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United Nations Development Programme Country: Guinea PROJECT DOCUMENT1 English version Project Title: Strengthening resilience of farming communities’ livelihoods against climate change in the Guinean Prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali UNDAF Outcome(s): Strategic Axis 1: Promotion of good governance; Effect 1: By 2017, States and non-state structures and organizations at the central, deconcentrated and decentralized levels have the capacities to formulate and implement development policies and programmes and ensure civilian control of governing bodies. Strategic Axis 2: Boost economic growth and promote livelihoods opportunities and incomes for all. Effect 2: By 2017, public and private sectors, local communities and broader population ensure sustainable management of the environment, in the context of climate change adaptation and natural disasters risks; UNDP Strategic Plan Environment and Sustainable Development Primary Outcome: 3. Promote climate change adaptation Expected CP Outcome(s): Outcome 3: By 2017, the private and public sectors, local civil society organizations and populations adopt and implement new technologies and practices for a sustainable environment and implement measures for a better prevention and management of risks and natural disasters in the context of climate change adaptation. Expected CPAP Outputs: Output 5: Environment, natural resources and livelihood sustainable planning and management tools developed or updated to mainstream climate change issues. Output 7: Livelihood means and modalities in vulnerable areas (coastal zones, Northern and Transition areas) are resilient to climate change and communities implement adaptation measure to mitigate impacts. Output 8: Spatial planning and management tools are developed and implemented for a better conservation of biodiversity, protected areas and forest. Implementing Entity: Ministry of the Environment, Waters and Forests 1 For UNDP-supported GEF-funded projects as this includes GEF-specific requirements Brief Description Climate change will affect the entirety of Guinea. Most socio-economic activities will be affected by anticipated climate change impacts. Climate change is expected to, among others; result in direct impacts such as: loss of incomes, decrease in the quality of life, population displacement and decrease in agricultural production. The country’s long- term development is expected to be significantly affected by; (i) changes in rainfall patterns; (ii) droughts; (iii) floods; (iv) violent storms; (v) extreme temperature and increased insulation; (vi) coastal erosion. While the importance for the economy and community livelihoods is undeniable, agriculture and livestock farming in the Prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali remain of subsistence, dependent entirely on the natural resource potential and characterized by obsolete and not environmentally friendly practices. The agriculture and livestock production are currently facing several constraints which limit their productivity and render them highly vulnerable to any external shocks, and long term change, including from climate induced change As a follow-up project to Guinea’s NAPA, the normative expectation is that climate change is mainstreamed into local development plans and budgets; that agro-meteorological information is available to climate-dependent activities such as farming and animal husbandry; and that farmers implement adaptive farming systems. Barriers to meeting this preferred situation include: (i) underinvestment in systems to generate, codify, store and disseminate information and notably with regards to weather, meteorology and climate change, resulting in a complete absence of meteorological advice to local communities; (ii) a local policy framework that is not yet responsive to addressing climate change risks, and that does not promote an integrated response towards climate change adaptation; (iii) an insufficient capacity to implement new measures (including adaptive measures) and to use new technologies; and (iv) a low financial and technical capacity of most rural households, affecting the adaptive capacity of communities. Contributions to respond to these barriers and reduce the level of vulnerabilities to climate change will be achieved through the pursuit of specific outcomes including: (a) strengthening of local authorities and decentralized institutions to integrate climate change issues in regional action plans through local development plans, annual and multi-year investments plans and annual community budgets; (b) production of agro-meteorological information and dissemination to the most appropriate stakeholders of the prefectures of GKM for climate resilient agroforestry; and (c) improved climate resilience of community livelihood options through the promotion of agroforestry. Programme Period: 2013 - 2018 Total resources required: $ 33,056,364 Award ID: 00072521 Total allocated resources: $ 33,056,364 Project ID: 00085594 PIMS: 4615 Regular (GEF/LDCF) $ 3,716,364 Other: Start date: April 2013 UNDP (cash) $ 300,000 End Date: March 2018 UNDP (Grant) $ 9,500,000 Government (cash) $ 250,000 Management Arrangements: NIM Government (in-kind) $400,000 Government (Grants) $18,890,000 Agreed by (Government): Date/Month/Year Agreed by (Executing Entity/Implementing Partner): Date/Month/Year Agreed by (UNDP): Date/Month/Year UNDP Project Document – Strengthening resilience of farming communities’ livelihoods against climate changes in the Guinean Prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali - UNDP ID: 4615 / GEF ID: 4692 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms .................................................................................................................................. ii I. Situational Analysis ................................................................................................................ 1 I.1.Context ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1 I.2. Threats, Causes of the Problem and Impacts ...................................................................................................... 6 I.3.Preferred Solution and Barriers to be overcome ................................................................................................ 13 I.4. Stakeholder Analysis ............................................................................................................................................... 16 I.5. Introduction to the Demonstration Areas .......................................................................................................... 19 II. Project Strategy ................................................................................................................... 24 II.1. Additional Cost Reasoning of the Proposed Project ....................................................................................... 24 II.2. Project Rationale and Policy Conformity .......................................................................................................... 25 II.3. Country Ownership: Country Eligibility and Country Drivenness ............................................................... 27 II.4 Design principles and strategic considerations .................................................................................................. 28 II.5 UNDP comparative advantages........................................................................................................................... 30 II.6. Project Goal, Objectives and Outputs/Activities ............................................................................................ 31 II.7. Project Indicators, Risks and Assumptions....................................................................................................... 47 II.8. Cost effectiveness .................................................................................................................................................. 49 II.9. Sustainability and Replicability ............................................................................................................................ 51 III. Project Results Framework ............................................................................................... 53 IV. Total Budget and Workplan .............................................................................................. 56 V. Management Arrangements ................................................................................................ 63 VI. Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................................................... 73 VII. Legal Context ................................................................................................................... 76 Annex 1: Risk Log .................................................................................................................... 77 Annex 2: TOR for Key Project Coordination Mechanism and Staff ....................................... 81 Annex 3: Summary of Studies Undertaken in the Project Preparatory Phase ........................ 85 Annex 4: Co-financing Letters ................................................................................................. 86 i UNDP Project Document – Strengthening resilience of farming communities’ livelihoods against climate changes in the Guinean Prefectures of Gaoual, Koundara and Mali - UNDP ID: 4615 / GEF ID: 4692 Acronyms AECID Spanish Agency