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The Project Development Objective (PDO) and Global Environment Objective is “to increase the adoption of
sustainable land and watermanagement practices in targeted landscapes”.
Components
Component 1: Institutional and Policy Framework
Component 2: Community based sustainable management of rangelands, forests and biodiversity
Component 3: Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation
Project Description
11. The project integrates innovative technology transfer activities in support of the implementation of
the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Sudan’s commitments under the Paris
Agreement. Such activities include (i) supporting the production of highly nutritive food crops and drought
resistant varieties through awareness raising to local communities and strengthening existing production
cooperatives, including women’s cooperatives, (ii) setting up small-scale irrigation infrastructure (hydropumps) supported by high-efficiency off-grid solar PV, (iii) the establishment/rehabilitation of seasonal
water harvesting and storage facilities, and (iv) construction of additional boreholes for local groundwater
extraction and management. Phase 3 will support innovations in malaria control through Sudan-centric
studies, informing decision-makers and stakeholders about their findings and recommended steps in this
area. Phase 3 will also support providing jobs and employment opportunities for local communities as well
as improving their incomes through direct payments and indirectly through provision of inputs and
trainings.
12. Theory of Change (ToC). Communities in Gadarif and Khartoum states are vulnerable to impacts of
climate change while facing land degradation. Phase 3 aims to bring a total of 57,000 ha of landscapes
under improved practices and reach 25,000 direct beneficiaries (at least 45% women). The project is
intended to strengthen the resilience of poor communities and support Sudans effort to enhance its
adaptive capacity through; (i) mainstreaming climate change and resilience into policy and planning, and (ii) reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience through innovation and technology transfer. In
addition, the AF is intended to address drivers of land degradation and desertification through; (i) reducing
pressures on land use, and (ii) improving agro-ecoystem services. The success of the project is dependent
on the adoption of a number of sustainable land and water management practices as well as conducting
a number of community development activities to strengthen peoples resilience |
