Lead country
South Africa
Participating countries
South Africa
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From October 24, 2019 to October 24, 2024
Project ID: 5686
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Mainstreaming biodiversity
Sub-area(s)
- Access and benefit sharing
- Biodiversity financing
- Agrobiodiversity
Landscape(s)
- Deserts
- Conserved areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Semi-arid (cold winter) deserts
- Indigenous and communities conserved areas (ICCAs)
Transformed sector(s)
- Agriculture
- Other sectors
- Health care
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Innovative approaches
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Food and agricultural commodities
- Enabling
- Finance economy
Sub-strategy
- FACS strategies for sustainable supply chain (TP 4)
- Mainstream
- Community engagement
- Alignment
- Nature finance
- Green economy
- New/other financial schemes/mechanism
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Private sector
- Indigenous peoples
Gender equality
- Women decision making
- Women's cooperatives and groups
- Livelihoods for women
Gender result effectiveness scale
N/A
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
- Reduce exposure
SDG target(s)
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
- 15.6 Promote fair, equitable benefits sharing
Conventions and protocols
- Nagoya protocol (ABS)
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- National Development Policies
Private sector(s)
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Public-private partnership
- Nature-based solution
- Food and agricultural commodities strategy
Project description
This project is designed to support the Government of South Africa to achieve its BES vision of optimising the total economic benefits of the bioprospecting industries by ensuring the BES is implemented in accordance with the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing. The project will ensure that communities and companies working with genetic resources, not only increase their understanding of the Nagoya Protocol, but also apply relevant ABS requirements in development of value chains for genetic materials. The project will support development of value chains for genetic resources already identified in the 18 biodiversity economy transformation (BET) nodes already identified by the BES in 15 rural and 4 urban districts across the nine provinces of the South Africa. The project target communities have been prioritised for development of small and medium size enterprises and community-based initiatives which sustainably use of indigenous biological and/or genetic resources, with a view to redistribute the benefits in an equitable manner, across various income categories and settlement areas of the country.
USD $6,392,694
Grant amount
USD $35,870,564
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($6,392,694)
Implementing partner(s)
- Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA)
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