United Nations Development Programme Country: PALAU PROJECT DOCUMENT Project Title: Mainstreaming global environmental priorities into national policies and programmes Regional UNDAF Focus Area: Environmental Management, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Regional UNDAF Outcome 1.1: Improved resilience of PICTs, with particular focus on communities, through integrated implementation of sustainable environmental management, climate change adaptation/mitigation, and disaster risk management Palau UNDAF Outcome 1.1: National and local authorities and partners sustainably manage and utilize Palau’s natural resources, mitigate and adapt climate change and natural disasters Executing Entity/Implementing Partner: Office of Environmental Response and Coordination (OERC) Implementing Entity/Responsible Partners: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Brief Description: This project is in line with the following CCCD Programme Objectives: i) CD 2 to generate, access and use information and knowledge; and ii) CD 5 to enhance capacities to monitor and evaluate environmental impacts and trends. It is also aligned with the first objective of the GEF-6 CCCD strategy that is to integrate global environmental needs into management information and monitoring systems. It is a direct response to the GEF-funded National Capacity Self- Assessment (NCSA) project conducted in Palau during the period of 2006-2007, which identified environmental information as a constraint for good environmental decision-making and that there was a need for more comprehensive datasets to be made available to stakeholders including decision-makers and also a greater capacity of stakeholders for analyzing and using this information in related policy and programme making. Through a learning-by-doing process, this project will harmonize existing information systems, and integrate internationally accepted measurement standards and methodologies, as well as consistent reporting on the status of the environment in Palau. It will target the development of capacities at the individual and organizational level, strengthening technical skills to manage data and transform this information into knowledge. The project will also support activities to strengthen the coordination between key sectors to address biodiversity, climate change and land degradation issues at systemic and institutional levels. Under the first component, the project will improve existing management information systems to measure achievements towards global environmental objectives. Under the second component, the project will strengthen technical capacities to monitor and evaluate the state of the environment in Palau to use improved data and information for strategic decision-making in the interest of meeting global environmental obligations. Finally, under the third component, the project will focus on enhancing the institutional sustainability of capacities developed under the project, including strengthening the institutional linkages of data and information systems across agencies and stakeholder organizations. Lessons learned and best practices will be shared in the region. 1 Programme Period: 2015-2018 Total resources required USD 1,180,000 Atlas Award ID: TBC Total allocated resources: Project ID: TBC o GEF USD 550,000 PIMS # 5049 o Government In-kind USD 600,000 o UNDP In-kind USD 30,000 Start date: April 2015 End Date March 2018 Management Arrangements NIM PAC Meeting Date January 19, 2015 Agreed by: Office of Environmental Response and Coordination (OERC) ________________________________ ____16/01/15___ National Environment Planner, OERC Date/Month/Year Agreed by: United Nations Development Programme ____________________________________ ______________ (UNDP) Resident Representative UNDP-MCO Fiji Date/Month/Year 2 Table of Contents ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 4 PART I - PROJECT .......................................................................................................................................................... 6 A PROJECT SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................ 6 A.1 PROJECT RATIONALE .............................................................................................................................................. 6 A.2 PROJECT STRATEGY ................................................................................................................................................ 7 A.3 KEY INDICATORS, ASSUMPTIONS, AND RISKS ......................................................................................................... 8 B COUNTRY OWNERSHIP ........................................................................................................................................ 8 B.1 COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY ............................................................................................................................................ 8 B.2 COUNTRY DRIVENNESS ............................................................................................................................................ 9 B.2.a National Capacity Self-Assessment.............................................................................................................. 11 B.2.b Sustainable Development Context ............................................................................................................... 14 B.2.c Policy and Legislative Context .................................................................................................................... 18 B.2.d Institutional Context .................................................................................................................................... 24 B.2.e Barriers to Achieving Global Environmental Objectives ............................................................................. 27 C. PROGRAMME AND POLICY CONFORMITY ................................................................................................ 29 C.1 GEF PROGRAMME DESIGNATION AND CONFORMITY .......................................................................................... 29 C.1.a Guidance from the Rio Conventions ............................................................................................................ 32 C.2 PROJECT DESIGN ....................................................................................................................................................... 34 C.2.a GEF Alternative........................................................................................................................................... 34 C.3 SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICABILITY .................................................................................................................. 39 C.3.a Sustainability ............................................................................................................................................... 39 C.3.b Replicability and Lessons Learned .............................................................................................................. 41 C.3.c Risks and Assumptions ................................................................................................................................. 41 C.4 STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT .............................................................................................................................. 43 C.5 MONITORING AND EVALUATION ........................................................................................................................... 45 D. FINANCING ........................................................................................................................................................... 49 D.1 FINANCING PLAN .................................................................................................................................................... 49 D.2 COST EFFECTIVENESS ............................................................................................................................................ 51 D.3 CO-FINANCING ....................................................................................................................................................... 51 E. INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION AND SUPPORT .................................................................................... 55 E.1 CORE COMMITMENTS AND LINKAGES .................................................................................................................. 55 E.1.a Linkages to Other Activities and Programmes ............................................................................................ 55 E.2 IMPLEMENTATION AND EXECUTION ARRANGEMENTS ........................................................................................ 57 F LEGAL CONTEXT ................................................................................................................................................. 59 PART II: ANNEXES ................................................................................................................................................... 61 ANNEX 1: CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT SCORECARD ........................................................................................................ 62 ANNEX 2: PROJECT RESULTS FRAMEWORK .................................................................................................................