📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P175982
Region: Africa west
Through the first phase of the Forest Investment Project (P162789), the World Bank has been supporting the Government with: (i)theimplementation of the CFI and the SPREF by undertaking the developmentof management plans for the largest Category 3 GFs(Goin-Débé, Rapides Grah and Haute-Dodo) in the cocoa belt with the view to granting concessions as agroforests to two private investors (Siat for Goin-Débé, and Olam for Rapides Grah and Haute-Dodo). The two investors have signed memoranda of understanding with the Ministry of Water and Forests to sign long-term concession agreements when the management plans are delivered (expected by mid-2021); and (ii) the implementation of the SPREF by launching reforestation efforts in fourhighly degraded Category 4 GFs in partnership with forest-dependent communities. The FIP-2 will scale up Bank support to the implementation of the CFI and the SPREF through: (i) the development and implementation of additional management plans of selected GFs in the cocoa belt in four high priority landscape sites 22(as depicted in the map below) targeted by Government for implementing the CFI.These sites have been selected by both the FIP 2 and the Cocoa Integrated Value Chain Development project (PDIC) to synergize Bank interventions under one single program in support to the Government strategy forsustainable cocoa productionin line with the CFI and in collaboration with other partners intervening in the cocoa belt.The four landscape sites also constitutethe carbon accounting area of the Results-based Emissions Reductions (ERs) Payment Project.23Theconcentration of investments in cocoa-based agroforestry creates a dual benefit, addressing the drivers of deforestation related particularly to cocoa-agriculture,while alsoenhancing the ERs potential and contributionto climate change mitigation.(ii) a large-scale reforestation program in selected Category 4 GFs in the Center region in line with the Government aim to extend its forest cover from the current 11% to 20% by year 2040 as outlined in the SPREF.These GFs have been selected given their production potential for plantations and their limited human settlements(minimizing potential social risks).The project is divided into four operational components: (i)Development of Participatory GF Management Plans(MPs);(ii)Support to the Implementation of the MPs in the cocoa belt in synergy with PDIC and the Private Sector (iii)Support to Large Scale Reforestation Program in the Center Region; (iv)Support to Sustainable Management of National Parks; and one administrative component for Project Management and M&E
