United Nations Development Programme Country: Somalia PROJECT DOCUMENT1 Project Title: Enhancing Climate Resilience of the Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems in Somalia New Deal Compact Peace and State Building Goal 4, Priority 3: Promote the sustainable development and management of natural resources by developing legal and regulatory frameworks and building capacity in key natural resource management institutions Peace and State Building Goal 4, Priority 5 (Somaliland): Develop and implement a comprehensive and integrated environmental management strategy that addresses desertification, promotes alternatives to charcoal as an energy source and protects land, water, forest and coastal resources Integrated Strategic Framework (2014-16), UN Somalia, Priority 3: Support to climate change resilience, natural resource management, and disaster risk management UNDP Strategic Plan (2014-2017) Environment and Sustainable Development Primary Outcome: Countries are able to reduce the likelihood of conflict, and lower the risk of natural disasters, including from climate change; UNDP Strategic Plan (2014-2017) Secondary Outcome: Growth and development are inclusive and sustainable, incorporating productive capacities that create employment and livelihoods for the poor and excluded; Expected CP Outcome 3 (2011-2015): Somali women and men benefit from increased sustainable livelihood opportunities and improved natural resources management. Expected CPAP Output: Somalia is a non-CPAP country. Executing Entity/Implementing Partner: United Nations Development Programme Implementing Entity/Responsible Partners: Office of the Prime Minister, GEF Operational Focal Point (Federal Focal Point) Ministry of Environment and Rural Development (Somaliland) Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism (Puntland) United Nations Development Programme 1For UNDP-supported, GEF-funded projects as this includes GEF-specific requirements. UNDP Environmental Finance Services Page 1 Brief Description Approximately 70% of Somalis are dependent on climate-sensitive agriculture and pastoralism. As floods and droughts become more severe and frequent in Somalia, there is a need to find approaches that can reduce the sensitivity of farmers and pastoralists to increasing rainfall variability. With natural resource degradation also rampant throughout Somalia, most notably for the production of charcoal, Somalia is becoming increasingly vulnerable to conflicts over scarce resources. Climate change and resource scarcity are exacerbated by the absence of policies on land- use and disaster risk management at the national level. At local levels, communities lack the financial, technical and informational resources needed to build their resilience to climate change as well as the knowledge of how to prepare for extreme weather impacts. To address these issues, LDCF financing will be used to support ministries, districts, NGOs/CBOs to integrate climate change risks in Natural Resource Management and disaster preparedness. Climate risk management will be institutionalized from national to local levels. CBOs will be revitalized to take the lead on implementing community-based Ecosystem-based flood preparedness and other adaptation measures. To support community-led activities, water will be captured using small scale infrastructure and flood impacts will be reduced with water diversion techniques and reforestation. With 73% of the population under 30 years of age, youth will be sensitised with climate change knowledge so that they can serve understaffed ministries and support CBO efforts on-the-ground. Furthermore, the project will empower women to market and to scale-up distribution of adaptation technologies, providing women an improved asset base. With such activities aimed to support resilience to climate change, in conjunction with other on-going initiatives of relevance outlined in this project document, LDCF resources are expected to also build governing and planning capacities at the national and district levels and to enhance the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations throughout Somalia. Programme Period: 2015-2018 Total resources $ 72,820,000 Atlas Award ID: 00077821 Project ID: 00091197 Total allocated resources: $ 72,820,000 PIMS ID: 5268 GEF/LDCF $ 8,000,000 Government (In-kind) $ 8,000,000 Start date: January 2015 UNDP (Cash) $ 1,500,000 End Date: December 2018 UNDP (Cash in-parallel) $ 9,000,000 UNDP/Charcoal Management Arrangements DIM (in-parallel) $ 12,320,000 PAC Meeting Date EU (Grant) $ 34,000,000 Agreed by (Government): Date/Month/Year Agreed by (UNDP): Date/Month/Year UNDP Environmental Finance Services Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 SITUATION ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................ 7 1.1 Problem Declaration ............................................................................................................... 8 1.2 Preferred Solution ................................................................................................................. 10 1.3 Barriers facing the project ................................................................................................... 11 1.3.1 Political disintegration/Lack of coordination ..................................................................... 11 1.3.2 Absence of and lack of coordination and decentralization among natural resource policies 11 1.3.3 Limited technical and operational capacities to support adaptation on national levels .... 12 1.3.4 Limited knowledge and capacity to respond to climate change on national and local levels 12 1.3.5 Unsustainable water and natural resource management practices .................................... 12 1.3.6 Limited climate monitoring and weak disaster risk preparedness capacities..................... 13 1.3.7 Limited national financing and ad hoc, uncoordinated donor responses for long-term climate change adaptation measures .......................................................................................................... 13 1.3.8 Limited socio-economic development and diversification of livelihoods to build resilience to climate change for women ...................................................................................................................... 14 2 STRATEGY .................................................................................................................................... 14 2.1 Project rationale and policy conformity ............................................................................. 14 2.1.1 Land Tenure and Water Rights ............................................. 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Bookmark not defined. 2.2 Country ownership: country drivenness and country eligibility ...................................... 19 2.2.1 Baseline studies and needs assessments ............................................................................. 22 2.3 Design principles and strategic considerations ................................................................... 22 2.3.1 Baseline projects and financing .......................................................................................... 22 2.3.2 Related Initiatives ............................................................................................................... 28 2.3.3 National and local benefits ................................................................................................. 31 2.3.4 UNDP comparative advantage ........................................................................................... 32 2.4 Project Objective, Outcomes and Outputs/activities ......................................................... 34 2.4.1 Baseline Component 1 - Without LDCF Intervention ......................................................... 34 2.4.2 Adaptation Alternative Component 1 –With LDCF Intervention ........................................ 40 2.4.3 Baseline Component 2 - Without LDCF Intervention ......................................................... 48 2.4.4 Adaptation Alternative Component 2–With LDCF Intervention ......................................... 53 2.5 Key indicators, risks and assumptions ................................................................................ 64 2.6 Cost-effectiveness .................................................................................................................. 67 2.7 Sustainability of the project ................................................................................................. 75 2.8 Project replicability ............................................................................................................... 76 2.9 Stakeholder involvement ...................................................................................................... 77 2.9.1 Stakeholder baseline analysis ............................................................................................. 77 2.9.2 Stakeholder involvement plan ............................................................................................. 84 2.9.3 Expected Socio-economic and Environmental Benefits ...................................................... 84 3 PROJECT RESULTS FRAMEWORK ....................................................................................... 87 4 TOTAL BUDGET AND WORKPLAN ....................................................................................... 92 5 MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS .......................................................................................