Lead country
Jamaica
Participating countries
Jamaica
Project status
Approved/Endorsed
Project start date
May 1, 2020
Project ID: 6109
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Mainstreaming biodiversity
- Ecosystem management and restoration
Sub-area(s)
- Agrobiodiversity
Landscape(s)
- Conserved areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Productive landscapes/Seascapes
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Forestry and other land use
- Tourism
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Direct support / Service Delivery
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Governance
- Enabling
- Management operation
Sub-strategy
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Adaptive governance
- Institutional framework
- Advocacy (towards policy makers)
- Mainstream
- Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
- Conserved areas/ protected areas management
- Sustainable land management
Social inclusion
N/A
Gender equality
N/A
Gender result effectiveness scale
N/A
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
- Reduce exposure
SDG target(s)
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
- 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
Conventions and protocols
N/A
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Nature-based solution
- Structural/system transformation
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
Project description
To enhance conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services through mainstreaming of biodiversity into planning policies and practices into Jamaica's productive landscapes and key sectors.
USD $55,284,470
Grant amount
USD $43,175,770
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
8
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Canadian International Development Agency ($5,571,070)
- Digital Good ($20,994)
- European Comission ($1,114,206)
- Flemish Government ($278,862)
- Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland ($455,823)
- Government of Germany – Funding Windows ($21,905,815)
- Government of Norway ($3,996,328)
- Sustainable Development Funding Window ($21,941,373)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Jamaica
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