Objectives

To demonstrate an innovative approach to how a proactive multi-stakeholder private sector-catalyzed partnership for water stewardship can be upscaled to achieve transformational changes in the restoration of degraded terrestrial ecosystems.

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Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.

Target Groups

(200)The project is expected to result in a wide range of socioeconomic benefits as well as global environmental benefits. MOEF has determined that in total, 278,600 people (153,230 make and 125,370 female) are expected to benefit from the project. By promoting nature-based infrastructure solutions, the land will retain its productive capacities and the water retained can be used for a wide range of socioeconomic-relevant activities, from drinking water supply for resident communities by the local PDAMs (Perusahan d’Aerah Air Minum; Regional Drinking Water Supply Companies), to irrigation, to use for industrial purposes. (201)The SAVi assessment includes an integrated cost-benefit analysis (CBA) that estimates the direct and indirect benefits and direct costs of improved management of 26,033 ha and installing the absorption wells under this project (see Annex M). The study area considered to assess impacts is the three sub-catchment areas, covering 179,142 ha. This area intersects seven regencies and two municipalities. The model combines the results of the SAVI’s spatially explicit analysis with data from the Indonesia National Statistics Office, the East Java Statistics Office and MOEF. Additional data gaps were filled using numbers from international literature. Net benefits for the project are calculated assuming a 20-year lifetime and also consider how the net benefits would change if the lifetime were extended to 30 years. The results of the integrated CBA is presented in Table 21. The CBA considers project performance under two climate change scenarios: (1) Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5, which assumes emissions peak in 2040, and RCP 8.5, which assumes continued high reliance on fossil fuel-based energy. Table 21: Integrated Cost Benefit Analysis Numbers in italics depend on climate scenario. Net benefits are equal to avoided costs plus added benefits minus investment costs. Net benefits are positive and increase with greater climate variability. All values are in 2020 million USD. 20-year lifetime (2021-2040) 30-year lifetime (2021-2050) RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 Added Benefits Value of bamboo exports 0.21 0.21 0.35 0.35 Value of agroforestry benefits 2.12 2.12 3.35 3.35 Tree planting wages 0.52 0.52 0.52 0.52 Carbon storage benefit 31.99 31.99 31.99 31.99 TOTAL ADDED BenEFITS 34.84 34.84 36.21 36.21 Avoided Costs Avoided flood damages to households 24.00 24.53 486.79 77.96 Avoided flood damages to agriculture 12.06 14.00 193.73 36.90 Avoided erosion damages to agriculture 17.85 42.64 41.65 52.56 Avoided nitrogen pollution 17.10 17.10 25.65 25.65 Avoided phosphorus pollution 8.08 8.08 12.12 12.12 TOTAL AVOIDED COSTS 79.09 106.34 759.93 205.18 Investment & Maintenance Costs Improved land management investment cost 8.94 8.94 8.94 8.94 Absorption wells and biopori investment cost 0.56 0.56 0.56 0.56 Annual maintenance costs 0.10 0.10 0.14 0.14 TOTAL COSTS 9.60 9.60 9.64 9.64 NET BenEFITS 104.34 131.59 786.50 231.75 BenEFIT TO COST RATIO 11.87 14.71 82.56 25.03 (202)The assessment also calculates the net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) of the project, for which the avoided costs and added benefits are accounted as revenue streams of the project. Upon extending the integrated cost-benefit analysis to account for inflation as well as the time value of money, the SAVi finds the following societal net present values (S-NPV) and sustainable internal rate of returns (S-IRR) under the different climate scenarios and lifetime scenarios (Table 22). Table 22: The NPV and IRR of the Project Lifetime of project 20-year lifetime (2021-2040) 30-year lifetime (2021-2050) Climate Scenario RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 RCP 4.5 RCP 8.5 S-NPV 63,539 71,551 208,593 92,259 S-IRR 62.8% 74.8% 62.9% 74.8% S-NPV (excluding carbon benefit) 41,850 49,861 186,903 70,569 S-IRR (excluding carbon benefit) 56.5% 69.5% 56.6% 69.5% NPV (excluding carbon benefit and avoided costs) -8,330 -8,330 -8,136 -8,136 IRR (excluding carbon benefit and avoided costs) -11.0% -11.0% -4.8% -4.8% (203)Based on the results in the two tables above, the SAVi concludes that the MEWLAFOR project, in the Indonesian context, has positive benefits that far exceed the costs when externalities are considered: · The project is economically viable for investors and generates net benefits for society when considering both material economic impacts (with an IRR of 22.5%), as well as material impacts and externalities (with an IRR above 62%). · The value of the project increases when climate variability is greater because there are more avoided costs. Reforestation and avoided deforestation mitigate flooding and erosion damages. Hence, when the potential for these damages is larger, the avoided costs (i.e., benefits) of the project increase. This highlights that nature contributes to climate resilience and increased adaptive capacity. · The project has positive net benefits for the three sub-catchment areas. For the 20-year lifetime, net benefits are expected to be between US$104.34 million and US$131.59 million (undiscounted and uninflated). · Although not included in the CBA, the SAVi also estimated the downstream impacts of widespread forest restoration and the absorption wells. It found that improved land management on a large scale could increase groundwater recharge by up to 6.1% per year. Absorption wells will further increase groundwater availability and could mitigate one third of downstream flood damage. (204)Although the societal value is large, the project underscores the need for broad coordination among stakeholders to replicate and scale similar projects. The MEWLAFOR project is a demonstration of the benefits that can be reaped when this coordination is achieved across sectors and geographies and stakeholders are able to restore degraded land and improve water management.

Objectives

The project will support vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and host communities in North Baidoa to achieve immediate access to food and adequate nutrition. It will target an estimated 2,220 people from 7 settlements who require immediate food assistance. The one year project will contribute to the achievement of the 2016 HRP strategic objectives as outlined in the project logical framework. During project life-cycle, SYPD will distribute food vouchers to 200 most vulnerable households with malnourished children under 5 years, those categorized to be in IPC 3 and 4, women headed households, and pregnant and lactating mothers. The food voucher value of $50 will enable target households access 78% of the minimum food Basket per month for a series of 3 months. In the facilitation of the food voucher program, SYPD will adapt best practices including identification of local vendors and beneficiaries throughout a transparent and accountable process. Barometric data pertaining to selected beneficiaries will be loaded in electronic databases and serialized ID cards will be provided with each household to ensure that only intended beneficiaries are targeted. Beneficiaries in this category will also undergo sensitization on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices with emphasis on the benefits of breastfeeding and on household dietary diversity in an effort to improve nutrition levels among target households. Cognizant of the fact that livestock is among main livelihood assets for pastoralists in target IDP settlements and host communities, SYPD will provide 5 goats to 150 vulnerable households. This will create economic sources and improve food security and nutrition status among the target beneficiaries. Restocking will target pastoral households who lost most of their livestock due to drought and displacement and those who demonstrate the capacity and desire for effective animal husbandry. While no negative environmental impact is expected with the proposed restocking, SYPD will enhance IDPs awareness on controlling pasture and grazing to prevent land degradation, improving animal diets to reduce enteric fermentation and adapting appropriate recycling of manure to mitigate any potential environmental impact. In tandem with animal restocking, this project will also protect and promote target beneficiaries' livestock assets through training of select community animal health workers on livestock treatment and vaccination of the same against common diseases. 20 agro-pastoral households from the IDPs and target host communities will be supplied with donkey carts to further diversity household income sources. Provision of these carts will also help beneficiaries to carry a wide range of goods to district markets which will reduce overall costs on transportation thereby contributing to improved income levels and consequently food security. In the implementation of project activities, SYPD will coordinate with other partners active in the area, especially those with activities to improve food security, to maximize impact and avoid duplication of efforts. In the selection of beneficiaries, SYPD will utilize its vast field experience and familiarity with the context of Baidoa to ensure that the selection process is gender sensitive and that beneficiaries represent diverse clans and social backgrounds.

Objectives

The proposed project will target 15 vulnerable rural communities in Area C in the west bank Jenin, Tulkarm, Salfit, ‎Tubas and Hebron governorates, the chosen communities suffer from high and severe occupation ‎restrictive measures and settlers’ violence that contribute to loss of livelihood stability ‎and deterioration of the socioeconomic environment. The protracted protection crisis due to the ‎prolonged occupation and other external factors like COIVD- 19 and the war on Ukraine further ‎exasperated the economic and social situation, and negatively impacted the ability of targeted ‎Palestinian households to meet their basic needs and live in dignity.‎ Within the targeted communities in Area C, Israel retains exclusive control, including over law ‎enforcement, access and movement, planning and construction. Thus, preventing people from ‎accessing their natural resources (land and water), destroying agricultural lands amp animal shelters, ‎water cisterns, uprooting planted trees, these actions force displace vulnerable families and disrupt ‎their livelihoods, and deprive them from most critical and basic humanitarian needs, which are against ‎IHRL and IHL.‎ These 15 locations suffer from settlements expansion and land confiscations in addition to continuous ‎episodes of settler’s violence. The project aims at enhancing the resilience of 1152 farmers' HH s ‎‎(capita5644) including 1609 women, 1665 men, 1157girls and 1213 boys serving 5192 dunums by ‎improving the food security of vulnerable farmers and households taking. ‎This will be achieved through land rehabilitation productivity enhancement of 1602 dunums by fencing (82 dunums), rehabilitation through stones crushing (400 dunums) ‎and pruning of olive trees (1120 dunums) to protect the lands and increase land productivity. The ‎Rehabilitation of 9 km of agricultural roads to enhance protection accessibility and utilization of the ‎served agricultural lands and decrease in production cost. These roads will also help fire trucks to reach wildfires. Increasing access to ‎water for agriculture land to enhance farmers resilience and productivity through the installation of 2 ‎km of water carries to for the benefit of 200 dunums, and the rehabilitation of 12 water cisterns for ‎the benefit of 120 dunums. In addition to 98 grace cutting ‎machines to reduce the threats farmers (especially women) face from settlers during olive harvesting ‎season by reducing harvesting time, better cleaning and minimizing fire risks. In these targeted locations, farmers need permission from Israeli ‎side to get access to their lands when harvesting. The project will also provide rehabilitation of 7 ‎ animals ‎shelters for ‎the benefit ‎of 7 ‎farmers ‎households to increase the productive assets ‎pertaining Cattle in the targeted localities. The project focuses on promoting PSEA and AAP. In each locality, awareness session will be conducted ‎and PSEA awareness material will be distributed. In these sessions the WFP-managed Inter-Agency ‎common feedback mechanism will be disseminated, along with the proper communication channels. For non ‎PSEA related feedback and complaints, PARC’s feedback mechanism will be disseminated. ‎Lastly, once the project is approved, a series of actions will take place to ensure good governance, ‎participation, ownership, information sharing and accountability PARC team will ‎announce and formulate Local Committees in the targeted location (15 LC). These LCs will have ‎representatives from Village Councils, Municipalities, CBOs and they will participate and ‎steer the project. It will ensure to maintain a voice to women, as the project’s team will encourage women to participate in the LC and decision making. Then, tendering and ‎contracting, where the project team and the local committees will ensure the best value of money, and ‎the project will be implemented based on a well formulated exit strategy.‎