Building Adaptive Capacity and Resilience to Climate Change in the Water Sector in Cape Verde

request for project preparation grant (PPG) 
Project Type: Full Sized Project 
the Least Developed Countries Fund
 Submission date: December 27, 2007 
 Re-submission date: April 2, 2008
GEFSEC Project ID: 3581
GEF agency Project ID: 4091
Country(ies): Cape Verde
Project Title: Building adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in the water sector in Cape Verde
GEF Agency(ies): UNDP
Other Executing partners: National Institute for Water Resources Management (INGRH)
GEF Focal Area(s): FORMDROPDOWN Climate Change Adaptation
a. Project preparation Timeframe 
 
Start date	June 2008
Completion date	June 2009

b. project preparation activities ($) 
1. This LDCF project will increase resilience and enhance adaptive capacity to address the additional risks posed by climate change to the water sector in Cape Verde. The end-product of this PPG will be a UNDP Project Document. The document will cover the following in detail:
Clear description of baseline activities and related sources of financing;
Explicit specification of all adaptation activities to be financed under the LDCF and their adaptation rationale (why and how are they supposed to reduce vulnerability and/or increase adaptive capacity beyond what is already being done including justification in terms of economic benefits, cost effectiveness);
Clear description of the geographic breakdown of the project across the islands and selected municipalities of Cape Verde;
Definition of goal, objective, outcomes, outputs and related indicators;
Logframe and description of a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system including impact indicators. These indicators, which will tend to focus on capacity, institutional strengthening and policy formulation and specifically address adaptation relevant impacts, will be based on the guidance of UNDPs M&E framework for adaptation projects;
Public Involvement plan during the design, preparation, implementation, and M&E Components.
B Description of Proposed Preparation Activities
COMPONENT 1: Technical Feasibility of Adaptation Options
2. Project formulation will be based on step-by-step project formulation guidance in UNDPs Adaptation Policy Framework Document and UNDPs guidelines for developing adaptation projects. The project design will follow the adaptive capacity approach in formulating project interventions. 
(a) Establishing the baseline 
3. A detailed review of business-as-usual development of the water sector over the coming decade in Cape Verde and in selected municipalities will be undertaken. This analysis will take stock of the current state of the water sector (including both demand and supply), and also consider anticipated changes as reflected in national sectoral plans. The analysis will provide details of the state, and associated challenges and opportunities, confronting the water sector in Cape Verde and in specific municipalities.
4. The analysis will include a review of ongoing investment projects in the sector, policies, laws, executive regulations and decrees governing water demand and supply, and clarify baseline (non-climate driven) development issues that is of relevance to the management of sector specific climate induced risks. The review will focus on the strengths, weaknesses, and needs of the existing system. The information collected in this exercise will contribute towards outlining a clear and detailed problem analysis (root-cause analysis) of the non-climate drivers underlying the overall problem that this project seeks to address. This will then be elaborated into identification of barrier-removal solutions that can be built into the project design. 
 
(b) Climate change risk assessment for the water sector
5. PPG resources will be used to undertake a detailed review of the climate change risk analysis on the water sector in Cape Verde over the coming decade. Building on the NAPA findings of climate impacts on water resources, resources will only be used to target additional analysis (as required) to identify the likely biophysical impacts on water resources, where they are likely to occur, on what scale, the timing of expected changes and importantly, and the socio-economic implications of the anticipated changes. The analysis will reflect the range of climate and socio-economic scenarios on which impacts are projected. PPG resources will be used to undertake a detailed review of the water sector in order to guide the formulation of project interventions. In particular, resources will be used for the following:
To outline a technically sound description of how climate change will affect water demand and supply in the islands, both nationally and in selected municipalities, and on selected islands if there is no additional intervention to reduce anticipated climate risks. The analysis will be based on existing regional climate change scenarios and the likely impacts estimated and costed as they apply to priority socio-economic sectors in Cape Verde;
PPG resources will then be used to estimate the likely costs and benefits of proposed interventions (including probability of success) to mitigate climate change risks on the water sector. Associated with this, a detailed description of the implications on existing institutional/policy/legislative framework in the water sector including laws, regulations, responsibilities, pricing, costs, necessary to support adaptation to anticipated climate change risks will be made. This will be assessed in the context of national needs and as it may apply to at least two municipalities. 
6. Stakeholder consultations and validation with relevant governmental and non-governmental agencies, as well as other bilateral donors, will supplement the findings of the review and inform the technical feasibility and needs assessment for the proposed project. PPG funds will not be used to duplicate work already completed through the NAPA or National Communications. 
(c) Identification of specific sites for intervention
7. Based on the information in (a) and (b) and clearly defined criteria (including vulnerability to climate change as a priority), a selection will be made of specific sites that this project will focus on for strategic and targeted interventions. A thorough assessment of the location specific risks that this project will need to overcome will be clarified and inform the overall design of the project. A participatory stakeholder approach to site selection and to develop interventions, (including relevant local institutions such as Government of Cape Verde and the INGRH, the private sector, and representatives of civil society) and will be employed and outlined in the UNDP Project Document.
(d) Clarifying Additionality of Proposed Outcomes and Interventions
8. The additionality of the proposed project, relative to baseline development needs, will be clarified in the context of the proposed outcomes (which have been outlined in the PIF). A detailed description will be provided on how LDCF resources will be directed towards the additional cost of ensuring that baseline activities are transformed into one that incorporate climate change concerns (i.e. the adaptation scenario). Towards this end, a detailed assessment, including stakeholder consultations, will be undertaken of activities that are taking place or have taken place in different areas of Cape Verde which are of relevance to the proposed outcomes. In addition to an in-depth problem analysis of the ongoing baseline interventions, the additionality of the proposed interventions (with respect to address climate change pressures on targeted communities) will be defined. The details on the baseline and additional activities will contribute towards clarifying how the baseline situation will be amended through the proposed project in order that risks associated with climate change, including variability are addressed.
9. The above review will also include an inventory of who is doing what (and at what scale) so that the LDCF project can be designed to build on ongoing and planned activities and leverage additional resources as co-financing. The inventory will contribute towards explicitly describing specific urgent and immediate adaptation actions which qualify under the additionality criterion. It will also inform on identifying key activities that are aligned with the comparative advantage of UNDP. 
10. The review and stakeholder consultations will also facilitate discussions with other local and international institutions, who may be pursuing similar objectives/outcomes and identify important partnerships including co-financing opportunities. It will also facilitate discussions with other agencies such as UNEP, World Bank, the African Development Bank, FAO and others on potential partnerships whereby the comparative advantage of these agencies can be brought to bear on the design and implementation of this project. 
(e) Integration with Development Plans and Policies
11. The project will HYPERLINK "http://intra.undp.org/gef/adaptation/supp_%20mat/definitions.html" \l "Dint" integrate climate change concerns into relevant national development plans and policies and also be aligned with core UNDP activities in Cape Verde. In order to identify linkages of climate change concerns into national development plans and policies, a review of relevant national development policies will be undertaken. Useful documents in this regards are (i) HYPERLINK "http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/EXTPRS/0,,menuPK:384207%7EpagePK:149018%7EpiPK:149093%7EtheSitePK:384201,00.html" Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP; (ii) HYPERLINK "http://www.undg.org/content.cfm?cid=79&page=1&archives=0&detailed=&basic=&num=all&sort=country" National Millennium Development Goal Report (National MDG Report) and (iii) UN Common Country Assessment (CCA). A review of the UN/UNDP programming documents such as the United Nation Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and UNDP Country Programme Document (CPD) or Common Country Framework (CCF) will also be undertaken in order to ensure that the project is anchored on relevant ongoing UN development programmes/projects.
COMPONENT 2: Project Scoping, Institutional arrangements for implementation phase, Definition of a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan
12. The outputs of Component 1 will be used as technical input for the formulation of a UNDP Project Document for the proposed project. Technical assistance will be required by a national and international consultants who are experienced in (i) GEF project formulation; (ii) UNDP project implementation requirements; (iii) technically competent in climate change impacts and adaptation options in the context of the scope of the project as outlined in the PIF; and (iv) familiar with the institutional setting in Cape Verde.
(a) Defining the logical framework, M&E indicators and work plan for the project
13. PPG resources will be utilized to outline a detailed logical framework with elaboration of the project goal, objective, outcomes, outputs, activities, as well as objective and outcome specific impact indicators, and detailed work plan to guide the implementation phase. 
(b) Definition of Roles and Responsibilities