PROJECT Development Facility

Request for Approval

FINANCING PLAN
GEF ALLOCATION
Project (estimated) / 10000000
PROJECT COFINANCING (estimated)
IFAD / 38000000
UNDP / 35000 000
Government / 32000000
Multilateral / 200000000
Others
Subtotal Co-financing / 305000000, plus others
Total Project Financing
Project Development Fund (PDF B) FINANCING
GEF / 350000
PDF B COFINANCING
IFAD / 35000 (in cash and in kind)
Global Mechanism / 20000
UNDP / 20000
Government / 75000 (in kind)
Subtotal Co-financing / 150000
Total PDF B Financing / 500000

UNDP Project ID: 3259

GEFSEC Project ID:

Country: Burkina Faso

Project Title: Country Partnership Programme on Sustainable Land Management in Burkina Faso

Co-Lead GEF Agency: UNDP and IFAD

Other GEF Agency: WB, FAO, UNEP

Duration: 12 Months (PDFB)

GEF Focal Area: Land Degradation

GEF Operational Program: OP 15

GEF Strategic Priority: SLM-1 Targeted Capacity Building and SLM-2 Implementation of Innovative and Indigenous Sustainable Land-Management Practices

Estimated Starting Date: May 2005

Estimated WP Entry Date: May 2006

Pipeline Entry Date: 15 March 2005

Record of endorsement on behalf of the Government:

Endorsed : TRAORE Alain Edouard
Title : Secrétaire Permanent du Conseil National pour l’Environnement et le Développement Durable (SP/CONEDD)
Burkina Faso, GEF Operational Focal Point / Date: May 26, 2005 N° 05-005/MECV/PFO/FEM
This proposal has been prepared by the Government and introduced on behalf of IFAD and UNDP in accordance with GEF policies and procedures and meets the standards of the GEF project review criteria for work programme inclusion.

Yannick Glemarec
UNDP/GEF Deputy Executive Director
304 E. 45th Street, New York, NY 10017, USA
tel. 1.212.906.5143 fax. 1.212.906.6998 / Saliou Gaye Ndoye
Regional Technical Advisor
Dakar, Senegal
email :

Date: 15 June 2005


LIST OF ACRONYMS

ADB / African Development Bank
ANCR / Auto-Evaluation Nationale des Capacités à Renforcer pour la Gestion de
l’Environnement
BF / Burkina Faso
CBD / Convention on Biodiversity
CCTP / Cadre de Concertation Technique Provinciale (Framework for Provincial Technical Concerted Action)
CILSS / Permanent Inter-States on Drought Control in the Sahel
CONAGESE / Conseil National pour la Gestion de l’Environnement (National Council for Land Use Planning)
CONEDD / Conseil National pour l’Environnement et le Développement Durable (National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development)
CPAT / Commission provinciale d’aménagement du territoire (Provincial Commission for Land Use Planning
CPF / Confédération des Paysans du Faso
CPP / Country Partnership Program
CRAT / Commission Régionale d’Aménagement du Territoire (Regional Commission for Land Use Planning)
FAO / Food and Agriculture Organization
CSLP / Cadre Stratégique de Lutte Contre la Pauvreté (Poverty Reduction Strategic Framework (PRSF))
CVGT / Commission Villageoise de Gestion du Terroir (Village Commission for Land Management)
ECOWAS / Economic Community of West African States
FAO / Food and Agriculture Organization
FDL / Fonds de Développement Local
FND / Fonds National de lutte contre la Désertification
GDP / Gross Domestic Product
GEF / Global Environment Facility
GM / Global Mechanism
GoBF / Government of Burkina Faso
HDI / Human Development Index
IFAD / International Fund for Agricultural Development
IMF
MDG / International Monetary Fund
Millennium Development Goals
LADA / Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands
MAHRH / Ministère de l’Agriculture de l’Hydraulique et des Ressources Halieutiques (Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries Ressorcies)
MECV / Ministère de l’Environnement et du Cadre de Vie (Ministry of Environment)
NALOCD / Network of associations and local organizations to combat desertification
NCLS / National Committee for Land Security
NCSA / Auto-Evaluation Nationale des Capacités à Renforcer pour la Gestion de l’Environnement
NEPAD / New Partnership for Africa’s Development
NEX
NGO / National Execution Modality
Non Governmental Organization
NPSM / National Program for Soil Management
OP 12 / GEF Operational Program 12
OP 15 / GEF Operational Program 15
OP NAP/DC / Operational Program of the National Action Plan for Desertification Control
PAN/DC / Plan of Action for Desertification Control
PANE / National Plan of Action for the Environment
PDRD / Programme de Développement Rural Durable
PESD / Plan for the Environment and Sustainable Development
PICOFA / Programme d’Investissement Communautaire en Fertilité Agricole (Community Investment Program for Agricultural Fertility)
PLDRD / Policy Letter for Decentralized Rural Development
PNGT / Programme National de Gestion des Terroirs
SAP / Structural Adjustment Program
SLM / Sustainable land management
TFP / Technical and Financial Partners
TOD / Textes d’Orientation de la Décentralisation (Laws/regulations governing decentralization)
UICN / Union International pour la Conservation de la Nature
UNCCD / United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UNDP / United Nations Development Programme
UNEP / United Nations Environmental Programme
UNCED / United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
UNFCC / United Nations Convention Framework on Climate Change
WAEMU / West African Economic and Monetary Union
WB / World Bank
PART II - Project Development Preparation
A - Description of Proposed PDF Activities

1.  The concept Note for the Burkina Faso CPP was reviewed and pipelined by GEF Secretariat in March 2005. The following terms of reference of the PDF B is submitted in order to assist the country in preparing the overall framework of the CPP in accordance with GEF requirements, for submission to the GEF Council in May 2006. The preparatory phase will also assist in refining one or two “fast track” projects that fall under the priorities of the CPP Framework, with the aim of submitting them as Annex to the CPP Framework. Therefore, the activities below are distinguished between the Framework Programme Document, and the Fast Track projects. The project preparation’s activities would be implemented over a 12-month period at a total cost of $500,000.

2.  Project design phase will undergo the following stages:

·  organizing participatory planning exercises with different stakeholders including the populations in their own organizational forms (Local Authority Councils, Community Based Associations, professional organizations, etc;.) technical and financial partners;

·  identifying stakeholders with whom to establish a sustainable partnership;

·  Coordinating and harmonizing interventions between different partners on the ground

3.  This PDF will be used to determine the baseline scenario, the constraints, potentials, and more particularly, the political, institutional, organizational and technical capacities of all the actors operating in the area prior to launching of the programme. It will also allow definition of field activities (e.g. choice of sites for demonstration projects). The objective of this PDF B is to achieve a consensus as broad as possible among all parties on the symptoms, impacts, underlying causes and sustainable solutions to land degradation and poverty within Burkina, and translating these into a long term programme for NAP implementation. The implementation of the PDF B includes establishment of a program management structure, and program design.

CPP Framework Program Document

Activity 1 : Detailed stakeholder consultation and baseline analysis

Sub-Activity 1.1 . Detailed Stakeholder analysis

4.  A detailed analysis will be carried out of the principal stakeholders who may be affected by the program or whose participation will be necessary for it to be successfully executed. This analysis will be carried out at a number of levels. At each level, stakeholders will be characterized in terms of their objectives and interests relating to the combat of land degradation and the implementation of the CPP for SLM, and the nature of their relations with other stakeholder groups (including relations of dependence and conflict) at present.

5.  At the national level, a generic analysis will be carried out of organizations and institutions, governmental and non-governmental, relevant to the combat of land degradation, at community and state levels. Variations in this organizational and institutional context between different parts of the country will be identified. Analysis will also be carried out at the regional level; this will be specific, rather than generic, in nature, identifying key governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions and their inter-relations. The results of this analysis will be presented as a stand-alone Stakeholder Characterization Report.

6.  Proposal of arrangements for stakeholder participation Based on the results of the detailed stakeholder analysis and the identification of corrective measures to be taken to address gaps in the baseline scenario, the form of participation of individual, organizational and institutional stakeholders in the implementation of the program will be defined. Proposals will be drawn up for mechanisms that will promote this participation, with the aims of ensuring that stakeholder interests are taken into account and promoting the effectiveness of program implementation. These proposals will be discussed and validated as widely as possible with the stakeholders themselves. The proposal will be presented as a Stakeholder Participation to be included in the GEF Program Document (Output 1).

Sub-Activity 1.2 : Analysis of legal, policy context and barriers to mainstreaming of the SLM

7.  As the basis for the formulation of program activities aimed at promoting a legal and policy context favorable to the land use systems and degradation, a detailed analysis will be carried out of legal and policy instruments in relation to diverse thematic areas including rangeland, agriculture, forestry, land tenure and price structures. This analysis will focus not only on the direct effects of these instruments, but also on possible indirect or unintended implications, for example ‘perverse’ incentives aimed at increasing agricultural productivity which may preferentially promote activities which exacerbate land degradation. The analysis will also identify the barriers to policy and legal reform, as well as the barriers to mainstreaming SLM. The analysis will also examine the effectiveness of the application of policy and legal instruments in practice, and identify reasons for any ineffective application. Policies and laws will be examined at a number of levels, from community-level statutes and regulations to municipal, state and regional instruments. Consideration will also be given to instruments at macro-economic and regional levels. The study will also look at how legal and policy instruments are formulated, particularly the channels for inputs by different stakeholder groups. The output of this activity will be a Legal and Policy Context Document (Output 2).

Sub-Activity 1.3 : Analysis of institutional capacities

8.  The capacities of the key organizational and institutional stakeholders identified through Activity 1 will be analyzed, in terms of their potential to participate in the implementation of the CPP for SLM and in the combat of land degradation in particular, including in the application of the policy and legal instruments identified through Activity 2. This analysis will focus on their physical, human and financial resources, and in particular in the level of understanding of land degradation issues among their staff, and the ability of staff to acquire and apply increased understanding. The output of this activity will be an institutional capacity document.

9.  A Draft of strategy for strengthening institutional capacities would be developed on the basis of the analysis of institutional capacities, and taking into account the corrective measures and strategies to be applied by the program at national and local levels, an analysis will be carried out of gaps in institutional capacities, which represent obstacles to the successful achievement of the GEF alternative, and a detailed strategy will be prepared for correcting such deficiencies through institutional strengthening. This strategy will be developed in discussion with the institutions involved, and particular emphasis will be paid to ensuring the sustainability of the results of the strategy, for example through strengthening capacities to generate funding rather than providing funding directly, and through supporting the development of management tools which will be robust to staff changes. The output of this process will be an Institutional Strengthening Strategy Document (Output 3).

Sub-Activity 1.4 : Identification of threats and root causes of land degradation and barriers to sustainable land management at national level

10.  Existing secondary information, for example the PO/PAN, State of the Environment Report, 2002 and academic literature, will be reviewed and used as the basis for a detailed analysis of the processes of land degradation under different conditions in Burkina Faso and their local, national and global implications. This analysis will distinguish between different ecosystems, forms of degradation (for example physical, biological and chemical) and causal activities. A detailed analysis will be carried out of the immediate and underlying causes of land degradation and the obstacles to sustainable land management. This analysis will be subject to validation through a participatory workshop to be carried out at national level, which will also seek to confirm the corrective measures to be undertaken with GEF support to address the threats as the basis for the program strategy. The results of this analysis will be presented as a stand alone document (Output 4).

Sub-activity 1.5 : Characterization of baseline scenario

11.  A detailed review will be carried out of current and foreseen activities and investments during the six year proposed period of the program, which may contribute to the combat of land degradation and the promotion of sustainable land management. This will constitute the ‘baseline’ which incremental activities funded by GEF will complement, resulting in the ‘GEF alternative’. Each such component of the baseline (‘without program’) scenario will be characterized in terms of the actions proposed; the institution or other stakeholder involved; the cost of the investment; and its likely implications for the combat of land degradation and the promotion of SLM. The information collected will be presented in the main text of the Program Document, and in its Incremental Costing Annex and IC Matrix (Output 6).

Activity 2 . Development of the Strategic Direction and Logical Framework of the CPP

Sub-Activity 2.1 ; Identification of corrective measures to address gaps in the baseline

12.  On the basis of the above activities, an analysis will be made of deficiencies in the baseline scenario, which in the absence of the GEF increment would represent continuing barriers to the effective combat of land degradation. Subsequently, corrective measures will be identified to address each of these gaps; these will characterize the GEF alternative. At national level, identification of baseline gaps and corrective measures will be carried out initially through a ‘brainstorming’ workshop in which the consultants responsible for the analyses of stakeholders, the legal and policy context, institutional capacities and threats to sustainable land management will participate, along with key national stakeholders. The results of these analyses will be presented in the text of the Program Document (Activity 6) as the basis of the strategy, components and activities of the program (Output 7).