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ................................................................................ III SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. V I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 1 II. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH ................................................................................. 2 2.1. Documentary Research and Analysis .......................................................................... 2 2.2. Consultations ............................................................................................................... 2 2.2.1. Preliminary Stakeholder Consultation and Site Visits ............................................. 3 2.2.2. National Workshop .................................................................................................. 3 2.3. Prioritization of Actions to be Taken .......................................................................... 4 III. THE THEMATIC AREAS OF THE GEF-5 – ASSESSMENT ......................................... 4 3.1. The Thematic Areas of the GEF-5 – Main Environmental Challenges ...................... 4 3.1.1. Land Degradation ..................................................................................................... 4 3.1.2. Climate Change ........................................................................................................ 6 3.1.3. Biodiversity .............................................................................................................. 7 3.1.4. International Waters ................................................................................................. 8 3.1.5. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Other Chemical Products ...................... 9 3.2. The GEF-5 Thematic Areas – Policy Guidelines ...................................................... 10 3.2.1. Sustainable Land Management .............................................................................. 10 3.2.2. Combating Climate Change ................................................................................... 11 3.2.3. Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity ................................................ 12 3.2.4. International Waters ............................................................................................... 12 3.2.5. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS) ... 13 IV. GEF-5 - NATIONAL PRIORITIES .................................................................................. 14 CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................ 16 DOCUMENTS CONSULTED ................................................................................................ 17 ANNEXES ............................................................................................................................... 19 Tables Table 1: GEF-5 Priorities ......................................................................................................... 15 ii ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS AVGAP Village Association for Participatory Management of Protected Areas [Association Villageoise de Gestion des Aires Protégées] CBD Convention on Biological Diversity CDQ Neighborhood Development Committee [Comité de Développement de Quartiers] CVD Village Development Committee [Comité Villageois de Développement] DRR Disaster Risk Reduction EMRL Extraneous Maximum Residue Limits ENRM Environment and Natural Resource Management FNC First National Communication GEF Global Environment Facility GGW Initiative Green Great Wall Initiative [Projet de la Grande Muraille Verte] GHG Greenhouse gases HCB Hexachlorobenzene IEC Information, Education and Communication ISFM Integrated Soil Fertility Management LDC Least developed countries LULUCF Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry MAEP Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Production, and Fisheries [Ministère de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage et de la Pêche] MDG Millennium Development Goal MEHVA Ministry of Water, Village Water Supply, and Sanitation [Ministère de l’Eau, de l’Hydraulique Villageoise et de l’Assainissement] MERF Ministry of Environment and Forestry Resources [Ministère de l’Environnement et des Ressources Forestières] NAPA National Adaptation Programme of Action (under the climate change convention) [Plan d’Action National d’Adaptation aux changements climatiques] NAPCD National Action Plan to Combat Desertification [Programme d’Action National de lutte contre la desertification] NEAP National Environmental Action Plan NEMP National Environmental Management Program [Programme National de Gestion de l’Environnement] NGO Nongovernmental organization NIP National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention [Plan National pour la Mise en œuvre de la Convention de Stockholm] ODS Ozone-depleting substances OFP Operational Focal Point PANSEA National Action Plan for the Water and Sanitation Sector [Plan d’Action National pour le Secteur de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement] PCB Polychlorinated biphenyls PIF Project Information Form PNADE National Program of Decentralized Environmental Management Activities [Programme National d'Actions Décentralisées de gestion de l’Environnement] PNAE National Action Plan for the Environment [Plan National d’Action pour l’Environnement] PNIASA National Program for Agricultural Investment and Food Security [Programme National d’Investissement pour l’Agriculture et la Sécurité iii Alimentaire] PNIERN National Environment and Natural Resources Investment Program [Programme National d’Investissements pour l’Environnement et les Ressources Naturelles] PNSA National Food Security Program [Programme National de Sécurité Alimentaire] POPs Persistent organic pollutants PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper RAF Resource Allocation Framework SLM Sustainable Land Management SNC Second National Communication STAR System for Transparent Allocation of Resources TFP Technical and financial partner UAVGAP Union of Village Associations for Participatory Management of Protected Areas [Union des Associations Villageoises de Gestion Participative des Aires Protégées] UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization iv SUMMARY This study is part of the framework for developing national priorities, based on which the GEF will focus its interventions in Togo to enhance the visibility and clarity of its environmental management activities as well as to improve the country’s absorptive capacity. This report deals mainly with the three primary GEF focal areas covered by the System for Transparent Allocation of Resources (STAR), namely, land degradation, climate change, and biodiversity. It aims to formulate specific national priorities in these three focal areas to be submitted at GEF-5 for the 2010–2014 period, based on consultation with stakeholders. The Togolese Government also hopes that the priority intervention areas selected will be consistent with those included in the National Environment and Natural Resources Investment Program [Programme National d’Investissements pour l’Environnement et les Ressources Naturelles PNIERN] developed for the next five years (2011–2015). This exercise is based mainly on documentary research and a process of consultation with various stakeholders as well as site visits. At the conclusion of this study, it became evident that the environmental challenges in the areas of land degradation, climate change, and biodiversity are considerable and require urgent action. To this end, project ideas have been identified and the highest priority intervention areas to be submitted at GEF-5 for the 2010–2014 period have been grouped into subprograms within the Integrated Disaster and Land Management Project. For the three GEF-5 focal areas, seven subprograms have been identified, of which five are sectoral subprograms (two subprograms in the area of land degradation, one subprogram in the area of climate change, and two subprograms in the area of biodiversity) and two are crosscutting subprograms. The total cost of implementing these subprograms is assessed at US$9,890,000, and the World Bank is the implementing agency tasked with carrying out these priority actions. v I. INTRODUCTION The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a mechanism for international cooperation that plays a decisive role in improving the global environment. Through its agencies (UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, UNIDO, etc.), for over a decade the GEF has financed numerous capacity-building projects in Togo, in particular in the areas of climate change, biological diversity, and persistent organic pollutants, as well as regional projects in watershed management of the Volta River, which includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Ghana, and Togo; the regional program for a strategic approach to ecologically sound management of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and PCB-containing equipment for francophone countries; and the regional capacity-building program for the least developed African