PROJECT PROPOSAL TO THE ADAPTATION FUND Project/Programme Category: Regular Country/ies: Djibouti Title of Project/Programme: Integrated Water and Soil Resources Management Project (Projet de gestion intégrée des ressources en eau et des sols PROGIRES) Type of Implementing Entity: Multilateral Implementing Entity Implementing Entity: International Fund for Agricultural Development Executing Entity/ies: Ministry of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Livestock Amount of Financing Requested: 5,339,285 (in U.S Dollars Equivalent) i Table of Contents PART I: PROJECT/PROGRAMME INFORMATION ......................................................................... 1 A. Project Background and Context ............................................................................. 1 Geography ............................................................................................... 1 Climate .................................................................................................... 2 Socio-Economic Context ............................................................................ 3 Agriculture ............................................................................................... 5 Gender .................................................................................................... 7 Climate trends and impacts ........................................................................ 9 Project Upscaling and Lessons Learned ...................................................... 19 Relationship with IFAD PGIRE Project ........................................................ 21 Targeting and Targeting Strategies ........................................................... 22 B. Project / Programme Objectives ........................................................................... 25 C. Project / Programme Components and Financing .................................................... 25 D. Projected Calendar: ............................................................................................ 27 PART II: PROJECT JUSTIFICATION .............................................................................................. 28 A. Project Components .................................................................................... 28 B. Environmental, Social and Economic Benefits .................................................. 41 C. Cost-effectiveness ....................................................................................... 44 D. Strategic Alignment ............................................................................................ 49 E. National Technical Standards and Environment and Social Policy .............................. 53 F. Duplication with other funding sources .................................................................. 55 G. Learning, knowledge management and lessons learned. .......................................... 57 H. Consultative Process ........................................................................................... 58 I. Justification for Funding ....................................................................................... 59 J. Project Sustainability .......................................................................................... 62 K. Socio-Environmental Impacts and Risks ................................................................ 64 PART III: IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS .......................................................................... 72 A. Arrangements for project implementation .............................................................. 72 B. Financial and Project Risk Management ................................................................. 76 C. Environmental and Social Risk Management ........................................................... 80 D. Monitoring and Evaluation Arrangements ............................................................... 81 E. Results Framework ............................................................................................. 84 ii F. Alignment with the Adaptation Fund Results Framework .......................................... 90 G. Project budget .................................................................................................... 92 H. Disbursement Schedule ....................................................................................... 95 PART IV: ENDORSEMENT BY GOVERNMENT AND CERTIFICATION BY THE IMPLEMENTING ENTITY ....................................................................................................................................... 96 ANNEXES Annex 1 Gannt Chart ................................................................................................. 97 Annex 2 Climate risk analysis .................................................................................... 101 Annex 3 Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) ........................................ 109 Annex 4 Grievance Mechanism .................................................................................. 151 Annex 5 Gender Assessment ..................................................................................... 157 Annex 6 Potential Partner Evaluation Matrix ................................................................ 173 Annex 7 Gender Sensitive Design Checklist ................................................................. 174 Annex 8 Summary table of persons met ..................................................................... 178 Annex 9 Summary of Funding of MAEPE-RH Projects .................................................... 179 Annex 10 Organigramme of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries .............. 181 List of Figures Figure 1 Project area ...................................................................................................... vii Figure 2 Annual climate in Djibouti: Precipitation (Left), temperature (Right) ........................... 3 Figure 3 Poverty rate by region .......................................................................................... 5 Figure 4 November 2019 floods. Affected areas in the country and in Djibouti City ................. 11 Figure 5 Monthly temperature and trend (1901-2017) Obock ............................................. 101 Figure 6 Mean temperature and trend (1901-2017) Tadjourah ........................................... 103 Figure 7 Mean temperature and trend (1901-2017) Dikhil ................................................. 105 Figure 8 Mean temperature and trend (1901-2017) Ali Sabieh ........................................... 107 List of Tables Table 1 Average Monthly Temperature and Rainfall of Djibouti for 1901-2016 .......................... 9 Table 2 Changes in mean annual temperature and rainfall in 2050 in the Republic of Djibouti .. 10 Table 3 Natural disaster statistics in Djibouti: Number of people affected by the 3 main hazards (left) and average distribution of disaster types (right) ....................................................... 12 Table 4 Vulnerability assessment of resources and sectors ................................................... 13 iii Table 5 Communities Vulnerability/Exposure to Vulnerability ............................................... 14 Table 6 Key Adaptation Measures Recommended for the Agriculture and Water Sectors .......... 15 Table 7 Project components and financing ............................................................................... 26 Table 8 Project calendar .................................................................................................. 27 Table 9 First list of selected IGAs ...................................................................................... 37 Table 10 Correlation between project interventions and climate change adaptation measures .. 42 Table 11 Shared execution costs between PROGIRES and PGIRE .......................................... 46 Table 12 Quantifiable benefits .......................................................................................... 47 Table 13 Correlation between the PROGIRES activities and the priority axes of the Strategy and the National Action Plan on Biodiversity ............................................................................. 52 Table 14 Priority areas for donor action ............................................................................. 56 Table 15 Justification for funding ...................................................................................... 59 Table 16 environmental and social impacts and risks .......................................................... 64 Table 17 Final risk assessment and proposed mitigation measures ....................................... 78 Table 18 Budgeted Monitoring & Evaluation Plan ................................................................ 83 Table 19 Results Framework ............................................................................................ 84 Table 20 alignment with the Results Framework of the Adaptation Fund ................................ 90 Table 21 Budget of the project ......................................................................................... 92 Table 22 Disbursement schedule ...................................................................................... 95 Table 23 Adaptation Fund environmental and social checklist ............................................ 113 Table 24 Correlation between AF ESP guidance principles and IFAD SECAP GS, guiding values and principles....................................................................................................................