Lake Tanganyika Project Document: Regional, Burundi and DRC components

PROJECT DOCUMENT: PART ONE UNOPS COMPONENTS Partnership Interventions for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for Lake Tanganyika. Governments of Burundi, DRC, Tanzania and Zambia Project Summary This is a regional project with four participating countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania and Zambia. The GEF UNDP intervention is one part of a multi-partner programme, with significant co-finance from African Development Bank, Nordic Development Fund, IUCN and Governments. This project follows an earlier GEF project which designed the participatory Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for Lake Tanganyika and facilitated the development of the Lake Tanganyika Convention, which provides for regional oversight and management of the Lake and its resources. This project pilots the implementation of the SAP in the four countries and supports the development of the Lake Tanganyika Authority and Secretariat, which is to be based in Bujumbura, Burundi. SAP Priorities for GEF funding in DRC, Zambia and Tanzania included catchment management to reduce siltation which is adversely affecting lake processes, productivity and biodiversity. Priorities in Burundi, and in one site in Tanzania, included reducing waste water effluents which cause significant pollution in the lake. Co-Finance supports reduced sustainable fisheries, inputs to wastewater treatment and lake monitoring. The project is being implemented through two major approaches: NEX execution in Tanzania and Zambia, with a long history of project execution, including areas around the Lake; and Agency Execution via UNOPS for Burundi, DRC and Regional Components. UNOPS provides regional contractual support to ICRAF for catchment management and IUCN for enhanced monitoring programmes. This Project Document describes the Overall Project Process, then the Regional, DRC and Burundi support via UNOPS, then the NEX process in Tanzania and Zambia. This Prodoc has a final Annex addressing the issues raised by GEF Council Members.