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Lake Tanganyika Project Document: Regional, Burundi and DRC components

PROJECT DOCUMENT: PART ONE UNOPS COMPONENTS Partnership Interventions for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for Lake Tanganyika. Governments of Burundi, DRC, Tanzania and Zambia Project Summary This is a regional project with four participating countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia. The GEF UNDP intervention is one part of a multi-partner programme, with significant co-finance from African Development Bank, Nordic Development Fund, IUCN and Governments. This project follows an earlier GEF project which designed the participatory Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for Lake Tanganyika and facilitated the development of the Lake Tanganyika Convention, which provides for regional oversight and management of the Lake and its resources. This project pilots the implementation of the SAP in the four countries and supports the development of the Lake Tanganyika Authority and Secretariat, which is to be based in Bujumbura, Burundi. SAP Priorities for GEF funding in DRC, Zambia and Tanzania included catchment management to reduce siltation which is adversely affecting lake processes, productivity and biodiversity. Priorities in Burundi, and in one site in Tanzania, included reducing waste water effluents which cause significant pollution in the lake. Co-Finance supports reduced sustainable fisheries, inputs to wastewater treatment and lake monitoring. The project is being implemented through two major approaches: NEX execution in Tanzania and Zambia, with a long history of project execution, including areas around the Lake; and Agency Execution via UNOPS for Burundi, DRC and Regional Components. UNOPS provides regional contractual support to ICRAF for catchment management and IUCN for enhanced monitoring programmes. This Project Document describes the Overall Project Process, then the Regional, DRC and Burundi support via UNOPS, then the NEX process in Tanzania and Zambia. This Prodoc has a final Annex addressing the issues raised by GEF Council Members.

Lake Tanganyika Project Document: Zambia Component

Lake Tanganyika Integrated Management Programme – Zambia Component (Catchment management through sedimentation control) PIMS 1941 The Zambian component of the ADF/GEF –supported Lake Tanganyika Integrated Management Programme focuses on sedimentation control, which is within the framework of priorities of the sub-regional Strategic Action Progarmme (SAP). In the SAP, the control of sediment inflows from the steep mountainous terrain bordering Lake Tanganyika in both Mpulungu and Kaputa Districts is seen as one of the most important areas for support. Over-fishing has also been identified as a key issue, and this is being addressed through co-finance and technical cooperation from the African Development Bank, FAO and other partners of the Lake Tanganyika Integrated Management Programme. Sediment inflows will be reduced through an increase in the area of land brought under sustainable land use, particularly for agriculture and forestry. Emphasis will be on institutional strengthening with support to community participation in agriculture, forestry, and soil-erosion prevention. Best practice and innovation, as well as regional coordination and dissemination of lessons will be assured by linking the project to ICRAF’s training and demonstration programmes as a regional activity.

Lake Tanganyika Project Document: Tanzania Component

The Trans-boundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) identified major trans-boundary threats confronting the four countries in their efforts to manage Lake Tanganyika and its Basin as: unsustainable fisheries, increasing pollution, excessive sedimentation and habitat destruction. The implications of these threats are the global loss of biodiversity, the loss of shared fisheries resources and the decline of water quality. The crosscutting barriers to addressing these threats are the lack of resources (including skills, infrastructure, institutions and funds), the lack of institutional coordination, poor enforcement of existing regulations, and few appropriate regulations for the management of the Lake To achieve the project objectives, a community based integrated catchment management will be instituted. This aims to empower communities to properly manage the land and wetlands for environment conservation purposes with the subsequent benefits of improving livelihoods, conserving biodiversity and maintaining the integrity of the lake Tanganyika. Specifically the project will develop local competencies in sustainable natural resources management within the lake catchment and promote conservation and biodiversity management by improving the human capacity to manage land resources. In compliance with the Land and national Water policy of Tanzania, these actions aim at empowering people at local level and involving them in all aspects of conservation programmes.

Regional Project document

Firstly, the regional component addresses the SAP priority of ratification and implementation of the Lake Tanganyika Convention and associated environmental protocols. Secondly, the regional component supports the regional interaction and regional institutional activity behind the Convention – the Lake Tanganyika Management Committee and the creation of a permanent Secretariat for the Management of the Lake. Updating the SAP and adding new and emerging issues such as water hyacinth awareness and control are components here. Thirdly, the regional component develops the Monitoring Programme for the Lake, linking national processes and institutions at regional level, and developing linkages to management decision making bodies for the Lake. The GEF-IW M and E Indicators Framework (Nov 2002) is the basis here Fourthly, the Regional Component provides the forum and base for the Partnership Programme for the Lake – between Governments and Development Partners (including UNDP and GEF). Lastly, the Regional Programme provides the framework for coordination and management of the national GEF interventions into a single and cohesive whole. Regional staff have the mandate to provide such coordination and unified reporting.