Project Document Review – Improving Soil Health by NBS Rwanda, India

Context of the service

The project "Improve Land Health through Nature-based Solutions and Dialogue" (Soils), presented to the FFEM by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), aims to improve the resilience and health of land in two agricultural landscapes in India and Rwanda through the adoption of agroecological approaches and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) by farming communities. It is structured around four objectives: i) understanding and monitoring land health, ii) identifying and disseminating NbS, iii) mobilizing civil society, and iv) influencing public policies to ensure a strengthened enabling environment for the large-scale adoption of agroecological and NbS approaches.
The project includes the in-situ testing of the "Land Health Monitoring Framework" based on participatory data, and the "Common Ground Dialogues" methodology facilitating agriculture/environment dialogues.

Services provided

SalvaTerra has carried out an analysis of the Project Identification Note (PIN). This opinion provides a critical analysis of the operational coherence of the PIN, its compatibility with the objectives of the FFEM, its main strengths and weaknesses, and makes suggestions for the improvement of the project at the stage of the Project Commitment Note (NEP).
A complete review was carried out on the diagnosis of the context and the issues, the content of the programme, the intervention logic, the institutional set-up for the implementation of the project, the financial plan, and the monitoring and evaluation framework.

Summary of the service

Analysis of the Project Intent (NIP) of the IUCN Improving Land Health through Dialogue and Nature-based Solutions (SOILS) project. Review of the context, the intervention logic, the institutional set-up, the financial plan, and the monitoring and evaluation framework.