XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-48 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility World Bank Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning; Ministry of Water and Forests CEO Endorsement Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date Actual Completion Date ' Congo +![cdata[Biodiversity]]+ 2000000.00 2000000.00 2000000.00 2000000.00 2000000.00 0 World Bank Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning; Ministry of Water and Forests 0 World Bank Ministry of Economy, Finance and Planning; Ministry of Water and Forests 10000000 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-4083 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility FAO Direction générale de l'environnement (DGE); Direction générale de l'économie forestière (DGEF), Délégation générale de la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST); International Tropical Timber Organisation (IT CEO Approval Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date Actual Completion Date ' Congo +![cdata[Forestry policy and administrative management]]+ +![cdata[Biodiversity]]+ 316666.67 316666.67 316666.67 0 FAO Direction générale de l'environnement (DGE); Direction générale de l'économie forestière (DGEF), Délégation générale de la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST); International Tropical Timber Organisation (IT 0 FAO Direction générale de l'environnement (DGE); Direction générale de l'économie forestière (DGEF), Délégation générale de la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST); International Tropical Timber Organisation (IT 0 FAO Direction générale de l'environnement (DGE); Direction générale de l'économie forestière (DGEF), Délégation générale de la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST); International Tropical Timber Organisation (IT 0 FAO Direction générale de l'environnement (DGE); Direction générale de l'économie forestière (DGEF), Délégation générale de la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST); International Tropical Timber Organisation (IT 904231 FAO Direction générale de l'environnement (DGE); Direction générale de l'économie forestière (DGEF), Délégation générale de la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST); International Tropical Timber Organisation (IT 895654 FAO Direction générale de l'environnement (DGE); Direction générale de l'économie forestière (DGEF), Délégation générale de la recherche scientifique et technologique (DGRST); International Tropical Timber Organisation (IT 950000 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-5325 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment CEO Approval Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date ' Congo +![cdata[Biosphere protection]]+ 325000.00 325000.00 325000.00 0 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 0 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 290373 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 111385 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 41837 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 21578 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 473910 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 13130 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 11709 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 0 UNIDO Ministry of Tourism and Environment 975000 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-5424 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) CEO Approval Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date ' Congo Republic of the Congo -1 15.5 +![cdata[Environmental policy and administrative management]]+ 648044.33 648044.33 648044.33 23781 UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) 103797 UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) 58251 UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) 188739 UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) -93436 UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) 857286 UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) 532116 UNDP National Agency for Rural Electrification (ANER) 1944133 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-5537 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment CEO Endorsement Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date ' Congo +![cdata[Biodiversity]]+ 577886.80 577886.80 577886.80 577886.80 577886.80 480897 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 189752 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 202449 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 628252 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 150000 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 442775 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 238221 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 229210 UNEP Division of Nature Conservation, Ministry of Tourism and Envirnment 2889434 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-5806 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development CEO Approval Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date Actual Completion Date ' Congo +![cdata[Biodiversity]]+ 237443.00 237443.00 237443.00 150000 UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development 272571 UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development 0 UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development 195475 UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development 28432 UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development 0 UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development 0 UNEP Department of Forestry, Ministry of Forestry and Sustainable Development 712329 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-9159 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility UNDP Ministry of Forest Economy, Sustainable Development and Environment CEO Endorsement Date Actual Implementation Start Date Actual Completion Date ' Congo Republic of the Congo -1 15.5 +![cdata[Water resources conservation (including data collection)]]+ +![cdata[Agricultural policy and administrative management]]+ +![cdata[Forestry development]]+ +![cdata[Biodiversity]]+ 625050.00 625050.00 625050.00 625050.00 625050.00 1272042 UNDP Ministry of Forest Economy, Sustainable Development and Environment 3125250 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-9700 Global Environment Facility NA Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.Global Environment Facility World Bank Ministry of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development CEO Endorsement Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date Actual Completion Date ' Congo Sangha 1.3333 15.5 Likouala 2 17.5 +![cdata[Forestry development]]+ +![cdata[Biodiversity]]+ 1301952.20 1301952.20 1301952.20 1301952.20 1301952.20 0 World Bank Ministry of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development 0 World Bank Ministry of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development 3232031 World Bank Ministry of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development 1756100 World Bank Ministry of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development 1275561 World Bank Ministry of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development 6263692 World Bank Ministry of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development 6509761 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-10298 Global Environment Facility To promote a model for integrated community-based conservation and protected area management applied to the peatland area and its forest ecosystem of the RoC Lac Télé Landscape. Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency. The project is designed to strengthen and develop on-going efforts in the Republic of Congo, as well as in the greater Congo Basin region to conserve globally significant biodiversity within forest landscapes and sustainably manage a big tropical peatland found within the country, and extending into neighbouring countries. The project will, however, deliver tangible economic benefits to local communities within target areas. This will be achieved through developing and implementing land use management plans, improving the legal and policy framework, improving environmental management within project area to help maintain existing livelihoods and develop new options related to ecotourism, NFTP and organic cocoa value chains, sustainable wildlife management and agriculture as well as reducing social and economic costs of environmental degradation, unsustainable exploitation of natural resources and wildlife crime. The cost of human-wildlife conflict will also be reduced by the demonstration of practices that will avoid these conflicts at village level including ecological solutions through bee hives for honey production, and by the protection of habitat in the project area as elephants will be kept away from VTs due to their remembering of bee mass attacks. More specifically the project will work with key production sectors within the project area and in related transboundary landscapes to strengthen sustainable livelihoods practices. The introduction of CBNRM, SLM, and SFM is expected to trigger more efficient management of natural resources reducing cost of exploitation or increasing yield in the long-term, this includes for instance sustainable land management practices increasing soil productivity, and agroforestry practices introducing new sustainable agricultural production options for local communities. For instance sustainable integrated land management through agroforestry, multiple use sustain yield tree crops, orchard fruits, aquaculture, honey bee production along with wildlife oriented ecotourism and hotspots permanent monitoring, rural entrepreneurship activities for small business services will provide upwards of 2,500 environmentally friendly jobs for sustainable inclusive green growth. The project will thus contribute to increase local communities’ income in the long term including income from sustainable agriculture through the creation of agricultural products collect, transport, processing and trading and develop their partnership with private agricultural companies, which could commercialize their processed production. The proposed intervention will also support the development of direct or indirect revenue generation from conservation activities for local communities; appropriate revenue generation mechanisms compatible with the protected areas status and ecological characters and responsive to local community needs will be analyzed. Mechanisms will include ecotourism, handicrafts, and derivatives of sustainable non-timber products to which value has been added. The project will also facilitate targeted communities, relevant common initiative groups, community-based organization, as well as authorities to establish community tourism enterprise to promote ecotourism, tourism based small businesses, services and products as alternative livelihood source. Eco-tourism initiatives have the potential to create around upward of 750 direct jobs if the area manages to attract at least 2,000 tourists a year through the support of this project and relevant long-term partners within the ministerial and non-governmental organization spaces. A major aspect of the project concerns law enforcement strengthening and anti-trafficking activities on the ground. The related activities undertaken during the project will trigger a stronger and more efficient legal mechanism with better crime scene management and criminal investigations, as well as a stronger capacity of PA managers and patrols to prevent and address wildlife crime in the project area. Local communities will thus benefit from an improved security in the zone, with better surveillance of routes and hubs preventing armed groups from freely entering the area. The project will support social cohesion in the regional transboundary area by fostering increased cooperation between stakeholders over essential issues concerning natural resources management and wildlife crime. Consultations platforms will enable stakeholders to negotiate and solve issues concerning logging concessions for instance. In this process indigenous people and small local communities will be given the opportunity to participate to the decision-making process to ensure their fair representation and appropriation of the development process of the zone. These communities will also receive support to develop community based forest management through the biological resources access. According to the government’s 2010 report to CEDAW, women produced approximately 90% of food products for household consumption. In 2016, the government reported that women accounted for 70% of the agricultural workforce but own only 25% of agricultural land usually in small holdings. This project is carefully integrating gender mainstreaming considerations to ensure that the project benefits are fairly distributed across genders with special emphasis on women for capacity-building activities on SLM and alternative livelihoods. Women will benefit from the introduction of alternative livelihoods creating agricultural jobs and alternative source of income. They will also participate as full members in decision-making, access to project resources, and in contributing to feedback on project implementation processes and directions. Global Environment Facility UNEP Ministry of Tourism and the Environment CEO Endorsement Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date ' Congo +![cdata[Biodiversity]]+ +![cdata[Site preservation]]+ 1222211.00 1222211.00 1222211.00 1222211.00 1222211.00 400000 UNEP Ministry of Tourism and the Environment 990548 UNEP Ministry of Tourism and the Environment 6111055 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-10619 Global Environment Facility To prevent damage of human health and ecosystems’ pollution by reducing mercury use in the ASGM sector in the Republic of Congo. Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.The project addresses the core paradigm that miners must generate enough additional profits to offset the costs of formalization, which is a condition for accessing new partners, new markets, and innovative financing mechanisms. Nonetheless, the access to further to additional profits for the beneficiaries depend on the social, economic, and geological local context of each targeted areas (the Departments of Bouenza, Sangha and Kouilou), the. Miners will start increasing their economic benefits early in the project roll-out through the following avenues: The integration of miners’ representatives in the dialogue platforms (at the local and regional levels) will increase the acknowledgment of this type of actor with respect to the national public administration and will contribute to accelerate the legalization process. The reduction of harassment by government officials: the local and departmental multistakeholder platforms will be a forum for information exchange and grievance mechanism. By confronting local decision makers with their practical problems, miners will be able to reduce the pressure often exerted by local government and police officials. It is known that some officials take advantage of the informal nature of the sector to racket miners and extract revenues from them. It is expected that these platforms will augment peer pressure from mining organizations over corrupt officials. Therefore, miners (especially the most vulnerable ones), will benefit from a cleaner, less corrupt enabling environment. Enhancing the dialogue at local level will also benefit to the communities by identifying and proposing adequate services for artisanal and semi-mechanized operations, which will be supported by community saving systems. The dialog platforms will also open the chance to improve grievance mechanisms between communities and semi-mechanized operators. Specific training sessions will improve the perception of vulnerable groups (ethnic minorities, women, migrants, etc.) and thus their integration in the mining activity will be improved. This may lead to improved revenues for such groups that are quite active in the ASM sector. Reduction of elite capture: similarly, vulnerable miners are often excluded from their traditional mining areas and from the richest deposits by semi-mechanized operators. The local multistakeholder platforms will give miners a stronger voice to defend their economic interests. Enhanced financial management: the capacity building programme offered to selected mining organizations (Outcome 2) will benefit miners in various ways. (1) The most vulnerable miners will benefit from the organizational governance modules, which is expected to increase inclusiveness. (2) Miners will also increase their revenues through better productivity; specific technical modules will lower their operational expenditure hence maximize their outputs. (3) Finally, other technical modules will improve their sales capacity by giving them better understanding of pricing, or by incentivizing them to treat and purify their gold better before first sales. Access to regulated markets: practical knowledge of due diligence mechanisms will enable mining organizations to access international regulated markets, which will lead them toward larger, more secure outlets. Revenue streams will be less affected by sudden economic contingencies and externalities, which are more frequent in the informal value chain. Predictable revenue streams will enable better financial projections, which will prevent miners to rely on debt. Mining techniques: the vocational training programme (Output 3.3) will enhance the productivity of mining organizations by strengthening their capacity to explore, map, or assay. Miners will earn more revenues in shorter time periods. Savings: the savings & loans capacity building programme (Output 2.1) will provide a better economic safety net to miners who will be less constrained to rely on expensive local credit. It is expected that internal loans will offer better rates than the available informal credit providers. The formalization process should also greatly facilitate the access to formal loan systems that may be proposed by microfinance institutions and, in the frameworks of a potential national sector policy, by national institutions, as a support to integration in the formal economy. Investment: the mobilization of private investors is likely to inject new capital into the selected ASGM areas. This will translate into increased production, hence more revenues for miners. Efficient equipment: the introduction of highly efficient mercury-free equipment will increase gold recovery rates through gravitational methods while reducing labor harshness, thus better revenues. Global Environment Facility UNEP CASE (Centre Africaine pour la Santé et l’Environnement) CEO Endorsement Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date ' Congo +![cdata[Chemicals]]+ +![cdata[Precious metals/materials]]+ 372900 UNEP CASE (Centre Africaine pour la Santé et l’Environnement) 0 UNEP CASE (Centre Africaine pour la Santé et l’Environnement) 2700000 GEF XI-BRIDGE-6385676864-11307 Global Environment Facility To reduce flood and erosion risks and improve access to climate resilient and sustainable infrastructure and services in selected areas in Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire. Note: Disbursement data provided is cumulative and covers disbursement made by the project Agency.YesGlobal Environment Facility World Bank Ministry of Territorial Development and Major Works (MATGT by its acronym in French) CEO Endorsement Date Actual Implementation Start Date Expected Completion Date ' Congo Tchiniambi 2 -4.76901 11.89727 Avenue des ambassadeurs -4.21245 15.27424 Rue Gangouélé -4.25679 15.23066 6471203 GEF