Lead country
Niue
Participating countries
Niue
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From April 21, 2016 to April 20, 2022
Project ID: 5258
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Technical team
- Oceans and Water Programme
Technical area(s)
- Climate resilient integrated water resource & coastal area management
- Sustainable management of oceans in a changing climate
Landscape(s)
- Marine
- Conserved areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Seas
- Coral reefs
- Marine and coastal protected areas
- Locally managed marine areas
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Forestry and other land use
- Fisheries
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Governance
- Management operation
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Participatory governance models
- Inter-sectoral coordination
- Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
- Institutional capacity building
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Women
Gender equality
- Gender-responsive policies
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender targeted
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 13.b Build capacity for climate change planning, management
- 14.2 Sustainably manage, protect, restore marine, coastal ecosystems
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Nature-based solution
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
About this project
Description
This project will enhance the NiueÔÇÖs capacities to effectively create and manage its protected areas, focusing on the expansion of its PA estate on land and on its marine areas through a combination of community conservation areas and government-led PA. In the Community Conservation Area, strict protection and sustainable use zones will be identified and planned carefully, recognizing that tenure over most land areas are vested in local communities. This project has been designed to engineer a paradigm shift in the management of marine and terrestrial PA sites from a site centric approach to a holistic ÔÇ£ridge to reefÔÇØ management approach, whereby activities in the immediate production landscapes adjacent to marine and terrestrial protected areas will be managed to reduce threats to biodiversity stemming from key production activities (tourism and agriculture). Additionally, the project also introduces the concept of connectivity in landscape and seascape in Niue. The terrestrial protected area will include a landscape that links strictly protected community areas (Tabu) to each other to enhance their integrity and to form a corridor between them. Similarly, the creation of a protected area in Beveridge Reef is expected to sustain recruitment of clams and other marine species for NiueÔÇÖs coral reefs and vice versa.
Objectives
To strengthen conservation and sustainable use of land, water and marine areas and their biodiversity by building on their cultural heritage values through integrated national and community actions.
USD $4,334,862
Grant amount
USD $11,068,600
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($4,334,862)
Implementing partner(s)
- Ministry of Natural Resources
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