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PART I: PROJECT INFORMATIONProject Title: Generating global Environment Benefits through improved environmental information,
planning and decision making systems. Country(ies): Mali GEF Project ID:1 6971GEF Agency(ies): UNDP (select) (select) GEF Agency Project ID: 5272Other Executing Partner(s):
AEDD: Ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Assainissement et du Développement Durable
Submission Date: 2015-02-24
GEF Focal Area(s): Multi-focal Areas Project Duration (Months)
36 months
Integrated Approach Pilot IAP-Cities IAP-Commodities IAP-Food Security Corporate Program: SGP
Name of parent program: [if applicable] Agency Fee ($) 99,750
A. INDICATIVE FOCAL AREA STRATEGY FRAMEWORK AND OTHER PROGRAM STRATEGIES 2
Objectives/Programs (Focal Areas, Integrated Approach Pilot, Corporate Programs)
Trust Fund(in $)
GEF Project
Financing
Co-financing
(select) (select) CCCD-1 GEFTF 580,000 2,000,000(select) (select) (select) GEFTF 380,000 1,000,000(select) (select) (select) GEFTF 90,000 150,000(select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select) (select)
Total Project Cost 1,050,000 3,150,000
B. INDICATIVE PROJECT DESCRIPTION SUMMARYProject Objective: To mainstream Rio Convention provisions into key national sectoral policies and/or legislation
Project Components
Financing Type3 Project Outcomes Project Outputs Trust
Fund
(in $)GEF
Project Financin
g
Co-financing
1. Information management systems for global environment issues.
TA 1.1. A functioning, sustainable system for collecting, analysing, storing and making available accurate, and reliable data and information related to
1.1. Strengthen the existing SNGIE provide a coordinated and sustainable data/information collection and
GEFTF
580,000 2,000,000
1 Project ID number will be assigned by GEFSEC and to be entered by Agency in subsequent document submissions.
2 When completing Table A, refer to the excerpts on GEF 6 Results Frameworks for GETF, LDCF and SCCF.3 Financing type can be either investment or technical assistance.
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GEF-6 PROJECT IDENTIFICATION FORM (PIF)
PROJECT TYPE: MEDIUM-SIZED PROJECT TYPE OF TRUST FUND:GEF TRUST FUND
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all three Rio Conventions, and of direct use by decision-makers
storage mechanism and effective national reporting for conventions
1.2 Improved protocols and standards data collection, analyse, and storing that lead to harmonization, and to the availability of effective information related to the CBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC and other global conventions
1.3. Relevant indicators existing among the various data processing organisations for monitoring and evaluation of the status of environment and sustainable development evaluated and integrated into the SNGIE to support the development of policies, strategies, projects and plans
2. Integrating global environment into development planning
TA 2.1. Enhanced institutional capacities to plan, finance and implement development processes that contribute to implementing the Rio Conventions and generate global environmental benefits.
2.1.Training and tools (e.g. manual and guidelines) provided to staffs from relevant Ministries (Finances, Planning, Environment, etc.) and local deciders on how to mainstream biodiversity, climate change, desertification, disaster management and wetlands management into key development plans and processes
GEFTF
380,000 1,000,000
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2.2. The set of manuals and guidelines piloted in the elaboration of at least 2 national development strategies and investment plans and revision of 5 PDSEC, that will be updated to allocate sufficient funds to support the implementation of Rio Convention strategies.
2.3. Dialogues with relevant national (including private sector) and international partners developed for the establishment of the National Environmental Funds.
2.4. Training provided to staffs from ministries and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. national NGO’s) to master and submit proposal to national international financing mechanisms (e.g. bilateral, GEF, climate funds,etc.).
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Subtotal 960,000 3,000,000Project Management Cost (PMC)4
(including Direct Project Services Cost: 15,728.08) GEFTF
90,000 150,000
Total Project Cost1,050,00
0
3,150,000
For multi-trust fund projects, provide the total amount of PMC in Table B, and indicate the split of PMC among the different trust funds here: ( )
C. INDICATIVE SOURCES OF CO-FINANCING FOR THE PROJECT BY NAME AND BY TYPE, IF AVAILABLE Sources of Co-
financing Name of Co-financier Type of Co-financing Amount ($)
GEF Agency UNDP (PAGEDD) Grants 2,100,000GEF Agency UNDP Grants 450,000GEF Agency UNDP In-kind 100,000Recipient Government Ministère de l’Environnement, de
l’Assainissement et du Développement Durable
Grants 350,000
Recipient Government Various Line Ministries In-kind 150,000(select) (select) (select) (select)(select) (select)Total Co-financing 3,150,000
D. INDICATIVE TRUST FUND RESOURCES REQUESTED BY AGENCY(IES), COUNTRY(IES) AND THE PROGRAMMING OF FUNDS a)
GEF Agency
Trust
Fund
Country/Regional/
Global Focal Area Programming
of Funds
(in $)GEF
Project Financin
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Agency Fee (b)b)
Total(c)=a+b
UNDP GEFTF
Mali Multi-focal Areas
Cross-Cutting Capacity
1,050,000 99,7501,149,75
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Total GEF Resources 1,050,000 99,7501,149,75
0a) Refer to the Fee Policy for GEF Partner Agencies.
E. PROJECT PREPARATION GRANT (PPG)5
4 For GEF Project Financing up to $2 million, PMC could be up to10% of the subtotal; above $2 million, PMC could be up to 5% of the subtotal. PMC should be charged proportionately to focal areas based on focal area project financing amount in Table D below.
5 PPG requested amount is determined by the size of the GEF Project Financing (PF) as follows: Up to $50k for PF up to$2m (for MSP); up to $100k for PF up to $3m; $150k for PF up to $6m; $200k for PF up to $10m; and $300k for PF above $10m. On an exceptional basis, PPG
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Is Project Preparation Grant requested? Yes No If no, skip item E.
PPG AMOUNT REQUESTED BY AGENCY(IES), TRUST FUND, COUNTRY(IES) AND THE PROGRAMMING OF FUNDS
Project Preparation Grant amount requested: $50,000 PPG Agency Fee: 4,750
GEF Agency
Trust Fund
Country/ Regional/Global Focal Area
Programming
of Funds
(in $)
PPG (a)AgencyFee6 (b)
Totalc = a + b
UNDP GEF TF
Mali Multi-focal Areas Cross-Cutting Capacity
50,000 4,750 54,750
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Total PPG Amount 50,000 4,750 54,750
amount may differ upon detailed discussion and justification with the GEFSEC.6 PPG fee percentage follows the percentage of the Agency fee over the GEF Project Financing amount requested.
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F. PROJECT’S TARGET CONTRIBUTIONS TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS7
Provide the expected project targets as appropriate.
Corporate Results Replenishment Targets Project Targets1. Maintain globally significant biodiversity
and the ecosystem goods and services that it provides to society
Improved management of landscapes and seascapes covering 300 million hectares
hectares
2. Sustainable land management in production systems (agriculture, rangelands, and forest landscapes)
120 million hectares under sustainable land management
hectares
3. Promotion of collective management of transboundary water systems and implementation of the full range of policy, legal, and institutional reforms and investments contributing to sustainable use and maintenance of ecosystem services
Water-food-ecosystems security and conjunctive management of surface and groundwater in at least 10 freshwater basins;
Number of freshwater basins
20% of globally over-exploited fisheries (by volume) moved to more sustainable levels
Percent of fisheries, by volume
4. Support to transformational shifts towards a low-emission and resilient development path
750 million tons of CO2e mitigated (include both direct and indirect)
metric tons
5. Increase in phase-out, disposal and reduction of releases of POPs, ODS, mercury and other chemicals of global concern
Disposal of 80,000 tons of POPs (PCB, obsolete pesticides)
metric tons
Reduction of 1000 tons of Mercury metric tonsPhase-out of 303.44 tons of ODP (HCFC) ODP tons
6. Enhance capacity of countries to implement MEAs (multilateral environmental agreements) and mainstream into national and sub-national policy, planning financial and legal frameworks
Development and sectoral planning frameworks integrate measurable targets drawn from the MEAs in at least 10 countries
Number of Countries: 1
Functional environmental information systems are established to support decision-making in at least 10 countries
Number of Countries: 1
PART II: PROJECT JUSTIFICATION1. Project Description. Briefly describe: 1) the global environmental and/or adaptation problems, root causes and barriers that need to be addressed; 2) the baseline scenario or any associated baseline projects, 3) the proposed alternative scenario, with a brief description of expected outcomes and components of the project, 4) incremental/additional cost reasoning and expected contributions from the baseline, the GEFTF, LDCF, SCCF, and co-financing; 5) global environmental benefits (GEFTF) and/or adaptation benefits (LDCF/SCCF); and 6) innovation, sustainability and potential for scaling up. A.1.1 The Global Environmental Problems, root causes and barriers that need to be addressed.1) The global environmental problems, root causes and barriers that need to be addressed As a landlocked country in West Africa spread over 1,241,328 square kilometers, Mali shares more than 7,000 kms of borders with seven countries: Mauritania, Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, and Senegal. Average rainfall is low, at only 280 mm per year, although there is a strong north south gradient. As a result, the majority of economic activity, food production, and human settlement is concentrated in the more hospitable riverine areas of southern Mali.
Mali is divided into eight regions, one district (Bamako), and 703 municipalities, 666 of which are rural. The North consists of the regions of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu, covering two-thirds of the country and with nearly 10% of the total estimated population. In 2009, of 14,528,662 inhabitants 50.4% were women. Mali is among the fastest growing countries in Africa with an annual population growth rate of 3,02% (2012 est.; source: CIA World factbook).The population is very young, with nearly 65% under 25 years of age. The vast majority (70%) of this 7 Provide those indicator values in this table to the extent applicable to your proposed project. Progress in programming against these targets
for the projects per the Corporate Results Framework in the GEF-6 Programming Directions, will be aggregated and reported during mid-term and at the conclusion of the replenishment period. There is no need to complete this table for climate adaptation projects financed solely through LDCF and/or SCCF.
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population lives in rural areas. Its Human Development Index was ranked 182nd out of 187 in 2012. On average, life expectancy is 53 years and the fertility rate is one of the highest in the world (6.54 children per woman). More than half of Malians live below the poverty line. Between 2001 and 2010 the number of poor increased from about 5,7 to 6,4 million (WB, 2013).
The country’s economy relies heavily on agriculture, predominantly family farms. Mali’s main wealth is based on agriculture, livestock and fisheries. The primary sector employs around 80% of the workforce and accounts for slightly less than 40% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at factor cost. Although remaining very volatile in the long run, the economic growth rate has been relative-ly stable, averaging around 5% over the 2007 -2010 period. As a driver of the Malian economy, agricul-ture is mainly based on food crops. Along with the se, there are agro-industrial (cotton and groundnuts) and vegetable crops (particularly potatoes), livestock and fishing. In addition to agricultural resources, Mali has huge potential in the energy, tourism, artisanal, and mining industries. In the field of energy resources, hydroelectric developments have been made (Sotuba, Markala, Selingué, Manatali) and are in the process of being made (Félou, Tossaye, Labezanga, Gouina sites). Sources of renewable energy include the expansion of solar energy and rural electrification through biofuel. As for mining, the Malian earth contains large deposits including gold, phosphate, rock salt, oil, lime s-tone, bauxite, iron, magnesium, gypsum, uranium and marble. The most important gold mines are those of Siama, Sadiola, Morila, Loulo, Tabacoto and Kalana. Gold is currently the main export resource (b e-fore cotton and cattle) with a total export volume of 782.3 billion CFA francs in 2010, making Mali the third largest exporter of African gold, behind South Africa and Ghana. Despite this potential, Mali is one of the least developed countries in the world. The population is highly vulnerable to further degradation.
Mali is facing major environmental challenges such as desertification, Niger river silting, water scarcity, land degradation and vegetation cover, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. In the medium term, the degradation of soil and vegetation is a major obstacle to the stated ambition of making Mali an agribusiness power. Main environmental issues are following: Increasing human pressure on land resources results in the conversion of an estimated 100 000 hectares of land each year to cope with rising food needs (CBD 2001), with a degradation rate in the order of 8,3% . The use of fire to manage agricultural land is one of the leading causes of land degradation; an estimated 14.5 million hectares of pasture are burned each year, equivalent to 17 per cent of the country (CBD 2001). Acknowledgment of this problem early in the history of interventions in Mali in the field of environment is witnessed in the integration of the National Action Plan for the combat of desertification in the National Environmental Action Plan in 1994. Prolonged drought is the greatest threat to livelihoods and ecosystems in Mali, and is a leading driver of desertification. A total surface of about 10,3% —or about 12.572.000 hectares—of Mali is forested. Between 1990 and 2000, Mali lost an average of 100.000 hectares of Forest Cover per year. The amounts to an average annual deforestation rate of 0,71%. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate of forest change increased by 7,7% to 0,76% per annum. In total, between 1990 and 2005, Mali lost 10,7% of its forest cover, or around 1.500.000 hectares. Measuring the total rate of habitat conversion (defined as change in forest area plus change in woodland area minus net plantation expansion) for the 1990-2005 interval, Mali lost 4,9% of its forest and woodland habitat. Due to its varied ecosystems and climatic zones, these habitats harbor important biodiversity: Mali has some 897 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles according to figures from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Of these, 0,7% are endemic, meaning they exist in no other country, and 2,0% are threatened. Mali is home to at least 1.741 species of vascular plants, of which 0,6% are endemic. 3,6% of Mali is protected under IUCN categories I-V. However, biological resources are over-exploited by the growing human population. Deforestation is a major problem, especially as demand for fuelwood and charcoal continues to rise. In addition, fish species are threatened by overharvesting, the use of chemicals and explosives for fishing, and water pollution. Various studies on climate change effects in Mali indicate that these effects are increasingly felt in Mali, in the form of higher temperatures, reduced precipitation (when considered over the last three decades), droughts, inundations, strong winds, marked variations in temperatures and a moving desertification front (AEDD, 2011). Extreme weather events, notably droughts and floods, may become more frequent or intense. Climate variability and change compound significant anthropogenic pressures on land, water and other natural resources. Combined pressures are resulting in natural resource degradation – a critical issue for a country in which a large share of the population is employed in the rural sector, and livelihoods are very dependent on natural resources. These climate
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changes threaten the primary sector (agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing) and the exploitation of forest resources ; all key sectors for the economic development of the country. Health, water resources, infrastructure, industry and mining are also suffering for climate change effects .
The Malian environment and its natural resources continue to deteriorate under the effects of growing pressures related to climate change, socio-economic development, and demographic growth. The deterioration of the ecosystems has been detrimental to rural people, and the reduction of biodiversity has had a negative impact on their income-generating activities. The impacts were more severe on the most disadvantaged segments of the population. Already deeply affected, the latter will become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, such as floods, but also to any other shock that would threaten their means of subsistence and diminish their food security. This evolution has led to weak performances in the area of environmental governance that place Mali 156th out of 163 classified countries (PEI, 2010).
Despite these serious environmental problems, Mali also knows numerous opportunities in the area of natural resource management with a number of development partners offering the option of undertaking strategic studies such as economic assessments, the integrated study of ecosystems, a public expenditure review for the environment sector, and vulnerability studies on climate.
Management of the environment and the country’s natural resources are registered in the Constitution of Mali, in particular in its article 15 which states that: “Any person is entitled to a healthy environment. Protection, the defense of the environment and the promotion of the quality of the life are a duty for all and the State ". In addition, the country ratified several Multilateral agreements Environmental (AME) resulting from the UN Conference of Rio on Environment and Development held in 1992. As follow up, Mali committed itself preparing a 3-volume National Environmental Action Plan (PNAE, 1994), which was at the same time foreseen as National Action Plan for the Combat of Desertification/Land Degration. Volume 2 of PNAE outlined the National Policy for Environmental Protection which aimed at “contributing to the economic and social sustainable development of the country and to the research of food security, to combat any form of pollution, against the process of natural resources degradation and desertification/land degradation”. This plan is the emanation of the national policy of environmental protection which aims at contributing to the economic and social sustainable development of the country and to the research of food security, to fight against any form of pollution, against the process of degradation of the natural resources and desertification. This policy which constitutes the framework of orientation for an effective and sustainable environmental management and planning, is implemented through the national, regional and local action plans, laws, regulations and legislative measures and appropriate institutional reforms.
The integrative efforts of sustainable development in the national policies and reversing the tendency of loss of the environmental resources effectively started in 2006. From then on, the proportion of forest resources passed from 8% of the national territory to 10,8% in 2011, and the cultivable surfaces were estimated in 2011 at 5,58% of the surface of the national territory against 4,65% in 2006. This shows that at present, the consideration given to environmental challenges in various sectoral strategies and policies is genuine.
Mali is also a stakeholder in a multitude of international and regional conventions, funds, and programs in support of the environment, in particular the Global Environment Fund, the Carbon Fund, the initiative on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (UN-REDD) for the reduction of greenhouse gases, the WAEMU, the United Nations Environment Programme, PEI-Africa, etc., which provide considerable assets and opportunities for the financing of capacity building .
In June 2010, Mali assumed the presidency of the Conference of the African ministers for the Environment, with the mandate of spokesman of the African countries during the negotiations on climate change during UN summits. In order to live up these engagements well, the government created in July 2010, the Agency for Environment and Sustainable Development (AEDD). The AEDD is a national publicly-owned establishment related to administration, under supervision of the Ministry for the Environment, Water and Waste Management (Ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Assainissement et du Développement Durable). Another clear sign of advancement is the process for the development of a National Sustainable Development Strategy (SNDD), launched in novembre 2011.
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The process is now at a stage of regional concertations with the objective to ‘’exchange with all regional actors to take into account regional specificities in the SNDD. In the beginning of 2013, the process has already assembled actors in the regions of Kidal, Gao, Tombouctou et Mopti. The followed approach permits improvement the effectiveness of public action in the field of sustainable development, provide a coherence between sectoral policies, develop synergies between existing programmes, and mobilize the whole of society.
Nevertheless, the efforts are still insufficient: if the environment is considered to be the foundation of sustainability in rural development policies, it is often neglected in other sectoral policies, even though the latter can have a major environmental impact, especially energy, industrial, and transport policies. The Government intends to remedy this situation. This issue is important because the exploitation of natural resources (soil, vegetation, water, aquatic and terrestrial life) is expected to increase due to population growth and the diverse needs of agricultural products, livestock, and forestry . Mali’s economic performance is fragile, characterised by a vulnerability to climatic conditions, fluctuating terms of trade, and dependence on ports in neighbouring countries. The Environment is facing to several issues. Mali is dependent on foreign public aid which plays an important role in the financing of socio-economic development. It represents about 20% of GDP per year and nearly 80% of the Special Investment Budget. The country is also highly vulnerable to fluctuations in world prices of cotton which is its second main export product after gold.
In term of national security, there is a serious threat of terrorist activities in Mali’s three northern regions (Timbuktu, Gao, and Kidal, which make up nearly 60 percent of the country’s area) and in remote areas along the Mauritanian border. Following the fall of the north to rebel groups in April 2012, several terrorist organizations including Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have been increasing their use of the area as a safe haven for holding hostages and planning operations. While the Government of Mali, assisted by French and African intervention forces, regained control over the major northern cities in early 2013, these terrorist organizations still retain the capacity to launch attacks from their bases in the countryside.
As indicated above, the Malian government has undertaken a great many initiatives to improve the state of environmental and natural resources management on all levels. But although some tangible result are being achieved, deterioration of the environment is eminent. Without a conducive environment for these initiatives, their sustainability is questionable. This conducive environment depends on a great many factors, but the national capacities for national and global environmental management are instrumental. This was recognized by the government of Mali (GoMa) when the decision was taken to take part in the global initiative for execution of a National Capacity-Self Assessment (NCSA) for National and Global Environmental Management, specifically geared towards an assessment for the implementation of the Rio conventions. Through a consultative and partipative process, the national capacities on a systemic, institutional and individual level were assessed, ultimately leading to a national Strategy and Action Plan for Cross-cutting capacity building for the implementation of the Rio Conventions. The NCSA process in Mali was completed in 2007. The analysis done for the elaboration of this SAP pointed towards some serious capacity gaps and needs for capacity building. In the Strategy of the NCSA, Mali defined the following strategic vision for strengthening the capacities to manage the environment on a global and national level following: Towards 2025, Mali will have developed a permanent aptitude to evaluate and solve the crucial problems posed by political choices and the implementation modalities of the various development strategies, plans and programs, by appreciating the true value of the possibilities and limits of their repercussions on the environment at global and national levels, according to the fundamental needs for its populations. The NCSA Action Plan identified 7 Strategic Axes and 16 Strategic Objectives. In doing so, it should directly achieve the following four Strategic Objectives from the NCSA Action Plan:
• 2.1: Develop and make available, to local decision makers, tools for decentralized environmental planning and management;• 2.2: Create/establish inclusive participatory mechanisms leading to good collaboration amongst stakeholders (governmental, local, CBO, private sector, etc.);• 5.1: Rationalize/integrate the existing environmental information systems and mechanisms;• 5.3: Strengthen the Capacity of the Ministry of Environment Sanitation and Sustainable Dévelopment for information management and communications.
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In discussions on the follow up of the NCSA exercise, GoMA decided to bundle the focus on two particular gaps: 1. Absence of a coordinated system for collecting, analysing, storing and making available accurate, and reliable data and information related to all three Rio Conventions, and of direct use by decision-makers; and 2. A set of policies and strategies, financial instruments and action plans that focussed on sectoral issues, but did not manage to generate global environmental benefits, as required within the context of the implementation of the Rio Conventions. This project contributes to Strategic Axe no. 1 “Integrating global environmental needs into management information systems and monitoring” and to Strategic Axe no. 3 “Integrating MEAs provisions within national policy, legislative, and regulatory frameworks"'- in this case, local planning.
A coordinated system for integrating global environmental needs into Malian MIS.
To manage the environment requires the existence of reliable information and data on natural resources and the existence of relevant impact indicators and monitoring of their progress. An important tool in collection and distribution of environmental information is the National Report on the State of the Environment. The National Report on the State of the Environment is one of the essential tools for such information. It is in line with the application of the Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration (1992) that stipulates : « a better way of treating environmental questions and ensure the participation of all concerned citizens at a convenient level. At the national level, each individual necessarily needs to have access to information pertaining to the environment » . It is in this context that the Malian State of the Environment Report is elaborated, with the objective to provide precise information and indicators on the evolution of national ecosystems in the face of dynamics within the socio-economic systems. To evaluate the results of development initiatives, the Ministry in charge of Environment produced the fourth report on the State of the Environment of Mali. This report was based for a large part on the results of an economic evaluation of the environmental management in Mali: costs and benefits, produced under the Poverty and Environment Initiative in collaboration with the UNEP and Sustainable Business Associates (SBA). According to this evaluation, the environmental damages suffered in 2008 by the population and the economy of Mali regarding the well being and national revenue reached about 20% of its NBP, or more than 680 billion FCFA (= over 1.4 billion US$). These damages resulted from direct environmental damages and the inefficient utilization of natural resources and energy. Without immediate action, the anticipated damages for years to come were reported to be much higher, endangering the future of Mali. On the other hand, costs for measures to be taken to avoid damages were estimated at only 10% of BNP. Reported problems differed in urban and rural areas: in urban areas the fields of air pollution, energy and matter insufficiencies, health and life quality were predominant; in the rural areas, problems lay mostly in the field of water, soils, forests and natural capcital (website UNDP).
In 2011, a fifth edition of this report was published, representing a reference document for environmental information, a basic tool for programming environmental actions and an instrument for negotiation between the state and development cooperation partners. The document of scientific and informative character, aims to objectively present the environmental situation in Mali through a systemic and holistic approach for collecting, treating and analyzing as much information as possible, in a triangulated manner, without changing its quality. It also provides an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the environmental policy of the Ministry in charge of the Environment. The 2011 Report constitutes therefore the current prospective and strategic document for the planning and rational utilization of the national natural resources. It provides an objective overview of the situation and draws attention on the fact that no ecosystem should suffer from human pressures and climate change .For reasons of effectiveness, the environmental programmes and strategies building on this policy need to be supported by trustworthy and regularly updated information. Furthermore, to ensure that each citizen of Mali feels concerned and participates in the debate about the environment and sustainable development, he/she needs to be able to access basic information.
The NCSA research showed that in Mali, such data/information exist, but it’s generally incomplete, dispersed and available in a form only intended for the user (scientific or technical) and sector specific. In view of the increasing demand for environmental information by technical services, projects and other institutions, initiatives for creation of data banks have been developed by various services or partners. It is in view of this realisation, that the PNPE recommended the establishment of a National System of Environmental Information management (SNGIE), in
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particular through the creation of means of production and/or collection, treatment and distribution of this information at all the levels (national, regional, local).
The National System of Information management Environmental (SNGIE) has been foreseen as a permanent mechanism to gradually meet the informational needs for all the national and international users. It’s supposed to facilitate decision-making and allow the information flow towards and between all actors involved in environmental protection and improvement of the quality of life. SNGIE operates in the co-existence with multiple other initiatives of data bases and information systems supported or not by development partners: SCRAPE, BD-CBD, BD-CPS/MAEP, GHENIS, SIGMA, SNIS, SGCQEB, RNSIG, SISEI, ROSELT, PNIDSA, Centre for information and knowledge management in the field of environment (CRRA/IER), among which data- and information collection were undertaken at both the national and the regional level. The provisioning of this system is ensured by a network of relevant focal points from technical services, NGOs and women and youth organizations. The SNGIE consists of a data base, a website and a quarterly bulletin. Its inception involved a set of key actors, who were initially trained in a data base management system (ACCESS), remote sensing and GIS. A coordination unit for the system exists within the Office for Communication, Traning and Research of the AEDD. This unit possesses a number of data-processing equipment (server, computers, scanner) and an internet connection. An overview of environmental indicators can also be found on the Ministry website: http://bd.stp.gov.ml/donnenviron/menuprinc.php.
Another step forward in EMIS development was the establishment of the Device for Environmental Observation and Monitoring (DOSE) with the support the OSS in order to promote synergy between the environmental conventions, to monitor environmental impacts and to elaborate performant tools in support of decision making. At the inception of DOSE, all relevant actors and structures have been identified and involved; OSS has even organised a training on monitoring and evaluation of the National Action Plan for the combat of desertification. DOSE aims at ensuring access to the considerable mass of information that exists in Africa, exploiting it, organising its dissemination and promoting the development of a mechanism for observing, monitoring and evaluating desertification in Africa. This programme produces data at various scales - from field studies to low and high-resolution satellite images using well co-ordinated methods.
In 2000, GTZ assisted the STP/CIGQE(now AEDD) in the establishment of the Computerized Repertory of Environmental Projects (Répertoire Informatisé des Projets Environnementaux (RIPE)). RIPE, currently managed by AEDD, contains a series of development incentives and interventions (programmes, projects and actions) susceptible to have a significant impact on the environment and/or promote sustainable development. RIPE is an application based on the program SGBD MS ACCESS 2000.
The establishment of a country wide EMIS has already benefitted from several initiatives : * The existence of a National Network of Environmental Surveillance of Mali (RNSE), that comprises of about twenty (20) observatories dispersed over the national territory. These observatories have been chosen according to the agro-ecological zones they cover and were installed during the Terrestrial Resources Inventory Project in 1989. The RNSE also includes three observatories of the Observatory Network for long term environmental surveillance (ROSELT) of the Observatory for the Sahel and the Sahara (OSS) : Bourem, Niono and the Baoulé. * Existence of Early Warning Mechanisms (GTPA, SAP, CILSS) for information on food crises moments, to appreciate their span of influence and determine the place, manner and opportunity for intervention . There is also the environmental early warning system of DOSE, based on the elaboration of vulnerability indicators of localities for climatic and human pressures. Anything that could permit observation of the trends of different changes and predict their impacts on both natural resources and the populations. * An existing institutional basis sufficient to manage a monitoring and evaluation system. The Ministry for Environment and Waste Management, responsible for National Action Plans on the subjects, disposes of a consortium of partner institutions procuding environmental information, of an integrated approach towards the environment for a sustainable development of the natural resources, a better environmental information management and its valorisation for decision making.
Nevertheless, the NCSA studies also recognized a number of challenges. They can be summarized primarily as weakness in technical and managerial skills of the actors of the system; with a weakness of the involved structures in
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materials and equipment; with a lack of indicators allowing demonstrating achievement of the global environmental objectives and the elaboration of the state of the environment reports (analytical document for evaluation and decision-making). The multitude of data bases do not meet these needs for indicators, their products are not oriented towards the various needs of users; the producing structures are reticent with the supply of the data and information; coordination in the collection, the processing and the diffusion data is virtually absent. An overview of specific main barriers:
* Among the 20 observatories included in RNSE, only four are currently operational: the 3 observatories under ROSELT and the one in Gourma. Their surveillance is focused on the study of climate change affecting the vegetation, soils, water resources, population, herds, economic practices and activities of the population of the localities and zones of interest;
* The Early Warning Systems are essentially only targeting agricultural aspects and food security;
* Absence of strategic document validated for the establishment of the DOSE, nor for the studies done with support of the OSS;
* The lack of indicators to meet global environmental objectives and reporting on the state of the environment (analytical document assessment and decision making);
* The multitude of databases do not meet the needs of indicators, their products are not geared to the various needs of users-producing structures are reluctant to supply data and information.
Low organizational chart in the collection, processing and dissemination of data;
Thus, a challenge of coordination across information management still exists. The plethora of agencies involved in environmental information management do not effectively share data and information, due to incompatible data protocols, formats and standards. This is a particularly important constraint to implementing the Rio Conventions, because the Rio Conventions require coordinated involvement from several state agencies. The government has recognized the need to strengthen information management systems in the environment sector and related sub-sectors to better monitor environment and its contribution to the national economy. Insufficient institutional capacities to plan, finance and implement development processes that contribute to implementing the Rio Conventions and generate global environmental benefits.
Where mainstreaming of environmental issues – including the implementation of the MEA – and sustainable development are progressing in a fast pace on the national level, the trickling down of such notions via the decentralisation process into local development planning seems to be lagging behind. The most important actions taken in the context of democratic decentralization and local governance within the sector of environmental and natural resources management have been summarized in the NCSA SAP summarized as follows :
* Adoption of a decentralisation policy for management of local affaires: Mali is involved in a Reform on territorial decentralization that consists of the acknowledgement of moral personalities and financial management autonomy of territorial entities, which are the territorial communities (collectivités territoriales (CT)). These CT are the local governments of which the chosen representatives by the population manage public local affairs. This decentralization is a form of organization of the Malian State that puts attention to the responsibilities of users and populations in all phases of their own development; a model of administrative organization that divides decision power and responsibilities between the State and the CT. Some of the strengths and opportunities outlined in the NCSA research will help in a better coordination of efforts:
- existence of a political will reaffirmed to pursue a process instigated in 1992 with the MDD;
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- engagement of practically all technical and financial partners (PTF) to accompany the government in the pursuit and guidance of the decentralization policy ; - Creation and implementation of three types of CT (region, circle and commune) and a District. Currently, 761 communes, 49 circles, 8 regions and the Bamako District exist.
- The establishment of an institutional framework for decentralization and local governance that permits a formalization of consultative relations between different structure or institution involved in the management of the environment (decentralized State technical services, CT, civil society and private sector) ;
- Periodic election of the managing bodies of the CTs.
* Establishment of a development planning approach
It has been determined that each commune will develop its PDESC as a framework for interventions. The environmental management nowadays focuses the attention of all local governance sectors, that in spite of the existence of an impressive legal, legislative and regulatory arsenal, prove to experience enormous difficulties in the management of the numerous natural resources that the CTs harbor. Consequently, the MEA, with support of the GTZ has proposed the communities a step-by-step approach for the elaboration of Local Environmental Action Plans. Ever since, reflections have been done on the incorporation of environmental dimensions in the development planning process.
However, given the important linkages between global environmental objectives and national sustainable development priorities, the above initiatives do not sufficiently address Environmental issues. Major opportunities to generate cross-cutting global environmental benefits will be missed due to the lacking capacities in integrating environment issues into development frameworks. Some identified barriers are:
• Low capacity of national and local institutions at integrating the environment into overall strategic documents (e.g. PRPs, PDSECs);
• A pronounced ignorance at the local level of the different sectoral policies, in particular those regarding decentralized protection of the environment (as in the PNPE) ;
• The sluggishness in the transfer of competencies and resources from state level to CTs ;
• The feeble involvement of the populations in the management of local affairs, including natural resources management (low participation rate in elections, timid participation in the development of the PDESC and insufficient inclusion of environmental aspects, low citizen control on the local management, irregular organization of statutatory sessions, low contribution in local management, etc.).
• Insufficient methodological and M&E tools for the policies with regards to environmental management an protection, including natural resources management ;
• Emergence of numerous litigation suits tied to the territorial division and management of natural resources ;
• Low level of education of those elected.
On the whole, Mali is fully committed to meet its obligations under the MEAs. However, given the important linkages between global environmental objectives and national sustainable development priorities, the above initiatives do not sufficiently address MEA issues. This is an important missed opportunity to generate global environmental benefits (GEB). In the baseline, the local development planning will continue to be strengthened, with capacity building, analytical tools and expert support. Regional and Communal plans will continue to be rolled-out across the country. The monitoring of implementation of these plans/programmes will continue to improve. However, apart from GEF supported initiatives to mainstream environmental management into plans of certain
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localities, the local planning will not include a focus on global environmental issues. Major opportunities to generate cross-cutting global environmental benefits will be missed due to the lacking capacities. The proposed project is intended to facilitate an important step towards developing the capacities for an effective national environmental management framework. The Table below illustrates how the project component will contribute to specific articles under the three Rio Conventions. The PPG process will further explore alignment to Convention articles, and the MSP document will specify, and exemplify, how the project intervention will directly support the Conventions.
2) The proposed alternative scenario, with a brief description of expected outcomes and components
The strategy this project proposes to employ builds on Mali’s past experience of policy coordination in the information management sector. Given Mali’s priority to socio-economic development, global environmental objectives will be met by strengthening a consensus and coordinated strategy to integrate global and national environmental priorities within the decision-making processes at the highest level and to have this trickle down towards the local level. Policy coordination that strengthens concerted natural resource action and its influence on socio-economic priorities frames global environmental objectives within the context of national and local sustainable development.
In the framework of implementing the NCSA Strategy and its work plan, GEF resources will be used to improve environmental information, planning and decision making systems to generate global Environment Benefits through strengthened coordination and consultative processes that will promote environmentally sound and sustainable development at the highest policy level (through the AEDD), allowing for the joint achievement of socio-economic priorities and global environmental objectives. National and local benefits that are expected to accrue are to be seen as a more sustainable approach to meeting socio-economic priorities. An additional benefit comes about in the form of process: The cost (real cost, transaction cost, and opportunity cost) of implementing policy can be reduced by facilitating the improvement of consultative mechanisms and creating synergies.
The first component addresses improving data and information. The second component addresses improving development planning processes. The improved information from the first component is one tool to support the improved development planning processes in the second component.
Component 1: Information management systems for global environment issues.
With support from GEF and several other planned initiatives, the existing environmental data collection and information management system will be greatly strengthened, particularly to report on the State of the Environment and implementation of the various environmental conventions that Mali has ratified over the years. It will also be more responsive to the needs of potential users, it will be more accurate, more up-to-date and more accessible. The Outcome 1 under this component is to establish a functioning, sustainable system for collecting, analysing, storing and making available accurate, and reliable data and information related to all three Rio Conventions, and of direct use by decision-makers and reporting to the conventions. Co-financing will prepare the system, GEF focuses on the Rio Conventions and related global environmental benefits.
The Output 1.1 is to strengthen the existing SNGIE provide a coordinated and sustainable data/information collection and storage mechanism and effective national reporting for conventions. In the baseline, SNGIE does not pay sufficient attention to the Rio Conventions nor to harmonised approaches, and will not be sufficiently user friendly. With GEF support, under this Output, these weakenesses will be overturned. The SNGIE will become the single entry point for all data and information on environmental issues in Mali. It will have access to all the existing data and information systems that are currently spread across the various ministries and other stakeholders. It will play a coordination role across data collection agencies – a primus enter pares. It will store all data in accessible formats. It will undertake data analysis, and it will prepare useful, customer-oriented information products (see next Output). It will be responsible for preparing accurate and timely reports to the Rio Conventions and other environmental conventions, as appropriate. Strengthening SNGIE is a significant step forward to solve the problems of integrating environmental data (collection, reliability, update, analysis, dissemination etc..). This will be based partly on a needs
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survey of potential users – an innovative approach in the region where most systems are designed by scientists with little consideration of potential users. Meeting Reporting requierments to global conventions will be central to this new system. This output will also focus on training in Sustainable Management of the Environment (GDE) and the continuous renewal of staff who is aging. The SNGIE should be positioned as mechanism for monitoring and advice to help in decision-making at all levels in the field of GDE. It will build the capacity of anticipation and foresight of GDE in the country, including national and supra-national information and prepare stakeholders for the implementation of plans and emergency response strategies for environmental protection in the event of unexpected disasters (droughts, floods, toxic waste, fire, etc.). Output 1.2 will be improved protocols and standards data collection, analyse, and storing that lead to harmonization, and to the availability of effective information related to the CBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC and other global conventions. Currently data is collected and stored in different formats, different timescales, for different regions, in different data bases, using different software, etc. Through a consultative process, a single, coherent approach to data and information management will be negotiated and established. These will ensure that in the future data collection and storage is harmonized across all conventions, all agencies and all environmental factors.
Under output 1.3, relevant indicators existing among the various data processing organisations for monitoring and evaluation of the status of environment and sustainable development will be evaluated and integrated into the SNGIE to support the development of policies, strategies, projects and plans that can cater to both changes in the existing state of the environment and to new and upcoming environmental issues relevant to the country, the region and the world (e.g. NAMA and REDD+).
Component 2: Integrating global environment into local planning and development
Mali has adopted the decentralized approach to sustainable development. This involves empowering and mandating the local communities (collectivítés locales/ CT). This Component supports and builds on this decentralized approach that has been started in Mali, but suffers from operationalisation. Hence, it develops tools and capacity that can be used to sustainably strengthen local consultation processes that allow CTs and regions to better manage their local affairs pertaining to natural resources management for sustainable development. These tools will be available for all localities, and so will have a national impact. A particular focus and mainstreaming of the concerns from the Rio conventions and other MEA into the PDSECs, should promote production of global environmental benefits.
Outcome 2: Enhanced institutional capacities to plan, finance and implement decentralised development processes that contribute to implementing the Rio Conventions and generate global environmental benefits.
In the Output 2.1, training and tools (e.g. manual and guidelines) will be provided to staffs from relevant Ministries (Finances, Planning, Environment, etc.) and local deciders on how to mainstream biodiversity, climate change, desertification, disaster management and wetlands management into key development plans and processes (budget transfers to CT, allocations from the National Environment Fund, decentralised planning protocols for technical staff, etc.). They will provide a clear methodology and instructions for practically integrating global environmental issues into local plans. For example, they may cover awareness raising, economic values of global environment, global environment indicators and participatory monitoring techniques, and see how these can become part of each plan/programme.
With the competencies acquired through training (output 2.1), the set of manuals and guidelines will be piloted in the elaboration of at least 2 national development strategies and investment plans and revision of 5 PDSEC, that will be updated to allocate sufficient funds to support the implementation of Rio Convention strategies. (output 2.2). This will directly lead to changes in the development plans and programmes.
In addition, dialogues with relevant national (including private sector) and international partners developed for the establishment of the National Environmental Funds (output 2.3)
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Finally in Output 2.4, training will be provided to staffs from ministries and other relevant stakeholders (e.g. national NGO’s) to master and submit proposal to national international financing mechanisms (e.g. bilateral, GEF, climate funds,) etc.
Global Environmental Benefits
The project will lead to both direct and indirect global benefits. Directly, in the PDSECs under Component 2, measures leading to GEB will be implemented. Also, at all localities using the set of manuals and guidelines, activities leading to GEB will be identified, and many will be implemented beyond the project. Indirectly, the set of manuals and guidelines will provide the basis for a large number of activities leading to GEB across the country. Also, the greatly improved data and information management systems, with mechanisms dedicated to the global environment, will provide the basis for monitoring the global environment, and be an input into planning and design of a large number of development activities across the country. There is a mutually reinforcing effect between and among the objectives of improving the environment, optimizing economic benefits and improving the role of women in project formulation and implementation.
Innovativeness, sustainability and potential for scaling up
The project is innovative in that it will spearhead ways of having local authorities apply for funding for local projects under the national environment funds, herewith increasing the two way exchange of environmental information and empowering the local communities in their authonomous decisions about the management of natural resources without the need for external financing from donors.
Scaling up of the project results is ensured by a capitalization of the results under the pilots and a broad dispersal of the best practices during dialogues and exchange visits. In this, the fact that governments in neighbouring countries are undertaking similar activies, with differing focus, with assistance from UNDP, will enable a broader spectrum of change with efficient input of resources.
The project develops capacity and establishes systems. The capacity and the systems will continue to operate after the project is completed. They will be used to (i) ensure coordinated and effective data/information management (ii) mainstream global environment into planning processes. The training, the information, the awareness, the demand-oriented nature of the system will all contribute to ensuring the project outputs are sustainable. This is to be further clarified during the PPG phase.
The project will contribute directly to improved local development planning, and should therefore improve the quality and implementation of local plans/programmes, thereby in turn leading to direct socio-economic benefits. In addition, by ensuring decision makers have access to accurate and updated information on natural resource/environment amongst (at local, regional and central level), the project will help support socio-economic development2. Stakeholders. Will project design include the participation of relevant stakeholders from civil society and indigenous people? (yes /no ) If yes, identify key stakeholders and briefly describe how they will be engaged in project design/preparation. A large number of stakeholders is involved in the project preparation and will be beneficiary to its outcomes. An overview of these stakeholders and their possible roles in the project:1. Ministry for the Environment, - The ministry in charge of environment and sustainable development and therefore the organization for financial, technical and political anchorage for the project. Task: Overall guidance and steering of the project development; provision of a National Project Director and chairing of the Project Steering Committee.2. Ministry of Rural Development, the Ministry of Energy and Hydraulics and the Ministry of territorial administration and Decentralization, Ministry of mining ,etc. - Ministries whose policies, programmes and activities have a potential impact on the national and global environment. Participate in meeting and fora for the identification of Project key actions;Task: Contribute technically in the project document during PPG; Facilitate the involvement of national partners
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3. Existing environmental information system managing organisations - The organizations in charge of managing SCRAPE, BD-CBD, BD-CPS/MAEP, GHENIS, SIGMA, SNIS, SGCQEB, RNSIG, SISEI, ROSELT, PNIDSA, Centre for information and knowledge management in the field of environment (CRRA/IER); DOSE, RIPE is another example of such systems. RNSE is a network of observatories that has high stakes in the project. Participate in the design and implementation of the EMIS under SNGIE;Task: Decide on liberal sharing and transfer of information; Adopt protocols for such sharing and the use and validation of indicators4. Regional/Local Governments - Governor and Councils/Collectivités Territoriales (CT) – communes, regions and Bamako District – develop their own local development plans or PDSECS, that should integrate environmental and natural resources management for sustainable development.Task: Participate in meeting and fora for the identification of Project key actions; Contribute technically in the project document during PPG; Facilitate the involvement of national partners5. Local government agencies - These are responsible for plan development and implementation at regional, commune and village level. Task: They can both support project activities and benefit from project capacity building, including from the availability of improved data and information. 6. Civil society women and youth associations/Community Based Organizations /NGOs/ media - CBOs, and local, national and international NGOs are active in the natural resource management sectors, both nationally and at certain sites. The network of Malian civil society organizations called Réso-Climat Mali, which intervenes in the area of climate change and sustainable development, is an example of a potential key stakeholder. Recently it has organized a press conference to inform about an initiative to elaborate an environment pact for all presidential candidates. The pact focused on 10 principles, aiming for the sustainability of the agro-sylvo-pastoral sector, control of pollution and hinder, biodiversity, health, research and measures and sanctions against polluters. The mission and objectives of Réso-Climat Mali, composed of 103 NGO and development associations, are a.o. to contribute to the promotion of a healthy environment for a sustainable and equitable development for all, to improve knowledge on climate change and sustainable development, to lobby and advocate with the national and international political decision-makers on climate change issues and the need for sustainable development Task: Participation in stakeholders consultations; Contribute in the designing of Prodoc; Potential financial or technical partners; Sources of data and information; Local NGOs can be a vehicle for introducing new ideas; Benefit from capacity development; Voice the interests of the most vulnerable in society7. Research and technical institutes - This includes the national universities and research institutes involved in conservation, agriculture and rural development. This includes institutes under Ministries, and international organizations.Task: These stakeholders are essential to the data/information networks; they can also provide technical inputs and can benefit from capacity development.8. Traditional local management structures - Traditional management structures are very important in Mali, and are also closely aligned to local government agencies. They will often be repositories of a wealth of local knowledge on environmental management and changes in natural resource stocks. Sources of data and information;Task: Act as mediation when conflicts on natural resources management arrise.
The national Agency for Environment and Sustainable Development (AEDD) will be the coordinating organization for the project. As such, it will be responsible for; coordination of the PPG process; facilitation of involvement of stakeholders participation in identification of project activities and institutional arrangement; Secure Letters Co-financing from development partners; Facilitate organisation of PPG inception and validation meeting of Prodoc at national and local levels and provide technical input in the Prodoc..3. Gender Considerations. Are gender considerations taken into account? (yes /no ). If yes, briefly describe how gender considerations will be mainstreamed into project preparation, taken into account the differences, needs, roles and priorities of men and women.Existing data suggests that women are more vulnerable to environmental degradation in Mali. By providing improved data and by strengthening decision-making systems, the project will help overcome environmental degradation and will facilitate a focusing on gender issues. Hence, the project, by improving environmental management, and ensuring a full focus on gender concerns, will lead directly to improved conditions for women, both in the project area and more generally in Mali. The detailed nature of the socio-economic benefits will be
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further assessed at the design stage. The project will promote gender mainstreaming at the earliest stages of the project cycle. Men and women will participate on an equal basis in the initial stages of project conception, approval and implementation. The needs assessment will be done at the project development phase and be used to define the roles of women and men early in the project; specific attention will be put on gender balance and the interests of vulnerable groups such as women, youth, landless, children, elderly and internally displaced people. The project will also make every effort to involve a large number of females in its activities. All training will include at least 40% females. The project will explore the possibility of gender disaggregation of data/information under Component 1, leading, for example, to information products such as a map that illustrates the impacts on women of global environmental degradation. 4 Risks. Indicate risks, including climate change, potential social and environmental risks that might prevent the project objectives from being achieved, and, if possible, propose measures that address these risks to be further developed during the project design (table format acceptable). First risk: Insecurity in the Country – terrorist attacks or regular banditry – may jeopardize the implementation and follow-up of the programme. Level: Medium. Mitigation: a. the project shall take this into account through various measures including cooperation with local communities and structures (training); b. a good cooperation with local organizations for the project implementation ; c. using UN security alert system and the national police force
Second Risk: The mechanisms for coordinating government departments are not effective. This could make it difficult to share information, or develop information sharing mechanisms. Level: Low to medium . Mitigation: a. strengthen AEDD in its demonstrated ability and commitment to playing the coordinating role; b. AEDD has the mandate for coordination, and is supported by several international projects - the strategy of this project to secure high level government support, and this will help coordination; c. the project will also seek to demonstrate a win-win approach to collaborating and sharing information.
Third Risk: Low participation of relevant Ministries (e. finance, Planning, etc) . Level: Low. Mitigation: a. Increased collaboration with the target communes; b. apply a participatory approach; c. sensitization on environmental issues.
Fourth Risk: Political will for decentralization or improved information management fades. Level: Low. Mitigation: a. maintain strong and present political will; b. apply rigorous monitoring of the situation.
Fifth Risk: Local development stakeholders are unwilling to take measures to improve the global environment. Level: Low to medium. Mitigation: a. Given the strong correlation between the global environment and local development, this should not be a strong factor. It should be possible to find enough common ground, win-win solutions, at least initially
Sixth Risk: Lack of sufficiently qualified partners. Level: Low. Mitigation: a. strong emphasis on Capacity-building; b. Permanent Screening and evaluation of partners
Capacity Development Scorecard (GEF Tracking Tool):
The methods set out in the Monitoring Guidelines of Capacity Development in GEF projects will be incorporated into the project framework and its overall M&E plan. These methods include the use of a Capacity Development (CD) Scorecard, which was developed specifically for the Cross-Cutting Capacity Development (CCCD) projects and which build upon recent work on capacity and capacity development from the GEF, its Implementing Agencies, and from external research. The CD scorecard uses indicators and their corresponding ratings in order to quantify the qualitative process of capacity change and will be applied as a three-point (beginning, mid-point, and terminal) time series programme evaluation of how the project contributes to CD outcomes. Incorporating this CD framework into project design, implementation, and monitoring will provide a comprehensive monitoring framework aimed at assessing the range of needed capacities to achieve global environmental outcomes and ensure their sustainability, i.e., global environmental sustainability.
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The NCSA undertook a capacity assessment; that assessment now needs updating and focusing on the particular requirements for this project. In the PPG, an assessment of the existing capacity will be undertaken using the Scorecard methodology5. Coordination. Outline the coordination with other relevant GEF-financed and other initiatives.There are a number of key programmes and initiatives with which this project is to be coordinated. Each of these programmes and initiatives has very important data and information requirements. Likewise, each is generating the key data and information needs to facilitate and catalyze improved decision-making to meet global environmental objectives. They also are important components of a holistic approach to poverty reduction and decentralization.Mali has drawn up a series of other sectoral development policies that affect the implementation of the conventions. These include the:• Master Plan of the Rural Development Sector (RSDS);• Long Term Plan for Agricultural Research (PSRA):• National Policy on Livestock Development;• Transport Sector Policy;• Energy policy, and• Industrial development policy.
An outstanding feat of policy development can be found in the national policy on climate change (PNCC) to help the country cope with the challenges of climate change and sustainable development. Five specific objectives of the PNCC have been defined for this purpose including: (i) To facilitate a better consideration of climate challenges in the sectoral policies and strategies of national socio-economic development and guide the actions of public, private and civil society for sustainable development in a changing climate; (ii) Increase the resilience of ecological systems, production and social systems to the effects of climate change through the integration of adaptation measures in priority sectors which are the most vulnerable; (iii) Contribute to the global effort to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, particularly by promoting clean and sustainable projects; (iv) Promote national research and technology transfer for climate change; and (v) Strengthen national capacity on climate change. To achieve the objectives defined by the PNCC, a National Strategy on Climate Change (SNCC) has been associated.
There are a number of national initiatives, with or without support from the TFP, with which the current project should seek synergies. The proposed project will be built on baseline programmes supporting food and nutritional improvement in selected vulnerables communes.
A. The UNCDF’s Programme on “Food and Nutritional Security in Nara (Kayes) and Nioro (Koulikoro)” (2012-2016, expected cofinancing USD$ 8,500,000) aims to maintain a sustainable improvement of food security of vulnerable groups, by promoting their access to inputs, technologies and markets and by strengthening the capacities of local actors to act against food insecurity in the local development.This project is part of a multi-partner programme of the Belgian Fund for Food Security. The Programme focused on: ‐ building technical and institutional capacities to manage food security: the baseline project will build capacity building of territorial collectivity, mainlymunicipalities to more effectively integrate the various dimensions of food security, knowledge, climate change and gender issues. In addition, municipalities will improve the access of internal resources to unlock the potential of local revenue collection and the development of programmes / agreements with municipal authorities for more effective and sustained mobilization. ‐ implentation and management ofsocio-economic, production and transformation infrastructures to improve food security. The baseline will establish a Food Security Fund (FSA- € 3 million) to establish structuring investment projects at the community level such as: services infrastructures for education, rehabilitation of water infrastructures, basics works to increase agriculture productivity, and investissments for the protection and exploitation of available water.
B. the USAID-Feed the Future (2010-2015, expected cofinancing USD$ 5,000,000) aims to provide targeted assistance to increase average yields of irrigated and lowland rice—by 33 percent and 66 percent, respectively—as well as double sorghum yields and increase,by 50 percent, millet yields in targeted areas. Additionally, crops using
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new technologies will beexpanded by 100,000 hectares. More than 255,000 children will be reached with services to improve their nutrition and prevent stunting and child mortality. Significant numbers of additional rural populations will achieve improved income and nutritional status from strategic policy engagement and institutional investments. Feed the Future in Mali will concentrate its interventions in 143 targeted communes in three of Mali’s eight regions—Sikasso, Mopti and Timbuktu—and the two communities in the Millennium Challenge Corporation intervention zones in the Alatona district of Segou region. To meetits objectives, Feed the Future Mali is making core investments in four key areas: ‐ Technological Advancement : Advances development of key agriculture sectors by adapting technologies to local conditions and disseminating these to Malian agricultural producers. ‐ Value Chain Development : Identifies major constraints to sector development (from farm to market) and means of addressing them in order to raise the efficiency of production and trade, thus raising rural incomes and reducing costs for consumers. ‐ Enabling Environment : Enables sector and value chain development by empowering selected public and private institutions to plan, develop, implement, and monitor agricultural and food security strategies and policies. ‐ Nutrition : Targeted nutrition interventions will beintegrated into agricultural production and trade (value chain) components to ensure improved nutritional outcomes for Malian populations in geographic regions of emphasis, as well as socialand behavior change communication for improved infant and young child feeding practices
C. The UNDP support Programme on Management of Environment and Sustainable Development (PAGEDD in French, 2010-2016, expected cofinancing USD$ 2,100,000) offers synergies in institutionalization and capacity building in the field of environment and climate changes. The component 1 of PAGEDD is supporting the mainstreaming of climate changes into relevant policies and strategies; the component 2 is building partnership with national institutions (e.g. parliamentarian, economic and Social Council, etc.); the component 3 is improving national communication/advocacy on CC and the component 4 is mainstreaming gender issues. There are strong linkages in term of communication on CC.
D. The proposed project will support the implentation of the “Initiative 166 Communes”. In an effort to achieve the country’s MDGs, the 166 Communes Initiative has been launched to combat food insecurity in the 166 municipalities (communes), identified as the most vulnerable to food crises. This initiative is executed as part of the National Food Security Programme (“Programme National de Sécurité Alimentaire” - PNSA) and stems from the Economic and Social Development Project (“Projet pour le DéveloppementEconomique et Sociale” – PDES) whose goal is to accelerate Mali’s development. The regions in which the 166 communes are located are: Tombouctou, Kidal, Gao, Mopti and Kayes and a few communes located in the regions of Koulikoro and Ségou. Commonalities between these communes include a lack of sufficient infrastructure required to meet the MDGs, such as health and educational centers, as well as strong rural-urban migration, leaving primarily women behind without the necessary financial and material necessities to fend for themselves and their children. The total cost of the 166 Communes Initiative is USD 95M and focuses on 8 axis: (i) Agriculture and Hunger, (ii) Education , (iii) Gender, (iv) Health, (v) Energy, (vi) Water supply and Sanitation, (vii) road and transport and (viii) environment.
E. With the support of UNDP, the country developed a strategic framework for a Green Economy and Resilience to Climate Change, together with a proposal of programmes for the mobilization of "fast start funding". This framework has two sectoral pillars; first Adaptation and Climate Resilience and second Green Economy: Mitigation and REDD + and two crosscutting pillars (Development and Transfer of technology and financial mechanism). The project will strongly interact with this strategic framework.
F. The project will also help build capacity of key adaptation interventions that were identified in the NAPA process as being of high priority by stakeholders at national, departmental, communal and village levels. An UNDP-LDCF project "Enhancing Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Climate Change in Mali’s Agriculture Sector". The objective of the project is to enhance adaptive capacities of vulnerable rural populations to the additional risks posed by climate change on agricultural production and food security in Mali. An FAO-LDCF project “Integrating Climate Resilience into the Agricultural Sector for Food Security in Rural Areas of Mali ” is currently underway that aims at supporting the realization of 7 out of the 19 NAPA priorities, of which NAPA Priority Project #6: Use of
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meteorological information toimprove agricultural production and contribute to food security in Mali. The objective is to provide advice to rural areas; meteorological advice and technical support to better plan and execute efficiently their agricultural activities to improve production. The proposed LDCF projects provide agro-meteorological information to rural producers in order to minimize climate risk and secure or increase agricultural and livestock productions.
Through the Réso-Clima Mali and SECO-ONG, the project will interface with NGO’s and CBO’s working on matters of climate change and sustainable development and developing projects for local implementation.With regard to the financial mechanism associated with the sustainability of the outcomes of the project, there are two important funding mechanisms that should be involved in the elaboration process of the project: The National Fund for the Environment. Operationalization of this fund is planned for 2015, where it will be equipped with an efficient architecture in terms of project cycle management costs, and ownership and responsibility for mobilizing domestic resources through taxation. Studies have been conducted to take stock of identifying sources, amounts, tax instruments, the opportunity costs, impacts, and regulatory provisions, consultations and validations of all stakeholders: government private sector, communities, sector departments, NGOs and civil society. The Multi-Donor Trust Fund Mali: started to mobilize international resources available on the basis of financial flows currently climate and opportunities for future funding.
The project will be implemented in line with established Government of Mali and UNDP procedures for Mali. AEDD will take overall responsibility for implementation of the project, and for the project success. AEDD will establish the necessary planning and management mechanisms to oversee project inputs, activities and outputs. The UNDP CO will support AEDD as requested and as necessary. The PPG process will be used to further define the management, coordination and consultation mechanisms. Visibility of GEF financial support will be ensured by using the global GEF branding in all electronic and printed materials. UNDP will also apply the following UNDP-GEF policy: “The GEF logo should appear on all relevant project publications, including amongst others, project hardware and other purchases with GEF funds. Any citation in publications regarding projects funded by GEF should also acknowledge the GEF. Logos of the Implementing Agencies and the Executing Agency will also appear on all publications. Where other agencies and project partners have provided support (through co-financing) their logos may also appear on project publications.” Full compliance will be made with the GEF’s Communication and Visibility Guidelines (“GEF Guidelines”): http://www.thegef.org/gef/sites/thegef.org/files/documents/C.40.08_Branding_the_GEF%20final_0.pdf6. Consistency with National Priorities. Is the project consistent with the National strategies and plans or reports and assessements under relevant conventions? (yes /no ). If yes, which ones and how: NAPAs, NAPs, ASGM NAPs, MIAs, NBSAPs, NCs, TNAs, NCSAs, NIPs, PRSPs, NPFE, BURs, etc.Mali is fully committed to meet its obligations under the MEAs and the proposed project is intended to facilitate an important step towards developing the capacities for an effective national environmental management framework. More specifically the project, directly or indirectly, addresses the following articles[1] under the Conventions as can be witnessed from the table in Annex 1, illustrating how the project component will contribute to specific articles under the three Rio Conventions.
The project is in line with the consecutive issues of the Mali Strategic Framework for Growth and Poverty Reduction. The second cycle covering 2007 - 2011 (CSCSRP-2) approved by the Council of Ministers in October 2006 touches favorably upon the key fields of the environment, energy, the water and other similar aspects like the habitat, land tenure and waste management. But these elements were treated more in a descriptive manner than an analytical approach for defining favorable sustainable development strategies. The clear bases on which various strategies related to the links between poverty and environment was not laid. Indicators of effect, impact and process covering the environment in all its key components (thematic and crosscutting) and taking into account the links between poverty and environment were not worked out nor validated in a suitable way . After the conclusion of the GPRSP-1 and 2, Mali finalized in the third plan in December 2011. The CSCRP-3 for the period 2012 – 2017 was the object for a regreening strategy, integrating environmental considerations in terms of orientations and actions in all components, thanks to the use of a sustainable development instrument : the Strategic Environmental Assessment (EES). Overall, this regreening has been considered a success by development partners.
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The CSCRP-3 was officially transmitted to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund a few weeks before the coup in March 2012 and the invasion of North Mali by a coalition of violent insurgent groups. In the face of these political developments and related uncertainty in PRSP ownership and implementation capacity, staffs decided at that time not to transmit either the GPSRP-3. Mali is still recovering from this coup, which led to the suspension of almost all public development assistance, except emergency aid and direct population aid. According to the rectified 2012 Finance Act, government resources decreased by 30% and overall expenditures by 33% in 2012. The crisis has also caused a contraction in economic activity that led the country into a recession with a revised growth rate of -1,2% according to the International Monetary Fund (compared to 4,3% in 2011). In spite of the major security developments since March 2012, the authorities consider that the GPRSP-3 still provides the relevant medium term framework for resource mobilization and allocation in support of growth and poverty reduction. The authorities consider that the developments since March 2012 have affected Mali’s capacity to implement the GPRSP-3 in 2012–13, but not the relevance of its objectives and consensus built around, programs selection or monitoring and evaluation arrangements. While the GSPRP-3 could not fully anticipate the deterioration of the security situation in 2012, it nonetheless reflects to great extent Mali’s economic and political realities. Also, the authorities were determined to learn from past experiences and undertook a comprehensive review of achievements, shortcoming, and remaining obstacles identified during the implementation of earlier GPRSPs. The GPRSP-3 stresses Mali’s vulnerability to exogenous factors, but could benefit from a fuller assessment of risks in the period ahead. These includes risks and impacts of possible weather shocks, rising international prices for food and fuel on Malian economy, the budgetary pressures among development partners that could affect aid flows in the medium term, and the problems associated with the current political and security issues. An elaboration on how the authorities would respond to contingencies would also be useful . To counteract the situation, the “Plan pour la Relance Durable du Mali “ (PRED) (Plan for the Sustainable Recovery of Mali) has been elaborated as part of the Transitional Roadmap of January 29th 2013 and CRSCRP 2012-2017 and includes strategic changes that speak to the urgency and depth of the current crisis. As such, PRED presents the international community with both the very short term stakes and the basis for sustainable development in the country, with twelve themes that need to be supported right now for Mali’s recovery, of which the 12th is to integrate environmentalism into all policies and strategies .Its alignment with the Strategies and Action Plans that were elaborated under the Enabling Activities offered by the conventions has been thoroughly researched during the NCSA process. In paragraph A.4, the links with the follow up of the NAPA was treated. Mali initiated the process for the development of this NAPA with the financial support of UNDP / GEF. Mali’s interim NAPA report was produced in November 2005 and the final report in July 2007.The NAP-CCD, as integral part of the PNAE, will be one of the main documents of reference for project elaboration. The current project will serve all these plans and strategies, by making sure that activities that may provide global environmental benefits in the fields of Biodiveristy and Combat of Desertification and Climate Change will both know thorough baselines and monitoring tools, as well as know a more intricate integration into local sustainable development processes.7. Knowledge Management. Outline the knowledge management approach for the project, including, if any, plans for the project to learn from other relevant projects and initiatives, to assess and document in a user-friendly form, and share these experiences and expertise with relevant stakeholders.The project’s main focus is the correct use of information existant in the country on global environmental management for better decision making on national and local scale. As such it will strengthen the existing National Environmental Information Management Strategy in order for it to provide a coordinated and sustainable data/information collection and storage mechanism and effective national reporting for conventions (output 1.1). The project also focusses on elaboration of improved protocols and standards data collection, analyse, and storing that lead to harmonization, and to the availability of effective information related to the CBD, UNCCD, UNFCCC and other global conventions (output 1.2), herewith setting the scene for a structured knowledge management that will not only facilitate decision making in the country, but can also be used in other countries as benchmarks, particularly through tools and guidelines produced under output 2.1. Harmonization of indicators among information brokers in the country (output 1.3) will ensure that there is a type of Clearing House Mechansim going on that feeds the National Environmental Information Management Strategy and that will ensure that decision making will be consistent with the state of knowledge present about global environmental management at any time and that decisions about prioritisation of investments will be based on the latest knowledge about potential impacts. This
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information will be shared with decision-makers during hands-on trainings at the local level and incorporated in tools and guidlelines.
PART III: APPROVAL/ENDORSEMENT BY GEF OPERATIONAL FOCAL POINT(S) AND GEF AGENCY(IES)A. RECORD OF ENDORSEMENT8 OF GEF OPERATIONAL FOCAL POINT (S) ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT(S): (Please attach the Operational Focal Point endorsement letter(s) with this template. For SGP, use this SGP OFP endorsement letter).
NAME POSITION MINISTRY DATE (MM/dd/yyyy)Sékou KONE GEF Operational Focal
PointMINISTERE DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT, DE L’ASSAINISSEMENT ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
10/24/2014
B. GEF AGENCY(IES) CERTIFICATIONThis request has been prepared in accordance with GEF policies9 and procedures and meets the GEF criteria for project identification and preparation under GEF-6.
Agency Coordinator, Agency name Signature Date
(MM/dd/yyyy)Project Contact
Person Telephone Email
Adriana DinuExecutive CoordinatorUNDP-GEF
2/24/2015 Tom Twining-Ward, Senior Technical Advisro, UNDP (Green-LECRDs)
8 For regional and/or global projects in which participating countries are identified, OFP endorsement letters from these countries are required even though there may not be a STAR allocation associated with the project.9 GEF policies encompass all managed trust funds, namely: GEFTF, LDCF, and SCCF
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C. ADDITIONAL GEF PROJECT AGENCY CERTIFICATION (APPLICABLE ONLY TO NEWLY ACCREDITED GEF PROJECT AGENCIES)
For newly accredited GEF Project Agencies, please download and fill up the required GEF Project Agency Certification of Ceiling Information Template to be attached as an annex to the PIF.
Annex 1: Illustrating how the project component will contribute to specific articles under the three Rio Conventions
Project Components CBD CCD FCCC
1.1. A functioning, sustainable system for collecting, analysing, storing and making available accurate, and reliable data and information related to all three Rio Conventions, and of direct use by decision-makers
Article 12 (b), Research and training
Article 17, Exchange of information
Article 26, Reports
Article 9, Basic approach
Article 10, National action programmes,
Article 16, Information collection, analysis and exchange
Article 26, Communication of information
Article 5 (a), Research and systematic observation
Article 12, Communication of information related to implementation
2.1. Enhanced institutional capacities to plan, finance and implement development processes that contribute to implementing the Rio Conventions and generate global environmental benefits.
Article 8 (a, k, m), In-situ conservation
Article 10 (d), Sustainable use of components of biodiversity
Article 11, Incentive measures
Article 20, Financial resources
Article 12, International cooperation
Article 13, Support for the elaboration and implementation of action programmes
Article 18, Transfer, acquisition, adaptation and development of technology
Article 19, Capacity building, education and public awareness
Article 20, Financial resources
Article 4 (c, d, e, f) Commitments
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