81258447 — Sector Programme Soil Protection, Combating Desertification, Sustainable Land Management (Pro Soil)

The GIZ Global Programme Soil Protection and Rehabilitation (ProSoil) supports the implementation of sustainable soil protection and rehabilitation in 7 partner countries. The programme works in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India, Kenia, Madagascar and Tunisia. The strategic focus of the programme is the implementation of proven approaches for soil protection and rehabilitation of degraded soils paired with improving the socio-economic and political framework conditions. This allows for archiving impact at scale. An additional focus of the programme is to support partners to link and politically evaluate learning experiences and integrate them into national and intranational exchanges. Component 4 is implemented from 01/2020 until 12/2022. It aims to improve the climate effectiveness of soil protection and rehabilitation techniques and management approaches in selected agro-ecological zones. Therefore, pilot activities will be carried out to improve the evidence of climate effectiveness as well as the climate effectiveness itself of selected sustainable land management practices like biochar application. To assess the adaptation and mitigation effects and potential of the overall programme, a climate monitoring system will be operationalized in all eight country packages. The climate monitoring system was developed by the programme and consists of an adaptation and a mitigation component. The climate monitoring system is additional to the existing impact monitoring (further referred to as M&E) system of ProSoil. Both systems are closely connected. Most data inputs which will be used for modelling the mitigation effects will be generated through ongoing M&E activities in context of the impact monitoring. Results from the climate monitoring system will be fed into reporting and communication to the commissioning party, the political partners and the public. The operationalization of the climate monitoring system will be carried out in close coordination with the respective M&E focal points in the steering unit and the country packages as well as external consultants, who support the M&E activities. Prospectively the climate monitoring tool will be integrated into a digital M&E application, which will be developed for ProSoil. The Sectoral Project ‘Soil Protection, Desertification, Sustainable Land management’ (SV BoDeN+) has been commissioned to implement a climate component with focus on soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration. The general purpose of the climate component is, to disseminate and scale up successful approaches internationally through exchange, for example within the context of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP), Global Soil Week (GSW), relevant conferences of the parties to the UN conventions and international trade fairs and specialist events, as well as through regular BMZ sector consulting. SV BoDeN+ climate component supports partners in piloting and consolidating approaches, which increase the intake of organic carbon carriers (e.g. biochar) into soils. One major focus aims to provide proof of concept on scaling up experiences made using climate certification of soil protection measures to access the voluntary emissions trading markets to promote the intake of carbon carriers into soils. SV BoDeN+ aims to show how climate impacts of typical soil protection measures can be made marketable by certification for the voluntary carbon market. Experiences gained during related pilot measures are processed, co-benefits between mitigation and adaptation are clarified and their effects are presented in an evidence-based manner. Analysis of technical, institutional and economic success factors and framework conditions will derive information on replicability and scalability of approaches. The related output of the program reads as follows: ‘Replicable approaches for the certification of climate impacts of soil protection are available’.