AFB/PPRC.17/17 25 September 2015 Adaptation Fund Board Project and Programme Review Committee Seventeenth Meeting Bonn, Germany, 6-7 October 2015 Agenda Item 6 l) PROPOSAL FOR NAMIBIA (4) AFB/PPRC.17/17 Background 1. The Operational Policies and Guidelines (OPG) for Parties to Access Resources from the Adaptation Fund (the Fund), adopted by the Adaptation Fund Board (the Board), state in paragraph 45 that regular adaptation project and programme proposals, i.e. those that request funding exceeding US$ 1 million, would undergo either a one-step, or a two-step approval process. In case of the one-step process, the proponent would directly submit a fully-developed project proposal. In the two-step process, the proponent would first submit a brief project concept, which would be reviewed by the Project and Programme Review Committee (PPRC) and would have to receive the endorsement of the Board. In the second step, the fully- developed project/programme document would be reviewed by the PPRC, and would ultimately require the Board’s approval. 2. The Templates approved by the Board (OPG, Annex 4) do not include a separate template for project and programme concepts but provide that these are to be submitted using the project and programme proposal template. The section on Adaptation Fund Project Review Criteria states: For regular projects using the two-step approval process, only the first four criteria will be applied when reviewing the 1st step for regular project concept. In addition, the information provided in the 1st step approval process with respect to the review criteria for the regular project concept could be less detailed than the information in the request for approval template submitted at the 2nd step approval process. Furthermore, a final project document is required for regular projects for the 2nd step approval, in addition to the approval template. 3. The first four criteria mentioned above are: 1. Country Eligibility, 2. Project Eligibility, 3. Resource Availability, and 4. Eligibility of NIE/MIE. 4. The fifth criterion, applied when reviewing a fully-developed project document, is: 5. Implementation Arrangements. 5. It is worth noting that since the twenty-second Board meeting, the Environmental and Social (E&S) Policy of the Fund was approved and consequently compliance with the Policy has been included in the review criteria both for concept documents and fully-developed project documents. The proposals template was revised as well, to include sections requesting demonstration of compliance of the project/programme with the E&S Policy. 6. In its seventeenth meeting, the Board decided (Decision B.17/7) to approve “Instructions for preparing a request for project or programme funding from the Adaptation Fund”, contained in the Annex to document AFB/PPRC.8/4, which further outlines applicable review criteria for both concepts and fully-developed proposals. The latest version of this document was launched in conjunction with the revision of the Operational Policies and Guidelines in November 2013. 7. Based on the Board Decision B.9/2, the first call for project and programme proposals was issued and an invitation letter to eligible Parties to submit project and programme proposals to the Fund was sent out on April 8, 2010. 1 AFB/PPRC.17/17 8. According to the Board Decision B.12/10, a project or programme proposal needs to be received by the secretariat no less than nine weeks before a Board meeting, in order to be considered by the Board in that meeting. 9. The following fully-developed project document titled “Integrating climate smart land management options in Namibia: to enhance long term productivity, profitability and resilience” was submitted by the Desert research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN), which is the National Implementing Entity of the Adaptation Fund for Namibia. 10. This is the first submission of the proposal. It was received by the secretariat in time to be considered in the twenty-sixth Board meeting. The secretariat carried out a technical review of the project proposal, assigned it the diary number NAM/NIE/Rural/2015/1, and completed a review sheet. 11. In accordance with a request to the secretariat made by the Board in its 10th meeting, the secretariat shared this review sheet with DRFN, and offered it the opportunity of providing responses before the review sheet was sent to the PPRC. 12. The secretariat is submitting to the PPRC the summary and, pursuant to decision B.17/15, the final technical review of the project, both prepared by the secretariat, along with the final submission of the proposal in the following section. In accordance with decision B.25.15, the proposal is submitted with changes between the initial submission and the revised version highlighted. 2 AFB/PPRC.17/17 Project Summary Namibia – Integrating climate smart land management options in Namibia: to enhance long term productivity, profitability and resilience Implementing Entity: DRFN Project/Programme Execution Cost: USD 525,346 Total Project/Programme Cost: USD 5,529,954 Implementing Fee: USD 470,046 Financing Requested: USD 6,000,000 Project Background and Context: Despite several successes in the field of natural resources management, conservation programs implemented in Namibia have focused primarily on wildlife, tourism and sustainable utilization of resources, leaving aside the agricultural sector. Nevertheless, the majority of conservancy members practice and depend on agriculture (mostly at subsistence level), based on communal resources. This multi-sectoral initiative will build upon the work done by various stakeholders over the past years in the field of land tenure in Namibia, notably by the Ministry of Land Reform and its Integrated Regional Land Use plans. The project will create a national platform to coordinate national efforts in land tenure and implement them at different local levels. The project will take place in 12 selected sites, spread across the country. Component 1: Integrated land management planning at local level (USD 736,680) The goal of this component will be to achieve sustainable land use through participatory land use planning. Efforts will be made to inform targeted communities on the nexus between climate change and land use, and their respective impacts on communities’ livelihoods, in order to support the implementation of a coherent land use vision in the targeted region in a participatory way. To support these activities, maps of current land use and trends will be produced. Ultimately, land use plans will be developed by communities, along with an actionable roadmap for the implementation of such plans in the targeted areas. Component 2: Governance and Institutional structure (USD 250,230) The project will seek to strengthen the competences of local institutions in the target areas, in implementing the local climate-smart plans prepared in a participatory manner under component 1. The activities will consist in identifying suitable community structures at local level, recognizing their potential gaps, and reinforcing them accordingly. Component 3: Implementation of climate smart local level plans (USD 3,016,776) This component will build upon component 1 and 2 to achieve the implementation of integrated and climate-smart land use plans in cooperation with local governing bodies. The project will implement practical technologies that could include rangeland management and cultivated pastures, conservation agriculture, livestock production, forest and woodland management, indigenous natural products, wildlife utilization, fire management, tourism, fisheries, small-scale horticulture and small animal production, marketing, among others. Component 4: Learning and knowledge management (USD 500,461) 3 AFB/PPRC.17/17 The project will document and share new knowledge, as it is developed, with relevant stakeholders such as land users, farmers, decision-makers, among others, in order to replicate best practices in other areas. Component 5: Research and Development (USD 500,461) The project will foster research and development of new technologies that could be tested and applied to local contexts. Precise needs will be identified under Component 1, but potential outputs include the development of research studies related to local fodder crops, rehabilitation of degraded rangelands, desertification of arid areas, economic viability of current forestry strategies, or woodland reforestation, among others. 4 AFB/PPRC.17/17 ADAPTATION FUND BOARD SECRETARIAT TECHNICAL REVIEW OF PROJECT/PROGRAMME PROPOSAL PROJECT/PROGRAMME CATEGORY: Regular-sized Project _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Country/Region: Namibia Project Title: Integrating climate smart land management options in Namibia: to enhance long term productivity, profitability and resilience AF Project ID: NAM/NIE/Rural/2015/1 IE Project ID: Requested Financing from Adaptation Fund (US Dollars): $6,000,000 Reviewer and contact person: Hugo Remaury Co-reviewer(s): Shyla Raghav, Andrew Chilombo IE Contact Person: Dr. Martin Schneider Review Questions Comments on 21/8/15 Comments on 10/9/2015 Criteria 1. Is the country party to the Yes Kyoto Protocol? Yes, Namibia is cited as the most arid Country 2. Is the country a developing country in sub-Saharan Africa and is Eligibility country particularly vulnerable to the adverse projected to have an increase in aridity effects of climate change? and an intensification of climate variability. 1. Has the designated Yes