Summary of concept

1. GEF Strategic Investment Program for Sustainable Land Management in sub-Saharan Africa (SIP) Summary of concept World Bank TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005

2. GEF Strategic Investment Program for SLM in SSA (SIP) Aim The SIP concept is designed as a programmatic incremental GEF involvement to catalyze, enable and leverage strategic SLM related investments in SSA. The SIP will help SSA countries and stakeholders engage in SLM over the long-term, with a specific attention to: • unlocking the barriers to scaling up effective investments on the ground, • fostering harmonization and efficiencies, • reducing transaction costs for recipients and partners, and • building partnerships among partners. World Bank TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005

3. GEF Strategic Investment Program for SLM in SSA (SIP) Key features • Programmatic umbrella program allowing a pipeline ofinformed, sequenced investmentsthat help SSA countries achieve long-term programmatic approaches for scaling-up SLM. • Promote the best strategic use of GEF resources, complement andinfluence resources mobilized by the World Bank and other stakeholders. Anticipated average leveraging ratio of 4:1. • Monitorable results trigger release of follow-on phases after the first four-year phase (2007-2010). • Support national and sub-national decision-makingby enhancing and leveraging KM systems, improving vertical and horizontal cooperation, strengthening enabling environments, enhancing coalition and partnerships, and sourcing additional funding. • Encouragestransboundary cooperation when possible on grazing corridors, natural disaster response, dust storms, watersheds, basins, fires, and groundwater management. World Bank TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005

4. GEF Strategic Investment Program for SLM in SSA (SIP) Rationale • GEF resources should be used strategically and catalytically to maximize impact. • Scaling up requires incremental and predictable resources for investment, improved coordination of partners, quality mainstreaming and coherence of strategies to achieve impact. • Targeted advocacy and mainstreaming work would be underperforming if not linked to predictable stream of significant financial resources. • Leveraging effects(see next slide – delete this) World Bank TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005

5. WB/GEF Strategic Investment Program for SLM in SSA (SIP) Added value: leveraging • Leverages national policy dialogues– advocating for SLM and mainstreaming across sectors. • Leverages comparative advantages (GEF, WB, other GEF IAs and EAs…)– and those of additional partners. • Leverages partner knowledge networks and local knowledge. • Leverages domestic funding at multiplescales. • Leverages good practices and lessons, maximizing feed back loops and adaptive management. World Bank TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005

6. GEF Strategic Investment Program for SLM in SSA (SIP) Types of investments • The SIP will finance the incremental costs associated with pursuing land management through an integrated ecosystem approach: Seeking opportunities via SLM for improving management of water, conservation of biodiversity, storage of carbon, and/or adapting vulnerable production systems to climate change. • The SIP will support projects with strong potential to: • strategically contribute to strengthen the analytical underpinnings, incentives, and policies for unlocking financial and non-financial resources toward SLM. • harness cost efficiencies in securing multiple ecosystem services, • achieve synergies across GEF focal areas, • contribute to geographic areas where land degradation is a problem but has received insufficient attention; • implement elements of specific UNCCD NAPs that have been under-resourced; and • address specific transboundary concerns such as grazing corridors, aquifers, dust storms, bush fires, shared watersheds. World Bank TerrAfrica Executive Committee Meeting September 2005