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AFB/PPRC.18-19/4 6 June 2016 Adaptation Fund Board Project and Programme Review Committee PROPOSAL FOR SENEGAL AFB/PPRC.18-19/4 Background 1. The Operational Policies and Guidelines (OPG) for Parties to Access Resources from the Adaptation Fund (the Fund), adopted by the Adaptation Fund Board (the Board), state in paragraph 45 that regular adaptation project and programme proposals, i.e. those that request funding exceeding US$ 1 million, would undergo either a one-step, or a two-step approval process. In case of the one-step process, the proponent would directly submit a fully-developed project proposal. In the two-step process, the proponent would first submit a brief project concept, which would be reviewed by the Project and Programme Review Committee (PPRC) and would have to receive the endorsement of the Board. In the second step, the fully- developed project/programme document would be reviewed by the PPRC, and would ultimately require the Board’s approval. 2. The Templates approved by the Board (OPG, Annex 4) do not include a separate template for project and programme concepts but provide that these are to be submitted using the project and programme proposal template. The section on Adaptation Fund Project Review Criteria states: For regular projects using the two-step approval process, only the first four criteria will be applied when reviewing the 1st step for regular project concept. In addition, the information provided in the 1st step approval process with respect to the review criteria for the regular project concept could be less detailed than the information in the request for approval template submitted at the 2nd step approval process. Furthermore, a final project document is required for regular projects for the 2nd step approval, in addition to the approval template. 3. The first four criteria mentioned above are: 1. Country Eligibility, 2. Project Eligibility, 3. Resource Availability, and 4. Eligibility of NIE/MIE. 4. The fifth criterion, applied when reviewing a fully-developed project document, is: 5. Implementation Arrangements. 5. It is worth noting that since the twenty-second Board meeting, the Environmental and Social (E&S) Policy of the Fund was approved and consequently compliance with the Policy has been included in the review criteria both for concept documents and fully-developed project documents. The proposals template was revised as well, to include sections requesting demonstration of compliance of the project/programme with the E&S Policy. 6. At its seventeenth meeting, the Board decided (Decision B.17/7) to approve “Instructions for preparing a request for project or programme funding from the Adaptation Fund”, contained in the Annex to document AFB/PPRC.8/4, which further outlines applicable review criteria for both concepts and fully-developed proposals. The latest version of this document was launched in conjunction with the revision of the Operational Policies and Guidelines in November 2013. 7. Based on the Board Decision B.9/2, the first call for project and programme proposals was issued and an invitation letter to eligible Parties to submit project and programme proposals to the Fund was sent out on April 8, 2010. 1 AFB/PPRC.18-19/4 8. At its twenty-third meeting, the Adaptation Fund Board (the Board) discussed a recommendation made by the Project and Programme Review Committee (PPRC) of the Board, on arranging intersessional review of project and programme proposals. Having considered the comments and recommendation of the PPRC, the Board decided to: (a) Arrange one intersessional project/programme review cycle annually, during an intersessional period of 24 weeks or more between two consecutive Board meetings, as outlined in document AFB/PPRC.14/13; (b) While recognizing that any proposal can be submitted to regular meetings of the Board, require that all first submissions of concepts and fully-developed project/programme documents continue to be considered in regular meetings of the PPRC; (c) Request the secretariat to review, during such intersessional review cycles, resubmissions of project/programme concepts and fully-developed project/programme documents submitted on time by proponents for consideration during such intersessional review cycles; (d) Request the PPRC to consider intersessionally the technical review of such proposals as prepared by the secretariat and to make intersessional recommendations to the Board; (e) Consider such intersessionally reviewed proposals for intersessional approval in accordance with the Rules of Procedure; (f) Inform implementing entities and other stakeholders about the new arrangement by sending a letter to this effect, and make the calendar of upcoming regular and intersessional review cycles available on the Adaptation Fund website and arrange the first such cycle between the twenty-third and twenty-fourth meetings of the Board; (g) Request the PPRC to defer to the next Board meeting any matters related to the competencies of the Ethics and Finance Committee that may come up during the intersessional review of projects/programmes and to refrain from making a recommendation on such proposals until the relevant matters are addressed; and (h) Request the secretariat to present, in the fifteenth meeting of the PPRC, and annually following each intersessional review cycle, an analysis of the intersessional review cycle. (Decision B.23/15) 9. At the twenty-fifth Board meeting, the secretariat had requested to the Board to consider whether the rules in the intersessional project review cycle could be made more accommodating, with a view to speeding up the process. The Board subsequently decided to: (a) Amend Decision B.23/15 and require that all first submissions of concepts under the two-step approval process and all first submissions of fully-developed project/programme documents under the one-step process continue to be considered in regular meetings of the Project and Programme Review Committee (PPRC); 2 AFB/PPRC.18-19/4 (b) Request the secretariat to review, during its inter-sessional review cycles: (i) First submissions of fully-developed project/programme documents for which the concepts had already been considered in regular meetings of the PPRC and subsequently endorsed by the Board; (ii) Resubmissions of project/programme concepts and resubmissions of fully- developed project/programme documents; (c) Request the PPRC to consider intersessionally the technical review of such proposals as prepared by the secretariat and to make intersessional recommendations to the Board; (d) Consider such intersessionally reviewed proposals for intersessional approval in accordance with the Rules of Procedure; and (e) Inform implementing entities and other stakeholders about the updated arrangement by sending a letter to this effect, and make effective such amendment as of the first day of the review cycle between the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth meetings of the Board. (Decision B.25/2) 10. The following fully-developed project document titled “Reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience of coastal communities in the Saloum Islands (Dionewar)” was submitted by the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE), which is a National Implementing Entity of the Adaptation Fund. 11. This is the fourth submission of the proposal and second submission as a fully- developed project document. It was first submitted as a concept to the twenty-fifth meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board and the Board decided not to endorse it. It was then submitted as a concept to the twenty-sixth meeting, along with a request for Project Formulation Grant (PFG), and the Board decided to: (a) Endorse the project concept, as supplemented by the clarification response provided by the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) to the request made by the technical review; (b) Request the secretariat to transmit to CSE the observations in the review sheet annexed to the notification of the Board’s decision, as well as the following issues: (i) The fully-developed project document should provide a better justification on the link between climate change and fisheries production; (ii) The fully-developed project document should consider addressing harmful overexploitation of resources through a more comprehensive approach rather than focusing only updating and formalizing rules; 3 AFB/PPRC.18-19/4 (iii) The fully-developed project document should elaborate on how the access to benefits from the project would be equitable; (iv) The fully-developed project document should be based on a more comprehensive risk screening, and contain environmental and social impact assessment studies, and an Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP); (c) Approve the Project Formulation Grant of US$ 30,000; (d) Request CSE to transmit the observations under item (b) to the Government of Senegal; and (e) Encourage the Government of Senegal to submit through CSE a fully-developed project proposal that would also address the observations under item (b) above. (Decision B.26/6) 12. It was then submitted as a fully-developed project document to the twenty-seventh meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board but was withdrawn following the initial review. 13. The present submission was received by the secretariat in time to be considered for the intersessional project/programme proposal review cycle between the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth meetings. The secretariat carried out a technical review of the project proposal, with the diary number SEN/NIE/Coastal/2015/1, and completed a review sheet. 14. In accordance with a request to the secretariat made by the Board in its 10th meeting, the secretariat shared this review sheet with CSE, and offered it the opportunity of providing responses before the review sheet was sent to the PPRC. 15. The secretariat received on 11 May 2016 comments regarding the proposal, sent by the Adaptation Fund NGO Network, on behalf of Mr. Emmanuel Seck, ENDA. The secretariat considered these comments as reference when conducting the technical review of the proposal. In accordance with Decision B.18/24 (b), which required that such comments be made publicly available on the Adaptation Fund website, they were posted together with the project proposal, and added as an annex to the present document.