This component includes investments to improve the enabling institutional and policy foundation for multisectoral integrated landscape management and climate resilience, as well as support to project management. It will include the following sub-components.
C1. Institutional and Policy Strengthening: This subcomponent aims to improve the enabling institutional and policy foundation for integrated landscape management and climate change The World Bank Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) resilience in Nigeria – with an initial focus on ACReSAL activities but also for a longer-term enabling environment for dryland management. This subcomponent will include support to federal-level MDAs and to all states in northern Nigeria for monitoring infrastructure, institutional infrastructure, specialized consultancies, knowledge products, policy environment, capacity-building and outreach, and PES. Support will be included for systems for improving remote preparation and supervision of investments (for example, through use of satellite imagery, drones, cameras, and videoconferencing). 48.
C2. Project Management: This subcomponent will support overall project monitoring and management, for the Federal Project Management Unit (FPMU) and for the State Project Management Units (SP MUs). It will provide support for incremental operating costs (e.g., for specialized expertise, project-related travel, meetings, and documentation). It will also support the development of monitoring systems and dashboards and improvement of workflow processes to facilitate coordination across agencies at the central and state levels and public versions to improve transparency and outreach. Activities under this component would also include monitoring of conflict impacts in the project area, including through aggregation and analysis of community and localized data to inform project activities. Given the dynamic situation on the ground, including the evolving security situation, the project’s monitoring systems and documentation of lessons learned on an ongoing basis will be used to support adaptive project management, especially to identify activities that can be scaled up depending on implementation performance and feedback. 49.
