Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Concept Stage) - Improving Desert Ecosystems and Climate Resilient Oases Project - P128082

 INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET CONCEPT STAGE Public Disclosure Copy Report No.: ISDSC1225 Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 16-Oct-2012 I. BASIC INFORMATION A. Basic Project Data Country: Algeria Project ID: P128082 Project Name: Improving Desert Ecosystems and Climate Resilient Oases Project (P128082) Task Team Li Song Leader: Estimated 29-Mar-2013 Estimated 30-Oct-2013 Appraisal Date: Board Date: Managing Unit: MNSEN Lending Specific Investment Loan Instrument: Focal Area: Land degradation Sector: Irrigation and drainage (70%), General water, sanitation and flood protection sector (30%) Theme: Land administration and management (60%), Environmental policies and institutions (20%), Water resource management (20%) Financing (In USD Million) Financing Source Amount Public Disclosure Copy BORROWER/RECIPIENT 10.00 Global Environment Facility (GEF) 8.00 Total 18.00 Environmental B - Partial Assessment Category: Is this a No Repeater project? B. Global Environmental Objective(s) The project’s PDO is to pilot, in selected and representative oases, the integrated management of desert ecosystems (IMDE), thereby reinforcing the resilience of those communities to climatic and social changes, with the intent of replicating successful initiatives across major Government investments in agriculture and rural development. C. Project Description There is a clear need to improve the livelihoods of people living in rural (desert) areas to help them utilize scarce natural resources in a more sustainable and profitable manner and to facilitate adaptation to both climate and social changes likely to put even great demands for resource use  efficiency into play in the future. This is expected to result from leverage of successful pilot participatory development activities that support environmentally and socially sustainable livelihood improvement in a small number of communities that represent different types of oases in the Public Disclosure Copy Algerian desert. A powerful tool for the sustainable and fruitful management of the sensitive ecosystems of desert regions is called “integrated management of desert ecosystems