United Nations Development Programme PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA PROJECT DOCUMENT CBPF-MSL: Strengthening the Management Effectiveness of the Wetland Protected Project Title: Area System in Hainan for Conservation of Globally Significant Biodiversity Outcome 1: Government and other stakeholders ensure environmental sustainability, UNDAF address climate change, and promote a green, low carbon economy. Outcome(s): UNDP Strategic Plan Environment and Sustainable Development Primary Outcome: Mobilizing environmental financing UNDP Strategic Plan Secondary Outcome: Mainstreaming environment and energy Expected CP Out come(s): Outcome 4: Low carbon and other environmentally sustainable strategies and technologies are adapted widely to meet China’s commitments and compliance with Multilateral Environmental Agreements; and Outcome 5. The vulnerability of poor communities and ecosystems to climate change is reduced . Expected CPAP Output (s): Output 4.1 Policy and capacity barriers for the sustained and widespread adoption of low carbon and other environmentally sustainable strategies and technologies removed, and Output 5.1 A strengthened policy, legal, institutional framework for the sustainable use of land, water, the conservation of biodiversity, and other natural resources in fragile ecosystems is enforced. Executing Entity/Implementing Partner: Hainan Forestry Department (HFD), Dongzhaigang Nature Reserve Implementing Entity/Responsible Partners: HFD, and Dongzhaigang NR Brief Description Hainan Island has the largest area of tropical rainforest, mature mangrove and coral reef resources in China, constituting one of the country’s most valuable areas for biodiversity conservation. However, the globally significant ecosystems of Hainan Island are fragile and under increasing threat from a number of factors, notably deforestation due to encroachment for agriculture, plantations and urban development. The main wetland areas in Hainan are coastal where pressure is most severe. Mangroves are impacted by aquaculture and coastal development, infrastructure projects and tourism facilities, significant pollution concerns, as well as intense utilization of wetland resources, alien invasive species and impacts of climate change. The long-term solution that this project proposes is to strengthen the PA network in the Province through enhanced management effectiveness and improved financial sustainability. Forming part of the UNDP/GEF CBPF-MSL programmatic framework, the project goal is: to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biodiversity in Hainan Province, China. The project objective is: to strengthen the management effectiveness of the wetland protected area system in Hainan in response to existing and emerging threats to the globally significant biodiversity and essential ecosystem services. The focus of the project is to strengthen Hainan’s PA system to ensure the protection of a representative sample of its exceptionally rich and unique biodiversity and to more effectively manage the wetland PA subsystem. There are three inter-connected components. Component 1 addresses the spatial, regulatory and institutional deficiencies of the provincial PA system, to enable the provincial government to conserve biodiversity more effectively through the PA system, and to support individual PAs as well as the mangrove PA network under Component 2. It will result in the expansion, consolidation and strengthening of PRODOC 4597 Hainan Wetland PA System Management Effectiveness 1 Table of Contents SECTION I: Elaboration of the Narrative .................................................................................................. 7 PART I: Situation Analysis ...................................................................................................................... 7 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 7 Context and Global Significance ..................................................................................................... 8 Threats, Root Causes and Impacts ................................................................................................. 20 Long-term Solution and Barriers to Achieving the Solution ........................................................... 23 Introduction to Site Interventions .................................................................................................. 25 Stakeholder Analysis ..................................................................................................................... 27 PART II: Strategy .................................................................................................................................. 36 Project Rationale and Policy Conformity ....................................................................................... 36 Project Goal, Objective, Outcomes and Outputs/Activities ............................................................ 38 Project Indicators .......................................................................................................................... 63 Risks and Assumptions ................................................................................................................. 64 Incremental Reasoning and Expected Global, National and Local Benefits .................................... 69 Cost-effectiveness ......................................................................................................................... 71 Project Consistency with National Priorities/Plans ......................................................................... 72 Country Ownership: Country Eligibility and Country Drivenness .................................................. 74 Sustainability and Replicability ..................................................................................................... 74 PART III: Management Arrangements ................................................................................................ 76 PART IV: Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and Budget ...................................................................... 79 Monitoring and Reporting ............................................................................................................. 79 Independent Evaluations, Audits and Financial Reporting ............................................................. 83 Learning and Knowledge Sharing.................................................................................................. 83 Communications and Visibility Requirements ............................................................................... 84 Audit Clause ................................................................................................................................. 84 PART V: Legal Context ......................................................................................................................... 86 SECTION II: STRATEGIC RESULTS FRAMEWORK (SRF) AND GEF INCREMENT .................... 87 PART I: Strategic Results Framework, SRF (formerly GEF Logical Framework) Analysis .............. 87 Indicator Framework as Part of the SRF ........................................................................................ 87 PART II: Incremental Cost Analysis ..................................................................................................... 97 SECTION III: Total Budget and Workplan ............................................................................................ 102 SECTION IV: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION .................................................................................... 108 PART I: Other agreements .................................................................................................................. 108 Co-financing Letters ................................................................................................................... 108 PART II: Organogram of Project ........................................................................................................ 110 PART III: Terms of Reference for key project staff ........................................................................... 111 Project Manager .......................................................................................................................... 111 Project Assistant ......................................................................................................................... 113 Chief Technical Advisor ............................................................................................................. 114 Overview of Inputs from Technical Assistance Consultants ......................................................... 116 PART IV: Stakeholder Involvement Plan .......................................................................................... 123 Project Annexes ........................................................................................................................................ 130 Annex 1. BD-1 Tracking Tool (METT and Financial Sustainability Scorecard) ..... Error! Bookmark not defined. Annex 2. Capacity Development Scorecard for Hainan Provincial PA System Agencies .................. 131 2.1 UNDP Capacity Scorecard: Hainan Forestry Department ................................................ 131 2.2 UNDP Capacity Scorecard: Hainan Land Environment and Resources Department ......... 140 PRODOC