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United Nations Development Programme

GlobalEnvironmentFacility

Small Grants Programme

(UNDP GEF/SGP)

PROJECT SUMMARY

Proposed Project Title:

Information on proponent:

Name of Organization:

Mailing Address:

Telephone:

Fax:

E-Mail:

Principal Officer:

Project Contact:

Previous Awards Received under GEF/SGP:

Description

  • Location of Project:
  • Starting Date:
  • Project Duration:
  • GEF/SGP Focal Area
  • Operational Programme:
  • Background information:
  • Project Goals or Objectives:
  • Rationale of funding:

- Problem Statement (Summary of threats/root causes)

- What would happen without GEF-SGP (global environment consequences) - baseline scenario)

- What would happen with the project (global environment benefits) - alternate scenario

- if the project will be removing barriers describe them

- Why should GEF-SGP be involved at all

  • Project linkage to national priorities, action plan and programme
  • Activities to be carried out under project:
  • Project participants and/ or beneficiaries:
  • Anticipated results of project (output/outcome/impact if possible):
  • Monitoring Evaluation Plan with Success Indicators:
  • Communication and Exit strategy
  • Stakeholder/s involved in project

Work plan & Budget including co-funding (See format)

Budget Summary:

  • Estimated Total Project Cost:NRs------US$ equivalent ------
  • Amount requested from the SGP:NRs------US$ equivalent------
  • NGO and/ or community contribution (in cash or in kind): NRs------US$ equivalent------
  • Amount(s) expected from other sources (Int’l donors, I/NGO, VDC,DDC and others: NRs------

US$ equivalent----

  • Proposed payment Schedule

Details of bank account of project proponent

Bank Name:

Account Name:

Account No:

Bank Address:

Tel:

Fax:

Email:

Submitted by:

Date:

Workplan

SN / Objectives/Outputs/Activities / Beneficiaries / Funding Counterpart
GEF / VDC/
CBO / Others / ...... / Total NPR / Total USD $ / 1st Year / 2nd Year
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
1 / Objective:1
Output 1:
Activities
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
2 / Objective: 2
Output 2:
Activities
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4

Contact Address: Mailing address:

UNDP/GEF-Small Grants Programme NEP/SGP/OP3 (GEF/SGP)

Bhanimandal chowk, LalitpurUN House, Pulchowk

Tel:01-5000119P.O Box: 107 Kathmandu

Email:

www:sgp.org.np

End of Project Summary

Note: Please feel free to follow your own style of proposal writing. The Project SummaryFormat is just to ensure that the basic minimum requirements (for evaluation) would not be left out in the proposal.

GEF/SGP Operational Programmes:

/ All operational programs
/ Multiple Operational Programs
/ OP1 - Arid and Semi-Arid Ecosystems
/ OP10 - Contaminant-Based Operational Program
/ OP11 - Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Transport
/ OP12 - Integrated Ecosystem Management
/ OP13 - Conservation and Sustainable Use of BiologicalDiversity Important to Agriculture
/ OP14 - Draft Elements of an Operational Program for Reducing and Eliminating Releases of Persistent Organic Pollutants/ Chemicals
/ OP15 - Operational Program on Sustainable Land Management
/ OP2 - Costal, Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
/ OP3 - Forest Ecosystems
/ OP4 - Mountain Ecosystems
/ OP5 - Removal of Barriers to Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation
/ OP6 - Promoting the Adoption of Renewable Energy by Removing Barriers and Reducing Implementation Costs
/ OP8 - Water body-based Operational Program
/ OP9 - Integrated Land and Water Multiple Focal Area Operational Program

SGP Focal Area

The kinds of projects eligible for support from SGP Nepal include:

To be eligible for SGP support, a project proposed for funding must meet the country-specific eligibility criteria laid out in the GEF/SGP Country Programme Strategy. It must also be consistent with the GEF/SGP Operational Strategy and Operational Programmes established by the GEF/SGP:

i) In the biodiversity focal area, activities must promote the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources in arid and semi-arid ecosystems; coastal, marine and freshwater ecosystems; forest ecosystems; or mountain ecosystems.

ii) In the area of climate change, activities must either demonstrate the removal of local barriers to energy conservation and energy efficiency, or promote the adoption of renewable energy.

iii) In the international waters focal area, activities must address environmental concerns in a specific waterbody shared by two or more countries (such as freshwater drainage basin that is regionally significant or a large marine ecosystem), or address land-based threats to international waters.

iv) Land Degradation: SGP may support sustainable land management through the following activities: (i) sustainable agriculture based on soil and water conservation through, improved tillage methods, agro forestry approaches to reduce erosion, promotion of suitable land uses (including protection from farming where necessary), and improved management of agricultural waste; (ii) sustainable rangeland/pasture management and ground water conservation namely through strengthening of viable traditional systems, mechanisms to resolve conflicts over land use, community-based protection, rehabilitation, fire management, ground water recharge; and (iii) forest and woodland management, especially in non-protected forests, such as promoting viable indigenous management systems, rehabilitation of degraded deforested areas, and by introducing “fees for ecosystem services” and community woodlots for fuel wood.

v) Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs and Chemicals : Mounting evidence of damage to human health and the environment has focused on a category of substances referred to as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). POPs are pesticides, industrial chemicals or unwanted by-products of industrial processes or combustion. They are characterized by persistence – the ability to resist degradation; bio-accumulation – the ability to accumulate in living tissues; and potential for long range transport. POPs such as PCBs or DDT can be found in areas far from their original source, causing harm to humans and animals including disruption of the endocrine system, suppression of the immune system, reproductive dysfunction, and developmental abnormalities. Organisms at the top of food chains such as predatory birds, marine mammals, and humans absorb the greatest concentrations of POPs.

Potential SGP activities in this focal area include: (i) promoting access to and the transfer of environmentally sound alternative technologies, products, and management practices (including indigenous knowledge), such as integrated pest and vector management; (ii) demonstrating viable and cost-effective alternatives to POPs products; (iii) organizing capacity building workshops on POPs; (iv) promoting organic farming; (v) generating business opportunities including the marketing of POPs substitutes; (vi) encouraging composting, marketing and use of locally composted humus; (vii) promotion of non-POPs alternatives to vector borne disease control; and (viii) monitoring of local inventories of POPs in humans, wildlife and the environment.

Several different kinds of activities are eligible for funding by SGP:
vi)Community-based assessment and planning (planning grants): Small amounts of grant funds (typically no more than US$2,000) are available to support pre-project participatory assessment and planning activities designed to strengthen community participation in project identification and development.

vii) Pilot demonstration activities: Most funded projects are activities that test and demonstrate the viability of innovative community-level approaches to global environmental problems.
Although most demonstration projects include capacity development components, grants may be awarded for targeted technical assistance and training activities which focus on developing CBO and NGO capacities in the GEF/SGP focal areas.
viii) Monitoring and analysis: Grants funds may also be made available to intermediary NGOs and research centers (including universities) to support programme monitoring; to help identify, assess, and document best practices; and to prepare case studies of GEF/SGP-supported projects. The use of participatory methods in monitoring and analysis activities is encouraged.
ix) Dissemination, networking, and policy dialogue: In order to leverage GEF/SGP project experience, grant funds are available to support dissemination of innovations and best practices, relevant networking activities, and policy dialogue efforts aimed at promoting a supportive policy environment for community-level action in the GEF/SGP focal areas.
Landscape Approach of implementationfocus: (for detail see website Country Programme Strategyat

The following thematic and geographic areas will be targeted. Grant allocation to projects focusing within these areas will constitute70% of GEF/SGPfunding. While 30% of the total fundingwill be reserved for strategic partnership building, important demonstration projects, and particularly innovative initiatives regardless of Landscape Approach focus boundaries. The Landscape Approachconcept below will remain the primary focus of GEF/SGPNepal.

SGP can fund maximum upto US$ 50,000 for Full grant and US$ 2,000 for PlanningGrant.

Characteristics of GEF/SGP-supported Projects
In addition to meeting the basic GEF/SGP criteria, priority is given to activities that:

  • Facilitate community participation in their design, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Improve household and community access to productive assets and income/employment opportunities.
  • Consider gender roles and relationships, with a focus on the needs of women.
  • Recognize the roles and importance of indigenous knowledge and resource management systems, and of local institutions and patterns of social organization.
  • Support approaches to technology adoption and diffusion that engage stakeholders directly and take into account their needs and priorities.
  • Expand community access to local sources of technical assistance and training.
  • Include local contributions and cost-sharing by stakeholders.