Burundi Colline Climate Resilience Project (WB-P180864)

Regions
  • Africa
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Burundi
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Specific Location
Kirundo, Muyinga, Kayanza, Bujumbura, Cibitoke, Gitega, Bururi, Rumonge
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Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
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Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
A
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Dec 19, 2024
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Government of Burundi
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Climate and Environment
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 70.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Grant Amount (USD)
$ 70.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 88.30 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
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Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Jan 26, 2025

Disclosed by Bank Oct 26, 2023

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

As stated by the World Bank, the project development objective is to increase land productivity and climate resilience of fragile communities in targeted collines.

To achieve the PDO, the project will scale up best practices in integrated watershed management piloted under the BLRRP (P160613), which will be critical for halting and reversing ongoing alarming rates of land degradation and conserving the county’s land area. Equally important, the project will innovate approaches for community-led climate adaptation and resilience in Burundi based on global practice, by engaging climate vulnerable communities to formulate climate action priorities to inform local development plans. Climate resilience is defined for the purposes of the project as strengthened capacity of communities and ecosystems to prepare, withstand, recover from, and adapt to the impacts of climate change, including floods, landslides, droughts, and other key climate threats in Burundi. Through these two interconnected development objectives (increasing land productivity and climate resilience), the project will address the following critical constraints to the government’s response to climate change, fragility, and land degradation:

  • Lack of integrated policy and coordinated institutional response: to be addressed by strengthening the enabling environment for climate resilience through key policy and regulatory reforms; improving inter-agency coordination; and modernizing the key national/local institutions in charge of climate response, including their human resources, capacity, and infrastructure.
  • Fragmentation and degradation of watersheds: to be addressed by planning and developing integrated watershed management plans, building preparedness for climate shocks, restoring degraded land areas through participatory community efforts, engaging colline communities in water user associations, diversifying land-use rights, and promoting gender-responsive investments.
  • Limited community-led climate action and access to finance: to be addressed by improving inclusive access to finance for local institutions—especially colline development committees and colline communities—in order to scale up sustainable watershed management and restoration of degraded lands, and to support community livelihood resilience.
Early Warning System Project Analysis
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The World Bank categorized the project-related environmental and social risks as 'Substantial'.

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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Borrower - Ministry of Finance:

Audace Niyonzima - Minister of Finance 
Phone: +257699365800
Email: finances@finances.gov.bi

Implementing Agency - Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock of Burundi (MINEAGRIE):

Prosper Dodiko
Phone: +25771509242
Email: doprosper2002@yahoo.fr

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