📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P170482
Region: Africa west
Commitment Amount: Us$ 80.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 92.00 million
Given Burkina Faso’s physical and social environment, rural development and landscape management arekey elements that lay the ground for poverty alleviation and conflict management.Integrated landscape management is an opportunity to tamper the competition over scarce natural resources, particularly in a context of increased climate variability, and increase the productivity. In addition, because of its participative nature, integrated landscape management is a great tool to include the communities into the design of public policies, showing concretely the impact of the decentralization process. Thus, the proposed operation will use the improvement of landscape governance and management to support Burkina Faso in reaching its objectives of reducing poverty by developing a sustainable agriculture sector, increasing citizen inclusion in the decentralization process, reduce land-use conflicts and reducing GHG emissions.Scaling-up the FIP-BF and the REDD+ approach26.The proposed project would draw upon the main strengths of the FIP-BF, in particular the DFWM Project and the REDD+ Readiness Preparation. These includethe use of the successful participatory, multi-sectorand decentralized land use planning methodology applied in the DFWM to scale it up from 32 to 80 communes. The scale up would cover 30% of the entire country’s territory and would take place in thesouth and north-sudanian agro-ecological zones, supporting the potential Emission Reduction Program developed by the REDD+ Readiness Preparation grants, as well as the sectoral nested projects.27.The originality of the project lies in the fact that it combines multiple approaches related to integrated landscape management, with impacts on food security and climate resilience as captured in the figure below. It will use inclusive and decentralized processes to design and implement a combination of soft (governance) and hard investments, mobilize private sector for the green economy (shea, cashew, jatropha, moringa, agro-forestry products); and leverage climate finance (result based payments, carbon payments, etc.).28.Overall, while the proposed operation may not bring a halt to deforestation in the country in the short term; it will reduce its impact and slow down the process of natural capital degradation and depletion in the 10 years ahead. Based ona comprehensive package of activities, the project will strengthen core state and communal competencies to put back the country on good track to reverse the trends of deforestation and land degradation. The additional communes targeted under the new project would include forests of ecological value and with the potential to provide socio-economic benefits.The selected communes will offer a potential for high-valued income-generating NTFPs, supporting in particular women, and with a significant potential for CO2emissions reductio
