The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Central Asia | Environment, Natural Resources & the Blue Economy Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2022 | Seq No: 1 | ARCHIVED on 26-Sep-2022 | ISR52909 | Implementing Agencies: Republic of Uzbekistan, State Committee on Forestry Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 07-Jun-2022 Effectiveness Date: -- Planned Mid Term Review Date: 15-Sep-2025 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: Original Closing Date: 15-Sep-2028 Revised Closing Date: 15-Sep-2028 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The objectives of the Project are (i) to increase the area under sustainable landscape management in Selected Locations in Uzbekistan; and (ii) to promote Uzbekistan's collaboration with other Central Asian countries on transboundary landscape restoration. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Strengthen Institutions and Policies, and Support to Regional Collaboration:(Cost $15.50 M) Enhance Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods:(Cost $90.00 M) Enhance Protected Areas and Nature-based Tourism:(Cost $40.00 M) Project Management and Coordination:(Cost $7.50 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO -- Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) -- Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating -- Substantial Implementation Status and Key Decisions The RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project was approved by the World Bank Board on June 7, 2022 with the objective (i) to increase the area under sustainable landscape management in Selected Locations in Uzbekistan; and (ii) to promote Uzbekistan's collaboration with other Central Asian countries on transboundary landscape restoration. The project will be implemented within six transboundary corridors - three on the Uzbekistan and Tajikistan border, one on the Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyz Republic border, and two on the Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan border - with project-financed activities taking place on the Uzbek side of the corridors. Landscape restoration activities will be tree-based interventions, accompanied by activities to enhance of the country's enabling environment for forest landscape restoration and the regional collaboration on transboundary landscape restoration across Central Asia. The project is expected to become effective in early 2023 once all conditions of effectiveness are met by the government. 9/26/2022 Page 1 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance Moderate -- Moderate Macroeconomic Low -- Low Sector Strategies and Policies Moderate -- Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Moderate -- Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Substantial -- Substantial Sustainability Fiduciary Substantial -- Substantial Environment and Social Substantial -- Substantial Stakeholders Moderate -- Moderate Other Moderate -- Moderate Overall Substantial -- Substantial Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Increase the area under sustainable landscape management in Selected Locations in Uzbekistan IN01185450 ►Land area under sustainable landscape management practices (Hectare(Ha), Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 280,000.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The indicator measures, in hectares, the land area for which new and/or improved sustainable landscape management practices have been introduced. Land is the terrestrial biologically productive system comprising soil, vegetation, and the associated ecological and hydrological processes; Adoption refers to change of practice or change in the use of a technology promoted or introduced by the project; Sustainable landscape management (SLM) practices Comments: refers to a combination of at least two technologies and approaches to increase land quality and restore degraded lands for example, agronomic, vegetative, structural, and management measures that, applied as a combination, increase the connectivity between protected areas, forest land, rangeland, and agriculture land. IN01185562 9/26/2022 Page 2 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) ►People benefiting from landscape management practices (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 500,000.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The target reflects the population that resides within the Uzbekistan side of the 6 Project corridors, including 25,000 direct beneficiaries (lands users Comments: under sub-component 2.1 and 2.2). Indirect beneficiaries are expected to benefit from landscape management practices through environmental services and NBT activities. IN01185563 People benefiting from landscape management practices - Female (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 150,000.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Promote UZ's collaboration with other Central Asian countries on transboundary landscape restoration IN01185561 ►Transboundary sustainable landscape management policies harmonized (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 5.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The policies could be: (i) MoU for restoration of transboundary landscape corridors in Central Asia, (ii) regional methodology for ecosystem classification and inventory, (iii) MoU for the designation of transboundary "peace parks", (iv) protocol for tourism Comments: across transboundary protected areas, and (v) nature-based solutions protocol for transboundary road protection. When results are aggregated at the RESILAND CA+ level, this result will not be double- counted. Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Strengthen Institutions and Policies, and Support to Regional Collaboration IN01185564 ►Enabling environment for Land Degradation Neutrality and Nationally Determined Contribution targets improved (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No -- No Yes Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The improved enabling environment will Comments: include: (i) revised LDN targets, (ii) a draft unified policy for forest landscape management, (iii) a draft comprehensive Forest Code, (iv) a draft national master plan for FLR and management, and (v) official 9/26/2022 Page 3 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) incorporation of educational curricula on forest landscape restoration into the TSAU. Approaches for collaborative management with communities and user groups to user groups will be explored. This indicator corresponds with the PROGREEN indicator for pillars 1+2 "Countries with policy and institutional framework improved". IN01185568 ►A technology-based National Forest Inventory developed and operational (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No NFI in place -- No NFI in place First cycle NFI in place Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The NFI (first cycle) will be presented within an NFMS - a data platform that is capable of producing reports that inform forest and relevant policies and forest landscape planning, allows the periodical updating of data, and the production of periodical relevant Comments: reports. The NFI will cover the entire country and present data collected through field and remote sensing surveys. IN01185570 ►A National ICT Platform for Forest Landscape Restoration and Management developed and operational (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target No ICT platform in ICT Platform in place Value No ICT platform in place -- place and operational Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The ICT Platform would be a state-of-the-art two-way forest management information system that monitors afforestation, reforestation, natural regeneration forests, and forest land use changes, and features a disaster response information platform, forest big data with mobile application, and a decision support tool that produces tailor-made recommendations on a set of forest-related subjects for decision making, planning, and monitoring. "Operational" is defined as follows: • ICT Platform software and other ICT equipment installed in the SCF Comments: offices and leskhozes (5 in total) • ICT platform software in use in the SCF offices and leskhozes (5 in total) • 16 training sessions on software use, operation, and maintenance provided to SCF and leskhoz staff • 75% of trained SCF and leskhoz staff score a minimum of 80 in a knowledge test • Software user friendly guidelines available in English and Uzbek • 8 Joint meetings/missions between KFS experts and CF and leskhoz officials IN01185576 ►Regional online database established and operational (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target A regional online A thematic portal on A thematic portal on database on energy, water, climate, energy, water, climate, sustainable landscape Value -- agriculture, and health agriculture, and health restoration and (CACIP) (CACIP) management attached to CACIP Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. CAREC houses a Central Asia online database that stores, hosts, and publishes data and publications on sustainable landscape management and Comments: restoration with links to similar landscape restoration platforms outside the region. When results are aggregated at the RESILAND CA+ level, this result will not be double-counted. IN01185578 9/26/2022 Page 4 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) ►Beneficiaries reporting effective engagement processes through the regional online database (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 80.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result to be evaluated at mid-term. Beneficiaries are users of the regional online database supported Comments: under sub-component 1.3 and managed and hosted by CAREC. IN01185581 Beneficiaries reporting effective engagement processes through the regional online database - female (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 80.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Enhance Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods IN01185565 ►Land area under improved agroforestry systems, plantation, reforestation, and/or grazing management (Hectare(Ha), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 253,464.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The target reflects 77,700 hectares of tree- based production oriented interventions and ecosystem service-oriented interventions and 175,764 Comments: hectares of farmer-based natural regeneration. IN01185569 ►Land-users adopting landscape restoration practices (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 25,000.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. Individuals and their household members engaging in project-funded landscape restoration practices supported under sub-component 2.1, and community members/groups' members/SME members engaging in project-financed new or improved Comments: livelihoods in sustainable livelihoods under sub-component 2.2. This indicator corresponds with the PROGREEN indicator for pillar 1 "Land-users adopting new practices in targeted landscapes". Direct PROGREEN contribution: 1,250 people, 375 of whom women. IN01185572 Land-users adopting landscape restoration practices - female (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 7,500.00 9/26/2022 Page 5 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 IN01185573 ►New or existing natural resource-based enterprises that receive financing (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 250.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. Enterprises could be of three types as laid out in Law N 69-II, enacted on 25 May 2000 and amended on 2 May 2012: individual entrepreneurs, Comments: microfirms, and small enterprises. IN01185575 New or existing natural resource-based enterprises owned by women that receive financing (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 125.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 IN01185577 ►Beneficiaries of job-focused interventions (Number, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 8,500.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. Comments: IN01185579 Beneficiaries of job-focused interventions - Female (Number, Corporate Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 3,050.00 IN01185580 ►Beneficiaries satisfied with project-supported services (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 80.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result to be evaluated at mid-term. Rate of satisfaction of beneficiaries provided with project-financed short, medium, or long-term livelihood opportunities and jobs, job-oriented training, and/or micro-finance. Livelihoods are defined as activities that generate income, monetary or in kind. Beneficiaries are Comments: community members, farmers and farmer group members, SME members, and other target groups that benefit from the project. IN01185582 Beneficiaries satisfied with project-supported services- Female (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) 9/26/2022 Page 6 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 80.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 IN01185583 ►Net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Metric tons/year, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 373,893.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result to be evaluated at mid-term. Project net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are calculated as an annual average of the difference between project gross (absolute) emissions aggregated over the Comments: economic lifetime of the project and the emissions of a baseline (counterfactual) scenario aggregated over the same time horizon. They are reported in metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. Enhance Protected Areas and Nature-based Tourism IN01185566 ►Protected area under improved management (Hectare(Ha), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 26,536.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The target reflects the area of Zaamin PA (24,110 ha) and 10 percent of the area of the Central leskhoz of Samarkand PA (2,426 ha). This indicator Comments: corresponds with the PROGREEN indicator for Pillar 1: Land area under reforestation (direct contribution: 1,326 ha) IN01185571 ►Increase in Protected Areas Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) score (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 10.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result to be evaluated at mid-term. METT tracks and monitors progress towards worldwide protected area management effectiveness. The methodology is a rapid assessment based on a scorecard questionnaire. The scorecard includes all six elements of management identified in the IUCN World Commission on Comments: Protected Area (context, planning, inputs, process, outputs, and outcomes). Baseline to be established in Year 1. IN01185574 ►Nature-based tourism infrastructure established or upgraded in Protected Areas and State Forest Fund Land (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 20.00 9/26/2022 Page 7 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. The NBT basic infrastructure will include visitor centers in Zaamin PA and in Central leskhoz of Samarkand PA, as well as any of the following: observation points, roads, trails, parking areas, guest accommodation facilities, camping and picnic areas, Comments: zipline facilities, safe water facilities, food service areas, restrooms, waste disposal facilities, or other infrastructure that supports NBT in PAs and SFF land around the PAs. Project Management and Coordination IN01185567 ►Feedback/grievances resolved within the stipulated service standards for response time (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 80.00 Date 17-May-2022 -- 08-Sep-2022 15-Sep-2028 Result yet to be reported as the project is not yet effective. This indicator measures that proportion of feedback/grievances that are addressed within set standards as stipulated in the Project's GRM Comments: guidelines. Performance-Based Conditions Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed Not P174135 IDA-71380 USD 142.00 142.00 0.00 0.00 142.00 0% Effective Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date Not P174135 IDA-71380 07-Jun-2022 -- -- 15-Sep-2028 15-Sep-2028 Effective Cumulative Disbursements 9/26/2022 Page 8 of 9 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report RESILAND CA+ Program: Uzbekistan Resilient Landscapes Restoration Project (P174135) Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 9/26/2022 Page 9 of 9