summary of concept

Summary of concept

TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005

GEF Strategic Investment Program for Sustainable Land Management in

sub-Saharan Africa (SIP)

World Bank

Aim

The SIP concept is designed as a programmatic incremental GEF involvement to catalyze, enable and leverage strategic SLM related investments in SSA.

The SIP will help SSA countries and stakeholders engage in SLM over the long-term, with a specific attention to:

unlocking the barriers to scaling up effective investments on the ground, fostering harmonization and efficiencies, reducing transaction costs for recipients and partners, andbuilding partnerships among partners.

TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005

GEF Strategic Investment Program for SLM in SSA (SIP)

World Bank

Key featuresProgrammatic umbrella program allowing a pipeline of informed, sequenced investments that help SSA countries achieve long-term programmatic approaches for scaling-up SLM. Promote the best strategic use of GEF resources, complement and influence resources mobilized by the World Bank and other stakeholders. Anticipated average leveraging ratio of 4:1.Monitorable results trigger release of follow-on phases after the first four-year phase (2007-2010). Support national and sub-national decision-making by enhancing and leveraging KM systems, improving vertical and horizontal cooperation, strengthening enabling environments, enhancing coalition and partnerships, and sourcing additional funding.Encourages transboundary cooperation when possible on grazing corridors, natural disaster response, dust storms, watersheds, basins, fires, and groundwater management.

TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005World Bank


Rationale

GEF resources should be used strategically and catalytically to maximize impact.

Scaling up requires incremental and predictable resources for investment, improved coordination of partners, quality mainstreaming and coherence of strategies to achieve impact.

Targeted advocacy and mainstreaming work would be underperforming if not linked to predictable stream of significant financial resources.

Leveraging effects (see next slide – delete this)



Added value: leveraging

Leverages national policy dialogues – advocating for SLM and mainstreaming across sectors.Leverages comparative advantages (GEF, WB, other GEF IAs and EAs…) – and those of additional partners.Leverages partner knowledge networks and local knowledge.Leverages domestic funding at multiple scales.Leverages good practices and lessons, maximizing feed back loops and adaptive management.


WB/GEF Strategic Investment Program for SLM in SSA (SIP)

Types of investments

The SIP will finance the incremental costs associated with pursuing land management through an integrated ecosystem approach:

Seeking opportunities via SLM for improving management of water, conservation of biodiversity, storage of carbon, and/or adapting vulnerable production systems to climate change.

The SIP will support projects with strong potential to: (i) strategically contribute to strengthen the analytical underpinnings, incentives,

and policies for unlocking financial and non-financial resources toward SLM.(ii) harness cost efficiencies in securing multiple ecosystem services,(iii) achieve synergies across GEF focal areas, (iv) contribute to geographic areas where land degradation is a problem but has

received insufficient attention; (v) implement elements of specific UNCCD NAPs that have been under-

resourced; and(vi) address specific transboundary concerns such as grazing corridors, aquifers,

dust storms, bush fires, shared watersheds.



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