Communal Climate Action and Landscape Management Project

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Given Burkina Faso’s physical and social environment, rural development and landscape management are key elements that lay the ground for poverty alleviation, conflict management and climate resilience and mitigation. Natural resource management and land governance are indeed crucial for long-term development and stability. Integrated landscape management is an opportunity to reduce the competition over scarce natural resources, particularly in a context of increased climate variability, and increase the productivity of natural assets. By consolidating and expanding the results of the Decentralized Forest and Woodland Management Project (DFWMP, P143993), this project will support Burkina Faso in reaching its objectives of reducing poverty by promoting sustainable investments in agro-sylvo-pastoral landscapes, reducing land-use conflicts, increasing citizen inclusion in the decentralization process, and mitigation and strengthening resilience to climate change. The project is aligned with the World Bank Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Burkina Faso (FY18-FY23), in particular CPF’s Objective 1.5, which addresses the management of extractives and natural resource sustainability, where security of land tenure and forest management are highlighted, and Objective 1.1, which aims to increase sustainable agricultural productivity.The project will include four components:• Component 1: Decentralized management of natural resources. The objective of this component is to promote a participatory and decentralized approach to managing natural resources and the adoption of sustainable practices for production and conservation in agro-sylvo-pastoral landscapes, while improving opportunities for income generation.• Component 2: Institutional strengthening for integrated landscape management, environmental and social risk management, and mobilization of climate finance. 44. This component will address the underlying drivers of deforestation and landscape degradation by promoting sustainable and climate-smart approaches at the national level focusing on the policy and legal framework, intersectoral coordination, and capacity building. It will also support the institutional development of the National Environmental Assessment Agency (Agence Nationale des Evaluations Environnementales, ANEVE) and the creation of an enabling environment for mobilizing climate finance.• Component 3: Entrepreneurship and sustainable development of value chains. The objective of this component is to strengthen, improve and facilitate the development of selected value chains (shea butter, moringa, biodigesters) and foster the development of private sector initiatives related to the green economy. • Component 4: Project coordination, monitoring and evaluation. The objective of this component is to support day-to-day project management, monitor and evaluate field activities and conduct communication and knowledge management.