Project

Strengthening national capacities to meet global environmental obligations with the framework of sustainable development priorities

Lead country

Liberia

Participating countries

Liberia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From January 16, 2018 to January 16, 2022

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
  2. 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  3. 17.9 Build capacity to support national plans

Project ID: 5796

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Technical team

  • Climate Strategies and Policy Programme

Cross-cutting programme(s)

  • Climate and Forests Programme
  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
  • Environmental Governance Programme

Technical area(s)

N/A

Landscape(s)

N/A

Transformed sector(s)

N/A

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance

Strategy

  • Enabling
  • Governance

Sub-strategy

  • Mainstream

Social inclusion

N/A

Gender equality

N/A

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

N/A

Risk reduction target(s)

N/A

SDG target(s)

  • 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
  • 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  • 17.9 Build capacity to support national plans

Conventions and protocols

  • National Action Plan
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Other Global Conventions

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Multi-stakeholder collaboration

About this project

Description

This project is in line with the GEF-6 CCCD Strategy objective 1, 3, and 5 which call for countries to: a) integrate global environmental needs into management information systems and monitoring, b) integrate MEA provisions into national policy, legislative, and regulatory frameworks, and c) update NCSAs, respectively. The goal of this project is for Liberia to make better decisions to meet and sustain global environmental obligations. This requires the country to have the capacity to coordinate efforts, as well as best practices for integrating global environmental priorities into planning, decision-making, and reporting processes. To that end, the objective of this project is to strengthen a targeted set of national capacities to deliver and sustain global environmental outcomes within the framework of sustainable development priorities. The project will be carried out via four linked components. Component 1 calls for the establishment of an integrated environmental knowledge management system to meet global environment and sustainable development priorities. Component 2 focuses on enhanced institutional and technical capacities to mainstream, develop, and utilize policies for implementation of the three Rio Conventions. Component 3 works to improved environmental attitudes and values for the global environment. Component 4 is the updating of the National Capacity Self-Assessment. The project will take an adaptive collaborative management (ACM) approach to implementation, which calls for stakeholders to take an early and proactive role in the mainstreaming exercises, as well as to help identify and solve unexpected implementation barriers and challenges. By taking an ACM approach, project activities and outputs can be more legitimately modified and adapted to maintain timely and cost-effective project performance and delivery.

Objectives

To strengthen a targeted set of national capacities to deliver and sustain global environmental outcomes within the framework of sustainable development priorities.

USD $1,550,000

Grant amount

USD $1,500,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($1,550,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Establishment of an integrated environmental knowledge management system (EKMS) to meet global environment and sustainable development priorities

 Indicators:

500 direct project beneficiaries
Number of countries with legal, policy and institutional frameworks in place for conservation, sustainable use, and access and benefit sharing of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems
Number of new partnership mechanisms with funding for sustainable management solutions of natural resources, ecosystem services, chemicals and waste at national and/or sub-national level.
Sectoral plans and policies include targets that measure progress toward achieving global environmental obligations
Indicator 5: All stakeholders agree by consensus on a key set of higher-order indicators to monitor the progress the country is making towards meeting and sustaining Rio Convention obligations.
Indicator 6: A data protocol system is developed and tested that allows data, information, and knowledge to be tracked through the life cycle of their creation to informing policy and plans to the latter's adaptive management.
Indicator 7: Key existing databases, management information systems, and monitoring systems are strategically networked into an integrated system (the EKMS)
Indicator 8: A pilot project to test the application of the EKMS is carried out on a high value sector development plan at the local self-governing authority.
Indicator 9: A long-term training programme is developed and institutionalized on Rio Convention mainstreaming based on lessons learned from the project's learning-by-doing workshops and related exercises
Indicator 10: Operational by-laws are developed to improve and legitimize Rio Convention mainstreaming into sector development plans.
Indicator 11: A resource mobilization strategy for the long-term operation (e.g., 15 years) of the EKMS is developed and approved by the Government Apparatus
Indicator 12: Memoranda of agreement must be negotiated and signed among government and non-state stakeholders on the sharing of data and information.
Indicator 13: Liaison protocols between key government agencies must be updated and signed to strengthen sharing of data and information and proactive collaboration in the operation of the integrated EKMS.
Indicator 14: The project facilitates broad-based stakeholder workshops to negotiate and institutionalize best practice consultative and decision-making processes to access best available data, information and knowledge.
Indicator 15: Education module on the importance of the global environment to national sustainable development is adopted and integrated within teaching curricula at the secondary school level
Indicator 16: Collectively and over the three years of project implementation, the awareness-raising workshops engage over 700 unique stakeholders
Indicator 17: A government-based website is created to network existing sources of electronic data and informationIndicator 18: NCSA Final Report and Capacity Development Action Plan is completed
Outcome 2:

Enhanced institutional and technical capacities to mainstream, develop, and utilize policies and/or legislative frameworks for effective implementation of the three Rio Conventions
Outcome 3:

Improving awareness of global environmental values
Outcome 4:

NCSA is updated to reflect post 2015-SDGs and current opportunities to strengthen priority foundational capacities for the global environment
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