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Ecuador and Peru PROJECT DOCUMENT1 Project Title United Nations Development Programme Countries: Ecuador and Peru PROJECT DOCUMENT1 Integrated Water Resources Management in the Puyango-Tumbes, Catamayo-Chira Project Title: and Zarumilla Transboundary Aquifers and River Basins Ecuador: UNDAF Outcome 5, By 2014 relevant public institutions and local stakeholders foster – and stakeholders (men and women) have strengthened skills and tools to ensure their rights to a healthy and safe environment and environmental sustainability, including biodiversity conservation, integrated natural resource management and environmental management. UNDAF Outcome(s): Peru: UNDAF Outcome 4: The state, with the participation of civil society, the private sector, scientific and academic institutions, will have designed, implemented and/or strengthened policies, programs and plans focusing on environmental sustainability, for the sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity conservation UNDP Strategic Plan Environment and Sustainable Development Primary Outcome: Outcome 2: Citizen expectations for voice, development, the rule of law and accountability are met by stronger systems of democratic governance. Output 2.5: Legal and regulatory frameworks, policies and institutions enabled to ensure the conservation, sustainable use, and access and benefit sharing of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems, in line with international conventions and national legislation. Indicator 2.5.2: Number of countries implementing national and local plans for integrated Water Resource Management. UNDP Strategic Plan 2014-2017 Secondary Outcome: Outcome 5: Countries are able to reduce the likelihood of conflict and lower the risk of natural disasters, including from climate change. Expected CP Outcome(s): Ecuador: UNDAF Direct Outcome 5: CPD Component: Sustainable and Equitable Management of the Environment: Authorities and other entities possess greater abilities to formulate adaptation/mitigation responses to climate change, and to develop renewable energy sources and promote energy efficiency Peru: UNDAF Direct Outcome 4: CPD Component: Environmental Sustainability. The state, with the participation of civil society, the private sector, scientific and academic institutions, will have designed, implemented and/or strengthened policies, programs and plans focusing on environmental sustainability, for the sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity conservation Expected CPAP Output (s) Ecuador: UNDAF Direct Outcome 5: CPAP Direct Outcome 5: Expected output 4.1.: National and local development plans, as well as national and community-based volunteer organizations, incorporate adaptation to climate change strategies, plans and projects and possess greater knowledge, skills and tools to respond to this phenomenon. Peru: Expected Output 4.4.: Management tools to improve environmental quality are developed, agreed upon and under implementation at the national, regional and local levels. Executing Entity/Implementing Partner: The National Water Secretariat of Ecuador (SENAGUA) and The 1 For UNDP supported GEF funded projects as this includes GEF-specific requirements Page 1 National Water Authority of Peru (ANA) Implementing Entity/Responsible Partners: UNDP Brief Description The project objective is strengthening the institutional, policy, legal and scientific-technical capacities to implement Integrated Transboundary Water Resources Management in Puyango-Tumbes, Catamayo- Chira and Zarumilla River Basins and Aquifers, integrating climate variability concerns. The project aims to enhance binational efforts of Peru and Ecuador for Integrated Transboundary Water Resources Management (ITWRM) in the three main aquifers and basins shared by the two countries in the Pacific Ocean drainage basin - Puyango- Tumbes, Catamayo-Chira and Zarumilla. It will give special attention to integrating groundwater concerns and opportunities and extreme manifestations of climate variability and change in the area. The aquifers and linked river basins “Zarumilla”, “Puyango-Tumbes” and “Catamayo-Chira” contain an important, but often highly variable, water supply that is essential to the region´s socio-economic development and to the integrity of its ecosystems. These resources are threatened by overexploitation, pollution and inefficient management, as well as by climate variability and change. The project will follow a three-pronged approach consisting of improving the common understanding of these shared water resources and their environmental and socioeconomic status; strengthening institutional capacities and cooperation mechanisms between the two countries sharing these aquifers and basins; and applying and disseminating IWRM demonstrations in targeted site interventions. The project has a strong emphasis on capacity development and, through the TDA/SAP process, will support countries in the identification of the required legal, policy and institutional reforms that can deliver global, regional and national environmental benefits. The project will apply the most recently validated GEF International Waters Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) and Strategic Action Programme (SAP) methodology to achieve project objectives and outcomes. Regional Component Source of Funding Ecuador Peru (administered by other projects) Total GEF 1,335,000 1,335,000 1,290,000 3,960,000 Sub-total GEF 1,335,000 1,335,000 1,290,000 3,960,000 National financing 10,000,000 10,000,000 20,000,000 Other financing 236,600 247,000 483,600 Sub-total co-financing 10,236,600 10,247,000 20,483,600 Total 11,571,600 11,582,000 1,290,000 24,443,600 Page 2 ECUADOR (LEAD COUNTRY OFFICE) Programme Period: 2014-2019 Total allocated resources (Ecuador) 11,571,600 Atlas Award ID: 00083398 Project ID: 00091894 PIMS # 4402 GEF (US$) 1,335,000 Start date: March 2015 End Date March 2019 Co-financing Management Arrangements NIM • SENAGUA (US$) 10,000,000 PAC Meeting Date TBD • UNDP Ecuador (US$) 104,100 • UNDP Cap-Net(US$) 132,500 Agreed by (Government): Date/Month/Year Agreed by (Executing Entity/Implementing Partner): Date/Month/Year Agreed by (UNDP): Date/Month/Year Page 3 PERU Programme Period: 2014-2019 Atlas Award ID: 00083826 Total allocated resources (country) 11,582,000 Project ID: 00092113 PIMS # 4402 GEF (direct administration) (US$) 1,335,000 Start date: March 2015 End Date March 2019 Co-financing • ANA (US$) 10,000,000 Management Arrangements NIM PAC Meeting Date TBD • PNUD Peru (US$) 114,500 • UNDP Cap-Net(US$) 132,500 Agreed by (Government): Date/Month/Year Agreed by (Executing Entity/Implementing Partner): Date/Month/Year Agreed by (UNDP): Date/Month/Year Page 4 Table of Contents Acronyms .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Environmental context.................................................................................................................................. 9 Socio-economic context .............................................................................................................................. 18 Legal and policy context ............................................................................................................................. 25 Institutional Context .................................................................................................................................... 30 Threats ........................................................................................................................................................ 32 Long-term solution and barriers to achieving the solution ........................................................................ 38 Baseline projects ..................................................................................................................................... 42 Stakeholder Analysis ................................................................................................................................... 44 Project rationale and policy conformity ..................................................................................................... 47 Country ownership: country eligibility and country drivenness ................................................................ 48 Design principles and strategic considerations .......................................................................................... 49 UNDP Comparative advantage ................................................................................................................... 52 Project objective, outcomes and outputs/activities ................................................................................... 54 Incremental reasoning, global environmental benefits and socio-economic benefits .............................. 63 Key indicators, risks and assumptions ........................................................................................................ 66 Project Results Framework: .................................................................................................................... 77 Total budget and workplan ..................................................................................................................... 88 Management Arrangements ................................................................................................................. 100 PART VI: Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................................................
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