Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy - IUCN
Sarhad Provincial Conservation Strategy - IUCN
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1 7 . 4<br />
FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS<br />
& AVAILABILITY<br />
The outline of an action plan, with priorities<br />
assigned, and suggesting resource requirements and<br />
implementation responsibility, appears at the end of<br />
this chapter. A summary of the resource requirement<br />
is given in Table 17.3. The total requirement is estimated<br />
as Rs. 65.578 billion, of which Rs. 14.787<br />
billion would be needed in the short-term. Against<br />
this estimate, Rs. 11.230 billion is more likely to be<br />
available (see Table 17.4). This is based on the cost<br />
estimates indicated in the Action Plan in section 17.6<br />
1 7 . 4 . 1<br />
The ADP of the Government of NWFP<br />
In the 1970s, more than half of the NWFP’s receipts<br />
were available for development financing. Today,<br />
less than one-third is available. The remainder is committed<br />
to financing recurrent costs. Whereas the<br />
Government’s size has increased severalfold, its<br />
resource base has largely remained unexpanded.<br />
Despite this, the Government of NWFP is already<br />
allocating significantly large amounts to environmentrelated<br />
programmes. Therefore, it is unlikely it will<br />
substantially increase allocations for environmental<br />
programmes out of its own resources. The prospects<br />
of financing the non-SAP component of the ADP<br />
greatly depend on the Government’s ability to<br />
increase its tax receipts or gain greater support from<br />
donors, and these are uncertain propositions.<br />
The Government will continue to fund SPCS implementation<br />
in its Annual Development Programme.<br />
Based on the analysis in Sections 17.1 and 17.3, a<br />
doubling of the annual Government allocation for the<br />
environmental programme is anticipated. This will<br />
provide about Rs. 678 million for the SPCS in 1995-<br />
98. The local fund will primarily be used for counterpart<br />
funds for donor projects and for institution-building<br />
and policy development activities that must be<br />
implemented regardless of external support. The<br />
Government will also be allocating about Rs. 2.966<br />
billion to the complementary ongoing and pipeline<br />
programmes of the SAP, the Second Urban<br />
Development Project (SUDP), the Community<br />
Infrastructure Project (CIP), and others. Thus the total<br />
input of the Government of NWFP into the SPCS<br />
through the ADP would be Rs. 3.644 billion.<br />
1 7 . 4 . 2<br />
D o n o r s<br />
F I N A N C I N G 17<br />
Donor interest is expected to continue to grow.<br />
Indications are that bilateral cooperation with<br />
Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands will<br />
expand. In fact, some projects are already in the<br />
pipeline. The support from multilaterals such as the<br />
Asian Development Bank (for Kabul River cleanup)<br />
and the European Union is also likely to increase.<br />
Canadian International Development Agency interest<br />
in cooperating with SPCS implementation has<br />
increased recently. Others may also provide substantial<br />
support. Given the present trends, donor funds for<br />
non-SAP environmental programmes can be expected<br />
to increase by an equivalent amount (Rs. 1.5 billion)<br />
over the next three years. The donor contribution to<br />
the SAP, the SUDP, the CIP, and other similar programmes<br />
over the same period is anticipated at Rs.<br />
5.856 billion.<br />
The NWFP can also benefit from the United<br />
Nations Development Programme’s small-grants programme,<br />
the Swiss NGO Programme, and the Dutch<br />
small-grants programme, as well as from the second<br />
phase of the Global Environment Facility in a major<br />
way, provided the Government’s capacity to prepare<br />
good projects is increased and NGOs are nurtured<br />
and facilitated to prepare better projects for the different<br />
sources and to effectively use the funds.<br />
Therefore, partnering with NGOs for sustainable<br />
development becomes of added importance. The<br />
social aspects of the SPCS, such as drinking water,<br />
sanitation, primary education and health, community<br />
forestry, and population control, can be best<br />
addressed through NGOs. In the short-term a total of<br />
Rs. 10 million is estimated to be available for SPCS<br />
implementation through such small grants to NGOs<br />
and communities.<br />
Consequently, donors may contribute a total of<br />
Rs. 7.366 billion for SPCS implementation during<br />
1995-98.<br />
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