Zambia - Climate Resilient Livestock Management Project (CRLMP)

The proposed intervention involves providing Zambia, as a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), with additional resources amounting to USD 6.21 million which will be used to finance the Climate Resilient Livestock Management Project (CRLMP) in order to build climate resilience in the ADF funded (UA 12.00 million) Zambia Livestock Infrastructure Support Project (LISP). The LISP which was approved by the Board on 19th June 2013 and is still under implementation, has 3 objectives namely (i) to improve smallholder livestock production and productivity, (ii) to create market linkages, and (iii) increase household income. The CRLMP seeks to address stakeholder concerns that the livestock activities under LISP might negatively affect the environment and contribute to climate change since it will introduce additional livestock in Northern and Muchinga Provinces through restocking and pass-on-scheme. Introduction of additional livestock into the two provinces through restocking and pass-on-schemes will over time increase the amount of solid manure dropped and add to greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. The additional activities to be carried out under CRLMP are packaged into three mutually re-enforcing components as listed and summarized below under 3 components: (i) Component 1 - Promoting Climate Resilient Livestock investments and increasing climate change adaptive capacity of livestock farmers; (ii) Component 2 - Capacity Building on climate change Adaptation for stakeholders; and (iii) Component 3 - Knowledge, Monitoring and Evaluation. The additional outputs and their associated activities are proposed through the CRLMP to facilitate both climate change adaptation and mitigation outlook to the on-going LISP-supported activities. Both projects will assist the Government to foster economic diversification through catalytic projects for private sector development, focusing on agriculture, particularly livestock value chain, and natural resources management and climate change initiatives. CRLMP will be implemented within the anchor project Provinces over a period of 3 years.