PROJECT BRIEF
1. IDENTIFIERS:
PROGRAM NUMBER:
PROGRAM NAME:
DURATION:
IMPLEMENTING AGENCY:
EXECUTING AGENCIES:
REQUESTING COUNTRY
ELIGIBILITY:
GEF FOCAL AREA:
GEF PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK:
P052402
MALI: ARID RANGELAND BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVATION
6 years
World Bank
National Directorate for Nature Conservation
(Ministry of Environment)
Mali
Ratified Convention on Biodiversity, 1992
Biodiversity
OP 1: Arid & Semi-arid Ecosystems
2. SUMMARY:
Within the framework of country decentralization and natural ecosystem management
program, at the scale of the Gourma, the GEF & FFEM provide incremental financing
with the 6-year Development Objective to ensure that Communes of the Gourma have
successfully mainstreamed conservation of biological diversity in communal and intercommunal development. The project Global Objective is that Biodiversity and range
degradation trends are reversed in selected conservation areas and stabilized elsewhere in
the Gourma.
The global and development objectives are sought via three operational outputs:
(1) Improvement of awareness, knowledge & capacity of communes and institutions for
management of biodiversity,
(2) Establishment and management by inter-commune associations of seven new
conservation areas ,
(3) Adoption of natural resources/biodiversity management in communal planning and
development of eighteen municipalities.
The proposed project has opted for the following strategic options: (i) Focus on
conservation while coordinating and leveraging development, (ii) build on the
decentralization process and instrument to empower communities, (iii) invest in local
human resources and institutions, (iv) identify and address the root causes of degradation
by using an holistic approach, (v) set-up sanctuaries, called conservation areas, to secure
a representative sample of the Gourma natural biodiversity, (vi) provide small-scale
support to improve biological resources management off sanctuaries, (vii) coordinate
and cooperate with conservation efforts in Burkina Faso, (viii) prepare the post-project
era through fund raising and organization of a reward-based budget-support mechanisms.
The Project will be implemented through four components: (1) Capacity building of
populations and institutions; (2) Support to inter-communal management of conservation
areas; (3) Support to commune-based initiatives; (4) Project administration and
monitoring
3. COSTS AND FINANCING (MILLION US$):
- Project:
GEF:
- PDF:
Subtotal GEF:
Co-financing:
- French GEF
- Government
- Communities
4. ASSOCIATED FINANCING (MILLION US$)
- IDA, UNCDF, AFD
- Communities
Total Project Cost:
5.500
0.175
5.675
1.310
1.300
0.100
3.500
0.350
12.235 (including PDF)
12.060 (without PDF)
5. OPERATIONAL FOCAL POINT ENDORSEMENT:
Name: Mohamed Lamme Kalle
Personal Secretary
Date: 09/17/01
Ministry of Environment
Bamako, Mali
6. IA CONTACT:
Christophe Crépin
Regional Coordinator
Africa Region
Tel. (202) 473-9727, Fax: (202) 4738185, ccrepin@worldbank.org