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India Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management Country Partnership Program

Development Objective

The SLEM Partnership Program is proposed as a long-term partnership framework that seeks to improve land and ecosystem managementin India through investments to strengthen the enabling environment and build institutional capacity, and to demonstrate viableinvestment models.The partnership would specifically provide a framework to enable individual or cluster of states in India to:-- Mainstream SLEM policy into their sustainable development priorities (e.g. PRSPs), thus strengthening the enabling environmentfor SLEM.--Promote synergies between the environment and other sectors of the rural economy.--Strengthen capacity for sustanable land management.--Adopt integrated SLEM practices, including water use efficiency, as part of development programs, and scale up viable, innovativeand cost-effective practices.--Facilitate co-financing through a programmatic approach.--Reduce transaction costs where development partners (The Bank and UNDP) would use streamlined and harmonized project cycleprocedures to develop and approve continuing interventions.The global environment objective of the SLEM Partneship Program is to maintain and restore globally significant ecosystem functionsand services through enhanced local capacity to prevent further degradation, restoration of degraded areas, and dissemination,replication and scaling-up of successful SLEM practices within and across individual Indian states.The overall SLEM PP objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation in India by promoting enhanced efficiency of natural resourceuse, improved land and ecosystem productivity, and reduced vulnerability to extreme weather events (droughts, floods), includingthe effects of climate change.Specifically the Partnership is expected to support:--Preventing and/or controlling land degradation via restoration of degraded (agricultural and forested) lands and biomass cover inorder to produce, harvest, and utilize biomass in ways that maximize productivity as well as carbon sequestration, biodiversity and sustainable use of water resources.--Enhancing local capacity and institution building and strengthening for improved land and ecosystem management.--Facilitating knowledge dissemination and application of national and international good practices in SLEM within and acrossstates.--Replicating and scaling-up successful land and ecosystem management practices and technologies that maximize synergies across theUN Conventions on Biological Diversity (CBD), Climate Change (FCCC), and Combating Desertification (CCD) conventions.It is expected that the SLEM CPP will significantly enhance local and global environmental benefits, sustainable development, anddevelopment assistance impact in India by providing:--Holistic, cross-sectoral interventions that bring together fragmented policies, institutions, and investments in a coordinatedand sequenced manner, beginning with capacity building and policy reforms followed by on-the-ground-investments,--Long-term financial commitment and a level of predictability in resource flows that allows for a more strategic approach,focusing on comprehensive actions, as well enhanced co-financing opportunities,--Reduced transaction costs associated with processing of small individual GEF projects with larger projects (because of thecomplicating and inherent project preparation and timing concerns, which often impedes task teams from actively developing asuitable portfolio of GEF projects),--An inclusive development assistance framework in which to make investments and share learning which will be open for newpartners/states to join as appropriate.

Key Details

Project Details

  • P097989

  • Dropped

  • Adriana Damianova

  • N/A

  • India

  • October 24, 2005

  • (as of board presentation)

    April 2, 2008

  • N/A

  • US$ 70.00 million

  • N/A

  • South Asia

  • 2009

  • US$ 30.00 million

  • B

  • Not Applicable

  • N/A

  • CONCEPT REVIEW

  • December 19, 2024

  • Notes

Finances

Financing Plan (US$ Millions)

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Financier Commitments
Borrower/Recipient 40.00
Global Environment Facility (GEF) 30.00

Total Project Financing (US$ Millions)

Product Line IBRD/IDA
IBRD Commitment N/A
IDA Commitment N/A
IBRD + IDA Commitment N/A
Lending Instrument
Grant Amount 30.00
Total Project Cost** 70.00

Summary Status of World Bank Financing (US$ Millions) as of July 31, 2025

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Detailed Financial Activity as of July 31, 2025

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Ratings

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Results Framework

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