Project

Enhancing financial sustainability of the Protected Area system in Georgia focusing on areas with globally important biodiversity

Lead country

Georgia

Participating countries

Georgia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From December 12, 2018 to December 12, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  2. 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
  3. 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Project ID: 6138

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Strengthening conservation areas

Sub-area(s)

  • Biodiversity financing

Landscape(s)

  • Conserved areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Terrestrial protected areas
  • Key biodiversity areas (KBAs)

Transformed sector(s)

  • Tourism
  • Other sectors

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Direct support / Service Delivery
  • Optimising financing

Strategy

  • Finance economy
  • Management operation
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • New/other financial schemes/mechanism
  • Fiscal planning
  • Nature finance
  • Knowledge/Data management
  • Conserved areas/ protected areas management
  • Management effectiveness (METT)
  • Mainstream
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Technical capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Private sector

Gender equality

N/A

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use
  • 15.b Mobilize resources, incentives for sustainable forest management
  • 15.9 Integrate ecosystem values into national planning

Conventions and protocols

  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

Private sector(s)

  • Capital providers
  • Financial intermediaries and market facilitators

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation

Project objectives

Project Objective: To secure long-term financial sustainability and effective management to conserve globally significant biodiversity of target protected areas in Georgia.

USD $1,826,484

Grant amount

USD $7,958,516

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($1,826,484)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture (MEPA)/ Agency of Protected Areas (APA)

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Financial sustainability of sub-system of PAs representing Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs)

 Indicators:

Indicator 2: # of direct project beneficiaries, sex disaggregated. (# of workers at targeted PAs with improved socio-economic conditions)
Indicator 3: Increased PA system financing as measured by the Financial Sustainability Scorecard
Mandatory Indicator 1 (Output1.4.1 of UNDP SP): Natural resources that are managed under a sustainable use, conservation, access and benefit-sharing regime:a) Area of existing protected area under improved management (hectares) (i.e. the total area of 12 KBAs targeted by the project)
Indicator 4: Increase in long-term annual funding to target 12 PAs
Indicator 5: Number of target PAs regularly receiving full financing support
Indicator 6: Increase in revenues generated from tourism activities in target PAs
Indicator 7: Level of institutional capacities for financial-administrative planning and operational management planning as measured by Capacity Assessment Scorecard (CAS) values for target PAs
Indicator 8: Level of management effectiveness of target PAs as measured by METT score values
Indicator 9: Key biodiversity values are conserved and threats reduced by implementing harmonized Management Effectiveness Assessment plans (Species and ecosystem state indicators (baseline) have been included in the METT scorecards of each of the 12 targeted KBAs and are not repeated here to avoid redundancy. The project will aim to achieve non-deterioration/improvement in the population figures of those species, monitoring and reporting their state at final stage of project life.)
Indicator 10: Community, stakeholder and societal knowledge of and acceptance on biodiversity values of, threats to, and approval for target PAs
Outcome 2:

Improved management and financial effectiveness demonstrated for targeted large-scale PAs
Outcome 3:

Knowledge management, and monitoring and evaluation contributes to increased awareness of biodiversity values
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Project reports and documentation

 

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