📋 Tender Overview
Coded NER21004
Start date 01 March 2022
End date February 28, 2027
Internship Execution
Donor Belgium
Sector 14010 Water sector policy and administrative management
Budget 3 999 999.60 €
Project summary
The Sahel Climate Regional Thematic Portfolio (PTCS) is built around an intervention logic shared by all its regional components (in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal). Among the challenges to be addressed, we find the fight against desertification and climate change in the Sahel.
The Sahel countries targeted share the same general objective: to improve integrated natural resource management and sustainably restore natural ecosystems in the fight against desertification and the negative consequences of climate change in order to strengthen the resilience of the Sahel population living in vulnerable circumstances. Within the different countries, an identical structure of results (in line with the Pillars of the Great Green Wall) is planned in order to strengthen the coherence, learning and impact of this portfolio.
Some of the challenges to be addressed are structural, such as (1) insufficient coordination and information exchange, (2) lack of intersectoral integration of actions to combat climate change, (3) weak implementation structures and processes, (4) difficulty in accessing climate financing and finally, (5) weak governance in terms of land use planning and land.
The monitoring and implementation of international initiatives and commitments such as those of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the General Management Initiative for Enterprises (GMV2) and the fight against insecurity (G5 Sahel) also represent a major bottleneck at the national level: monitoring and verification standards are demanding for government institutions that are sometimes lacking in equipment and qualified personnel.
The Regional Thematic Portfolio Climate - Regional Component (PTCS_VR) aims to provide appropriate and integrated responses covering the aspects of adaptation and mitigation, but also those of responsible and sustainable management of natural resources and biodiversity in the broad sense. It seeks to strengthen the social, economic, security and environmental resilience of populations. To do this, this involves acting on a wide range of areas of change, - some of a technical nature such as (1) agroecological practices, (2) integrated water resource management or (3) ecosystem restoration, - others more oriented towards human factors, such as (1) the involvement of local communities (in particular women and vulnerable or marginalized groups), (2) the promotion of inclusive governance of natural resources and (3) the revitalization of a dialogue between different levels and types of actors.
