Angola

Sustainable Land Management Capacity Building in Angola

Project Short Title: 00052416 - Sustainable Land Management Capacity Building in Angola Focal Points: Gabriela Nascimento

Project Documents Sustainable Land Management Capacity Building in Angola (Project Document) Project Fact Sheets Sustainable Land Management (English version) Sustainable Land Management (Portuguese version)

Duration:	Starting Date: September 2008 - Ending date: December 2011	Status: Ongoing
Budget Amount:	3.211.892,00
Source of Funds:	Overall project cost is 1,900,000US$, with 750,000US$ from GEF (including 25,000$ PDF A), and 1,150,000$ from co-finance: 400,000$ from UNDP and 750, 000$ co-finance from the Government of Angola ( 350,000 in cash and 400,000 in kind). GEF: Co-finance ratio of 1:1.53. The cash co-finance ratio of 1:1 justifies application for a GEF contribution of US $ 750,000.
Key Achievement Need:	This project is part of the UNDP/GEF LDC and SIDS Targeted Portfolio Approach for Capacity Development and Mainstreaming of Sustainable Land Management, within the SP-1 of OP-15 under the GEF’s Land Degradation area of focus.
Modality of Execution:	NATIONAL EXECUTION - The project will be executed by MINUA, in cooperation with DPUA, Huambo, in close collaboration with MINDAR (at national and provincial levels) as well as in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
UN Partners	GEF
Partnerships	The project implementation will involve different stakeholders, including Government institutions, Development Partners, Academic Institutions, NGOs, the Private Sector, Civil Society and the Local Communities. It will be implemented as a National Execution (NEX) project under MINUA and UNDP will be the Implementing Agency. The Huambo Provincial office of MINUA will be the Institution charged with direct oversight of the project implementation

Brief Description:

There are three direct causes of land degradation; Unsustainable Agriculture, Deforestation/unsustainable use of Forests, and Overgrazing of Rangelands. This has contributed to overexploitation of the soil, leading to erosion, soil exhaustion and desertification. Key threats to SLM are declining fertility and productivity of agricultural lands, forest clearing for unsustainable agriculture, overgrazing and forest pasture destruction or degradation by fire, and climate change. The key barriers to addressing the root causes in order to remove the threats lie in the inadequate capacity of the government system to provide knowledge based, affordable techniques and incentives for SLM. Land managers therefore have limited knowledge on SLM techniques, have few incentives for adopting improved practices and have almost no extension services to support their efforts. Consequently, there is poor linkage between SLM and rural development initiatives, resulting in insufficient livelihood alternatives to subsistence cropping and to use of forests for timber and fuelwood and to meet energy requirements. The government authorities responsible for planning have limited capacity for cross-sectoral planning.

The major components of the project are:

This project proposes four outcomes linked to the LDC – SIDS Portfolio Sustainable Land Management Programme. The first outcome is the analysis and preparation of an acceptable set of intervention techniques, which are turned into field training modules, for new extension agents, with-in participatory demonstration training programmes. This is coupled with applied research and promotion of farmer innovation in SLM. The second outcome addresses the institutional need for Government to monitor Land Degradation and device best practices from the set of SLM initiatives in country. Third and fourth outcomes address broader picture of the National Action Plan (NAP) via co-finance; and starting the Country Framework for TerrAfrica. These will be built into a database to allow government to coordinate the SLM efforts and to integrate best practice into the developing CSIF and NAP process within the UNCCD and TerrAfrica frameworks.

• Project Goal:
• “Improved capacity in SLM contributes to ecosystem health and functionality while at the same time enhancing the livelihoods of particularly the rural populations”.
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• Project Objective :
• Capacity developed for sustainable land management for key SLM stakeholders and sustainable land management principles mainstreamed into national policies, plans and processes.

Project Outcomes:

• Outcome 1: Individual and institutional capacity for SLM enhanced.
• Outcome 2: Capacity developed is used to mainstream and manage the long-term SLM programme within the country’s key sectors to ensure coordination.
• Outcome 3: National Action Plan (NAP) completed and used as a coordination mechanism and policy framework for SLM in Angola.
• Outcome 4: the NAP is supported by a credible MTIP and a broader CSIF process linked to TerrAfrica .

Steps Forward

The project is recruiting project staff and will host its first stakeholder meeting to officially launch the project in September 2008.