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United Nations Development Programme Project Document template for projects financed by the various GEF Trust Funds Project title: Seventh Operational Phase of the GEF Small Grants Programme in Costa Rica Country: Costa Rica Implementing Partner (GEF Executing Execution Modality: Agency- Entity): UNOPS implemented Contributing Outcome (UNDAF/CPD, RPD, GPD): Outcome 2: Capacities for inclusive and sustainable development with a focus on environmental sustainability. Output 2.1. MAG, MINAE, Ministry of Health and MTSS have established multi-stakeholder platforms for dialogue to reduce negative socio-environmental externalities generated by agricultural commodities. UNDP Social and Environmental Screening Category: UNDP Gender Marker: 2 Atlas Award ID: 00119761 Atlas Project/Output ID: 00116145 UNDP-GEF PIMS ID number: 6251 GEF Project ID number: 10124 LPAC meeting date: 5th February 2020 Latest possible date to submit to GEF: June 11, 2020 Latest possible CEO endorsement date: December 11, 2020 Planned start date: June 2020 Planned end date: June 2024 Expected date of posting of Mid-Term Review to Expected date of posting Terminal evaluation report ERC: September 2022 to ERC: March 2024 Brief project description: The Seventh Phase of the GEF Small Grants Programme in Costa Rica, to be financed through this project, will be implemented in five landscapes: The i) Jesus Maria and ii) Barranca river basins; iii) the Montes de Aguacate Biological Corridor (MACB), iv) lower Grande de Tarcoles river basin and the v) Paso Las Lapas Biological Corridor. The total area covered by these landscapes is approximately 199,627 hectares. The project aims to enable communities and organizations in these target landscapes to take collective action, through a participatory landscape planning and management approach, to enhance socio-ecological resilience by producing local and global environmental and sustainable development benefits. SGP will support specific community-based actions in each landscape by financing small-scale projects run by local community organizations and coordinating them within the priority landscapes to achieve landscape-scale impacts. The project will address a series of development challenges in an intervention area home to over 420,000 people, where human settlements are combined with substantial forest patches and varied ecosystems, agricultural production, grazing pastures, protected areas (PA) and other land uses. The main threats to be overcome and which are causing the rapid deterioration of socio-ecological resilience in the target landscapes are: Changes in land use and the progressive degradation of natural resources (biodiversity, habitat, soil, water, etc.) from over- exploitation, pollution, introduction of exotic invasive species and climate change; habitat loss, caused by land use changes in production landscapes, threatens biodiversity and ecosystem connectivity; traditional activities, such as extensive cattle ranching and coffee farming, historically, have heavily impacted forest cover in these landscapes, causing the fragmentation of continuous forest blocks, the propensity for forest fires and reduction 1 | P a g e in the quality and quantity of water resources for human and agricultural consumption. All these effects have impacted on agricultural productivity, income-generating options and the well-being of rural and peri-urban populations, especially affecting more marginalized groups with more limited access to land, ecosystem services, goods and benefits and reduced participation in decision-making bodies. The project not only responds to these challenges, but is designed to consolidate, improve and scale-up upon the solid results, best practices and lessons learned during GEF-5 (Jesus Maria river basin) and GEF-6 (Jesus Maria and Barranca river basins) engendering a multifocal and multisectoral approach driven by community organisations and with the guidance and technical assistance from state actors, universities and the private sector. (1) FINANCING PLAN GEF Trust Fund USD 2,081,945 (1) Total Budget administered by UNDP USD 2,081,945 (2) CONFIRMED CO-FINANCING Community organizations In-kind USD 1,300,000 Community organizations In cash USD 500,000 UNDP In-kind USD 200,000 MINAE In-kind USD 800,000 MAG In-kind USD 1,125,000 CADETI In-kind USD 250,000 AyA In-kind USD 100,000 UNA In-kind USD 75,000 German Technical Cooperation In Cash USD 1,040,000 (3) Total confirmed co-financing USD 5,390,000 (4) Grand-Total Project Financing (1)+(2) USD 7,471,000 SIGNATURES Signature: print name below Agreed by Date/Month/Year: Ministerio de Ambiente y Energia - MINAE Signature: print name below Agreed by Date/Month/Year: UNOPS Signature: print name below Agreed by UNDP Date/Month/Year: Key GEF Project Cycle Milestones: Project document signature: within 25 days of GEF CEO endorsement First disbursement date: within 40 days of GEF CEO endorsement Inception workshop date: within 60 days of GEF CEO endorsement Operational closure: within 3 months of posting of TE to UNDP ERC Financial closure: within 6 months of operational closure 2 | P a g e I. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Development Challenge ..................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1. Project Description. ........................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1.1. Overview: ........................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.1.2. Intervention Area – Land Use Cover .................................................................................................................. 5 2.1.3. Social And Economic Data: ................................................................................................................................ 6 2.1.4. Ecosystem description ....................................................................................................................................... 7 2.1.4.1. The Jesus Maria River Basin (JMRB) ............................................................................................................ 7 2.1.4.2. Barranca River Basin (BRB) .......................................................................................................................... 8 2.1.4.3. Montes de Aguacate Biological Corridor (MABC) ....................................................................................... 9 2.1.4.4. Lower Grande Tarcoles River basin (LGTRB) ............................................................................................... 9 2.1.4.5. Paso Las Lapas Biological Corridor (PLLBC) ............................................................................................... 11 2.1.5. Main Threats, causes and barriers ................................................................................................................... 14 2.1.5.1. Barriers ...................................................................................................................................................... 16 III. Strategy ............................................................................................................................................................ 18 3.1. Baseline scenario ............................................................................................................................................. 18 3.2. Associated baseline projects ............................................................................................................................ 20 3.3. The proposed alternative scenario .................................................................................................................. 23 3.3.1. Theory of Change ............................................................................................................................................. 23 3.3.2. Project Objective .............................................................................................................................................. 24 3.3.3. Project Components, Outcomes, Outputs And Activities ................................................................................ 24 3.4. Consistency with National Priorities. ............................................................................................................... 32 3.5. Alignment with GEF focal area and/or Impact Programme strategies: ........................................................... 34 3.6. Incremental/additional cost reasoning and expected contributions from the baseline, the GEFTF and co- financing: .................................................................................................................................................................... 35 IV. Results and Partnerships.................................................................................................................................. 36 4.1. Expected Results: ............................................................................................................................................. 36 4.2. Partnerships: ...................................................................................................................................................