Integrated Landscape Management in the Dry Miombo Woodlands of Tanzania 1 FAO-GEF PROJECT DOCUMENT Project Title: Integrated Landscape Management in the Dry Miombo Woodlands of Tanzania GEF ID: 10250 FAO Entity Number: 658600 FAO Project Symbol: GCP/URT/001/GFF Country United Republic of Tanzania EOD (Implementation start): 1 May 2021 NTE (Implementation end): 30 April 2026 Environmental and Social low risk moderate risk high risk Risk Classification: Gender Marker: G0 G1 G2a G2b Contribution to FAO’s Strategic Objective/Organizational Outcome: Strategic Framework: SO 2: Make Agriculture, Forestry and fisheries more productive and (Indicate as appropriate) sustainable SO 3: Reduce Rural Poverty SO5: Increase the resilience of livelihood to threats and crises Country Programming Framework(s) Output(s): Priority D: Strengthening resilience to Natural and man-made Treats and Crises, such as climate change impacts; and unsustainable Management of Natural Resources Regional Initiative/Priority Area: • Contributes to FAO’s Regional Initiative 2: Sustainable Production Intensification and Value Chain Development in Africa • Contributes to FAO’s Regional Initiative 3: Building Resilience in Africa’s drylands Project Budget (GEF): $ 7,368,807 Co-financing: $ 36,057,124 Total Project Budget: $ 43,425,931 Executive Summary Tanzania hosts both wet and dry Miombo woodlands. The wet Miombo woodlands of Tanzania are located in the southwestern part of the country, and are central to the livelihood systems of millions of rural and urban dwellers in Tanzania, both for domestic and some agro-industry activities. They provide goods and services provided to livelihoods of local communities such as medicines, energy, food, fibers, and construction and craft materials. However, anthropogenic and natural threats are causing significant biodiversity loss in Miombo woodlands, primarily associated with deforestation and land degradation as the most significant causes of biodiversity loss. This is causing the loss of dryland productivity, ecosystems goods and services, and global environmental values, which undermines livelihoods, food security and the potential for sustainable economic development for farm, forest and rangeland users, and leads to biodiversity loss, and further increases vulnerability to climate change. The main causes and drivers of this degradation include: agricultural expansion and forest fragmentation; unsustainable agricultural activities and low adoption of improved management practices; unsustainable forest management and unsustainable extraction of forest products; high reliance on Miombo wood for energy and construction and wildfires; with the threats exacerbated by climate change impacts. This project is part of a joint submission of six Southern African countries under the GEF SFM DSL IP pursuing the same overall goal: to support a transformational shift towards a sustainable and integrated management of multi-use dryland landscapes of the Miombo and Mopane ecoregions. The project will benefit from the wealth of international experts, lessons learned, and best practices in the domain of Regional Exchange Mechanism (REM) and Global Coordination Project (GCP) that will be made available to the 2 national components. The Tanzania child project focuses on degraded areas of the Miombo. Woodlands in the south-west of Tanzania. The targeted landscape is covering the following four regions and eleven districts: Tabora Region (Kaliua, Urambo, Sikonge, Uyui District Councils), Katavi Region (Mlele, Tanganyika District Councils), Rukwa Region (Nkasi, Sumbawanga District Councils) and Songwe Region (Mbozi, Momba, Songwe District Councils). Key project activities will be implemented in two sub-landscapes: Tabora (Kaliua District Council) Region landscape, and Katavi Region landscape (Mlele District Council), covering a total area of 1,244,341 ha, and then gradually outscaled to the other sub-landscapes. The project seeks to halt and reverse negative trends of land degradation and biodiversity loss in degraded areas of the Miombo woodlands in the south-west of Tanzania by applying an integrated landscape management approach. It aims to achieve this through the three following interlinked components: 1. Strengthening the enabling environment for the sustainable management of the targeted dry Miombo woodlands. It will achieve this through reactivating the cross-sectoral LDN national working group and establishing a Miombo landscape level technical working group, strengthening knowledge on the values of Miombo woodland's ecosystem services, and reviewing strategies, plans and other sectoral frameworks and clarifying / developing by-laws 2. Demonstrating, implementing and scaling out SLM and SFM good practices at landscape level, by first promoting participatory land use planning. It will further promote integrated and participatory forest management, and will also put in place extension structures to provide training and support for the adoption of SLM and SFM practices to increase resilience and achieve LDN. It will support the strengthening/establishment of community seeds banks to increase access to adapted and diversified seeds/seedlings. Sustainable value chains based on SLM and SFM will thereafter be strengthened to provide sustainable and diversified sources of income for farm, forest and rangeland users. 3. Strengthening knowledge, learning and collaboration to support progress towards achieving national LDN targets, through creating a supportive environment for LDN assessment, monitoring and reporting at national and landscape levels, supporting transboundary collaboration to address common land and natural resource degradation drivers, and increasing opportunities for national, regional and global knowledge exchange and experience sharing. 3 CONTENTS ACRONYMS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7 PART I: PROJECT INFORMATION ................................................................................ 11 A. FOCAL/NON-FOCAL AREA ELEMENTS ............................................................................................. 11 B. PROJECT DESCRIPTION SUMMARY................................................................................................... 11 C. CONFIRMED SOURCES OF CO-FINANCING FOR THE PROJECT BY NAME AND BY TYPE ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 D. TRUST FUND RESOURCES REQUESTED BY AGENCY(IES), COUNTRY(IES), FOCAL AREA AND THE PROGRAMMING OF FUNDS..................................................................................................... 17 E. DOES THE PROJECT INCLUDE A “NON-GRANT” INSTRUMENT? ............................................. 17 F. PROJECT’S TARGET CONTRIBUTIONS TO GEF 7 CORE INDICATORS ................................... 17 PART II: PROJECT JUSTIFICATION ............................................................................. 19 1.A PROJECT DESCRIPTION ....................................................................................................................... 19 The global environmental problems, root causes and barriers that need to be addressed (systems description). .......... 19 The project’s Strategy and Theory of Change .................................................................................................................. 52 Alignment with GEF focal area and/or Impact Program strategies ................................................................................ 88 Incremental/additional cost reasoning and expected contributions from the baseline, the GEFTF, LDCF, SCCF, and co- financing ........................................................................................................................................................................... 90 Global environmental benefits ......................................................................................................................................... 92 Innovativeness, sustainability, potential for scaling up and system-wide capacity development ................................... 92 Main changes from concept at PFD stage ....................................................................................................................... 94 1.B PROJECT MAP AND GEO-COORDINATES ....................................................................................... 95 2. STAKEHOLDERS ........................................................................................................................................ 95 3. GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT................................................................. 97 3a. About Gender Equality ............................................................................................................................................... 98 3b. Gender Action Plan .................................................................................................................................................. 101 4. PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT ..................................................................................................... 104 5. RISKS ........................................................................................................................................................... 105 Section A: Risks to the