Lead country
Ethiopia
Participating countries
Ethiopia
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From October 4, 2017 to October 4, 2023
Project ID: 5609
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Technical team
- Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme
Technical area(s)
- Ecosystem management and restoration
- Mainstreaming biodiversity
Sub-area(s)
- Wildlife conservation
Landscape(s)
- Conserved areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Terrestrial protected areas
- Protected areas network
Transformed sector(s)
- Other sectors
- Tourism
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Data collection and analysis
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Law regulation
- Enabling
- Governance
Sub-strategy
- Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
- Laws enforcement/ Regulation
- Surveillance & Compliance
- Mainstream
- Community engagement
- Public campaign
- Institutional framework
- Inter-sectoral coordination
- Participatory governance models
Social inclusion
- Local community/CSOs
- Private sector
Gender equality
- Livelihoods for women
- Women's cooperatives and groups
- Gender-responsive policies
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender responsive
Pathway(s)
- People pathway
- Systems pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Hazard control/mitigation
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 15.7 End wildlife poaching, illegal species trafficking
- 15.c Increase local capacity to combat species poaching
- 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
Conventions and protocols
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
- National Development Policies
Private sector(s)
- Individuals/Entrepreneurs
Hot topic
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration
- Structural/system transformation
About this project
Description
Driven by low risk and high profitability, the trade in wildlife products and live animals continues to flourish. Ethiopia has been identified as a key transit (as well as source) country for wildlife products and live animals. The proposed project is seeking to implement solutions that will counter the threats to biodiversity and overcome the barriers to effective management of protected areas and to combating illegal wildlife trade. It seeks to achieve the project's objective: to build Ethiopia's capacity for biodiversity conservation through increased effectiveness of protected area management and implementation of measures to reduce Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) and poaching. The objective will be achieved through the implementation of three project components. Component 1: Protected area management and biodiversity conservation. This component will focus on demonstrating how effective management of protected areas in Ethiopia can be achieved by targeting a small number of protected areas, given that the selected pilot sites are those protected areas in which key target species (elephants and big cats) are found. Component 2: Implementation of anti-trafficking measures. This component will focus on improving different aspects of law enforcement so as to increase the deterrent to illegal wildlife trafficking. Component 3: Landscape approach to forest and agro-biodiversity conservation. This component focuses on realizing the value of agro-biodiversity for the country and specifically for people living in the vicinity of the protected areas targeted in Component 1. Finally, Component 4 Knowledge Management, Gender Mainstreaming, and M&E: Lessons learned from the project via active participation of all stakeholder groups in the project implementation, gender mainstreaming and M&E will be made available nationally and internationally to facilitate the fight against IWT. Ultimately, the project will contribute to long-term impacts or global environmental benefits including: i) the recovery of wildlife populations in project sites Ethiopia, specifically targeting elephants, lions and cheetahs: these were selected as GWP flagship species to measure the success of the proposed project, and ii) there is no loss of habitat and agro-biodiversity. This project forms part of the GEF Programmatic Approach to Prevent the Extinction of Known Threatened Species, and falls under the GEF Programme Global Partnership on Wildlife Conservation and Crime Prevention for Sustainable Development (9071). Under this programmatic framework, with the coordination through the programme steering committee, coordinated knowledge management and cross-fertilization of the individual regional and national projects will be assured.
Objectives
To build Ethiopia"s capacity for biodiversity conservation through increased effectiveness of protected area management and implementation of measures to reduce Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) and poaching.
USD $7,394,495
Grant amount
USD $83,411,481
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($7,394,495)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Ethiopia
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