Objectives

Project Objective: Restore and maintain critical ecosystem services of globally significant riverine forest landscapes along the River Nile in Sudan. 50,878 ha of riverine forest ecosystems managed to benefit biodiversity and maintain productive value “Core Indicator 4”. 20,000 private agriculturalists, livestock herders, and forest users (10,000 female/10,000 male) reporting stable or improved standard of living resulting from BD conservation mainstreaming

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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

10. Benefits 1. The project will directly benefit approximately 20,000 smallholder farmers, livestock herders, and forest users. As noted, these persons are highly reliant upon riverine ecosystems and associated benefits. Intact riverine forests are invaluable in terms of flood and erosion mitigation. These ecosystems are also critical in terms of provisioning fuelwood and NTFPs. Riverine forests provide habitat for a host of species and important nurseries for fisheries upon which many local residents rely for subsistence and commerce. Importantly, riverine ecosystems offer potential to provide local residents and livelihoods to greater resilience to climate change. 2. The livelihoods of these producers are currently at risk and are further threatened by the sustained trend in deforestation, land degradation, decreasing agriculture and livestock productivity, decreasing water availability, climate change, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services all leading to deteriorating living conditions and wellbeing of local communities. The project will reverse this trend by providing rural smallholders with the opportunities to access knowledge, information, capacity and experience to adopt improved practices. These practices will result in GEBs, but also increased the standards of living, food security, and climate change resiliency of these at-risk rural dwellers. 3. The top priority to re-engineer the social contract between forest managers and communities, according to the respondents to the household survey conducted during the PPG phase, is creating a strong incentive for local communities to be part of the solution towards establishing a co-management approach of the riverine landscape. Doing so entails supporting local communities to generate alternative income streams through the sustainable valorization of biodiversity-based products, with a special focus on women and girls’ empowerment as explained in details in the Gender Action Plan. By improving productive practices and enabling a better valorization of natural resources along local value chains, with increased livelihoods and income, the project is expected to have knock-on impacts in terms of economic development and associated increases in employment opportunity. 4. At the governance level, national benefits will accrue to a variety of agencies. This will include the ability to more efficiently and effectively address deforestation issues. The results of more integrated and collaborative approaches to biodiversity conservation will also increase the cost-effectiveness of current divergent investments in a context of financial scarcity post COVID-19. These investments and associated human resources will be harmonized to directly address degradation and increase synergistic responses. This will include capacity building, limited supply of better equipment, and access to knowledge and capacity based upon best international and regional principles and practices.

General

The Inclusive and Sustainable Development Support Programme for Agricultural Sectors (PADIDFA) is intended to sustain and consolidate the achievements of Green Morocco Plan (PMV), and launch its acceleration phase (2017-2020). It is a EUR 200 million sector budget support operation in two tranches to be executed over the 2018-2019 period to help achieve the objectives of PMV. The programme helps the authorities with the formulation and implementation of inter-sector strategic reforms to strengthen the social and environmental dimensions of the PMV and promote inclusion, sustainability and competitiveness in Morocco’s agricultural sector. Its design is informed by lessons from Phases I and II of PAPMV (cf. 4.4.3), the principles of the Paris Declaration as well as good practice principles for the application of conditionality. PADIDFA supports a series of medium- and short-term strategic reforms to improve the quality of life for the people through quality jobs and self-employment in rural areas, and the protection of such jobs through sustainable natural resource management. It is an important institutional lever for creating synergies between strategies governing agriculture, the environment, water, energy and employment.

Objectives

The programme objective is to help boost agricultural sector competitiveness to ensure inclusive and sustainable economic growth through the promotion of value chains, job creation, improvement of the business climate and sustainable natural resource management. Hence, PADIDFA will help to: (i) support the PMV ecosystem and amplify its impact; (ii) promote the inclusion of vulnerable stakeholders (especially the youth and women); and (iii) build agricultural sector resilience.

Target Groups

PADIDFA will benefit the Moroccan population in general, and the youth and women in the rural areas in particular. It will specifically benefit: (i) local councils; (ii) inter-professional associations and professional organizations; (iii) agricultural VSMEs and organizations (crop sectors, waste management, etc.); (iii) the private sector (training, research, private agricultural councils, etc.); (iv) project proponents and young agricultural and rural entrepreneurs due to improvement of the business environment; and (v) women's associations and rural women (access to value chains, land tenure security, local services, etc.).

General

The overall objective of the program is to strengthen the mainstreaming and integration of biodiversity conservation interventions into local development programs by: - Enhancing the sustainable forest management in selected woredas in selected zones in Oromia and South West Ethiopia People Regional States. - Improving gender equality and livelihoods of forest dependent communities, including women and youth, and - Building the capacity of Government stakeholders and local community groups at various levels.

Objectives

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the sustainable management of biodiversity rich natural forests of the Southwest Ethiopia for enhancing ecosystem services and livelihoods improvement of communities living in and around the forest landscapes in Southwest Ethiopia. Furthermore, the project will contribute towards several commitments of Ethiopia for global partnerships such as the Paris Agreement of the UNFCCC, land degradation neutrality of the UNCCD, conservation targets and ambitions of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), AF100, AUs Agenda 2063 and the SDG. The specific objectives of the project are: 1To strengthen mainstreaming and integration of biodiversity conservation interventions into local development programs; 2To enhance the sustainable forest management in selected woredas and zones in Oromia and SWEP Regional States; 3To improve gender equality and livelihoods of forest dependent communities, including women and youth; and 4To build the capacity of Government stakeholders and local community groups at various levels.