Lead country
Tanzania
Participating countries
Tanzania
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From March 30, 2016 to March 29, 2021
Project ID: 5077
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Agrobiodiversity
- Biodiversity financing
Landscape(s)
- Human altered areas
- FreshWaters
- Forests
Sub-landscape(s)
- Rural areas
- Urban areas
- Rivers and river basins
- Montane forests
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Fisheries
- Livestock
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Data collection and analysis
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Management operation
- Law regulation
- Governance
Sub-strategy
- Sustainable land management
- Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
- Integrated water resource management
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Laws enforcement/ Regulation
- Conflict resolution
- Institutional framework
- Participatory governance models
Social inclusion
- Private sector
- Women
- Smallholder farmers
Gender equality
- Women's access to and control over resources
- Women decision making
- Livelihoods for women
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Reduce exposure
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 15.1 Conserve, restore, sustainably use terrestrial, freshwater ecosystems
- 15.3 Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
Conventions and protocols
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- National Adaptation Plan (NAP)
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Public-private partnership
- Nature-based solution
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
Tanzania's economy is highly dependent on water resources, whose continued flow is influenced by the health of the countries ecosystems. Agriculture, the largest sector and main source of livelihoods for the majority of the population, is dominated by rainfed farming and livestock, both of which are severely affected by unreliable rainfall and poor water management. Tourism and fisheries, the two largest sources of foreign exchange earnings, are dependent on healthy ecosystems, whose integrity in turn depends on water flows. Although the country is endowed with sufficient freshwater resources to meet its current water needs, it faces complex challenges in balancing demand from multiple users (domestic water for basic human needs; ecosystem goods and services for livelihoods; irrigation; and hydropower) and both have evidence of detrimental impacts from insufficient environmental flows in the past. The unsustainable use of water is mirrored by the unsustainable use of land coupled with unsustainable production practices. Many watersheds face moderate to severe deforestation and overgrazing pressures, corresponding to high rates of erosion, increasing soil salinity, lowered soil fertility, and loss of biodiversity. Degradation is undermining ecosystem functions and services and the welfare of rural people dependent upon these services for their subsistence and for their livelihoods. The most important water catchment areas are the Eastern Arc Mountains, which are also amongst the most affected by degradation of ecosystem services. The project aims to achieve improved sustainable land and natural resource management to alleviate land degradation, maintain ecosystem services and improve livelihoods in the Ruvu and Zigi sub-catchments through the following two components: 1) Support to enhance the enabling framework for Water Catchment Offices and districts to plan, monitor and adapt land management and leverage national and district baseline investments for SLM; and 2) Landscape level uptake of SLM measures to avoid and reduce land degradation.
Objectives
Sustainable land and natural resource management alleviates land degradation, maintains ecosystem services and improves livelihoods in the Ruvu and Zigi sub-catchments of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania.
USD $3,748,858
Grant amount
USD $24,000,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,748,858)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Tanzania
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