go to: Project Management; Cost and Financing; Technical backstopping and Guidance

UNEP, as the GEF Implementing Agency of the project, will be responsible for ensuring that the project achieves its objectives and has a positive measurable impact on the environment in the Kagera basin. UNEP will designate a project Task Manager that will oversee its implementation, monitoring and evaluation and also ensure synergies with other relevant GEF and UNEP programmes in Africa. UNEP will commission external mid term and terminal evaluations.

Technical and scientific backstopping and operational support of the full project will be conducted by FAO as the project Executing Agency, and led by the Land and Water Development Division (AGL) which has substantive expertise and project experience throughout Africa in land and water management. An internal Project Task Force will facilitate collaboration with other Technical Divisions, the Regional (Accra) and Sub-regional (Harare) Offices for Africa and Inter-departmental Working Groups on Desertification and on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. FAO technical backstopping and management will also ensure liaison at district/national levels with on-going projects for technical expertise and approaches. The FAO Country Representations will support project operations and organizational aspects, with collaboration as required of the (Sub)-Regional Offices, such as workshops/visits, transport, travel, visas).

The Regional Project Steering Committee (RPSC) is the policy setting body for the project. It will be composed of up to 15 persons, including representatives of environmental coordination bodies and Ministries of Agriculture of the four countries, representatives from FAO, UNEP-GEF and as observers, representatives of NELSAP, LVEMP and donors. The TAMP National Project Managers (NPM) for each country will attend as observers and act as secretary when the meeting is hosted by their country. Members of the RPSC will be responsible for representing their country / institution at technical and policy/administrative levels.

The Regional Technical Advisory Committee (RTAC) will be inter-sectoral and have the mandate to provide independent technical guidance taking into account the views of environment and agriculture sectors, research bodies, local government, key donors and NGOs and civil society organizations. The RTAC will facilitate co-operation at policy, technical, transboundary and local levels. There will be ten official members of the RTAC (2 National Experts per country, 2 International experts nominated by RPSC).

The National Project Steering Committees (PSC – one per country) will replace technical advisory committee (PDFB) for provision of policy and technical guidance (not more than 15 members), including representatives from district and provincial/regional levels, and NGOs/CSOs representatives.

The TAMP Regional Co-ordination Unit (RCU) will be based in Kigali, Rwanda (as agreed by PDF-B PSC in Entebbe, in November 2005) in an office provided by the government and/or shared with the NELSAP IWRM Project to improve complementarily and synergies between the two projects. The RCU will be staffed by a CTA/Regional Project Coordinator, specialised in integrated natural resources and agro-ecosystems management with overall responsibility for management of the project across the four countries.

National Technical Units (NTUs) will be established in each participating country to facilitate the execution of project-supported activities. They will be led by a National Project Manager (NPM), in each country, recruited on a fixed term contract for the initial 3 years and their status (full/part time) to be reviewed for the final two years. The NPMs will establish close collaboration and working arrangements with an interdisciplinary team composed of members of decentralized public services, NGOs, private sector and other professional associations, to ensure timely conduct of country activities, including contractual arrangements if required. The NPMs will work in close contact with the Regional project coordinator/CTA, under the technical and financial authority of the RCU (based in Kigali) and under the guidance of the national PSC and designated national project focal point (based in the capital city).

The District Project Facilitators (DPF) with appropriate agricultural and environmental expertise in each of the 21 target district (6 districts in Uganda, 4 districts in Tanzania, 6 districts in Rwanda and 5 provinces in Burundi) will be designated by the government to coordinate the activities (small top up incentives; motorbikes; office equipment; stationery) will be facilitated to support project interventions with local communities, micro-catchments and other agro-ecological units through close consultation with district authorities and wider beneficiary populations.  The DPCs will ensure appropriate technical support to local communities/ actors by establishing a close-knit interdisciplinary team of interested and competent district officers, extension workers and partners.

For more information on the Institutional and Implementation Arrangements (Annex 6 of the project document)

Project Costs and financing
a) Project Costs
Financing for the four project components/outcomes is provided in Table 1 below. Financing by project component is provided in more detail in the Incremental Cost Analysis in the Executive Summary which gives breakdowns of GEF financing and co-financing.

b) Co Financing Sources
The financing of the Project will come from a number of sources, including GEF, the host countries, beneficiary population and development partners. The sum of US$7,252,140 is solicited through the GEF grant. The contribution of governments is estimated to be US$7,094,200. The contribution of local populations and communities (beneficiaries) amounts to an estimated US$5 million, all in-kind. The contribution from FAO, the executing agency, amounts to US$814,000 including relevant ongoing and planned projects in the basin. Co-financing (cash and in-kind) from other donors is estimated to be approximately US$11.8 million to be confirmed with individual partners early in the project. Table 2 shows the expected sources of co-financing.

Technical backstopping and guidance
Technical backstopping and overall guidance in the project development process was provided by FAO’s Land and Water Development Division (AGL) with support of two international consultants on Natural resources management and GIS. Guidance was also provided by the GEF/UNEP, the GEF Implementing Agency.