Preparing the Silk Road Ecological Protection and Rehabilitation Project
Client: Asian Development Bank Duration: 2019-2022 Location: Gansu, Shaanxi, and Qinghai Provinces, PRC Contract Value: USD 574,800 Loan Project Value: USD 348 million Catalogue: Environment Project Description Addressing ecological degradation is at the core of the Government of PRC’s agenda with the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, prioritizing the protection and restoration of ecological security barriers in key regions. The project areas in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Qinghai provinces straddle four of these priority ecoregions—the Loess Plateau, the northeastern margins of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the northern desertification-prevention belt, and the Qinba mountains. The three provinces have a high proportion of poverty-stricken counties that are ecologically vulnerable and where up to 28% of the rural population live below the poverty line. Climate change is a major risk as increasing climate variability has precipitated extreme weather events resulting in a very fragile eco-environment, and induced losses in agricultural production and yield. In the drier regions of Gansu and Qinghai, forest cover is low and wetlands are rare and generally degraded. The area was the principal route of the ancient Silk Road that had its starting point at Chang’an (modern day Xi’an). This TA supports the three project provinces in preparing the Silk Road ecological protection and rehabilitation. This TA supports the continuing partnership between the PRC and ADB on addressing knowledge cooperation and institutional and governance reform. This TA is aimed at arresting and reversing degradation of forests, wetlands and grasslands in the loess areas, which has the fragile ecosystem, to maintain the stability of the regional environment and achieve the integrated governance in key regions crucial to national ecological security. This TA will include forestry recreation, wetland rehabilitation and restoration to potentially attract green investments and increase jobs and incomes among rural and pastoral areas in the three project provinces along the Silk Road. Services Provided by NAREE NAREE provides the transaction technical assistance (TRTA) to prepare the loan project, undertaking due diligence in technical, safeguards, economic and financial, and poverty and socials. NAREE ensured the project in compliance with the domestic and ADB’s requirements and incorporation of international best practices in the project design. Detailed tasks conducted by NAREE during the TRTA includes the followings:
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