COLOMBIA Integrated National Adaptation Program

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1 Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized COLOMBIA Integrated National Adaptation Program CONTENTS I. Introduction... 1 II. Background and Reasons for Restructuring... 1 III. Proposed changes... 3 IV. Analysis... 4 V. Expected outcomes... 5 VI. Benefits and risks... 5

2 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ACCION SOCIAL CI FY GEF IDEAM INAP INS PDO TF Agencia Presidencial para la Acci6n Social y la Cooperaci6n Internacional (Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation) Conservation International Fiscal Year Global Environmental Facility Meteorological, Hydrological and Environmental Studies Institute Integrated National Adaptation Program Instituto Nacional de Salud (Colombian National Health Institute) Project Development Objective Trust Fund Vice President: Country Director: Sector Manager: Pamela Cox Gloria Grandolini

3 Date: December 17, 2009 Country: Colombia Project Name: Integrated National Adaptation Program, INAP Project ID: P PROJECT RESTRUCTURING DATA SHEET Borrower: Conservation International Colombia Responsible agency: IDEAM Task Team Leader: Walter Vergara Sector Manager: Karin E. Kemper Country Director: Gloria Grandolini Environmental category: Partial Assessment Revised estimated disbursements (Bank FY/US$m) NO CHANGE FY i Annual Cumulative Current closing date: December 30, 2011 Revised closing date: N/A Indicate if the restructuring is: Board approved X RVP approved Does the restructured project require any exceptions to Bank policies? Have these been approved by Bank management? Is approval for any policy exception sought from the Board? Yes X No Yes No Yes XNo Revised project development objective/outcomes The PD~ does not change, nor the outcomes and key indicators. Does the restructured project trigger any new safeguard policies? Yes, the restructuring includes triggering two new safeguard policies: Indigenous Peoples, OP4.10; and Pest Management, OP4.09 i Revised Financing Plan (US$m.) NO CHANGE IN FINANCING Source Local Foreign Total Borrower 7.20 i Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Co-Financing! Total

4 I. Introduction 1. This Project Paper seeks the approval of the Executive Directors to introduce two changes in the Colombia, Integrated National Adaptation Project, GEF Trust Fund Grant Number TF056350, Project P and any accompanying amendments to the Project's legal documents. Change in location 2. The location of the activities under Component B, formerly planned for Las Hermosas, will be changed and carried out on other, equivalent locations, the Chingaza Paramo and the National Natural Park Los Nevados. Triggering of two new safeguard policies 3. Two safeguard policies, Indigenous Peoples (OP4.l 0) and Pest Management (OP4.09), not triggered during Project appraisal, will now be triggered. Following the Bank's guidelines, the inclusion of new safeguard policies requires a first order restructuring. II. Backgrou.nd and Reasons for Restructuring 4. A Grant, in the amount ofus$ 5.4 million, was approved by the Board on April 11, It became effective in July 13, 2006, and currently has a closing date of December 30,2011. The objective of the Project as stated in the Grant Agreement is "to support the Beneficiary's efforts to define and implement specific pilot adaptation measures and policy options to meet anticipated impacts of climate change focusing on high mountain ecosystems, insular areas and on human health concerns related to the expansion of areas and vectors linked to malaria and dengue." 5. The Project has five components: a) Making climate, climate variability, and climate change information available for adoption of adaptation measures and policies (total cost US$ 3. 1 million; GEF funding US$ 1.0 million). b) Design and implementation of an adaptation program that supports maintenance of environmental services (including hydropower potential) in the Las Hermosas Massif in the central range of the Andes (total cost US$ 3.47 million, GEF funding US$ 1.57 million). c) Adaptation measures in Caribbean Insular areas (total cost US$ 2.9 million, GEF funding US$ 1.3 million). d) Responses to the increased exposure to tropical vector-borne diseases (malaria and dengue) induced by climate change (total cost US$ 4.7 million, GEF funding US$ 1.0 million). e) Project Management (total cost US$ 0.73 million, GEF funding US$ 0.53 million). 6. The Project is being implemented in a satisfactory manner. Around US$2.9 million have been disbursed to end of September The implementation of physical measures is well advanced in most of the components. A thorough mid-term review of the Project 1

5 was conducted during June 2009, which confirmed the satisfactory implementation pace of the Project, with a well-advanced status of the physical progress of the adaptation activities. Discussions are currently underway with the Swiss Government on additional financing in the amount of US$ 5 million to expand the identified adaptation measures in high mountain ecosystems given their importance in terms of water regulation and biodiversity. This additional financing would be approved by early 2010 and may require a further amendment to the Grant agreement. 7. The performance of Conservation International (CI), the implementing agency, has been satisfactory and no auditing report for this Project is outstanding. 8. The change of location related to Component B, arises from the delicate public security situation existing at Las Hermosas. Due to security issues, it has been impossible to work inside the area for any of the key partners of the Project. This social unease situation is expected to prevail during project implementation, imposing a barrier to its expected development. Alternative Project sites have been identified for this component (high mountain moorlands of high importance for water regulation and rich in biodiversity). The two new sites requested by the implementing agency are Chingaza Paramo and the National Natural Park of Los Nevados, they both meet the security and geographic conditions and are considered technically suitable for the purposes of the Project. The expected outcomes under Component B will thus be developed in those areas, but results will be valuable and directly used in Las Hermosas Massif. All on-theground activities and interventions will be carried out in Chingaza Paramo, and in Los Nevados only modeling efforts will be developed. 9. The Project has already achieved important progress towards its objective. The change in project site for Component B would not represent any change of the objective, nor any threat to its proper accomplishment. 10. IDEAM (Instituto de Hidrologia, Meteorologia y Estudios Ambientales de Colombia) and CI (Conservation International Colombia), which are recipient and implementing agency of the Grant, respectively, have requested the Bank through a letter dated December 23, 2008 to consider the Chingaza high mountain ecosystem and the Natural Park of los Nevados as the new pilot sites under Component B. Both sites meet the security and geographic conditions. Acci6n Social representing the Government of Colombia has approved the amendment request. 11. The Las Hermosas Massif Project site will benefit from the Project activities. The guidelines to incorporate global climate change issues on land use planning for the Chingaza Paramo can be directly applied to Las Hermosas as well. Furthermore, the valuable experience obtained from the implementation of the adaptation measures in Chingaza can be of direct use in the future to Las Hermosas. 12. Triggering of Indigenous Peoples OP4.10: during the Mid Term Review, performed by the end of June 2009, the Bank team identified that the client has started a process to include as beneficiaries of the health activities an Indigenous group of the Guayaberos, located in San Jose del Guaviare. This group represents a new social actor and 2

6 beneficiary of the activities under this component. During project preparation the Bank team did not identify Indigenous Peoples as beneficiaries because project activities did not initially include them. 13. The Guayaberos live in their traditional territory and are estimated to be around 1,200 people. The project will work with one community of 150 people as a pilot experience. This particular community selected for project activities is a group of families that were displaced by the violence from a neighbor district and have been hosted by the other Guayabero communities living in San Jose del Guaviare. 14. The team social specialist visited the community and confirmed their willingness to participate in the project. The client has prepared an Indigenous Peoples Plan and has started a process of consultation to include this community under this component. It is worth mentioning that project activities do not entail adverse effects on these people, but on the contrary they will promote benefits from monitoring and preventing malaria outburst in the area. 15. Triggering of Pest Management OP4.09: The project supports the implementation of early warning systems and improved surveillance and control of vector borne diseases, dengue and malaria. If successful, morbidity rates should decrease (main objective), and as a result, there should be an associated net reduction on the use of pesticides once the systems are implemented and functioning. The project does not aim at reducing pesticides, nor does it support the purchase and use of such products. Project due diligence indicated that Colombia has a comprehensive regulation on the use of pesticides, that their procedures follow the World Health Organization standards and international good practices, and that the existing monitoring institutional capacity is adequate. However, it has been agreed with the client that the safeguard policy be triggered, on a proactive and conservative way. For those reasons, a full Pest Management Plan is not required. 16. To comply with the policy, the Government, through the INS (Instituto Nacional de la Salud) will include, in the design and implementation of the early warning system, a strategy to inform people and institutions on how to deal with an outbreak of dengue or malaria, to avoid indiscriminate and improper use of pesticides or of pesticides that are not allowed under OP The Government of Colombia, through the Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INS), has expressed its commitment to comply with the requirements imposed by the triggering of the two new safeguards through a letter sent on September 14, III. Proposed changes 18. For the change in location of the activities in Component B, the proposed change to the Project design includes shifting the activities initially planned for Las Hermosas to two other sites, Chingaza Paramo and the National Natural Park of los Nevados. All implementation of adaptation measures will be carried out in Chingaza, whereas the modeling efforts will be performed in both. 3

7 19. The scope of Component B will not be changed, nor the substance of the respective outcome indicator except that the same indicator will be measured at a different site, which presents the same environmental characteristics as those of Las Hermosas Massif. This site change will not imply any changes in the procurement, disbursement and financial management arrangements for this component nor in the allocated budget. 20. The contents and approach of the restructuring proposal have been discussed between the Project implementation unit and the Bank team, as reflected on the Aide Memoire of the Mid Term Review. The Bank team considers that the requested modifications are justified, acceptable and necessary. 21. For the triggering of Indigenous Peoples safeguard, all recommendations included on that safeguard will be followed. An Indigenous Peoples Plan agreeable to the Bank has been prepared and will be enforced by the client. 22. For the triggering of Pest Management safeguard, the INS will include in the early warning system a strategy to inform people and institutions on the proper use of pesticides during outbursts. Furthermore, the existing procedures on pesticides, adopted by Colombia following the World Health Organization standards and international good practices will be included in the Operations Manual ofthe Project. IV. Analysis 23. None of the proposed changes have a major effect on the original economic, financial, technical, institutional, or social aspects of the project as appraised. The proposed changes imply substituting the parent project site with others (mostly Chingaza Paramo) of the same characteristics. It therefore does not have major effects on the Project design. Th e two new safeguards triggered imply gaining a better control of Project activities and outreach, and guaranteeing that activities have only positive impacts on communities and environment. 24. None of the proposed changes raise the environmental category of the Project. The parent Project was rated Category B. The first change proposed, the change of location, does not change the Category rating. The location of both Los Nevados and Chingaza Paramo do not trigger social safeguards or other policies. The triggering of Indigenous Peoples safeguard implies including the Guayaberos indigenous community in project activities. This does not change the rating of the Project category, because the envisaged project activities only have positive impacts on the health of the communities, and no adverse effects on these peoples. The triggering of Pest Management safeguard will prevent misinformed actions by population and/or institutions to take place when the warning system raises an alarm. 25. This restructuring does not involve any exceptions to Bank polices. 4

8 V. Expected outcomes 26. The Project Development Objective is not changed by any means. The outcome indicator related to Component B will not change in nature, it will just be measured in a different site. All information subtracted from the new sites is directly applicable to the former site, the Las Hermosas Massif. The data collected in the new sites can be used for modeling in Las Hermosas. From this point of view, the proposed changes can enrich and complement the formerly expected outcomes. 27. The inclusion, decided by the client, of an indigenous community will not change the outcomes of Component D, focused on increasing resilience of local communities to malaria and dengue outbursts. On the contrary, it will provide valuable results using an indigenous community as a pilot study. 28. The triggering of Pest Management will not change scope or outreach of Component D, and will improve the capacity of INS to control individual actions during an outburst. VI. Benefits and risks 29. Regarding the change in location for Component B, The Chingaza Paramo is a very important strategic area. Within its environmental services, it supplies fresh water to almost 20% of Colombians, principally in Bogota. Given its key importance to the country, a significant number of public and private institutions are undertaking a number of actions in the area, which would be complimentary to the adaptation measures of the Project. There is thus a direct benefit because of the increased likelihood of success of pilot adaptation actions. The Parque Nacional de Los Nevados is a protected area, in which many scientific studies have been conducted, facilitating the access to data and resources. 30. Both areas present adequate security conditions for the normal unfolding of the Project. 31. The Chingaza Paramo is closer to Bogota than the former Las Hermosas Massif, facilitating access to the working area, with consequent significant savings in operational costs initially foreseen for Las Hermosas. 32. Regarding the trigger of two new safeguard policies, the Project is expected to gain on quality information and control on actions and outcomes, through an Indigenous Peoples Plan that enables the inclusion of the Guayaberos on pilot activities, and through a strategy to inform population and institutions on good practices during malaria and dengue outbursts. 33. No significant risks are foreseen at this point. 5