Lead country
Tuvalu
Participating countries
Tuvalu
Project status
Under implementation
Implementing period
From August 25, 2015 to August 24, 2021
Project ID: 5220
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Technical team
- Oceans and Water Programme
Technical area(s)
N/A
Landscape(s)
- Marine
- Forests
- Conserved areas
Sub-landscape(s)
- Coasts
- Large marine ecosystem
- General
- Marine and coastal protected areas
Transformed sector(s)
- Aquaculture
UNDP role(s)
- Capacity development / Technical assistance
- Institutional mechanism and system building
Strategy
- Management operation
- Governance
- Capacity building
Sub-strategy
- Ecosystem-based management
- Sustainable land management
- Integrated water resource management
- Institutional framework
- Partnerships
- Knowledge/Data management
- Community capacity building
- Institutional capacity building
Social inclusion
N/A
Gender equality
- Awareness raising (on gender)
Gender result effectiveness scale
- Gender blind
Pathway(s)
- Systems pathway
- People pathway
Risk reduction target(s)
- Improve resilience
SDG target(s)
- 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
- 14.2 Sustainably manage, protect, restore marine, coastal ecosystems
- 14.7 Increase economic benefits of marine resources to SIDS
Conventions and protocols
- National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)
- National Action Plan
- Other Global Conventions
Private sector(s)
N/A
Hot topic
- Nature-based solution
About this project
Description
The objective of project, “Implementing ‘Ridge to Reef' approach to protect biodiversity and ecosystem functions in Tuvalu (Tuvalu R2R Project)” is “to preserve ecosystem services, sustain livelihoods and improve resilience in Tuvalu using a ‘ridge-to-reef' approach”. To achieve this objective, the project focuses on: enhancing and strengthening conservation and protected areas (Component 1); rehabilitating degraded coastal and inland forests and landscapes and supporting the delivery of integrated water resource management (IWRM) and integrated coastal management (ICM) at a national scale whilst piloting hands-on approaches at the island scale (on three selected pilot islands) (Component 2); enhancing governance and institutional capacities at the national, island, and community levels for enhanced inland and coastal natural resource management (Component 3); and improving data and information systems that would enable improve evidence-based planning, decision-making, and management of natural resources in Tuvalu (Component 4).
Objectives
To preserve ecosystem services, sustain livelihoods and improve resilience in Tuvalu using a ‘ridge-to-reef" approach.
USD $3,912,844
Grant amount
USD $15,680,591
Leveraged amount (co-financing)
1
Source(s) of fund
Sources of fund
- Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,912,844)
Implementing partner(s)
- Government of Fiji
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