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Project Name:
Synthesize spatial data on biodiversity ecosystem
services and social data of relevance to climate
change adaptation and mitigation planning in
Tanzania
Project Number:
40000033-40031
Agreement Number: GF21
INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT
Submitted to:
WWF Tanzania Country Office
Submitted by:
FORCONSULT,
Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, Sokoine
University of Agriculture
Morogoro
30 May 2014
Submission Letter
SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE
FACULTY OF FORESTRY & NATURE CONSERVATION
FORCONSULT
Our Ref: FORCONSULT/2013/ WWF/1.6
Date: 30 May 2014
The Country Director
WWF Tanzania Country Office
P.O Box 6311,
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Dear Sir:
RE: SUBMISSION OF INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT
WWF Tanzania Country Office through Outgoing Grant Agreement has commissioned,
FORCONSULT to carry out an assignment to Synthesize spatial data on biodiversity
ecosystem services and social data of relevance to climate change adaptation and mitigation
planning in Tanzania. In this assignment FORCONSULT is collaborating with IUCN Global
Species Programme (IUCN-GSP) and UNEP-WCMC.
FORCONSULT Agreement with WWF-TCO for this project was signed on 11 November
2013. The first interim progress report for this agreement covered the period between
November, 2013 and January 2014. This second interim progress report covers the period
between February, 2014 and April 2014. In the reporting period it is our opinion that the
project is on track and being implemented in accordance with the approved work plan and
budget.
We remain yours sincerely,
Dr. Dos Santos Silayo
FORCONSULT Coordinator
Address: P.O BOX 3009, CHUO KIKUU, MOROGORO, TANZANIA
TEL: Direct +255-23- 2 604648. General: +255-23-2 603511 ext. 4607:
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Fax: +255 23 260 4648
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Project Name:
The synthesis of spatial data on biodiversity ecosystem services and social
data of relevance to climate change adaptation and mitigation planning in
Tanzania
Reporting period: February 2014 – April 2014
Completed by: Project Leader, FORCONSULT
WWF Tanzania Country Office has commissioned, FORCONSULT a consultancy to provide
a coherent package of spatial information products related to biodiversity and environmental
safeguards that can be embedded in the database of the National Carbon Monitoring Centre in
Morogoro, and contribute to a REDD+ Safeguards Information System in Tanzania. In this
assignment FORCONSULT is collaborating with IUCN Global Species Programme (IUCNGSP) and UNEP-WCMC. This project follows up from work conducted by UN-REDD and
NAFORMA during 2013 to create maps that can support REDD+ planning and development
and implementation of REDD+ safeguards in Tanzania. The aim is to build on previous work
and fill in relevant gaps, finalizing a coherent set of maps and collates relevant spatial data on
all safeguard related topics that can benefit from maps at this stage, under the restrictions of
time and data availability.
FORCONSULT Agreement with WWF-TCO for this project was signed on 11 November
2013. The first interim progress report for this agreement covered the period between
November, 2013 and January 2014. The activities covered in this second progress report are
thus what was conducted under during February, 2014 and April 2014.
1.
Project performance during the reporting period of January 2014
The work progress for the current reporting period is in accordance with the approved work
plan. The following is a brief progress report on each scheduled activity in the reporting
period:
1.1
Work Package 1 - Biodiversity and Climate Vulnerability data:
This work package is led by IUCN Global Species Programme expert from the UK and USA.
IUCN-GSP’s Agreement with FORCONSULT for this project was signed on 18 December
2013. The first interim progress report for this agreement covered the period between
December, 2013 and January 2014. The work covered in this second progress report is thus
what was conducted under during February, 2014 and April 2014.
a. Technical
Activity a: Complete extinction risk assessments (via IUCN Red Listing) and distribution
range mapping for Tanzania’s ~280 reptile species.
IUCN-GSP and FORCONSULT hosted an assessment workshop to collect data for these
assessments. The workshop was held on the 27th - 31st January, 2014 in Bagamoyo,
Tanzania. ,. This workshop was attended by 12 experts, both national and international. A
total of 398 reptile species were assessed, including all species present in Tanzania
(excluding turtles, crocodiles and chameleons, all of which are being assessed by IUCN
Specialist Groups), as well as species from the neighboring countries of Kenya, Uganda and
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Rwanda. Species range maps were created, updated or verified for nearly all of these species,
excepting those species for which specific knowledge of their distributions remains unknown.
Following the workshop, Red List accounts were cleaned up and a review process was
initiated that involves digitizing the new maps, validating the data in the final accounts, and
reviewing the proposed Red List categories. This process has made good progress, with all
maps digitized for species occurring in Tanzania and reviews completed for most Tanzanian
endemic species of reptiles. On completion, the reviewed accounts will be sent to the
workshop experts for final approval; this process is due to be completed for all East African
species by June 2014 and the final accounts are due to be published in November 2014.
Activity b: Complete climate change vulnerability assessments for the reptiles of Tanzania,
to complement the work already done on birds and amphibians.
Since the previous reporting period, work has been undertaken to clean the data gathered at
the assessment workshop in Bagamoyo in January 2014. This has included remote
consultations with species experts to complete missing data elements.
Species climate vulnerability trait data are now considered as complete as possible, and work
is underway to conduct the classification process required to assess the sensitivity and
adaptive capacity (with respect to climate change) of individual species.
The process of combining newly-derived species range maps with downscaled versions of the
most current future climate change projections (originating from IPCC AR5 projections) for
the East Africa region (see previous report) is now well underway. This will provide a
measure of levels of climatic change to which each species is likely to be exposed, and will
be combined with results created using the biological traits data, described above, to provide
an overall measure of the climate change vulnerability of all species considered in our
assessment.
These analyses were expected to be completed by April 2014, however slight delays in the
processing of data have put the work slightly behind schedule. However, analyses are now
proceeding and there should be no further significant delays. When do you expect to
complete?
Activity c: Deliver a report that shows the distribution of species threatened by landuse
change and climate change across Tanzania, which can further inform the development of
environmental safeguards for the country and feed into the scenario work of the WWF
REDD project.
As Red List and climate change vulnerability assessments are conducted, important statistics
are gathered, and appropriate maps will be produced. This process has begun, and will
continue as the assessments described above are completed.
Activity d: Build Tanzanian capacity for conservation assessments (using the IUCN Red
List) and climate change vulnerability assessment, REDD+ through workshops and on-thejob training in Tanzania.
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This element has been completed, as described in our previous progress report.
b. Financial
FORCONSULT have been allocated US$ 20,330 for the facilitation of the Red list workshop.
About 87% of this allocation was spent during the reporting time.
The first allocation of funds to IUCN-GSP was US$ 31,500, which represents almost 50% of
the total contract sum of US$ 63,071. During this reporting period, total expenditure of US$
US$ 14,379.53 making total expenditure on the project to date US$ 39,442.1. This represents
approximately 62.5% of the total allocated funds.
This is in line with the planned schedule. You will have to produce financial expense report
1.2
Work Package 2 - Compilation of Social data to inform safeguards development
This work package is led by FORCONSULT with technical inputs from UNEP-WCMC. The
work progress for the current reporting period is in accordance with the approved work plan.
The following is a brief progress report on each scheduled activity in the reporting period:
a. Technical
Activity a: Bring together available socio-economic data on Tanzania from existing data
sources (TSED, Bureau of Statistics, NAFORMA) and various global data sources and
complete an analysis of REDD+ social safeguards.
FORCONSULT has collected the following data:
 Population census data of 2012 from NBS
 Updated roads network map from TANROADS
 Livelihoods data i.e health (malnutrition, malaria, HIV AIDS) from the ministry of
Health and Social Welfare; Basic Education Statistics (BEST) from the Ministry of
Education and Vocational training.
 Forest Ownership data: from TFS and Literature
In line with the National Safeguards Information System for REDD+ and the collected data
FORCONSULT has prepared a table which outlined topics included in the safeguard
document and potential maps. This table was discussed with UNEP-WCMC. A final list of
potential maps has been created and the list prioritized in order of importance, and data
collection and spatial analysis has commenced.
UNEP-WCMC has continued to be included in discussions on data collection and sharing,
and provided advice as appropriate. UNEP-WCMC met with the whole FORCONSULT team
in Morogoro on several occasions, discussing timeline, responsibilities and data access. SUA
provided information on data collected so far.
Activity b: Develop nationally appropriate maps of population, population change,
livelihood, poverty, governance and other elements of relevance to a social-safeguards
system for the country.
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Draft maps of the collected special data have been developed and are available for further
processing.
In this reporting period, UNEP-WCMC has provided advice on spatial analyses in two ways:
1) Through the four-day training session held in Morogoro, and2) through commenting on the
gap analyses and planned outputs being undertaken by SUA. I susggest also these major
comments are listed here so that the client also out in picture and may provide further
comments
Activity c: Convene a workshop that presents the results to Tanzanian civil society but
including some more marginalised players such as indigenous people, pastoralists and
women – to gather inputs on the mapping of social safeguards.
This is the future activity where FORCONSULT will host an in-country workshop to discuss
and validate the socio-economic results and gather inputs on the mapping of social safeguard.
When exactly in your timeline and activity plan?
Activity d: Build capacity in Tanzania on the Social Safeguards Process for UN REDD+
through workshops and collaborative working between Tanzanian and international
experts.
This is also a future activity where the capacity building will be undertaken in parallel with
sub-task c, including using the in-country workshop and the mapping experts from SUA and
IRA but also receiving inputs from the rest of participants i.e. representatives from NGOs and
CBOs, marginalised groups such as indigenous people, pastoralists and women, TFS, NCMC,
National REDD Taskforce, NAFORMA and Bureau of Statistics. The collaborative working
between Tanzanian and international experts will ensure capacity building on the Social
Safeguards process of the REDD+.
b. Financial
The first allocation to FORCONSULT for this work package was US$9,000 for subsistence
allowances, US$ 30,000 for staff time and 2,400 for transport. About 100% of this allocation
was spent during the first reporting time.
This is in line with the planned schedule.
1.3
Work Package 3: Synthesis of products into Safeguards GIS system
Activity 3.1: Enhance the spatial data registry together with SUA (Jan 2014-February
2014)
UNEP-WCMC worked to enhance the spatial data registry in the previous reporting period.
The data registry continues to be a shared resource to be added to by all collaborators in the
project although UNEP-WCMC has not added to registry in the current reporting period. Am
I missing the explanation related to UNEP-WCMC in work 2 above?
Activity 3.2: Develop maps that are relevant to REDD+ safeguards and can inform REDD+
planning, complementing previous work, using the NAFORMA national carbon map.
Building off the recommendations of the final NAFORMA / UN-REDD workshop in June
10-13th 2013, prioritize the filling of gaps that remain from past work. Jan –March 2014
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A table which outlined topics included in the safeguard document and potential maps, that
was produced from the gap analysis conducted during reporting period 1, was discussed with
SUA and partners during the week of the training session in Morogoro. A final list of
potential maps has been created and the list prioritized in order of importance, and data
collection and spatial analysis has commenced. SUA provided a draft outline of their part in
the GAP analysis, with a list of potential maps which UNEP-WCMC has provided feedback
on.
Activity 3.3: Provide one training course to build open source GIS analysis capacity and
understanding of REDD+, and data hand-over at the National Carbon Management
Centre in Morogoro, Jan –March 2014
A four-day training with 12 participants from TFS, SUA and FTI on using open source GIS
software and creating maps relevant for REDD+ safeguards in Tanzania was conducted in
Morogoro during 1-4 April 2014. Details of the training can be found in the training
workshop report attached (Annex 1). Two of the maps being produced by UNEP-WCMC
were started during the training course.
Activity 3.4: Help design a spatial data management system for the NCMC and TFS.
UNEP-WCMC initiated some discussions on this topic with the FORCONSULT team in
Morogoro. Although general advice was provided, discussions highlighted that too many
unresolved questions remain; including the fact that NCMC is not yet up and running. These
remaining questions mean that it is not possible to provide any specific targeted advice at this
time. UNEP-WCMC is continuing to explore on key considerations during designing a
spatial data management system which will be useful for NCMC and TFS.
b. Financial
The first payment was made to UNEP-WCMC from FORCONSULT in January for a sum of
US$31,362 which covers 50% of the total contract sum. During this reporting period, total
expenditure was US$33,114.54, including US$29,170.33 in staff time and US$3,944.21in
expenses.
The following percentage of the planned budget has been used:
 137.6% of the first allocation
 68.8% of the total budget
The next invoice is due at the end of May 2014, which will cover the significant work carried
out in this reporting period.
2.
Project Impacts of the Project to date
The project impacts to date for each work package is described below.
2.1
Work Package 1
This work package has already contributed towards building the capacity of key individuals
within Tanzania to process species data and conduct species-level assessments, and to share
such knowledge and experiences within their professional networks.
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As the assessments conducted as part of this work package are still being processed, and the
resulting report still being drafted, the majority of the impacts arising from this component
are still to be realized.
2.2
Work Package 2
Contact persons have been identified and engaged in the process of aquiring data from
NAFORMA/TFS, NBS, TANROADS, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and Ministry
of Education and Vocational training. These contact persons will participate in the planned
in-country workshop to discuss and validate the socio-economic results and gather more
inputs on the mapping of social safeguard. I think it will good idea to link also with national
scenario workshop we are undertaking – just some representation from FIRCONSULT to this
workshop. What do you think?
2.3
Work Package 3
The improved data registry is continuing to be used by all actors within this project and
contributes to knowledge on the available data for Tanzania, including for partners who will
work for the National Carbon Monitoring Centre. It will be of significant use within the
project and for wider activities in the future by a range of actors.
There was positive feedback from the training session by the participants (see the training
report in Annex 1 for details). In addition to this, of the 12 participants, three had attended the
previous trainings under UN-REDD and NAFORMA during 2013 and it was good to see
both the knowledge retained and improvements in the capacity of these participants.
3.
Adaptive management
The adaptive management strategy of the project is as follows:
a.
Constraints and opportunities during reporting period
In the first reporting period, there have been no constraints in the delivery of outputs initial
outputs of this project to date, despite slight delays in the initiation of the commencement.
The project team is taking time in the beginning of the process to think carefully about the
exact outputs that will be produced to ensure that they will have direct relevance for policy
and implementation of the REDD+ strategy. The spatial data available is also being examined
to ensure that sufficient quality of outputs is feasible. Communication has been frequent
between FORCONSULT, IUCN and UNEP-WCMC, discussing approaches, data availability
and the work plan.
As part of our species assessment process we were able to use the opportunity to assess an
additional ~100 species from neighboring countries, which we consider to be great additional
success of the project.
During the second reporting period, the project team continues to ensure outputs being
produced will have direct relevance for policy and implementation of the REDD+ strategy.
Work continues on looking at available spatial data and ensuring that they are of sufficient
quality and the outputs are feasible. Communication has been frequent between
FORCONSULT and UNEP-WCMC, discussing approaches and data availability.
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FORCONSULT and UNEP-WCMC have agreed on the prioritization of the list of maps
being produced by UNEP-WCMC.
The trip to Morogoro provided further opportunity for discussion with Rob Marchant and
Claudia Capitani, who are conducting land use change scenario analysis within the wider
WWF project. It enabled an increased understanding of each other’s work, comparing and
sharing of datasets and contacts, and discussion on how our respective outputs could be
integrated and mutually supportive.
b.
Future risks and opportunity assessment
As it was the case during the first reporting period, there are unlikely to be any major future
risks associated with this project. There is a small likelihood of delays in the processing and
publication of Red List assessments by the relevant Red List Authorities, which could delay
the finalization of the report associated with this components. In the unlikely occurrence of
such delays, IUCN-GSP would consult with the donors to discuss the merits/drawbacks of
producing a report using preliminary assessment data, and act according to the advice of the
donor.
We do not see any escalated risks for an unsuccessful outcome of WP3. Maps have been
identified and commenced that can be created with available data and that will fit the
objectives of the project.
The project budget is tight, and it is necessary to keep an eye on time invested in different
activities to ensure that the budget is kept. So far, with the next invoice to be submitted soon,
this risk is contained.
c.
Project response
It is our opinion that the project is on track and being implemented in accordance with the
approved work plan.
4.
Way forward
The project is expected to be implemented according to the approved work plan and budget
in the remaining time.
Annex 1: Training workshop report (pdf), please send all the reports
mentined in this progress report
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