Background
In 2020, the international "4 per 1000" Initiative "Soils for Food Security and Climate", launched at the UNFCCC COP 21 in Paris in 2015, developed and adopted its Strategic Plan. It includes 24 objectives with clearly defined targets for 2030 and 2050, contributing to 6 goals to strengthen the different phases of the innovation continuum.
For each objective, a Task Force (TF) was established to drive implementation. In a global consultative process, 126 experts specified the underlying problem for each objective, clarified consequences and explored root causes. In a second step, they worked out detailed implementation strategies. They indicate which activities need to be invested in, which obstacles need to be overcome and which critical success factors need to be taken into account in order to achieve the objectives. The resulting strategy document serves as a global reference framework for actions and projects that contribute to achieving the "4per1000" vision for 2050: "Globally healthy and carbon-rich soils to combat climate change and end hunger."
From now on, task forces will focus on implementation. They generate project ideas, forge alliances and form partnerships for project development & deployment, facilitate access to funding, and monitor progress.
Purpose
The Project Initiation Process (PIP) is designed to help initiative partners design and acquire funding for projects and activities that contribute to the goals of the "4per1000" strategy, facilitate coordination of investments by funding agencies and governments, and monitor progress in implementing the strategy.
Process
The PIMS includes 6 stages with the following objectives.
I. Consolidate Task Forces: Strengthen the capacity of the initiative by enabling decentralized management of project inception and monitoring activities.
II. Stocktaking: Inventory of ongoing projects and activities, analysis of gaps, and identification of funding opportunities.
III. Ideation & Team building: Generate project ideas and form partnerships for project development to fill gaps.
IV. Project Conception: Develop project concept notes using the standard tabular template.
V. Scouting for funding: Advertising the concept notes to funding agencies to obtain an expression of interest
VI. Securing funding: Preparation and submission of the full proposals
Activities, actors and responsibilities
# | Phase | # | Activities | Purpose / Description | Output | Executive Secretariat | STC | Bureau | Task force leader & Regional representative | Project team leaders | Timing |
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I | Consolidate Task Forces (TF) | 1 | Call for joining task forces | Give members of TFs the opportunity to review their membership and new partners the opportunity to join them. When joining, they can indicate their preferred role (leader (L), regional representative (RR), team member). |
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| September 2022 | ||||
2 | Nomination of Task Force Leaders and Regional representatives | Ask Task Force Leaders and Regional Representatives aspirants to update their personal profile and provide a) a vision for the task force, b) landscape of key global and regional players, c) rationale: why do you think you are qualified for that role? TFLs and TFRRs will then be selected by the ExSec and confirmed by TF members during the first TF meeting and validated by the bureau. |
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| October/November 2022 | |||||
3 | Meeting of Task Force Leaders | Task force leaders will be briefed regarding their roles and responsibilities and the structure and expected outcome of the process during a TF leader meeting. This meeting further presents an opportunity to adjust the process following the comments of the TF leaders. |
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| November/December 2022 ( after COP27) | ||||
II | Stocktaking | 4 | Update partner profiles |
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| September 2022 ( asap when approved after Ex Sec Meeting) | |||||
5 | Update people’s profiles |
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| September 2022 | |||||||
6 | Project Inventory | In the call for joining the task forces (1) will include a few questions to fill a Project Inventory. In the 2nd year of the Task Forces, if needed, a survey for gathering information about ongoing projects (Title, URL, leader, countries, funders) might apply. This survey is mainly targeting the partners organizations of the colleges Research, NGOs, Producer Organizations and companies. |
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| Compile a list of relevant activities | October - December 2022 | |||||
7 | Funding Database | An overview will be created that summarizes important information on possible funding bodies. |
| October - December 2022 | |||||||
8 | Analysis and reporting |
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| January 2023 | |||||||
III | Ideation & Team building | 9 | Task Force Meetings |
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| February to May 2023 | |||||
IV | Conception | 10 | Project team meetings | Project team meets to complete the 4p1000 - Project Concept Note Template and to define an action plan for the completion. |
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| March to September 2023 | |||
11 | Complete project concept notes | Complete the 4p1000 - Project Concept Note Template |
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| May to October 2023 | ||||||
V | Scouting | 12 | Search and advocate for financial support | Exchange of concept papers with funding bodies (call for investment interest). The aim is to get an expression of interest to invest and to convince funding bodies to request the submission of a complete proposal following their guidelines. |
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| June to November 2023 | ||||
VI | Securing funding | 13 | Develop and submit a full proposal | Preparation of full proposals in accordance with the guidelines of the funding agencies. |
| July to December 2023 |