FP024

Enpower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia

Enpower to Adapt: Creating Climate-Change Resilient Livelihoods through Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia

This Enhance Direct Access (EDA) Pilot is built on the strong institutional foundation of the Namibian Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) network, which consists of communal conservancies and community forests in the rural communal areas of Namibia. It comprises 8 Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and the University of Namibia. These existing institutions are ideally placed to be the conduits for the implementation of local-level climate action.

It is expected that the project improve land management of an area of 7,200,000 hectares. The project will run over five years and consists of two complementary components that will empower rural communities to respond to climate change in terms of awareness, adaptive capacity and low-carbon rural development. The two components are:

  • Component 1 – Capacity Building and Community Support: this component is essential for the success and sustainability of community-based climate action. It comprises awareness raising, capacity building and support to development and implementation of climate investment plans at the local level.
  • Component 2 – Resilient Grant Facility: this component empowers rural CBNRM communities to increase their resilience to climate change through direct access to climate finance. It comprises a ring-fenced grant facility that will focus on the development and strengthening resilient CBNRM livelihoods through grants in three defined investment areas.

The project has an estimated lifespan of 5 years.

Total project value

 

Beneficiaries

 

Direct
15,500
Indirect
61,000
Theme

Adaptation

Result areas

Project timeline

Pipeline

27 Jul 2016 - 80 days

Concept note received

27 Jul 2016

Funding proposal received

27 Aug 2016

Legal opinion on AE's Internal Approval

01 Sep 2016

Approved

14 Oct 2016 - 200 days

Approved by GCF Board

14 Oct 2016

Cleared by iTAP

14 Oct 2016

FAA executed

05 Apr 2017

Under implementation

01 May 2017 - 2,011 days

FAA effective

01 May 2017

Disbursement - USD 427,013

29 Jun 2017

Annual Performance Report

01 Mar 2018

Disbursement - USD 7,231,623

21 Jun 2018

Annual Performance Report

01 Mar 2019

Disbursement - USD 1,832,021

13 Oct 2020

Disbursement - USD 509,343

07 Feb 2022

Completed

01 Nov 2022

One region

  • Africa

One country

One priority group

  • African States
USD  
  • Financing
    • Private sector
    • Public sector
  • Size
    • Micro
    • Small
    • Medium
    • Large

GCF financing100% disbursed

InstrumentAmount
GrantUSD 10,000,000
Total GCF Financing
USD 10,000,000

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Accredited Entity

Environmental Investment Fund
Mr. More-Blessings Bendict Libanda
Primary

Chief Executive Officer
P.O. Box 28157, Auas Valley, Windhoek, Namibia
Phone +264 61 431 7702
Phone +264 81 149 1944
BLibanda@EIF.ORG.NA
libandab@gmail.com
Mr. Karl Mutani Aribeb
Secondary

Chief Operations Officer
P.O. Box 28157, Auas Valley, Windhoek, Namibia
Phone +264 61 431 7701
Phone +264 81 148 5578
KAribeb@EIF.ORG.NA
karibeb@yahoo.co.uk
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National Designated Authority

Namibia
Ministry of Environment and Tourism
Mr. Paulus Ashili Primary
Mr. Timoteus Mufeti Primary
Mr Petrus Muteyauli Primary
Deputy Director, Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Department of Environmental Affairs
Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Private Bag 13306, Windhoek, Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia