Project

Enhanced Management and Enforcement of Ethiopia’s Protected Area Estate

Lead country

Ethiopia

Participating countries

Ethiopia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From October 4, 2017 to October 4, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.7 End wildlife poaching, illegal species trafficking
  2. 15.c Increase local capacity to combat species poaching
  3. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction

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

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Component One: Protected area management and biodiversity conservationOutcome One: Improved protected area management effectiveness delivers enhanced protection in the targeted protected areas

 Indicators:

Indicator 3. Number of flagship species poached:
a) Proportion of illegally killed elephants (total number of dead elephants in parentheses)
b) Number of Big Cats (specifically lions, cheetahs and leopards) seized (at project sites per unit effort )Indicator 4. METT for PAs
Mandatory Indicator 1. IRR Output 2.5 indicator 2.5.1: Extent to which national legal, policy, and institutional frameworks are in place for conservation, sustainable use, and access and benefit sharing of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems.A) Number of international agreements on IWT control signed
B) Number of legislation documents strengthened
C) Number of regional IWT Task forces established
D) Presence of wildlife derivatives management systemMandatory Indicator 2. Number of direct project beneficiaries:
- Number of local people in project areas benefiting from engagement in CBNRM (male/female)Indicator 1. Number of PAs that have up-to-date management plans approved by the government and under implementation
Indicator 2. Proportion of successful prosecutions of wildlife crimes in PAs and surrounding areas (measured annually)
Indicator 1. Proportion of successful prosecutions of crimes related to wildlife trafficking at national level (measured annually)
Indicator 2. Capacity of government agencies on IWT control as indicated by customized UNDP Capacity Development Scorecard
Indicator 1. Approved landscape/ ecosystem level plans Total area covered by approved ILM plans (ha)Indicator 2. Natural resource use agreements with stakeholders – including local and indigenous communities
Indicator 3. Total number/area of small sustainable businesses developed by local people – recipients of micro-credit schemes
Indicator 4. Average percentage of household income increase of recipients of micro-credit schemes in the project areas
Indicator 5. Area (ha) of demonstration farm(s) protecting rare and valuable genetic agro-biodiversity
Indicator 1. Number of the project lessons used in development and implementation of other conservation projects
Indicator 2. Number of national and international organizations that participate in the project M&E and provide feedback to the Management Team
Outcome 2:

Component Two: Implementation of anti-trafficking measuresOutcome Two: Strengthened national and local capacity for conservation of endangered fauna and flora through implementation of anti-trafficking measures
Outcome 3:

Component Three: Landscape approach to forest landscape and agro-biodiversity conservationOutcome Three: Improved conservation of forestry and agro-biodiversity resources through a landscape approach based on community-based natural resource management
Outcome 4:

Component Four: Knowledge Management, Gender mainstreaming, and M&EOutcome Four: Lessons learned by the project through participatory M&E, including gender mainstreaming, are used to fight poaching and IWT, and promote community based conservation nationally and internationally
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