Lead country
Uruguay
Participating countries
Uruguay
Project status
Approved/Endorsed
Project start date
July 21, 2020
SDGs addressed by this project
SDG targets
- 15.3 Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil
- 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
- 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
Project ID: 6252
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Strengthening conservation areas
- Mainstreaming biodiversity
Sub-area(s)
- Ecosystem-based mitigation
- Biodiversity financing
Landscape(s)
- Conserved areas
- Forests
- Wetlands
Sub-landscape(s)
- OECM (Other effective area-based conservation measures)
- Terrestrial protected areas
- Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)
- Montane forests
- General
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Forestry and other land use
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- 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
- FACS strategies for sustainable supply chain (TP 4)
- Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
- Conserved areas/ protected areas management
- Management effectiveness (METT)
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Private sector
- Women
Gender equality
- Women decision making
- Livelihoods for women
- Awareness raising (on gender)
Gender result effectiveness scale
N/A
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
- Hazard control/mitigation
SDG target(s)
- 15.3 Combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil
- 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning
- 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
Conventions and protocols
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Private sector(s)
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Structural/system transformation
- Nature-based solution
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
Project description
To strengthen the integration of biodiversity conservation and restoration of degraded lands into development policies, improving the effectiveness and sustainability of protected areas' management, associated production lands, and human well-being.
USD $2,776,256
Grant amount
USD $15,028,000
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,776,256)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Uruguay
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