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Mongolia
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Grant: MON 41660-01
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Project Name
Water Point and Extension Station Establishment for Poor Herding Families
Executing Agency
Ministry of Food and Agriculture
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Contact
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D. Galsanbuyan, Director
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Fax. No.
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+97 6 11 452554
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E-mail
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galsan999@yahoo.com
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Tel. No.
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+97 6 11 262853
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Address
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External Relations and Cooperation Dept
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Government Building
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#9, Enktaivan Avenue 16A
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Ulaanbaatar - 210349, Mongolia
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Grant Amount (US$ '000)
2,000.00
Sector/Subsector
Agriculture & Natural Resources /Water Resources Management
Date of First Listing
14 July 2008
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- Project Impact
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The Project will reduce poverty and improve the livelihoods of poor herding families by (i) building new, or rehabilitating damaged, water points to increase available pastures; (ii) developing strong governance and management of those water points and adjacent pastures by herders; and (iii) creating extension models for the provision of sustainable support to herder management groups adjacent to water points (and elsewhere) for improving their livestock or undertaking new livelihood initiatives. The latter strategy is particularly relevant for very poor herders with unsustainably small herds who need support to develop viable alternative livelihoods. The Project will also explore the use of SAECs for delivery of social services based on the priority needs of herding families. It aims to develop strong sustainable models anchored in existing social and local regulatory structures that can complement the ongoing policy dialogue on land and water access, pasture management, and the provision of agricultural support services.
- Project Outcome
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The Project will: (i) create new, sustainable water points and accompanying water management infrastructure in pasture locations; (ii) increase the availability of underused pastureland in Ovorhangay Aimag (province); (iii) support the development of strong institutions for local governance of water points and adjacent pastures; and (iv) create one-stop agricultural and social service centers to develop service delivery capacity at the soum (district) level. Improvements in institutions' management of water points and adjacent pasture resources will support resource management by herders and local governments and ensure pastures will not be degraded in the coming years. The Project will also improve the environmental sustainability of herding activities by lessening pressure from overgrazing at existing water points. It will aid poor nomadic herders to plan, manage, and monitor water points and pastures with the support of responsive soum agricultural extension centers (SAECs), and local communities will decide the precise types of agricultural and social service extension activities they will receive. Additionally, the Project will improve the livelihoods and livelihood security of poor nomadic herding families by improving their access to and management of water and pasture resources, as well as their capacity to add value to their agricultural products while also addressing social and health concerns.
- Project Outputs
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The Project will construct or rehabilitate 60 water points in 10 soums of Ovorhangay Aimag to be managed by 60 herder management groups to improve the availability of grazing pasture by 168,000 hectares (ha) and to benefit 900 poor nomadic herding families. With local cost-sharing from beneficiaries, the Project will establish water and pasture use agreements with the soum local government unit (LGU), and to manage the water and pasture resources under their control. The Project will support capacity development of SAECs and at least 10 independent extension service providers in 10 soums. Project provision of extension support for pasture management, livestock production, and alternative livelihoods to 100 poor nomadic herding groups in 10 soums has the goal of raising participant herder incomes by at least 15% over the Project's lifecycle.
- Consulting Services
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The Project will require the services of international consultants and staff totaling about 187.5 person months, and national consultants and staff totaling 272.75 person months for implementation.
- Environmental Assessment
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Required
- Project Processing Stage
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Approved by the Bank
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30 July 2008
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- Recruitment of Consultants
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The implementation consultant will be Voluntary Service Overseas, Mongolia Office (VSO-Mongolia), which will recruit most of the international consultant posts as detailed in the Project document using single-source selection method in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007, as amended from time to time). The Government has agreed to recruit individual consultants for the key staff positions in the PMU in accordance with ADB's Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007, as amended from time to time). These individual consultants will be recruited by ADB and contracted by the executing agency. The project staff will be recruited by PMU, in consultation with the implementation consultants. The proposed periods for contracting consultants engaged in extension-related activities are subject to change during implementation in response to the precise types of agricultural and social service demanded by the target soums, and will also depend upon the extension services that will be provided by MoFA in these soums, as consultant services are intended to supplement, rather than substitute, for existing government-provided extension.
- Project Officer
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Christopher Edmonds (632-6461)
- Office of the Director General, SPD
- cedmonds@adb.org
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