Upper Guinean Forests - Support to Roadmaps and Erp to Unlock Results-Based Climate... Tender

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Country : Cote d'Ivoire

Summary : Upper Guinean Forests - Support to Roadmaps and Erp to Unlock Results-Based Climate Finance

Deadline : 07 Oct 2024

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TOT Ref.No.: 107378714

Document Ref. No. : 0002011396

Competition : ICB

Financier : World Bank (WB)

Purchaser Ownership : Public

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The WorldBank has launched Global challenge programs (GCPs) to address critical issuesthat affect developing countries and to deliver replicable and scalableapproaches to critical Global challenges. The ‘-Global Challenge Program - Forestfor Development, Climate and Biodiversity-- (GCP-F) is focusing on forest roleto address the growing and interconnected crises of poverty, climate change, and biodiversity loss and to enhance forest landscapes- contribution to Peopleand Planet on: (i) Climate change (Carbon sequestration, carbon storage, substitution of carbon-intensive products, (ii) biodiversity (water, landerosion, pollination, soil fertility, flood control), and (iii) economic impact(Growth, employment, improved livelihoods).UpperGuinean forests a focus of the GCP-F in West Africa provide critical ecosystem services to support economies, communities, and stabilize climate. Stretching from Guinea througheastern Sierra Leone, and extending eastward through Liberia, Côte d-Ivoire, Ghana and western Togo, these verdant landscapes consist of dense tropicalevergreen rainforests and moist deciduous forests, primarily concentrated alongthe coast where rainfall is higher. Upper Guinean forests have long beenrecognized as a global biodiversity hotspot due to their rich biodiversity andexceptional concentrations of endemic species. Beyond their biodiversitysignificance, these forests make important contributions to national economies.Poor forest-dwelling communities are disproportionately dependent on forestsfor their livelihoods. Furthermore, on a global scale, these forests play avital role in mitigating climate change by regulating local and regionalclimates through the storage of millions of tons of carbon.Deforestationand degradation of the Upper Guinean Forests pose serious threats to thesustainable provision of their ecosystem services. About 70 percent of theoriginal area of these forests across the six countries has been lost. Theremaining fragments are concentrated i...

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