Project

Sixth Operational Phase of the GEF SGP in Egypt

Lead country

Egypt

Participating countries

Egypt

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From April 24, 2017 to April 24, 2022

Project ID: 5471

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Technical team

  • Climate Strategies and Policy Programme

Cross-cutting programme(s)

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
  • Energy Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Energy efficiency

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas
  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Terrestrial protected areas
  • Rural areas
  • Urban areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Energy

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Innovative approaches

Strategy

  • Enabling
  • Management operation
  • Technology innovation

Sub-strategy

  • Mainstream
  • Advocacy (towards policy makers)
  • Community engagement
  • Sustainable land management
  • Ecosystem-based management
  • Conserved areas/ protected areas management
  • Alternative energy sources
  • Green building practices
  • Improved soil and water management techniques

Social inclusion

  • Youth/Children
  • Women
  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

  • Women's access to and control over resources
  • Women decision making
  • Livelihoods for women

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 7.3 Double global rate energy efficiency improvement

Conventions and protocols

  • National Action Plan

Private sector(s)

  • Individuals/Entrepreneurs

Hot topic

  • Nature-based solution

About this project

Description

Collective action by civil society and governments is required to achieve and maintain the resilience of socio-ecological landscape systems in rural and urban areas in Egypt. As such, the support of the GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) is sought to enable community organizations in Egypt to take collective action for adaptive landscape management for socio-ecological resilience, through design, implementation and evaluation of grant projects for global environmental benefits and sustainable development. The SGP Programme intends to invest in strategic projects to catalyze and connect local projects to each other and to other large-scale initiatives to bring about sustainable impacts over a broader area over the long run. While the SGP cannot bring about landscape changes by itself, it is geared to advance tactical projects in given geographic areas, which will synergize with various levels of local action to bring about measurable progress in landscape resilience. The project will be implemented in four strategic landscapes in the Delta, Fayoum and Upper Egypt governorates. Low-emission technologies will also be demonstrated and/or tested and implemented in the urban centres of Greater Cairo and Fayoum City. Local organizations and communities will be the main vehicles of this project as they will be the agents who identify needs, design approaches for collective action, implement interventions and reap the sustainable development benefits. The key feature of the SGP will be for community- based organizations to pilot, test, innovate and analyze new initiatives through a process of learning-by- doing. Successful initiatives are going to will be replicated and up-scaled in other locations within the governorate and landscapes. However, concentrating the majority of the interventions in defined geographic areas (landscapes) will allow results to accrue and produce a critical mass of experience and lessons. By employing a landscape approach, the SGP Egypt will enable local actors to better understand the complex relationship they have with a given environment and how best to effect sustainable impacts on the landscape through their individual and combined efforts. Beyond the activities piloted in the landscapes, there will be contributions to the national level as well. Lessons learned in the landscapes will be cross-referenced, and shared, and best practices and lessons learned will be used to inform the policy context at the national level.

Objectives

To enable community organizations in Egypt to take collective action for adaptive landscape management for socio-ecological resilience through design, implementation and evaluation of grant projects for global environmental benefits and sustainable development..

USD $2,913,241

Grant amount

USD $4,073,461

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,913,241)

Implementing partner(s)

  • UN Office for Project Services

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Resilient rural landscapes for sustainable development and global environmental protection Multi-stakeholder partnerships, networks, and landscape policy platforms in Fayoum depression, Upper Nile, Delta and Cairo landscapes, develop and execute adaptive management plans, and support policy development to enhance landscape and community resilience and global environmental benefits.

 Indicators:

A. Area under resilient landscape management whose biodiversity, agro-ecology, and sustainable livelihoods are protected.
B. Number of communities whose resilience is strengthened by experimenting, innovating and learning through landscape planning and management processes in the five rural/urban landscapes.C. Increased use of renewable energy or energy efficiency technologies at community level implemented in the target landscape by type and technology.
D. Increased number of communities, within the target landscapes participating in capacity development activities, to improve the technical, social and financial sustainability of their organizations.
E. Number of case studies and publications documenting lessons learned from SGP-supported projects.
1.1.1 Number of multistakeholder governance platforms/partnerships established and strengthened to support participatory landscape / planning and adaptive management in the three rural landscapes.
1.1.2 number of participatory landscape strategies and management plans for the three targeted rural landscapes.
1.1.3. number of relevant project and portfolio experiences systematized and codified (case studies) for dissemination to policy platform participants as well as community organizations and networks and second level organizations.
2.1 Typology of community level projects developed and agreed by multi-stakeholder groups (together with eligibility criteria) as outputs to achieve landscape level outcomes.2.2 Number of community-based projects implemented by CBOs and NGOs in partnership with others in the target landscapes.
2.3 Increased area under management for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.
2.4 Increased area under reforestation or farmer managed natural regeneration.
2.5 Increased area under improved grazing regimes.
2.6 Increased area of agricultural land under agro-ecological practices and systems that increase sustainability and productivity and/or conserve crop genetic resources.
2.7 Number of second level organizations established in the landscape/seascapes and seascapes grouping individual community producer organizations in sustainable production of agroforestry, fisheries and waste management.
2.8 Number of strategic projects that support these economic activities
2.9 Increased alternative livelihoods and innovative products developed through support of services for ecotourism, green value chains, agroforestry, sustainable fisheries, waste management projects, and access to markets.
3.1 Number and type of multi-stakeholder partnerships/community networks for managing the development and implementation of community-based urban integrated low-emission systems.
3.2 Number of participatory strategies and management plans for the two urban landscapes 3.3. Number of relevant project and portfolio experiences systematized and codified (case studies) for dissemination to policy platform participants as well as community organizations and networks and second level organizations
4.1 Typology of urban neighborhood projects developed and agreed by multi-stakeholder groups (together with eligibility criteria) as outputs to achieve urban landscape level outcomes.
4.2 Number of community-based projects implemented by CBOs and NGOs in partnership with others in the target urban landscapes/neighborhoods.4.3 Increased use of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies at neighborhood level implemented in the target urban landscape by type and technology.
4.4 Number of strategic projects (up to USD 150,000) to implement strategies enabling and facilitating upscaling of application of renewable energy or energy efficiency technologies
Outcome 2:

Community-based multifocal projects selected, developed and implemented to bring biodiversity protection, agro-ecological practices, alternative livelihoods, and adoption of successful SGP-supported technologies, strategies, practices/systems to a tipping point in each landscape.
Outcome 3:

Promote community-based integrated low-emission urban systemsMulti-stakeholder partnerships, networks and policy platforms develop and execute adaptive management plans, and support policy development for low-emission urban development
Outcome 4:

Selection, development and implementation of community-based projects promoting low-emission urban systems and SGP-technologies, supported by stakeholders (private, public, institutions, CSOs).
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