TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBEVIATIONS................................................................................ 6 1. Situation analysis ........................................................................................................... 8 1.1. Background .........................................................................................................................8 1.2. Barriers to achieving pollution reduction .............................................................................9 1.3. Baseline Description of Pollution in the Niger River Basin ................................................... 10 1.4. Indicative hotspots and criteria for pilot enterprise selection ............................................. 12 2. Strategy ....................................................................................................................... 18 2.1. Project rationale and policy conformity ............................................................................. 18 2.1.1. Niger Basin Authority: Roles, Responsibility and Challenges. ......................................................... 18 2.2. HOT SPOT and TEST Approach ........................................................................................... 19 2.3. TEST Integrated Approach ................................................................................................. 20 2.4. Outcome, Outputs, and Activities ...................................................................................... 24 2.4.1. Expected outcome ............................................................................................................................. 24 2.4.2. Expected Outputs and Activities ....................................................................................................... 24 2.5. Expected GEB under TEST .................................................................................................. 29 2.6. Gender Mainstreaming ...................................................................................................... 29 2.7. Sustainability and Replicability .......................................................................................... 29 2.8. Potential sources of (subsidized) venture capital for investments in EST ............................. 30 2.9. Co-financing ...................................................................................................................... 30 3. Project Results Framework............................................................................................ 31 4. Total budget and workplan ........................................................................................... 36 4.1. Overall Budget .................................................................................................................. 36 4.2. UNDP-UNIDO Budget ........................................................................................................ 36 4.3. Inputs under TEST ............................................................................................................. 40 4.3.1. Counterparts inputs .......................................................................................................................... 40 4.3.2. UNIDO inputs ..................................................................................................................................... 40 4.3.3. International experts ......................................................................................................................... 40 4.3.4. Regional/National Project Coordinator, National Experts and Project Support Staff ....................... 41 4.3.5. Sub-contract ...................................................................................................................................... 41 5. Management Arrangements ......................................................................................... 42 5.1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 42 5.2. Overall Prpject Steering and Coordination ......................................................................... 43 5.2.1. Project Steering Committee (PSC) ..................................................................................................... 43 5.2.2. Project Coordination Team (PCT) ...................................................................................................... 43 5.3 Project Coordination Unit .................................................................................................. 44 4 5.4 Collaborative arrangements related to the overall NBA/OSS-ITTAS project ......................... 45 6. Monitoring Framework, Reporting and Evaluation ........................................................ 45 6.1. M&E workplan and budget ................................................................................................ 48 6.2. Audit................................................................................................................................. 49 7. Legal Context ................................................................................................................ 50 ANNEX I: UNIDO LOGICAL FRAMEWORK .............................................................................. 52 ANNEX II: UNIDO INDICATIVE BUDGET ................................................................................. 54 ANNEX III: Rationale for UNIDO Selection and Prior Obligations and Prerequisites ............... 57 Annex 3: Social and Environmental Screening Template ....................................................... 59 Annex 4: Terms of Reference for PSC and Key Project Staff ..................................................... 68 Annex 5: Co-Financing Letters ............................................................................................... 79 Annex 6: Detailed Terms of Reference for Component 3 Task Leader ...................................... 80 LIST OF TABLE Table 3.1: Complementary criteria for the selection of short-list pilot enterprises for TEST ............. 13 Table 3.2: Baseline information of potential pollution hotspots in the Niger River basin for TEST . 14 Table 3.3: Expected Outputs and Activities ................................................................................................ 24 5 LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBEVIATIONS ACMAD African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development APR Annual Project Review BAT Best Available Techniques BEP Best Environmental Practices BOD Biological Oxygen Demand CILSS Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahelian Zone COD Chemical Oxygen Demand CSR Corporate Social Responsibility ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States EMA Environmental Management Accounting EMS Environmental Management System GEB Global Environmental Benefits GEF Global Environmental Facility GIS Geographic Information System IAS Iullemeden Aquifer System IGO Intergovernmental Organization ITTAS Iullemeden Taoudeni Tanezrouft Aquifer System IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature IW International Water IWRM Integrated Water Resource Management M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MDG Millennium Development Goal MFCA Material Flow Cost Accounting NBA Niger Basin Authority NBO Niger Basin Observatory NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development NFP National Focal Point NGO Non-Governmental Organization OSS Sahara and Sahel Observatory PCU Project Coordinating Unit PIF Project Identification Form PIR Project Implementation Reports PMU Project Management Unit POP Persistent Organic Pollutants RECP Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production RLWDT(/NB) Reversing Land and Water Degradation Trends in the Niger River Basin SAP Strategic Action Program SBAA Standard Basic Assistance Agreement 6 TDA Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis TEST Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technology TSS Total Suspended Solid UEMOA West African Economic and Monetary Union UNDAF United Nations Development Assistance Framework UNDP CO United Nations Development Program Country Office UNDP RCU United Nations Development Program Regional Coordination Unit UNDP United Nations Development Program UNEP United Nations Environmental Program UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization WMU Water Management Unit 7 1. SITUATION ANALYSIS 1.1. Background Recognizing the socio-economic potential and rich natural/cultural heritage of the Niger River but also the alarming consequences facing its basin because of desertification and unsustainable natural resource exploitation practices, a transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) was carried out by the RLWDT/NB project. The TDA analysis revealed that most of the environmental problems are derived from (i) land degradation (vegetal coverage and soils), (ii) water resource degradation (water shortage and pollution), (iii) loss of biodiversity (flora, fauna and biotope), and (iv) degradation of the living environment (pauperization of the populations, invading aquatic vegetal species, climate variability). In order to address these environmental issues, UNDP and UNEP have supported the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) and the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) to submit to the GEF a Project Identification Form (PIF) to secure funding from the International Waters Focal Area to finance a regional project entitled “Improving IWRM, knowledge-based management and governance of the Niger Basin and the Iullemeden-Taoudeni/Tanezrouft