PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING
Country name:
United Republic of Tanzania
Project Title:
Consultations for the Second Report to CBD and CHM.
Country Eligibility:
Tanzania’s commitment through ratification of the Convention on
Biological Diversity on 8th March 1996.
GEF Financing:
US$ 38,950
Government contribution:
US$ 22,000 in kind (transport, personnel, office space and
equipment)
GEF Implementing Agency:
National Executing Agency:
UNDP
Vice President's Office
GEF Operational Focal Point:
Abubakar.R.M.S Rajabu
CBD Operational Focal Point:
Eric.K. Mugurusi
CHM Focal Point:
Eric.K. Mugurusi
Estimated Commencement Date:
September 2001
Project duration:
3 months
STATUS OF ENABLING ACTIVITY PROJECT IN TANZANIA
Tanzania fully recognizes the values of biological diversity and its role in socio-economic development.
Biological diversity is a keystone for the national economy such that most of the people in Tanzania are
dependent on it in one form or the other, for example, for its ecological services, including source of food,
medicine, building materials and energy, tourism attraction, and decomposers of organic wastes. Due to
this fact, Tanzania ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity in March 1996 and subsequently
embarked on the preparation of the Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan in 1998 with funding from NORAD.
However, the scope of support for the BSAP process from NORAD did not include development of a
Clearing-House Mechanism (CHM), which is very crucial under the CBD as far as information sharing is
concerned. Biodiversity information exchange in Tanzania is constrained by limited capacity in
information management and shortage of infrastructure facilities and financial resources. The
establishment of the CHM in Tanzania will enable stakeholders to utilize Biodiversity information
generated so far by different institutions through Clearing House Mechanism to enable easy sharing of
Biodiversity information. In addition Tanzania completed and submitted her First National Report to the
CBD in June 2001.
The Government of Tanzania wishes to request funding from GEF for new issues related to Enabling
Activities for Biodiversity. These include:
 Funding for consultations for the Second National Report to CBD.
 Funding for a Clearing House Mechanism in Tanzania. And:
 Funding for the additional capacity assessments for Biodiversity.
 Funding to extend the initial BSAP for Tanzania
mainland, to include Zanzibar1.
This proposal requests support only for the first two activities. A separate proposals for assessment of
capacity needs as well as developing a BSAP for Zanzibar will follow at a later stage.
2. Project objectives
The objectives of this request are to assist the Government of United Republic of Tanzania to undertake
consultations for of the second national report in accordance with the COP decision V/19 and to establish a
national CHM unit. The Government of Tanzania and UNDP/GEF are satisfied this proposal conforms
with the Criteria for Additional Funding of Biodiversity Enabling Activities.
Second National Report:
The second report will follow the guidelines endorsed by the COP in decision V/19. The report will be
developed through a consultative process and will include the following:
 The progress made in different areas concerning the protection of Biodiversity and natural resources in
general since the first CBD report;
 Identify difficulties and constraints in conservation of biodiversity;
 Analysis of major issues; and
 Propose measures to address these issues.
Special attention will also be given to the following areas:
 Legal framework, laws and their application for sustainable utilization of biodiversity;
 Training and its impact on different beneficiaries and target groups;
 Concrete measures to be taken for protection of endangered species and in reducing the excessive
exploitation of endangered natural resources;
 State of natural resources and forests condition in Tanzania; and
 Extent of integration and respect of biodiversity concerns in sectoral policies by different stakeholders.
OUTPUTS
 Assessment of effective implementation of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity
including the emerging issues;
 The second report on biological diversity will be in place;
Clearinghouse Mechanism:
Objectives:
 To enable Tanzania to establish the Clearing House Mechanism for CBD within the division of
Environment, Vice President’s Office
 To strengthen the capacity of the CHM unit through training and acquiring the necessary
equipment.
OUTPUTS
By the end of the project period of the National CHM focal point will have adequate equipment and
Internet facilities and trained personnel to manage information on biodiversity
4.Project implementation and institutional framework:
The implementation will be done in a collaborative manner with the other institutions. The Vice
President’s Office will coordinate project activities. Institutions that will be involved include:
i.
The National Environmental Management Council (NEMC)
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Note that funding from Norway was only for Tanzania mainland in which Zanzibar was not included. Zanzibar has
already completed a preliminary Forest Action Plan with World Bank funding in 1996. Hence funds will be sought
from GEF at a later stage to prepare a BSAP that builds on the Forest Action Plan..
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ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.
vii.
Ministry of Natural resources and
Tourism
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Ministry of Water and Livestock
Sokoine University Of Agriculture (Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, Faculty
of Agriculture, Faculty of Science)
NGOs
The University of Dar es Salaam
Institute of Resource Assessment
Institute of Marine Science Zanzibar
Departments of Botany and Zoology
These institutions will collaborate so as agree upon on how to coordinate project implementation activities.
Table 1. Timetable activity sequencing per week
Activity/Week
1
Consultations for second national report
x
Submission to the Secretariat of the CBD
Procurement of hardware and software for CHM x
Training of CHM unit
2
x
3
x
4
x
x
x
x
5
x
6
x
7
x
8
x
9
x
10
11
12
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
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Table2: Budget
ACTIVITY
PRODUCT
Second National Report2
CHM
9,950
PROCESS
TOTAL
25,000
25,000
4,000
13,950
Total Request
38,950
CHM Budget
Option A
Item
Hardware
Software
Modem
Recurrent access costs to Internet Service Provider
US $
4000
1000
500
3750
Technician Set Up Fees
Internet and E-mail Training
Total
700
4,000
13,950
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Though the first report was prepared through financial support from NORAD, Tanzania has decided to avail of
support from UNDP/GEF for the second report.
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