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

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Conserving biodiversity through sustainable management in production landscapes in Costa Rica