FP072: Strengthening climate resilience of agricultural livelihoods in Agro- Ecological Regions I and II in Zambia | | B Zambia United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) .19/12 16 March 2018 Project/Programme Title: Strengthening climate resilience of agricultural livelihoods in Agro-Ecological Regions I and II in Zambia Country/Region: Zambia Accredited Entity: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Date of Submission: 5 February 2018 Contents Section A PROJECT SUMMARY Section B FINANCING / COST INFORMATION Section C DETAILED PROJECT DESCRIPTION Section D RATIONALE FOR GCF INVOLVEMENT Section E EXPECTED PERFORMANCE AGAINST INVESTMENT CRITERIA Section F APPRAISAL SUMMARY Section G RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT Section H RESULTS MONITORING AND REPORTING Section I ANNEXES Note to accredited entities on the use of the funding proposal template • Sections A, B, D, E and H of the funding proposal require detailed inputs from the accredited entity. For all other sections, including the Appraisal Summary in section F, accredited entities have discretion in how they wish to present the information. Accredited entities can either directly incorporate information into this proposal, or provide summary information in the proposal with cross-reference to other project documents such as project appraisal document. • The total number of pages for the funding proposal (excluding annexes) is expected not to exceed 50. Please submit the completed form to: [email protected] Please use the following name convention for the file name: “[FP]-[Agency Short Name]-[Date]-[Serial Number]” PROJECT / PROGRAMME SUMMARY GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL | PAGE 1 OF 87 A A. PROJECT SUMMARY A.1. Brief Project / Programme Information Strengthening climate resilience of agricultural A.1.1. Project / programme title livelihoods in Agro-Ecological Regions I and II in Zambia A.1.2. Project or programme Project A.1.3. Country(ies) / region Zambia Mr. Chola J. Chabala Permanent Secretary – Ministry of A.1.4. National designated authority(ies) Planning and National Development A.1.5. Accredited entity United Nations Development Programme A.1.5.a. Access modality ☐ Direct ☒ International Executing Entity: Ministry of Agriculture A.1.6. Executing entity / beneficiary Beneficiary: Rural smallholder farmers in the Agro-Ecological Regions I and II A.1.7. Project size category (Total investment, million ☐ Micro (≤10) ☐ Small (10<x≤50) USD) ☒ Medium (50<x≤250) ☐ Large (>250) A.1.8. Mitigation / adaptation focus ☐ Mitigation ☒ Adaptation ☐ Cross-cutting A.1.9. Date of submission 1 July 2016, 5 February 2018 Contact person, position Benjamin Larroquette, Regional Technical Adviser Organization UNDP A.1.10. Email address [email protected] Project contact Telephone number +251 (0) 912503308 details UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa, Main Bole Road, DRC Street, Mailing address P.O. Box 60130, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia A.1.11. Results areas (mark all that apply) Reduced emissions from: ☐ Energy access and power generation (E.g. on-grid, micro-grid or off-grid solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) ☐ Low emission transport (E.g. high-speed rail, rapid bus system, etc.) ☐ Buildings, cities and industries and appliances (E.g. new and retrofitted energy-efficient buildings, energy-efficient equipment for companies and supply chain management, etc.) ☐ Forestry and land use (E.g. forest conservation and management, agroforestry, agricultural irrigation, water treatment and management, etc.) Increased resilience of: Most vulnerable people and communities ☒ (E.g. mitigation of operational risk associated with climate change – diversification of supply sources and supply chain management, relocation of manufacturing facilities and warehouses, etc.) ☒ Health and well-being, and food and water security (E.g. climate-resilient crops, efficient irrigation systems, etc.) PROJECT / PROGRAMME SUMMARY GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL | PAGE 2 OF 87 A ☐ Infrastructure and built environment (E.g. sea walls, resilient road networks, etc.) ☐ Ecosystem and ecosystem services (E.g. ecosystem conservation and management, ecotourism, etc.) A.2. Project / Programme Executive Summary (max 300 words) Please provide a brief description of the proposed project/programme, including the objectives and primary measurable benefits (see investment criteria in section E). The detailed description can be elaborated in section C. 1. The proposed project supports the Government of Zambia to strengthen the resilience to climate change risks of vulnerable smallholder farmers in the country’s Agro-Ecological Regions I and II. These regions are facing increasing risks as a result of climate change, primarily variability of rainfall and increased frequency of droughts, which have direct impacts on the agricultural production in the region. They are also the regions of Zambia which have the highest concentration of poverty incidence and where rain-fed agriculture is predominant. Therefore, the poorest smallholder farmers in these regions are facing devastating impacts on their livelihoods which will further erode development gains. Women are disproportionately affected by these impacts, given their role in ensuring household food production and food/nutritional security, despite their unequal access to land, information and inputs (e.g. improved seeds, fertilizer, tools). 2. This project aims to increase the resilience of smallholder farmers in Agro-Ecological Regions I and II in Zambia in view of climate change and variability. The project will achieve this aim by taking a value chain approach, addressing risks posed across key stages of the value chain – planning, inputs, production and post-production. The very high co-finance ensures that this project will shift public financing on agriculture towards climate resilient agriculture through strong partnership with GCF and UNDP. GCF funds will only finance the activities that have a clear climate change additionality like climate information and early warning systems, access to water for smallholder farmers and linkages with rural agricultural markets. The project will make targeted interventions to capitalize on opportunities to strengthen and promote viable climate-resilient value chains relating to smallholder agriculture in the target regions, specifically targeting value chains that are gender sensitive and provide viable economic opportunities for women. This includes three interrelated outputs: 1) strengthening capacity of farmers to plan for climate risk; 2) strengthening resilient agricultural production and diversification practices (for both food security and income generation); and 3) strengthening farmers’ access to markets and commercialization of introduced resilient agricultural commodities. The third output on markets and commercialization is important as it will help to drive the production of resilient agriculture commodities and help to ensure the sustainability of the first two outputs. Capacity-building will be given deliberate emphasis across the various levels, starting from the national to the community level. This will target all the major project outputs and institutions, including extension, Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) and farmer field schools. The project interventions will have a strong focus on women, given their unique capacities and vulnerabilities. 3. Within the two Agro-Ecological Regions, smallholder farmers in the five provinces (namely, Eastern, Lusaka, Muchinga, Southern and Western) will be directly targeted by the project, specifically including the following 16 districts: Mambwe, Nyimba, Chongwe, Luangwa, Chirundu, Rufunsa, Chama, Mafinga, Kazungula, Siavonga, Gwembe, Namwala, Shangombo, Senanga, Sesheke and Mulobezi. The direct beneficiaries will represent approximately 946,153 people. These districts were selected given their specific vulnerability to climate change risks, primarily increasing droughts, variability of rainfall and occasional floods, coupled with high incidence of poverty. Target beneficiaries currently have little resilience to cope with climate impacts or sustain livelihoods in the face of climate. 4. The project aligns with the Government of the Republic of Zambia’s (GRZ) key development goals, defined in Zambia’s Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) and Vision 2030 Strategy, which identify the agriculture sector as critical for achieving the objective of becoming a prosperous middle-income country by the year 2030. The project is also anchored in the country’s National Adaptation Programme of Action on Climate Change (NAPA, 2007), National Climate Change Response Strategy (2010), National Strategy for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD, 2015) and contributes to the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC, 2015), which prioritizes “promotion of conservation/smart agriculture activities leading to adaptation benefits and enhancing climate resilience, especially in rural areas,” as well as conservation of water, water technologies for irrigation, and strengthening PROJECT / PROGRAMME SUMMARY GREEN CLIMATE FUND FUNDING PROPOSAL | PAGE 3 OF 87 A climate information services. It promotes a paradigm shift by taking a comprehensive approach to addressing the entire value chain, and providing the initial trigger for poor and vulnerable farmers to shift on to a resilient trajectory for agricultural livelihoods. This will also result in sustainable development benefits, as these vulnerable farmers and their families