Project

Conserving biodiversity through sustainable management in production landscapes in Costa Rica

Lead country

Costa Rica

Participating countries

Costa Rica

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From March 19, 2018 to March 19, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  2. 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  3. 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management

Project ID: 5842

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Mainstreaming biodiversity
  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Agrobiodiversity
  • Ecosystem-based mitigation
  • Ecosystem-based adaptation

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas
  • Forests
  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Rivers and river basins
  • Terrestrial protected areas
  • Urban areas
  • Rural areas
  • Productive landscapes/Seascapes

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Forestry and other land use
  • Livestock

UNDP role(s)

  • Innovative approaches
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Capacity building
  • Management operation

Sub-strategy

  • Inter-sectoral coordination
  • Partnerships
  • Institutional framework
  • Mainstream
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Awareness raising
  • New/other financial schemes/mechanism
  • Best available techniques & best environmental practices (BAT & BEP)
  • Sustainable land management

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Local community/CSOs

Gender equality

  • Livelihoods for women
  • Women's cooperatives and groups

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Reduce exposure
  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  • 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  • 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management

Conventions and protocols

  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Private sector(s)

  • Capital providers
  • Large corporations
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation
  • Nature-based solution
  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy

About this project

Description

The project strategy will have a nationwide impact triggered by national policies and action on the ground. It aims to deliver Global Environmental Benefits by promoting a dynamic multi-sectorial management process of official environmental information, in order to increase collective action for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through sustainable land-use management in rural and urban landscapes. This premise will be tested in the production landscapes of La Amistad Pacifico Conservation Area (ACLAP) and the Inter-Urban Biological Corridor of María Aguilar River in San Jose (MAIBC) covering 619,162 hectares (449,546 hectares of production landscape within ACLAP, and 169,616 hectares of biological corridor in MAIBC).

Objectives

To mainstream biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management and carbon sequestration objectives into production landscapes and urban biological corridors of Costa Rica.

USD $6,849,315

Grant amount

USD $26,098,314

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($6,849,315)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Costa Rica

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Favorable enabling conditions (policies, technologies, markets and finance) for delivering multiple global

Indicators:

Mandatory Indicator 1 (UNDP): Number of people benefiting directly from solutions for managing natural resources and ecosystem services, ensuring gender equality
Project Indicator 2: Area (ha) of avoided loss in forest cover in production landscapes by project end
Indicator 3: Interinstitutional agreement formalizes the National Monitoring System for Land Use Change in Production Landscapes (MOCUPP)
Indicator 4: Number of interinstitutional agreements signed annually with the SNIT, linking georeferenced information with land ownership data and the most recent and available satellite imagery, and available through the SNIT/MOCUPP viewer.
Indicator 5: Number of agreements established with international buyers for the acquisition of products verified as free of loss of forest cover
Indicator 10: Number of farms verified as free of loss of forest cover
Indicator 11: Change in annual income per initiative and disaggregated by gender with verified increase in forest cover
Indicator 12: Area (ha) of landscape management tools (micro-corridors, protection zones*, urban green areas**) that contributes to improving ecosystem connectivity and biodiversity conservation at the end of the project
* River and stream banks, spring buffers, groundwater recharge areas, and catchment areas or outlets for drinking water
** Urban parks, urban open space, tree-lined streets and avenuesIndicator 13: Increase in biomass reserves (tCO2eq)
Indicator 14: Presence of migratory bird species in the MAIBC remains stable
Indicator 6: Area (ha) of landscape management tools that contribute to improving ecosystem connectivity and biodiversity conservation established at the end of the project
Indicator 7: Increase in biomass reserves (tCO2eq) derived from landscape management tools
Indicator 8: Reduction in CO2e emissions in project farms
Indicator 9: Presence of key bird species in the ACLA-P remains stable
Indicator 15: Number of documents on successful experiences about the incorporation of conservation biodiversity objectives, land management, and carbon sequestration in sustainable production landscapes and interurban biological corridors in Costa Rica.
Indicator 16: Change in the indices about Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP; indices will be defined at the beginning of the project) as a result of awareness and environmental education at the subnational and local levels
Outcome 2:

Multiple global environmental benefits (biodiversity conservation, reduced carbon emissions and increased carbon storage) are delivered in production landscapes in the ACLA-P buffer zone forest zone (Region 1) and Maria Aguilar Inter Urban Biological Corridor (Region 2)
Outcome 3:

Knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation
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