Project

Implementing a Ridge to Reef approach to protect biodiversity and ecosystem functions in Tuvalu (R2R Tuvalu)

Lead country

Tuvalu

Participating countries

Tuvalu

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From August 25, 2015 to August 24, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  2. 14.2 Sustainably manage, protect, restore marine, coastal ecosystems
  3. 14.7 Increase economic benefits of marine resources to SIDS

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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