Niger Integrated Landscape Management Project

The development objective of Integrated Landscape Management Project for is to increase the adoption of climate smart landscape restoration practices and improve access to income earning opportunities in targeted communes in Niger. This project has three components. 1) The first component, Knowledge Creation and Territorial Planning for Climate Resilience, has the following sub-components: (i) National forest and pastoral lands inventory; (ii) Development of forest, pastoral areas, and fisheries management plans; (iii) Climate informed territorial planning and development in targeted Communes; and (iv) Enabling environment for Niger Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) implementation. 2) The second component, Investments in Landscape Restoration and Community Resilience to Climate Change, has the following sub-components: (i) Restoring Landscapes and Ecosystem Services; and (ii) Improving Local Livelihoods Resilience. 3) The third component, Project Coordination, Monitoring and Communication, has the following components: (i) Project coordination and management; (ii) Project monitoring and evaluation (M&E); and (iii) Project communication and conflict management. 4) The fourth component, Contingent Emergency Response, would allow the government to request to re-categorize and reallocate financing from other project components to partially cover emergency response and recovery costs.