Increasing Resilience and Adaptation of the Communities in the Poopó and Katari Watersheds
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Increasing resilience and adaptation of the communities in the Poopó and Katari watersheds | Bolivia Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) 8 March 2018 Increasing resilience and adaptation of the communities in the Project/Programme Title: Poopó and Katari watersheds Country(ies): Bolivia National Designated Ministerio de Planificación del Desarrollo Authority(ies) (NDA): Accredited Entity(ies) (AE): Inter-American Development Bank Date of first submission/ [2018-02-14] [V.1] version number: Date of current submission/ [2018-03-06] [V.2] version number Please submit the completed form to [email protected], using the following name convention in the subject line and file name: “CN-[Accredited Entity or Country]-YYYYMMDD” PROJECT / PROGRAMME CONCEPT NOTE Template V.2.2 Notes • The maximum number of pages should not exceed 12 pages, excluding annexes. Proposals exceeding the prescribed length will not be assessed within the indicative service standard time of 30 days. • As per the Information Disclosure Policy, the concept note, and additional documents provided to the Secretariat can be disclosed unless marked by the Accredited Entity(ies) (or NDAs) as confidential. • The relevant National Designated Authority(ies) will be informed by the Secretariat of the concept note upon receipt. • NDA can also submit the concept note directly with or without an identified accredited entity at this stage. In this case, they can leave blank the section related to the accredited entity. The Secretariat will inform the accredited entity(ies) nominated by the NDA, if any. • Accredited Entities and/or NDAs are encouraged to submit a Concept Note before making a request for project preparation support from the Project Preparation Facility (PPF). • Further information on GCF concept note preparation can be found on GCF website Funding Projects Fine Print. PROJECT / PROGRAMME CONCEPT NOTE Template V.2.2 GREEN CLIMATE FUND | PAGE 1 OF 4 A. Project/Programme Summary (max. 1 page) ☒ Project A.2. Public or ☒ Public sector A.1. Project or programme ☐ Programme private sector ☐ Private sector Yes ☐ No ☒ A.3. Is the CN submitted in ☒ Confidential If yes, specify the RFP: A.4. Confidentiality1 response to an RFP? ☐ Not confidential ______________ Mitigation: Reduced emissions from: ☐ Energy access and power generation ☐ Low emission transport ☐ Buildings, cities and industries and appliances A.5. Indicate the result ☐ Forestry and land use areas for the Adaptation: Increased resilience of: project/programme ☒ Most vulnerable people and communities ☒ Health and well-being, and food and water security ☒ Infrastructure and built environment ☐ Ecosystem and ecosystem services A.7. Estimated 42 municipalities will A.6. Estimated mitigation adaptation impact benefit directly from the Mitigation potential is currently impact (tCO2eq over (number of direct project. That is being identified lifespan) beneficiaries and % of approximately 14.7% of population) Bolivia’s population A.8. Indicative total project Amount: USD 390.3 A.9. Indicative GCF Amount: USD 122.00 cost (GCF + co-finance) funding requested A.10. Mark the type of financial instrument ☒ Grant ☐ Reimbursable grant ☐ Guarantees ☐ Equity requested for the GCF ☐ Subordinated loan ☒ Senior Loan ☐ Other: specify___________________ funding a) disbursement period: 2019 – A.12. Estimated This refers to the total A.11. Estimated duration 2022 project/ Programme period over which the of project/ programme: b) repayment period, if applicable: lifespan investment is effective. TBD Yes ☒ No ☐ A.13. Is funding from the ☐ A or I-1 Project Preparation Other support received ☒ If so, by A.14. ESS category3 ☒ B or I-2 EXPECTED 2 who: Inter-American Development Facility requested? ☐ C or I-3 Bank A.15. Is the CN aligned A.16. Has the CN been with your accreditation Yes ☒ No ☐ Yes ☒ No ☐ shared with the NDA? standard? Yes ☒ No ☐ A.18. Is the CN A.17. AMA signed (if If no, specify the status of AMA included in the Entity Yes ☒ No ☐ submitted by AE) negotiations and expected date of Work Programme? signing: This project addresses the following identified challenges: (i) the need to conceive water A.19. Project/Programme security from a systemic approach (ii) Limited capacity for adaptation management planning rationale, objectives and at the watershed level; (iii) Need to generate and collect data for the design and approach of implementation of evidence-based public policies which address the consequences of programme/project (max climate change at the municipal level; (iv) Increased vulnerability of the communities in the 100 words) Katari and Poopó basins to climate change impacts on the availability and quality of water; (v) the need to consolidate and strengthen a programmatic investment framework to 1 Concept notes (or sections of) not marked as confidential may be published in accordance with the Information Disclosure Policy (Decision B.12/35) and the Review of the Initial Proposal Approval Process (Decision B.17/18). 2 See here for access to project preparation support request template and guidelines 3 Refer to the Fund’s environmental and social safeguards (Decision B.07/02) PROJECT / PROGRAMME CONCEPT NOTE Template V.2.2 GREEN CLIMATE FUND | PAGE 2 OF 4 respond to climate change adaptation needs, within the scope of integrated watershed management. B. Project/Programme Information (max. 8 pages) B.1. Context and baseline (max. 2 pages) 1. The socioeconomic and geographical characteristics of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (PSB), its high poverty (55%) and extreme poverty (33%) rates in rural areas (INE, 2016) combined with its heavy dependence on natural resources (ECLAC, 2015), and existing information gaps for the sustainable management of natural resources result in an extremely high degree of vulnerability to the effects of climate change (Ibish et al., 2003). Thus, the observed and expected hydrological changes in the patterns of hydro-climatic variables (UNEP, 2014) and glacial retreat (Francou et al., 2000; Kaser, 1999) together with exponential population growth, and an over-reliance on vulnerable aquifers (CEAM, 2011), generate serious climate-threats to Bolivian rural communities that are especially sensitive to temperature variability (INE, 2016). 2. To address the urgencies and stress caused by climate change, the Plurinational State of Bolivia (PSB) launched the National Watershed Plan (Plan Nacional de Cuencas or PNC) under the Ministry of Water and the Environment (MMAyA.) The PNC aims to function as a comprehensive umbrella programme which coordinates all activities with the aim of executing integrated watershed management policies throughout the country. As such, particular interest is vested upon the fourteen most vulnerable watersheds in Bolivia. Further to the PNC, the PSB’s Nationally Determined Contribution identify the water sector and the need to develop holistic adaptation measures as a national priority. 3. Within the direct area of intervention of this programme, MMAyA estimates the direct needed funding for adaptation at approximately USD 250 million for the next five years, out of a total of USD650 million needed to address all water related concerns. This programme is conceived to build upon Bolivia’s existing activities and seeks to pilot and verify the validity of a working methodology that lays the foundations of a bottom-up multi-sectorial intervention to successfully execute integrated watershed management policies. The goal for the PSB is to execute the most urgent adaptation driven activities which will result in an increased resilience while also strengthening integrated watershed management capacity in the most vulnerable territories. Along these lines, the ambit of the proposed programme is the Bolivian TDPS (Titicaca-Desaguadero-Poopó-Salar de Coipasa) endorheic system. Given its high vulnerability, interventions will specifically be focused in its two principal watersheds, namely the Katari and Poopó basins. The programme is aimed at generating practical and applicable local know-how on adaptation at the watershed level, for further scaling-up in other economically and socially important watersheds of the country. 4. Bolivia is located in the South American Central Andean region. Because of its greatly varied topography, the country hosts several ecological zones including the high-Andean puna, the puna valleys, and plains, including the chaco plain (Montes de Oca, 2005), which have a semi-arid climate, and make-up almost 50% of the national territory (CAN, 2009). This results in a natural predisposition to climate-induced threats, as the environment is naturally subject to a series of risks whose main cause is climate variability. Thus, climate change acts as a “threat multiplier” by aggravating local vulnerability in these regions (UNDP, 2011), and particularly, by affecting watershed water balances. The Titicaca-Desaguadero-Poopó-Salar de Coipasa (TDPS) endorheic system is of particular economic importance for the country, which is composed by Lake Titicaca, Alto Desaguadero, Bajo Desaguadero, Mauri, Lake Poopó and Salar de Coipasa. It encompasses a total area of 140,000 square kilometers (CAN, op.cit.) and represents one of the largest ecosystems in the region (SDC, 2006). The TDPS is located in the puna within the enormous endorheic basin of the Altiplano (over 4,000 meters above sea level or masl), covering part of the Departments of La Paz and Oruro as well as two important cities within, (El Alto and Oruro) as well as approximately one hundred