INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET APPRAISAL STAGE Report No.: ISDSA2814 Public Disclosure Copy Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 27-Mar-2013 Date ISDS Approved/Disclosed: 03-Apr-2013 I. BASIC INFORMATION 1. Basic Project Data Country: Africa Project ID: P130888 Project Name: Building Resilence through Innovation, Communication and Knowledge Services (P130888) Task Team Stephen Danyo Leader: Estimated 22-Apr-2013 Estimated 16-Jul-2013 Appraisal Date: Board Date: Managing Unit: AFTN3 Lending Specific Investment Loan Instrument: Focal Area: Multi-focal area Sector: General water, sanitation and flood protection sector (50%), General agriculture, fishing and forestry sector (20%), Agricultural ex tension and research (20%), Irrigation and drainage (10%) Theme: Climate change (20%), Environmental policies and institutions (20%), Land administration and management (20%), Biodiversity (20%), W ater resource Public Disclosure Copy management (20%) Financing (In USD Million) Total Project Cost: 4.63 Total Bank Financing: 0.00 Total Cofinancing: Financing Gap: 0.00 Financing Source Amount BORROWER/RECIPIENT 0.00 Global Environment Facility (GEF) 4.63 Total 4.63 Environmental C - Not Required Category: Is this a No Repeater project? 2. Global Environmental Objective(s) To improve accessibility of best practices and monitoring information within the SAWAP portfolio on integrated management of natural resources, climate change and natural disasters. Page 1 of 5 3. Project Description There are three components organized thematically: (1) Knowledge management, (2) Program monitoring support, and (3) project management. These are as described below. Public Disclosure Copy Component 1 - Knowledge management. The outcome of this component is: Operational knowledge inside and outside the SAWAP portfolio is regularly exchanged through a regional learning hub that networks institutions and individuals that are implementing 12 country investment operations. Activities. This component finances goods, services, operating costs, travel, and training to support the following activities: a. Networking country project teams and key stakeholders for structured learning, which includes (CILSS leads , $1,000,000): i. Establishing a regional decision support web portal ($200,000), ii. Identifying and disseminating best practices ($200,000), iii. Holding regular south-south learning events, training, and periodic study tours for the 12 SAWAP project teams ($600,000), b. Providing competitive regional innovation grants for technical assistance to develop information and communication tools (CILSS leads, $200,000), c. Establishing an operations services facility for SAWAP projects on key implementation topics related to environmental public goods: i. Facilitation and brokering of expertise (CILSS leads, $100,000), ii. A technical peer review panel (OSS leads, $200,000), iii. An operations support pool (IUCN leads, $200,000), d. Carrying out a series of regional environmental economic analyses (such as benefit-cost, ecosystem valuations) (CILSS leads but CILSS, OSS, and IUCN each have a research budget line of $100,000. Total: $300,000). e. Strategic communication (IUCN leads, $400,000). Public Disclosure Copy Component 2 - Program monitoring support. There are two outcomes from this component. First, additional monitoring tools and training are deployed at regional and country levels to track processes and impacts from the portfolio of projects. Second, the SAWAP portfolio is regularly monitored against a set of thematic and process indicators. Activities. This component finances goods, services, operating costs, travel, and training to support the following activities: a. Aggregating and benchmarking results and M&E system development support in the SAWAP portfolio of 12 projects (OSS leads, $300,000), b. Delivering participatory training and expert support on M&E to country project teams. Special emphasis will be placed on measuring biophysical change and carbon flux in land use and management systems in the portfolio, and providing support to country project teams on applying M&E tools (OSS leads, $300,000), c. Monitoring, modeling and mapping land and water resources and land use change in the regional portfolio, including carbon modeling to help estimate the portfolio’s contribution to carbon storage in biomass and soil, using existing monitoring and geospatial tools. This activity also includes establishing an inter-agency GIS Services Team and opportunities for networking and capacity building for project teams and regional actors, development of a regional digital atlas on land and water resources and climate risks, and development of a regional data platform to provide near real-time remote sensing data and analyses in appropriate formats to country project teams on Page 2 of 5 the ground (OSS leads, $900,000). d. Establish and promote an impact evaluation platform. (CILSS leads $240,000). Public Disclosure Copy Component 3 - Project management. The outcome of this component is that the management of the regional BRICKS Project is carried out efficiently and effectively. Activities. This component will finance goods, services, operating costs, travel, and training for all three implementing agencies (CILSS, OSS, IUCN) to provide administrative functions including monitoring of BRICKS activities to ensure that the project remains focused on providing useful and demand-driven services to the project portfolio. The component will establish a Project Coordination Unit hosted by CILSS who will compile and aggregate project fiduciary and results reporting from all three agencies. (Total $489,630 GEF. This breaks down as $289,630 to CILSS, $100,000 to OSS, and $100,000 to IUCN). 4. Project location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis (if known) N/A 5. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists Svetlana Khvostova (AFTSG) 6. Safeguard Policies Triggered? Explanation (Optional) Environmental Assessment OP/ No BP 4.01 Natural Habitats OP/BP 4.04 No Forests OP/BP 4.36 No Pest Management OP 4.09 No Public Disclosure Copy Physical Cultural Resources OP/ No BP 4.11 Indigenous Peoples OP/BP 4.10 No Involuntary Resettlement OP/BP No 4.12 Safety of Dams OP/BP 4.37 No Projects on International No Waterways OP/BP 7.50 Projects in Disputed Areas OP/BP No 7.60 II. Key Safeguard Policy Issues and Their Management A. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues 1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the Restructured project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts: Page 3 of 5 N/A 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area: Public Disclosure Copy N/A 3. Describe any project alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. N/A 4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described. N/A 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. N/A B. Disclosure Requirements If the project triggers the Pest Management and/or Physical Cultural Resources policies, the respective issues are to be addressed and disclosed as part of the Environmental Assessment/ Audit/or EMP. If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please explain why: C. Compliance Monitoring Indicators at the Corporate Level The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] World Bank's Infoshop? Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] Public Disclosure Copy place in a form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected groups and local NGOs? All Safeguard Policies Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] responsibilities been prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard policies? Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] in the project cost? Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] include the monitoring of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies? Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed Yes [ ] No [ ] NA [ ] with the borrower and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal documents? III. APPROVALS Task Team Leader: Stephen Danyo Approved By Page 4 of 5 Sector Manager: Name: Hocine Chalal (SM) Date: 03-Apr-2013 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy Page 5 of 5