Project

Stabilizing Rural Populations Through the Identification of Systems for Sustainable Management and Local Governance of Lands in Southern Madagascar

Lead country

Madagascar

Participating countries

Madagascar

Project status

Closure

Implementing period

From July 5, 2010 to December 30, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 1.5 Build resilience of poor to climate, shocks
  2. 15.3 Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil
  3. 17.17 Encourage, promote public, private, civil society partnerships

Project ID: 3127

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Agrobiodiversity

Landscape(s)

  • Deserts
  • Forests
  • Grasslands

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Coast deserts
  • General

Transformed sector(s)

N/A

UNDP role(s)

  • Optimising financing
  • Normative support
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Food and agricultural commodities
  • Management operation
  • Governance

Sub-strategy

  • Improved & diversified sustainable livelihoods (TP 5)
  • Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)
  • Integrated coastal zone management
  • Sustainable land management
  • Spatial monitoring/analysis
  • Laws enforcement/ Regulation
  • Adaptive governance
  • Participatory governance models
  • Technical capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Smallholder farmers

Gender equality

N/A

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 1.5 Build resilience of poor to climate, shocks
  • 15.3 Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil
  • 17.17 Encourage, promote public, private, civil society partnerships

Conventions and protocols

N/A

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy
  • Poverty reduction

About this project

Description

The Project will develop and demonstrate the efficacy of adapted land management models, to assure the sustainability of land use and curn land degradation. The Project will focus on Southern Madagascar, one of the poorest regions of the country, facing severe land degradation. Good practices and lessons will be codified in policies, and development strategies and programmes.

Objectives

To enhance capability of resource users mainstream SLM in development practice and policy at local and national levels for the mutual benefits of local livelihoods and global environment.

USD $932,240

Grant amount

USD $5,220,250

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($932,240)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Madagascar

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Replicable models of SLM are developed for selected communes that are representative of the major agro-ecological sub-regions in southern Madagascar, and these are promoted elsewhere in the region.

 Indicators:

1. Evidence of the adoption of spatial planning/land use zoning and SLM strategies/policies in the Communal Development Plans (PDCs)
2. Level of stabilization of dunes (focus on live dunes) and surface of stabilized dunes in the 2 littoral communes in the project area
3. Improvement in outmigration patterns in the 5 target communes
4. Adoption of Viable models of sustainable agriculture in the the white littoral sands AEZ, the Red Soils AEZ and the Crystalline AEZ.
5. Level of active testing of SLM practices by farmers – target population is the residents in the 15 Fokontany covered by demo actions in the project
6. Level of adoption of norms and regulations on access to and use of land in targeted communities
7. Maintanance of forest cover in the 2 communes (Marolinta and Androka)
8. Level of natural regeneration in range management pilot sites compared to unmanaged areas.
9. Level of adoption of land use self-governance mechanisms at community level -- e.g. rules governing access to common forests, grazing lands and water points, adoption of Natural Resource Management (NRM) Plans, etc., including their enforcement
10. Improved capacity for SLM at different levels will be illustrated through the following sub-indicators:
(i) Local level: extension workers dissemination of techniques from the SLM toolbox
(ii) Regional level: PCDs level of incorporation of SLM
(iii) National level: project featuring in Madagascar National Action Plan (NAP) for combating desertification
11. Number of households impacted by the project
12. Level of project success
Outcome 2:

Policy enabling environment: Local regulatory and policy enhancement with national implications
Outcome 3:

Institutions and individuals have the capacity to support and apply SLM at local, regional and national levels
Outcome 4:

Project effectively implemented and achieves results within budget and timeframe
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