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Request for Proposals (RfP) GEF full-size project preparation, Burkina-Faso

IUCN Office for Western and Central Africa (PACO) Issue Date: 28 June 2019 Closing Date and Time: 19 July 2019 IUCN Contact : Jacques Somda Head of Burkina Faso Programme [email protected] & IUCN GEF&GCF Cooridnation Unit [email protected]

PART 1 – INSTRUCTIONS TO PROPOSERS AND PROPOSAL CONDITIONS

1.1. About IUCN

IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together. Headquartered in Switzerland, IUCN Secretariat comprises around 950 staff in more than 50 countries. Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of more than 1,300 Member organisations and some 10,000 experts. It is a leading provider of conservation data, assessments and analysis. Its broad membership enables IUCN to fill the role of incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards. IUCN provides a neutral space in which diverse stakeholders including governments, NGOs, scientists, businesses, local communities, indigenous peoples organisations and others can work together to forge and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development. Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a large and diverse portfolio of conservation projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being. www.iucn.org https://twitter.com/IUCN/

1.2. Summary of the Requirement

IUCN invites you to submit a Proposal for the preparation of the full sized project and GEF CEO Endorsement

request for the following project: Sustainable management of dryland landscapes in Burkina Faso. The

detailed Terms of Reference can be found in Part 2 of this RfP.

mailto:[email protected]


http://www.iucn.org/

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1.3. The procurement process

The following key dates apply to this RfP:

RfP Issue Date 28 June 2019

Confirmation of Intention to Bid [delete if not used]

10 July 2019

RfP Closing Date and Time 19 July 2019

Estimated Contract Award Date 5 August 2019

1.4. Conditions

IUCN is not bound in any way to enter into any contractual or other arrangement with any Proposer as a result

of issuing this RfP. IUCN is under no obligation to accept the lowest priced Proposal or any Proposal. IUCN

reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time prior to contract award. By participating in

this RfP, Proposers accept the conditions set out in this RfP.

Proposers must sign the “Proposer’s Declaration” and include it in their Proposal.

1.5. Queries and questions during the RfP period

Proposers are to direct any queries and questions regarding the RfP to the above IUCN Contact. No other IUCN

personnel are to be contacted in relation to this RfP.

Proposers may submit their queries no later than 10 July 2019, Midnight CET.

As far as possible, IUCN will issue the responses to any questions, suitably anonymised, to all Proposers. If you

consider the content of you question confidential, you must state this at the time the question is posed.

1.6. Amendments to RfP documents

IUCN may amend the RfP documents by issuing notices to that effect to all Proposers and may extend the RfP

closing date and time if deemed appropriate.

1.7. Proposal lodgement methods and requirements

Proposers must submit their Proposal to IUCN no later than Midnight CET on 19 July 2019 by email to:

[email protected] and [email protected] . The subject heading of the email shall be RfP – GEF 7

Burkina Faso PPG - [Proposer Name]. Electronic copies are to be submitted in PDF and native (e.g. MS Word)

format. Proposers may submit multiple emails (suitably annotated – e.g. Email 1 of 3) if attached files are

deemed too large to suit a single email transmission.

IMPORTANT: Submitted documents must be password-protected so that they cannot be opened and read

before the submission deadline. Please use the same password for all submitted documents. After the deadline

has passed and no later than 8 am CET on 22 July 2019, please send the relevant password to the same email

address as used for submitting your Proposal. This will ensure a secure bid submission and opening process.

Please DO NOT email the password before the deadline for Proposal submission.

Proposals must be prepared in English and in the format stated in Part 3 of this RfP.

1.8. Late and Incomplete Proposals

Any Proposal received by IUCN later than the stipulated RfP closing date and time, and any Proposal that is

incomplete, will not be considered. There will be no allowance made by IUCN for any delays in transmission of

the Proposal from Proposer to IUCN.





1.9. Withdrawals and Changes to the Proposal

Proposals may be withdrawn or changed at any time prior to the RfP closing date and time by written notice to

the IUCN contact. No changes or withdrawals will be accepted after the RfP closing date and time.

1.10. Validity of Proposals

Proposals submitted in response to this RfP are to remain valid for a period of 90 calendar days from the RfP

closing date.

1.11. Evaluation of Proposals

The evaluation of Proposals shall be carried out exclusively with regards to the evaluation criteria and their

relative weights specified in part 3 of this RfP.



PART 2 – THE REQUIREMENT

Background on the project Following approval by the 56th Council of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Government of Equatorial Guinea, IUCN will implement the following full-sized project: Sustainable Management of Dryland landscapes in Burkina Faso. This project will be funded through the biodiversity, land degradation and climate change focal area of the GEF, up to USD 6.6 million and is expected to mobilize USD 36 million in co-financing. The project preparation grant (PPG) available for this project is USD 200,000. This project is part of the GEF 7 impact programme on Sustainable Forest Management, more specifically the programme on Sustainable Drylands Management. The overall programme is led by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The project preparation will have to be coordinated closely with the global coordination project under the responsibility of FAO. The approved project is presently in the form of concept (Project Information Form (PIF) in Annex 1. Following the project approval cycle of the GEF, this PIF – a “child project” of the GEF7 SFM Sustainable Drylands Landscapes – must now be fully developed into the following required documents:

IUCN-GEF Project Document (ProDoc) including all annexes (budget, work plan, M&E plan,

procurement plan, co-financing letters, Environment and Social Screening, Environment and Social

Impact assessement and Enviromental and Social Management Plan if relevant)

GEF CEO Endorsement Request (CEO-Doc)

The project concept is in Annex 1 of this RfP. Terms of References The Consultants who will be awarded this contract will be responsible for preparing the GEF CEO Endorsement request and the Project Document including all annexes for the above-mentioned project. This will consist of the following: 1) Scoping and consultation

- Baseline scenario analysis, including socio-economic and socio-political analysis, local governance of natural resources and respective rights

- Analysis of the institutional, legislative and policy framework - Stakeholder analysis at project site level, including agriculture value chains, insurance and

microfinance actors - Market analysis for the target commodity chains, and microfinance systems analysis at project sites - Identification of potential project partners, including the executing agency, existing projects on the

ground and to come, and synergies - Confirmation of co-financing opportunities - Consultation with relevant stakeholders - Mapping of target areas, identification of sites and target communities - Identification of land degradation status and prioritization of both sites and landscapes for action - Biophysical assessment of target areas including land degradation status and climate change data - Prepare stakeholder analysis (including at project site level) and plan stakeholder involvement for

designing the project - Prepare preliminary risk analysis - Draft logical framework with disaggregated gender indicators values, the theory of change and the

baseline for the GEF Core indicators of the project (ref. IUCN Gender equality and women’s empowerment policy)

- Inception workshop for the project preparation phase

https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/annex_9_to_c_95_8_iucn_gender_equality_and_womens_empowerment_policy.pdf

https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/annex_9_to_c_95_8_iucn_gender_equality_and_womens_empowerment_policy.pdf



2) Project design - Stakeholder analysis at project site level, including agriculture value chains, insurance and

microfinance actors; - Detailed evaluation of the baseline scenario, related activities and projects, including co-financing - Detailed gap analysis to justify the GEF incremental cost reasoning - Refinement of the theory of change and logical framework based on the above - Design of project components - Design the workable institutional arrangements and coordination mechanisms among participating

governmental, non-governmental and private organisations at national and site levels - Design of the overall project budget and work plan, including a procurement plan - Detailed risk analysis and mitigation measures - Undertake a gender analysis and ensure the project responds to gender equality objectives - Prepare a monitoring and evaluation plan, including the establishment of the baseline for the GEF

core indicators of the project taking into account the gender responsiveness - Prepare a stakeholder engagement plan (see respective Guidance Note for details) - Carry out stakeholder consultations and a technical validation workshop and document the

consultations in an appropriate format

3) Environment and Social Management System (ESMS) - Providing relevant information for the ESMS screening of the project in respect to the IUCN

Environment and Social Management System (ESMS) (as documented in the ESMS Manual, Standards, Guidance Notes and Screening Questionnaire, available on the ESMS site)

- Identifying any Environment and Social risks and proposing adequate measure for avoiding or mitigating risks, in consultation with relevant stakeholders and in particular with project affected groups

- Preparing an Environment and Social Management Framework (ESMF) or Environment and Social Management Plan (ESMP), as appropriate and depending on the ESMS screening decision

- Coordinate with IUCN ESMS team as appropriate Project team and qualifications The following expertise is expected to be available between the experts who will compose the team:

- Drylands / forest ecosystems management expertise - Socio-economics, value chains analysis and microfinance expertise - Project design and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation - Environmental and Social Impact Assessment expertise - Financial Management, including procurement - Experience in structuring large ecosystem restoration projects and initiative, including with the GEF - Experience in Burkina-Faso - Fluency in English and French. Knowledge of local language a plus.

The team will have to demonstrate a track record of designing successfully ecosystem restoration projects in the region for at least over the past 5 years, including working with donors such the GEF, the World Bank and other relevant UN agencies. Deliverables

- Baseline study - GEF CEO endorsement request as per GEF template - IUCN project document including all annexes as per IUCN template (upon request)

i. Budget ii. M&E plan iii. Work plan iv. Procurement plan v. Environmental and Social Screening vi. Environment and Social Impact Assessment (if relevant) vii. Environment and Social Management framework or plan (if relevant)

The deliverables will have to be the result of extensive stakeholder consultations, which will have to be detailed in the consultants’ methodology and work plan. This will include inception workshop, extensive

https://www.iucn.org/sites/dev/files/esms_stakeholder_engagement_guidance_note.pdf

https://www.iucn.org/knowledge/project_management_tools/

https://www.iucn.org/resources/project-management-tools/environmental-and-social-management-system

https://www.thegef.org/documents/templates



stakeholder consultations on sites, and validation workshop(s), to be defined in the consultants’ methodology and work plan. Period of consultancy The consultancy is expected to commence on 19 August 2019 and follow the tentative schedule below:

Deliverables Timeline

More detailed work plan for the preparation phase 21 August 2019

Baseline studies, draft logical framework and theory of change for consultations within IUCN

13 September 2019

Draft proposal (including all annexes) and CEO endorsement request available for IUCN regional and global programmes involved

11 November 2019

Revised proposal available to Government and IUCN for Proposal Review Meeting

6 January 2019

IUCN response to GEF Secretariat review and technical clearance (w/ support from consultants)

6 – 18 April 2019

Schedule of Payments The detail of the financial proposal is to be submitted in the tables in Section 4. The required details include the daily or weekly rate of each member of the project team, the estimate of the number of days/weeks of input required, the unit costs of flights and estimate of the number of flights, and an estimate of the number of days of in-country with unit daily subsistence costs. The total fee estimate will then be used as the basis for the schedule of payments, with expenses recoverable at cost with proof of purchase (bills) and usage (tickets) up to the estimated amounts as a maximum. The following schedule of payments relates to the total fee estimate only: Contract signature 20% Approval by IUCN of baseline studies, draft logical framework and theory of change 20% Approval by IUCN of draft proposal (incl. annexes) and CEO endorsement after internal consultation 20% Approval by IUCN of full project documentation before submission to GEF 20% Completion of GEF and IUCN Validation and submittal to CEO 20% The budget requested for the preparation of the project will have to be aligned with the PPG funds available (see project background in part 2 above) Travel The contract will require the Consultant to travel to the region as agreed with IUCN. Cost of travel will be provided in the bid and will have to comply with the IUCN policy on travel.



PART 3 – THE EVALUATION MODEL

The selection criteria will consist of a technical and financial component. A weighting will be provided to each component as follows: Technical Weighting Factor 60%, Financial Weighting Factor 40%, with the total score a combination of these two percentages. The technical component involves an evaluation of the following six criteria based upon the information provided in the submitted proposal documentation: Project Methodology and Work Plan 25% Experience with GEF or other related donor 20% Experience in Forest Ecosystem conservation, restoration and management 25% Experience in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment 15% Fluency in English and working fluency in French 10% Familiarity with Burkina-Faso 5% Total 100% Only proposals which achieve a total score (Technical Score) of more than or equal to a value of 60% will be considered for financial evaluation. Proposals scoring less than 60% will be discarded from the tender evaluation process. Technical proposals scoring greater than or equal to a value of 60% will be normalised by dividing their percentage by the maximum proposal technical percentage, and converting this value into a percentage to give the Normalised Technical Score The financial evaluation will be based upon the full professional fee value submitted in the proposal combined with the estimate of total expenses (travel & subsistence et al.) as defined by the bidder in their proposal. All proposal prices will then be normalised by dividing them by the smallest bid price value, and this value turned into a percentage (Financial Score). The Normalised Technical Score will be multiplied by the Technical Weighting Factor, the Financial Score multiplied by the Financial Weighting Factor and the two weighted scores added together to provide a Final Weighted Score for each bid achieving a Technical Score >60%. IUCN will then enter into contractual negotiations with the bidder achieving the highest Final Weighted Score,

as long as all other bid criteria, as laid out in this documentation, have also been met and adhered to.



PART 4 – INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED BY PROPOSERS

By participating in this RfP, Proposers are indicating their acceptance to be bound by the conditions set out in

this RfP.

This Part details all the information Proposers are required to provide to IUCN. Submitted information will be

used in the evaluation of Proposals. Proposers are discouraged from sending additional information, such as

sales brochures, that are not specifically requested.

Each of the following must be submitted as a separate document, and will be evaluated separately.

4.1. Declaration

Please read and sign the Declaration which can be downloaded from this link and include this in your proposal.

4.2. Technical information/Service Proposal

Bidders are required to submit the following details in their technical proposal: a) Project Methodology – describing in adequate detail how the Consultant intends to undertake the project

delivery, justifying the approach described (maximum of 4 pages); b) Project Team – identifying Team Leader and supporting experts; c) CVs of all project Team Members (maximum 2 pages per CV); d) Activity Work Plan – using weekly/monthly intervals for the activities and tasks identified in the Project

Methodology; e) Staffing Work Schedule – identifying days/weeks of input of staff identified in the Project Team, for the

activities identified in the Activity Work Plan in the weeks/months they are estimated to occur; f) Evidence of similar projects undertaken within the last 5 years – where this experience is provided by sub-

consultants this needs to be clearly identified as such; g) References –contact details of 3 No. referees familiar with the bidder’s experience relevant to the PPG

4.3. Pricing information

This clause sets out the information necessary for Proposers to furnish rates and prices as consideration for delivering the Requirement under any resultant Contract. Prices include all costs Submitted rates and prices are deemed to include all costs, insurances, taxes, fees, expenses, liabilities, obligations, risk and other things necessary for the performance of the Requirement. Any charge not stated in the Proposal as being additional, will not be allowed as a charge against any transaction under any resultant Contract. Applicable Goods and Services Taxes Proposal rates and prices shall be exclusive of Value Added Tax. Currency of proposed rates and prices Unless otherwise indicated, all rates and prices submitted by Proposers shall be in USD. Rates and Prices Staff Input Budget

Expert Description Day/Week Rate Total Days/Weeks

Input Sub-Total Fee

Team Leader

Expert 1

Expert 2

TOTAL n/a

https://www.iucn.org/files/rfp-proposers-declaration



Expenses Budget

Expense Description Unit Rate Quantity Sub-Total

International travel 1

International travel 2

Domestic travel 1

Domestic travel 2

Daily Subsistence

Other 1

Other 2

Other 3

TOTAL n/a

Please note IUCN will meet all costs of workshop venue hire, local stipends for delegates, catering et al.

4.4. Non-price commercial information Bidders are required to provide the following:

Certificate of registration of company

Evidence of taxation system the company is governed under

Where sub-consultants are to be used, clearly identify the individuals involved by providing Letters of Intent or Association signed by both parties; and

Evidence of sub-consultants being covered by the lead company professional insurances

A copy of last year’s audited financial statements or equivalent



PART 5 – PROPOSED CONTRACT

Draft template can be shared upon request to interested bidders who will confirm their interest in submitting a

bid.



PART 6 – DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this Request for Proposal (RfP) the following definitions apply:

Contract Means any contract or other legal commitment that results from

this Request for Proposals.

Contractor Means the entity that forms a Contract with IUCN for provision

of the Requirement.

Instructions Means the instructions and conditions set out in Part 1 of this

Request for Proposals.

IUCN Means IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature

and Natural Resources.

IUCN Contact Means the person IUCN has nominated to be used exclusively

for contact regarding this Request for Proposals and the

Contract.

Proposal Means a written offer submitted in response to this Request for

Proposals.

Proposer Means an entity that submits, or is invited to submit, a Proposal

in response to this Request for Proposals.

Requirement Means the supply to be made by the Contractor to IUCN in

accordance with Part 2 of the RfP.

RfP Request for Proposals



Annex 1 – Project concept included in the Impact Programme approved by GEF Council 56

Child Project Title: Sustainable management of dryland landscapes in Burkina Faso

Country: Burkina Faso

Lead Agency IUCN

GEF Agency(ies): (select) (select) (select)

INDICATIVE FOCAL/NON-FOCAL AREA ELEMENTS AND FINANCING

Programming Directions

Trust Fund

(in $)

GEF Project

Financing

Co-

financing

(select) LD-1-3 [LD-1-3: Maintain or improve flow of ecosystem services, including sustaining livelihoods of forest-dependent people through Forest Landscape restoration (FLR)]

GEFTF 1,834,567 7,800,000

(select) LD-1-4 [LD-1-4: Reduce pressures on natural resources from competing land uses and increase resilience in the wider landscape]

GEFTF 903,593 5,500,000

BD-1-1 (select) [BD-1-1: Mainstream biodiversity across sectors as well as landscapes and seascapes through biodiversity mainstreaming in priority sectors]

GEFTF 1,369,080 8,000,000

CCM-2-7 (select) [CCM-2-7: Demonstrate mitigation options with systemic impacts for sustainable forest management impact program]

GEFTF 456,360 2,700,000

(select) IP SFM Drylands GEFTF 2,117,134 12,000,000

Total Project Cost 6,680,734 36,000,000

PROJECT COMPONENTS AND FINANCING

Project Objective: To achieve large-scale restoration of dryland landscapes and sustainable livelihoods in Burkina Faso through

adoption of sustainable land management practices by rural communities

Project Components

Component

Type

Project Outcomes Project Outputs Trust

Fund

(in $)

GEF Project

Financing

Co-financing

1. Creating country-specific conditions for innovative and integrated approaches to dryland management

Investment Outcome 1. Target landscapes are restored and under improved governance

output 1.1: Gender-sensitive dryland landscape restoration opportunities and plans together with the required governance frameworks are developed Output 1.2: Drylands landscape are assessed using participatory

GEFTF 2,486,723 14,000,000



rangelands and grassland assessment methodology Output 1.3. Gender-sensitive restoration plans and governance frameworks implemented

Technical Assistance Outcome 2. The potential for reducing greenhouse gas and developing eco-villages improved

Output 2.1. The potentials for reducing greenhouse gas and developing gender-sensitive eco-villages are documented and shared Output 2.2. Communities are supported to establish gender-sensitive eco-villages and take innovative actions for emissions reduction

GEFTF 878,418 5,000,000

2.Creating country-specific conditions and capacities for scaling-up

Investment Outcome 3. Dryland biodiversity and economic benefits sustainably improved and managed

Output 3.1. Local capacities developed for implementing gender-sensitive ecosystem-based value chains of dryland agropastoral products Output 3.2. Gender-sensitive agropastoral value chains improved to leverage environmental sustainability

GEFTF 1,750,456 10,000,000

Investment Outcome 4. Financial and human resources capacities increased to avoid dryland degradation and support sustainable land management

Output 4.1. Gender-sensitive communities engagement and training programme developed with focus on restoring land and avoiding

GEFTF 582,271 3,000,000



further land degradation Output 4.2. Gender-sensitive agreements developed and implemented between smallholders and private sectors (finance, mobile companies and markets) in support to sustainable land management

3. Project-specific knowledge management and M&E

Technical Assistance Outocme 5. Lessons learned and replicated in wider dryland landscape

Output 5.1. Gender-sensitive socioeconomic, policy and environmental conditions for sustainable dryland management practices are documented and shared Output 5.2. Gender-sensitive community learning actions are implemented to scaling up best practices of sustainable dryland management practices

GEFTF 664,736 3,000,000

Subtotal (select) 6,362,604 35,000,000 Project Management Cost (PMC) GEFTF 318,130 1,000,000

Total Project Cost 6,680,734 36,000,000

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: (Not applicable)

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

Investment Mobilized

Amount ($)

GEF Agency IUCN In-kind Investment mobilized 2,500,000 Recipient Country Government Permanent

Secretariat/National Council for Sustainabel developement

In-kind Investment mobilized 500,000



Recipient Country Government Ministry of environment, green economy and climate change (FIE)

In-kind Investment mobilized 16,000,000

Recipient Country Government Ministry of environment, green economy and climate change (Great Green Wall Coordination)


Recipient Country Government Ministry of environment, green economy and climate change (DGEF)


Recipient Country Government Ministry of animal resources and fish (DGEAP)


Civil Society Organization Naturama In-kind Investment mobilized 100,000 Civil Society Organization APROS In-kind Recurrent expenditures 100,000 Private Sector Bioprotect In-kind Recurrent expenditures 100,000

Total Co-financing 36,000,000

Describe how any “Investment Mobilized” was identified. The investments mobilised were identified through preliminary consultations with the project main stakeholders. They are from various sources and will be finetuned during the project preparation phase. Thus, Burkina Faso has mobilised investment through the forest investment program (FIP) of about USD43 million. IUCN through World Bank is executing USD 4.5 millions of FIP through a dedicated grant mechanism (DGM), of which 2.5 million will serve as cofinancing). The Ministry en charge of environment is executing the rest of the mobilised FIP funds, of which USD 16 millions will serve as cofinancing by the FIE-Burkina Faso. The notional coordination of the Great Green Wall initiative (GGWI) in Burkina Faso is alos supported by several partners whose on-going mobilised resources will serve as cofinancing up to USD 8.9 millions. GGWI is an imortant platform for scaling up the project in Burkina Faso and other participating countries in Africa. Burkina Faso also mobilised resources from Luxembourg to implement sustainable forest management through the Directorate General of Water and Forest (DGEF). It is expected that USD 3 millions will serve as cofinancing from the Directorate General of Water and Forest (DGEF) of the ministry in charge of environment. Ministries in charge of agriculture and livestock have also mobilised resources from IFAD (International funds for agricultural development), JICA (Japon international cooperation agency), AfDB (Affrican devleopment bank) and BOAD (West african Bank of Development) to support crop and animal productions and natural resources management. These projects implemented thourhg the DGPV from the ministry of agriculture and food security and the DGEAP from the ministry of animal resources and fish will serve as cofinancing with USD2.4 million each. Finally, Naturama will conribute each with USD 0.1 million from mobilised investment from Turing Foundation.

TRUST FUND RESOURCES REQUESTED BY AGENCY(IES), COUNTRY(IES), FOCAL AREA AND THE PROGRAMMING OF FUNDS

GEF Agency

Trust Fund

Country/ Regional/

Global Focal Area

Programming of Funds

(in $) GEF

Project Financing

(a)

Agency Fee (b)

Total (c)=a+b

IUCN GEFTF Burkina Faso Land Degradation LD STAR Allocation 2,672,294 240,506 2,912,800

IUCN GEFTF Burkina faso Biodiversity BD STAR Allocation 1,336,147 120,253 1,456,400

IUCN GEFTF Burkina Faso Climate Change CC STAR Allocation 445,382 40,084 485,467

IUCN GEFTF Burkina Faso Multifocal Area IP SFM Drylands 2,226,911 200,422 2,427,333

Total GEF Resources 6,680,734 601,266 7,282,000



PROJECT PREPARATION GRANT (PPG) Is Project Preparation Grant requested?

Yes If yes, PPG funds have to be requested via the Portal once the PFD is approved

No If no, skip this item.

PPG AMOUNT REQUESTED BY AGENCY(IES), TRUST FUND, COUNTRY(IES) AND THE PROGRAMMING OF FUNDS

GEF Agency

Trust Fund

Country/

Regional/Global Focal Area

Programming of Funds

(in $)

PPG (a)

Agency Fee (b)

Total c = a + b

IUCN GEF TF Burkina Faso Land Degradation 80,000 7,200 87,200

IUCN GEF TF Burkina Faso Biodiversity 40,000 3,600 43,600

IUCN GEF TF Burkina Faso Climate Change 13,333 1,200 14,533

IUCN GEF TF Burkina Faso IF SFM Drylands 66,667 6,000 72,667

Total PPG Amount 200,000 18,000 218,000

PROJECT’S TARGET CONTRIBUTIONS TO GEF 7 CORE INDICATORS Provide the relevant sub-indicator values for this project using the methodologies indicated in the Core Indicator Worksheet provided in Annex B and aggregating them in the table below. Progress in programming against these targets is updated at the time of CEO endorsement, at midterm evaluation, and at terminal evaluation. Achieved targets will be aggregated and reported at anytime during the replenishment period. There is no need to complete this table for climate adaptation projects financed solely through LDCF and SCCF.

Project Core Indicators Expected at PIF

1 Terrestrial protected areas created or under improved management for conservation and sustainable use (Hectares)

2 Marine protected areas created or under improved management for conservation and sustainable use (Hectares)

3 Area of land restored (Hectares) 150,000

4 Area of landscapes under improved practices (excluding protected areas) (Hectares)

900,000

5 Area of marine habitat under improved practices (excluding protected areas) (Hectares)

Total area under improved management (Hectares) 1,050,000

6 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigated (metric tons of CO2e) 50,000

7 Number of shared water ecosystems (fresh or marine) under new or improved cooperative management

8 Globally over-exploited marine fisheries moved to more sustainable levels (metric tons)

9 Reduction, disposal/destruction, phase out, elimination and avoidance of chemicals of global concern and their waste in the environment and in processes, materials and products (metric tons of toxic chemicals reduced)

10 Reduction, avoidance of emissions of POPs to air from point and non-point sources (grams of toxic equivalent gTEQ)

11 Number of direct beneficiaries disaggregated by gender as co-benefit of GEF investment

300,000 of which 156,000 women

Provide additional explanation on targets, other methodologies used, and other focal area specifics (i.e., Aichi targets in BD) including justification where core indicators targets are not provided.



PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Country Context (maximum 500 words) Describe the country’s relevant environmental challenges and strategic positioning relative to the systems transformation proposed for the program, including relevant existing policies, commitments, and investment frameworks. How are these aligned with the proposed approach to foster impactful

outcomes with global environmental benefits? The major environmental problems facing Burkina Faso are (i) the recurrent floods, droughts, strong winds, increased temperature and high variability in the duration of the rainy and dry seasons. and (ii) the advance of the northern desert into the savannah. This trend toward desertification has been increased by overgrazing of pasture, slash-and-burn agriculture, and overcutting of wood for fuel. The proposed project intends to use participatory and multi-sectoral approaches to assist central and decentralised governments and local communities (farmers, pastoralists) with improved knowledge about the landscape perspective of dryland management, strong attitude about the interrelationship between living and non-living components of the landscape and best practices of using ecosystem services. This innovative process has a potential for system transformation as it helps stakeholders to think and apply dryland restoration with a landscape lens, rather than the stand-alone sites restoration actions put in place until now. The proposed approach is consistent with the existing policy. In fact, Burkina Faso has put in place several policies and strategies (http://www.onedd-burkina.info/index.php/textes-officiels) which are supportive to the restoration and participatory sustainable management of land, including forest and dryland. These include the National Plan for Social and Economic Development (PNDES), the National Programme for Rural Sector (PNSR II), the Forest and Environment codes, the Codes of Local Authorities, the Law on Agrarian and Land Reorganization, the National Adaptation Plan (NAP), the INDC and LDN targets and national strategy for eco-villages. Burkina Faso also adopted strategic investment framework for the sustainable land management. This investment framework is receiving support from GEF and other partners in order to reverse the long-term trends of rural land degradation in Burkina Faso. All these policies and investment framework emphasise the need to increase agropastoral production and population wellbeing while maintaining and/or restoring the ecosystems structures and functions, particularly for dryland. They are well aligned to the proposed proposed approaches to foster impactful outcomes with global environmental benefit. In fact, this project approaches include: (i) Participation which requires that decision-makers (central and local governments), the project providers (executing agencies, field staff and contractors), beneficiaries (men and women within local community) and private actors share roles and relationships in information flow, resources control and decision making, delivery mechanisms and accountability. (ii) Multiple sectors: agropastoral, planning, finance (micro) and mobile phone sectors will be integrated at landscape level to ensure that land planning and use for agropastoral activities are improved by the provision of environmental smart loans (finance) and climate and market information (mobile phone). (iii) Market-based which requires that stakeholders for dryland landscape management take into consideration the market prices into the promotion of the agropastoral value chains and ensure that this leads to restoring the productive land and avoiding degradation. (iv) Gender-sensitive which requires that both men and women, and marginalised members of community contribute to sustainable management of dryland and equitably share the benefits derived from. (v) Ecosystem-based which will ensure that the use and/or value of a specific ecosystem service (e.g. agropastoral products for example) does not full deplete other services (e.g. soil formation).

Project Overview and Approach (maximum 1250 words)

a) Provide a brief description of the geographical target(s), including details of systemic

challenges, and the specific environmental threats and associated drivers that must be

addressed;

In Burkina Faso, drylands cover over 70% of the country size and are used by crop and

livestock farmers for their livelihood. Despite their importance, drylands are degraded by a

complex combination of climatic stresses (decreased rainfall, increased temperature and high



water evaporation) and man-made through unsustainable agriculture techniques, mining and

overgrazing. All thirteen administrative regions of Burkina Faso share the same drivers of

land degradation, which are more prominent in the dryer regions. In particular, three

administrative regions of Burkina Faso (42,463 km2), namely the Northern, Central and the

Central-West. The northern region is one of the least forested out of the thirteen

administrative regions in Burkina Faso. On the other hand, the central and Central-west

regions are relatively endowed in forests than the northern, but these forests are threatened by

immigration mostly from Northern region. With erratic rainfall ranging from 400 to 900 mm,

these regions share the following features (World Bank, 2010): low soils sustainability, erratic

rainfall (from 400 to 900 mm), cold and heat stresses, high densities of human and animal

populations, transhumant pastoral farming and sedentary village breeding and agro-pastoral

zones with agricultural dominance, and increasure pressure on natural resources.

In each target region, one landscape is selected (Annex B) to include three types of

ecosystems (gro-pastoral ecosystems, inland water ecosystems and community forests). These

ecosystems are known for their importance in delivering several categories of ecosystem

services, including supporting services (soil formation, primary production, nutrient cycling,

etc.), provisioning services (foods, fresh water, fuel-wood, feed, medicinal plants, etc.) and

regulating services (pollination, air and water pollution control, control of erosion, flood

control and strong wind, carbon sink, ...). The livelihoods of the populations in the three

regions are dominated by crops (millet, sorghum, sesame, market gardening and maize),

livestock (cattle, sheep and goat), forests and wildlife. The average land size is estimated at

0,5 ha/person, which make it difficult for these smallholders to improve their livelihoods

while maintaining and conserving the ecosystems they rely on. The value chains to be

considered are (i) crop (sesame, sorghum and maize) and (2) livestock (cattle and sheep),

along with the ecosystems restoration and landscape planning and governance. These value

chains players include smallholder agro pastoral producers and private offtakers which are not

always operating to support sustainable land management practices which could lead to

sustainable value agricultural value chains. This situation creates market-driven land

degradation factors.

Overall, the environmental threats to be addressed in the three regions are the unsustainable

productive land management planning and practices, the disconnection between the agro

pastoral value chains and the ecosystems they are derived from, and erratic climatic

conditions. Major drivers of these environmental threats are the increasing vulnerability of the

population and ecosystems, the loss of biodiversity, the low income, market driven decision

making processes and the lack of landscape perspective in sustainable land management in

the target regions of Burkina Faso.

b) Describe the existing or planned baseline investments, including current institutional

framework and processes for stakeholder engagement and gender integration;

Several baseline investments relevant to the proposed project concept are in place. Burkina

Faso is participating to the global Forest Investment Programme (FIP) led by the World Bank.

The objective of the FIP is to fight poverty by reducing deforestation and forest degradation

and by enhancing their carbon sequestration capacity. The PIF focuses on communication,

dissemination of good practices that contribute to reducing pressure on forest resources and

enhancing the potential for carbon sequestration through sustainable forest management. It is

executed by the International union for conservation of nature (IUCN) and the government of

Burkina Faso through the FIE (Environmental Investment Funds), running from 2015-2020.

IUCN is also implementing a Sida-funded project (2016-2019) aiming at strengthening the

resilience of community depending on forest through capacity development and establishment

of forest governance structures, and piloting agro pastoral land and water bodies restoration

activities. The government of Burkina Faso through the Directorate General of Water and



Forest recently launched a Luxembourg-funded programme on forest management (2018-

2021). This programme aims to contribute to the protection and sustainable development of

forest and wildlife resources by ensuring a healthy environment for the population through

three technical components: (i) sustainable management of forest and wildlife, (ii)

environmental governance and sustainable development, and (iii) green economy and climate

change. The government of Burkina Faso, with support from several donors, including IFAD,

AfDB, JICA, BOAD, World Bank and FAO, is also implementing projects targeting natural

resources management, agricultural and livestock sector development to alleviate rural

poverty. They also include land restoration and livelihood improvement activities and

represent good baseline for this project. In term of institutional frameworks which this project

will built on, is the national coordination of the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI), whose

objective is to strengthen the institutional and organisational capacities for reversing land

degradation, strengthening resilience to climate change and conserving biodiversity with a

view of greening the national economy. The national gender strategy is a adequate process for

stakeholder engagement and gender integration in this project.

c) Describe how the integrated approach proposed for the child project responds to and reflects

the Program’s Theory of Change, and as such is an appropriate and suitable option for tackling

the systemic challenges, and to achieve the desired transformation with multiple global

environmental benefits; and

The project’s development objective is to achieve large-scale restoration of dryland

landscapes and sustainable livelihoods in Burkina Faso through adoption of sustainable land

management practices by rural communities. To do this, This project will support multi-

sectoral dialogue and stakeholders’ capacity development for landscape planning,

management and governance mechanisms. It will work in three landscapes (1 per region) to

map and participatory assess the restoration opportunities and strengthen the resource use and

managements agreements, including local conventions. It will take into account the

interconnectedness of the ecosystems within a landscape and the value chains of the

ecosystems services. The proposed project will support the implementation of priority

sustainable land management and restoration actions in target landscapes for both individual

and community lands/resources. This will be achieved through participatory validation of the

SLM and restoration actions, actions to avoid degradation, the integration of value chains

with strong interaction with land use and planning processes, the provision of training and

social learning actions to land users in sustainable land management and landscape approach

to restoration, and the establishment of land degradation baseline and restoration motoring

systems. To ensure autonomous and sustainable financing of the landscape restoration

approach, the project will closely work with private sector, namely the micro-finance (Réseau

Caisses Populaires du Burkina Faso), insurances and offtakers of agricultural products, to

include sustainable land management criteria into their financing decision making and their

operations. Finally, it will promote eco-villages in the two landscapes.

The combination of participatory and multi-stakeholder techniques will support the

identification and implementation of priority sustainable land management at plots and

landscape levels for both individual and community lands/resources. This integrated approach

of the project is strongly linked to the program’s theory of change. In fact, the adoption of

sustainable land management practices by rural communities will contribute to increased

capacities of dryland stakeholders and institutions in order to achieve to large-scale

restoration of dryland landscapes and sustainable livelihoods. The deployment of market- and

ecosystem-based approaches will contribute to conditions for innovative and integrated

approaches to dryland management, including intersectoral coordination and collaboration,

comprehensive land planning and decision-making, strengthening participation, governance,

access and tenure mechanism. Collaborative agreements between multiple stakeholders,



namely smallholders and private sector (offtakers, microfinance and insurance), will increase

technical and financial capacities for scaling up actions for sustainable land management,

resilience to climate change and biodiversity conservation.

d) Describe the project’s incremental reasoning for GEF financing under the program, including

the results framework and components.

Without the GEF: Without the GEF: In the absence of GEF funding, activities under the

ongoing programmes identified in the baseline scenario will produce predominantly

local/national benefits, in the form of sustainable local development and use of natural

resources. Their implementation will result in: (a) rural poverty reduction, (b) enhancing

empowerment of rural communities to better access and use productive resources; (c)

increased agricultural and livestock productions; (d) improved soil and water conservation at

farm level; (e) reforestation of degraded agricultural and (f) improved land and water

management practices. Although the existing baseline projects will generate significant socio-

economic benefits and, to a certain extent, contributes towards an improved perspective of the

dryland’s environmental problems in Burkina Faso, they do not ensure effective prevention

and control of degradation and desertification of these lands. Specifically, the baseline

investments would not support market- and ecosystem-based approaches to planning and

management of dryland landscape which are needed to sustainably address land degradation,

climate change negative impacts and biodiversity loss in drylands.

With the GEF: Building on the existing baseline projects, the proposed project intends to

strongly use an integrated and ecosystem-based approach to dryland landscape planning, use

and governance. Thus, the GEF will finance the integration of ecosystem restoration actions

and actions to avoid degradation into financial and agricultural markets to ensure that market

drivers of dryland degradation are incorporated into the complex challenge of managing

dryland landscapes to provide multiple benefits to society at local and global levels. It will

also address institutional gaps for sustainable landscape management, including cross-sectoral

planning and compliance as well as local level governance of land and land-based resources

by rural communities. The rationale of this project is to build on the existing knowledge base,

using a landscape and integrated ecosystem management approach as an integrating

framework to identify and scale-up relevant sustainable land management technologies and

practices in response to specific local landscape degradation issues and characteristics. The

project will contribute to implement existing policies and complement ongoing baseline

activities in the three administrative regions (Northern, Central and Central-West). In

particular, it will provide a system approach for pursuing adoption and upscaling of

sustainable land management practices and inclusive governance mechanisms at the local

(community), landscape and national and regional levels.

e) Engagement with the Global / Regional Framework (maximum 500 words)

Describe how the project will align with the global / regional framework for the program to foster knowledge sharing, learning, and synthesis of experiences. How will the proposed approach scale-up from the local and national level to maximize engagement by all relevant stakeholders and/or actors? The proposed project will develop a joint knowledge and learning management systems. Merging knowledge and learning management systems will be key to achieve large-scale sustainable dryland landscape management. Inputs for developing knowledge will be derived from the project result-based M&E and specific studies. A project specific M&E plan will be developed based on the GEF-7 architecture and programming frameworks for each of the target focal areas, and directly related to relevant GEF-7 Core and Sub Indicators and gender-sensitive. Knowledge generated will serve as inputs to developing learning and its management.



The project will develop and implement social learning approach which value the multiple ways that an individual can learn. On the underlying hypothesis that behavior can changed when an individual has complete control over a situation and when they can realise certain outcomes, social learning theory identify three groups of factors that determine human behavior: (i) cognitive (knowledge, expectations and attitude); (ii) environmental (social norms, access in community, influence on others) and (iii) behavioral (skills, practice, self-efficiency). In addition to traditional learning process based on training and sensitisation, the project will support learning processes that inlfeunce these three groups of behaioral changes factors, building of the endogenous learning groups that exist in most local communities in the project intervention regions. Working on these learning processes will support the scaling out of the best practices of sustainable dryland management practices and goernance, climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. The project will also develop a sclaing up plan in connection with the national coordination of the Great Green Wall Initaitive in Burkina Faso to ensure that lessons derived from this project feed national sustainble land management for climate resilience and biodiversity conservation. Connexion with the global/regional framework will be done through three components of the global coordination of the Sustainable Dryland Impact program. The project will seek for methodological guidance from the global programmatic coordination and adapt global methods to country project specificities. it will also link up with the programmatic monitoring, information and knowledge management to ensure that project M&E system fits, the information and knowledge generated feed in the global management system and vice-versa. The project outreach and communication plan will be developed and implemented in conjunction with the global outreach and communication of the dryland impact program.

Annex A

GEF 7 Core Indicator Worksheet

Use this Worksheet to compute those indicator values as required in Part I, item F to the extent applicable to your proposed project. Progress in programming against these targets for the project will be aggregated and reported at anytime during the replenishment period. There is no need to complete this table for climate adaptation projects financed solely through LDCF and SCCF.

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