Preparing the Yellow River Ecological Corridor and Climate Resilient Agriculture Development

Client: Asian DevelopmentBank

Duration: 2021-2022

Location: Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu,Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong provinces, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region,and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

ContractValue: USD 615,750

Project Description

Thistransaction technical assistance (TrTA) will help the Government of PRC prepare the Yellow River Ecological Corridor and Climate Resilient Agriculture Development Project, develop the capacity to implement the ensuing project and undertake due diligence in technical, safeguards, economic and financial, and poverty and social areas. The proposed project includes in ADB's lending program for 2022. The proposed project will support the government's efforts to promote sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems by addressing the constraints across three levels, the enabling environment (institutional, governance and policy), the production bases and the value chain to transform the way food is produced. The proposed project will be implemented in the Yellow River basin, through the participating seven provinces and two autonomous regions.

Services Provided by NAREE

NAREE supports to deliver 3 outputs of this project.

Output 1: Sector assessment conducted, and feasibility of the ensuing project assessed.

Key activities with this milestone include i) conductingsector assessment, stakeholder analysis, social survey, poverty assessment, and consultations; ii) assessing technical, economic, and financial feasibility of the project; iii) due diligence on safeguard requirements; iv) assessing procurement risk and financial management aspects; and v) preparing an inception report.

Output 2: Project design and documents for the ensuing loan prepared.

Key activities with this milestone include i) finalizing project design, scope costs and implementation arrangements; ii) finalizing report with all appendices, including IEE reports, DDR and framework on Land Use Right Transfer, resettlement plan (if applicable) and EMDP, PSA, an SAP, a GAP, an economic and financial analysis report, an FMA report, PPMS, PPRA and SPPreports and draft RRP including PAM; and iii) preparing interim report.

Output 3: Institutional capacity of the executing and implementing agencies improved.

Key activities with this milestone include i) assessing institutional capacity and identify training needs; ii) conducting capacity building activities; iii) preparing final report; iv) advancing action/start-up support for project implementation.