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The guidance explains the rationale for USPs when projects or programmes cannot be fully formulated before funding requests, while still requiring environmental and social risk identification aligned with the Environmental and Social Policy and Gender Policy. It provides a functional definition of USPs and distinguishes types of USPs based on what is known about activities and locations, describing corresponding implications for compliance and risk management.","UPDATED GUIDANCE FOR IMPLEMENTING ENTITIES ON THE USE OF UNIDENTIFIED SUB-PROJECTS  \nNote: This updated guidance was adopted by the Adaptation Fund Board at its thirty-ninth meeting (Decision B.39/52) . It supersedes the previous guidance, contained in Annex 2 of document AFB/B.32-33/7 .  \nIntroduction  \n1. The Adaptation Fund Board (Decision B.38/41) requested the secretariat to prepare a document containing updated guidance on unidentified sub-projects (USPs), including further elaborated criteria on the use of USPs in a project/programme.  \n2. Existing guidance on the use of USPs is published as Annex 2 of document AFB/B.32- 33/7 (please see Annex 1) . The guidance has been updated to reflect current practices of the use of USPs, and to be more specific to the targeted users of the guidance. As such, this guidance document has been prepared primarily for Implementing entities (IEs) .  \nBackground  \n3. The Operational Policies and Guidelines of the Fund require that projects and programmes funded by the Fund comply with the Fund’s Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) and the Gender Policy (GP) . This implies, among other matters, that environmental and social risks related to a project or programme are identified by the time of submission of a proposal. For projects/programmes that are submitted using the two-step process, already the concept note needs to include that environmental and social risks identification.  \n4. To identify environmental and social risks of project/programme activities, these activities need to be sufficiently formulated. The nature and the characteristics of the activity need to be known, as well as the environment and the specific social setting in which the activity will take place. In general, projects and programmes need to be formulated to the point where adequate risks identification is possible before being submitted for funding. The project formulation process should take that into consideration.  \n5. However, sufficiently formulating project activities is not always possible because certain aspects of a project/programme may not yet be known. Sometimes it is not desirable to have all the project/programme activities fully identified at the time of submission of the funding request. This may be the case for activities that depend on the outcome of other major project activities, or where there are clear benefits to not identifying all activities beforehand. This is the case e.g. when a project/programme includes a small grants facility where the project/programme will provide grants to certain activities on the basis of applications.  \n6. Nevertheless, the ESP and GP require that for all activities risks are identified before they can be implemented.  \nDefinition of Unidentified Sub-Projects  \n7. Project/programme activities that have not been formulated, at the time of submission of a funding request, to the extent that their environmental and social risks can be identified inline with the ESP are called Unidentified Sub-Projects (USPs) .  \n8. This is a functional definition and may involve the whole range of minor activities of a project or programme to entire components.  \n9. The environmental and social risks associated with an activity are determined by the combination of two factors: (i) risk components that are inherent to the activity, and (ii) risk components related to the environment and social setting in which an activity will take place. In general, if one of those two factors is not or insufficiently known, adequate environmental and social risk identification is not possible. It is important that locations are known with sufficient precision and certainty.  \n10. Based on the combination of these two factors, different types of USPs can be distinguished , as shown in Table 1 below.  \nTable 1.  \n\n| Type of USP | Characteristics |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fully unidentified: both the activity and the location are not determined | These are the most flexible type of activities as they wil","cbCaigYykAgWpMIS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigYykAgWpMIS","pdf",187025,1,7,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Background\n# Definition of Unidentified Sub-Projects\n## Table 1: Types of USP","[{\"question\":\"Why does the Adaptation Fund Board issue updated guidance on unidentified sub-projects (USPs)?\",\"answer\":\"The Adaptation Fund Board requested updated guidance to elaborate criteria for using USPs, reflecting current practices and targeting implementing entities as the primary users.\"},{\"question\":\"What is a functional definition of USPs in this guidance?\",\"answer\":\"USPs are project or programme activities that are not formulated by the time of 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